SirSmoothAES

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[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 9 hours ago

How can you not "believe" in class society when it is a fact? Also, Sankara was a Marxist-Leninist, the very ideology you despise.

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

It's funny how Nazis believe themselves to be revolutionaries when all they are is extremist pawns in a class war that disguises itself as a culture war. The only reason the bourgeoisie and the contemporary right don't embrace them is because of the stigma involved, but otherwise they support the same agenda.

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

The article says US law has a very broad definition of "foreign agent" and that if you believe your actions can change public opinion about a foreign entity you're forced to report it.

Because the mayor failed to do so for activities she was involved in before becoming mayor she is now charged with acting as a foreign agent.

Interesting how the mere failure to report possible misconduct apparently means you definitely engaged in said misconduct.

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's not a bear, that's a loaf of bread.

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm talking about the pirate flag guy

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I had to re-read what he said several times before concluding that his opinion is so poorly explained and written that it couldn't possibly be insightful.

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Does he even know what it is? Do I want to know whether he knows? I don't know!

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's it. I'm getting cremated!

[–] SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

That this person is definitely not looking to get their views changed since they already have their pre-conceived excuses ready. Clearly even half-truths can be used to engage in anti-intellectualism.

Furthermore historical materialism is a theory of history, not a series of predictions. Marx could very well be wrong about a number of predictions, but that doesn't negate the explanatory power of the method itself especially in contrast to other theories where history is little more than a string of accidents.