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This is the same thing I have been told by someone who has been out for 4 years, like three weeks ago. Apparently the only thing that has gotten slightly better is that you have abit less of a chance of being outright battered.

But they literally had a secret pee hole on the side of the ship, because they weren't allowed to leave their guard posts for any reason for like 6 straight hours.

The Chapo analysis wasn't that Paradox breeds rw ideology, it is that it is attractive to people of all fringe ideologies, and that it has been clearly influential on the current zoomers on the White House Staff.

I mean, if they were my kid, it would basically be a small holiday for them. Might even try to take off work so we could go somewhere.

It's like how people blame the glorification comps of Walter White and Tony Soprano on 'media illiteracy'. Sure, they are media illiterate, but who would have thought that a culture that values selfish power and sadism over effective teamwork and leadership would naturally glorify selfish power-hungry sadists, regardless of the shown consequences of their actions?

I always had people be like "Look how generous these tech companies are giving away free computers to elementary schools." And I was, even as a child like, 'Yeah its real generous to get someone to become familiar with your product when they are young, so when they buy things or ask their parents to buy things, they naturally gravitate to your product."

Generous my ass.

I have genuinely had a conversation with one of my friends who simultaneously believes that the U.S. is run by pedophilic sadists, but also that Ukraine is UwU smol bean who is just protecting themselves against Russian aggression.

Literally unable to put two and two together. Many such cases.

Why would Trump throw A.G. Sulzberger in prison? It's not like he is actually supporting doing any kind of reporting that doesn't just lead back to the Democrats, who will do nothing to hold him accountable. That's why this administration is the way it is, they realized that no one is actually going to hold them accountable.

In China, people actually, on occasion, are held accountable for their actions. What a concept.

I had to read half of 'Phenomenology of the Spirit' for my Metaphysics II class. And I read the other half on a combo of Adderall and Acid.

And other people interprete that section differently, I am only going off of what the class consensus was about what the fuck he was talking about.

It's basically a retread of the old Ship of Thesius problem. If your mind can change, and ideas can change, are you still really you? And by what mechanism can these ideas of self change, when you are dealing with a paradigm of Platonic ideals? After all, previously Kant proved that even if they do exist, we can only have limited access to them through logic, but if we assume they do exist in a platonic form, then how do they appear to change?

Marx just turns the whole thing upside down and says, this is silly, ideas clearly change over time and do not exist in some platonic vacuum somewhere, and they change because they are directly influenced by the material conditions that we, as the makers and keepers of ideas, experience. It is extremely refreshing to read Marx after Hegel, because he is extremely clear-cut in comparison.

It also doesn't help that because he was writing in German, there are these kind of compound phrase-words that are extremely hard to translate into English (because he is essentially making up new words in German). The closest English equivalent is kind of how I do it which is to just put dashs between things (such as phrase-word) but even that isn't an exact representation, at least according to my friend who is fluent in German and has read Hegel.

He also deliberately engages in using these phrase-words for a long time in a purely metaphorical sense, before going 'actually I meant all of this literally, now go back and read the last 100 pages with that in mind, despite me giving you no indication that that was the case prior in the text.' And then in the next section he will use something extremely literally before going, 'lol jk it was a metaphor the whole time.'

And it is extremely easy to miss that change if your eyes have glazed over from reading Hegel too long. Which is why you can kind of argue about it forever.

Truely infuriating writing style

It would be even funnier if we just turned the whole thing upside down for a laugh.

Aside from the idea that every moment destroys our consciousness and then it reforms slightly changed only to instantly be destroyed again (and that is how we are able to consciously perceive time passing and change), I think that part is my favorite, because there is so much build up to it, only for it to fall flat on it's ass.