Yliaster

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[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm familiar with the horseshoe theory. I am not against being far-left.

But from my [limited] understanding of the figure, he did a u-turn on his policies the minute he came to power, and became the thing he was supposed to destroy [fascism, dictatorship] instead of actually applying communism/socialism the way it was intended (i.e. to liberate the working class from the social elites and restore the means of production back to them).

CMIIW.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Just because we cannot currently categorize the output does not mean the thoughts exist in the supernatural plane.

You cannot assert they are material, either. It's about observation, though, not merely categorization.

This just means we likely won’t know everything, not that there is something we cannot know, period.

If you can't know everything, there's at least something(s) you can't know.

It does not. Matter continues to change. Water can boil and return to liquid over and over again.

And because these processes are occurring, they could not have arisen from an infinite loop, because that would suggest infinity had passed for them to occur, which is impossible.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Brainwaves and activity are not thoughts. We cannot actually directly ''observe'' the thoughts themselves. We can't look at someone in a lab and be like, ''ah yes, he really wants to go play football right now'', that's not something we can observe.

How so? What stands beyond the possibility of knowing, if not the supernatural alone?

Human limitation, for one. We are not omniscient or omnipotent, nor will we ever be. We'll never have the full picture of the totality of reality, even if progress can be made. Our limitations are inherent to us, limitations in our mental ability, perception, senses, etc.

This doesn’t follow, though. The point isn’t for it to be completed. Infinity as a concept exists, even if we never reach it in reality, the capacity for always increasing does.

It follows necessarily. If it's not completed, no process or matter can arise. Because we know these processes/matters exist, they can't be coming from an infinite loop.

Square circles and married bachelors also exist as concepts.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

There's really no good image-discovery social media platform like X/Insta. I've tried a few, and they either lack algos, or have negligible user base, either of which make them useless.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

You believe the propaganda because you’re comfortable enough to not care to question it. But when things get bad, when quality of life is in the shitter these methods will not be that effective.

I mean just how bad does it have to get for people to wake up? Look at America, ICE, the anti-women, anti-trans, anti-gay policies he's pushing, deportations, etc.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Social media often spreads anti-capitalist messaging, even if it’s censored, simply due to people feeling the need for it due to capitalist decay.

Can you explain?

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

Eh?

Is China being used as an example of valid communism/socialism? Isn't Chinese Communism (i.e. the form practiced by the CCP) completely off?

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

leftist doesnt mean communist

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