commiewithoutorgans

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[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Minecraft and trident

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah definitely a embarrassing comment on my part. I definitely knew that somewhere that Hamas is Sunni but wrote shia. Deleted my comment because it was not useful.

Still curious about Salafist beliefs and sympathies in Gaza though, if anyone knows of trustworthy resources for such info.

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The last one would be kinda cute in some parallel world where it was someone who loved cows and was hanging with his cow buddies. I can't imagine a political situation for it to be cute in but it's kinda cute

Ah shit just noticed the money.

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To anyone seeing this kid for the first time, he's pretty shitty person. Still young so I'm not gonna be too harsh, but the videos on the channel have tons of right wing bullshit and mocking of anything vaguely left wing. The footage is fine here though, because he's just trying to chase fights and happens to be showing something useful. Just don't go looking deeper into the content

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On number 5, I was attempting to look at the lyrics and compare to something, but it was so hard to find any text for what the chant (a known chant in Israël) is. The only thing I could find and confirm from the vid6e was Mawat laAravim which is "kill the Arabs" (but they changed the work "kill" to "fuck" which I don't know) Anyone have a longer text of it?

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not native but I could understand it fine without subtitles. Terrible at accents, though I definitely heard some heavy American sounding things. But I know 0 people from Puerto Rico so maybe that's just how people there talk, for all I know.

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

It definitely sounds like the title that the BBC would give if they dared talk about it, to be fair to you.

Ready for taking some heat, but I think engineers are actually a great example of a group of people that learns how systems work but often never think to apply this thinking to social questions. Rationality of engineering is very "apply advanced concept to concrete example and understand how limitations (conditions) and accuracy affect the system." Which is beautiful and awesome. Just that the people who study it are often freaks who love bombs. And if they're not, they still just cannot grasp the social question.

This is to say, I must defend engineers to an extent, but reeducation is likely a fine option because they mostly have all the bases to understand.

Ready for taking some heat, but I think engineers are actually a great example of a group of people that learns how systems work but often never think to apply this thinking to social questions. Rationality of engineering is very "apply advanced concept to concrete example and understand how limitations (conditions) and accuracy affect the system." Which is beautiful and awesome. Just that the people who study it are often freaks who love bombs. And if they're not, they still just cannot grasp the social question.

This is to say, I must defend engineers to an extent, but reeducation is likely a fine option because they mostly have all the bases to understand.

Although I can understand this argument, I don't think it's realistically so. Leninism COULD mean that, but in practice, it's used only to exclude Marxist Leninists from the group. When someone says Leninist, they are so often referring to it in opposition to "Stalinists" that the umbrella model can't really work.

[–] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When the contradictions grow and sharpen, there is a dialectical process where the positions then become clear afterwards, and one of those positions sincec Stalin has, up until this point, always been the consensus "ML" position. Right now, there is broad agreement on many positions. I think China is the main one currently, where some ML are saying that it's not going fast enough. But ML still means something clear in this situation, just something with a growing contradiction (like everything else).

ML is a term which Stalin used to describe Lenin's additions. Of course that's how Stalin described it, not how Trotsky wanted people to understand it. That contradiction built up very quickly and made a split, and Trotsky dropped the term and so it's meaning was no longer split. But again, it's just a label. You are just opposed to ML and then feel like it shouldn't be called that because you disagree with it but feel like you still agree with Marx and maybe Lenin.

If it sounds like I had an attidude, I had no intention for that. I was actually paraphrasing a famous speech of Parenti.

If you want to be an island with your own terms, I do have a problem with that. It is a 'we' because you are using language and it's meaningless to create your own language for only yourself. You confuse the terms tin relation to each othergenerally as it exists in a social context and language. That's why there needs to be a good reason that a person takes such an action, and they must be clear in that. I don't think you did either of those.

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