I feel like we're so close and so far away at the same time here. There does not need to be an equality -- that's the false consciousness of the capit...
Which is to say: Thought and feelings are already criminalized. I suppose if you don't say or do anything ever then no -- are you one to hold onto tho...
I would too. What I've noticed is that the law is invoked in various circumstances differently. "Free speech for me, but not for thee": anyone who spe...
Let us take an example: "Kill all the white people!" Substitute any group you wish. Suppose a person with influence yells that to their people wanting...
But how would I know which way it'd go unless I toss? This is a relatively safe environment for exploring thoughts. What I thought is untrue is that @...
I have to admit I was mocking voting in this retort. Mostly at the individual level -- i.e. if you're organized then voting can make a difference in s...
I'd interpret this as it's the consciousness which is false rather than the necessary social law. I'm interpreting Adorno as noting a performative con...
I'm sure if we register to vote this will all go away. It's been ugly and getting uglier. I've admitted I didn't expect Trump 2.0 to go full fascist. ...
By "Marxist Interpretation" I'm referring to Karl Marx more than latter political movements -- here the "objective law" I'm thinking is as Marx descri...
The way I'm understanding that paragraph: "... must calculate so that the unpaid part of the yield of alienated labor falls to him as a profit, and mu...
That gets along with what I'm thinking regarding @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s inquiry. At least insofar that we understand "Ideology" as more than "t...
A general note: Analogies to family dynamics aren't good ways of understanding geo-politics if that's where we end. If that's what we have to work wit...
I read that in a Marxist sense. So the entrepreneur must pay a wage which is below the value produced by the labor-power he employs, else he will not ...
Yes, and never will really -- I'm trying to make sense of things so posit various "motivations" that aren't really from evidence but an attempt to mak...
I did say that I don't believe he deserved what happened to him. Now, granted, if all we're talking about is Charlie Kirk's assassination then it's a ...
Bingo. It's the sort of logic that can lock one into a fight -- a tit-for-tat that lands on whichever side you want to favor. And usually adopted by t...
It would certainly be nice if those were the people we were talking about. At least you aren't denying that it's a genocide -- you're just going about...
I will try. I'm going to do a summary of each of the 5 paragraphs as I see it: 1. Dialectics is opposed to absolutism. Fundamental ontologists believe...
Does it matter? If you won't accept South Africa as an analogue, then ought I to accept the civil war? I told you the differences I saw. I used South ...
Ehhh... given what we see right now, it really isn't possible to do that. This is what the Israeli government is pursuing in the name of routing out H...
I get the sense that the 4chaners et. al. just want to agitate people to kill others in order to cause a sense of terrorism. I don't think they care w...
While a penchant for violence is a part of human nature I do not think that people are sitting around waiting for their turn at the genocide stick. Th...
Naw, that's dumb. There are significant differences between those and what's happening here, though, such that the "war" designation isn't exactly app...
That's not what happened. There was a war between different powers and people were tried after a government surrendered. The destruction of "Nazi Germ...
There's one thing here that I think is important to distinguish: this is not a war. A war is between two countries that recognize one another. Israel ...
I disagree. That'd count as an example of "genocide": MW: "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group" Hamas ...
S'all good. Yearp. That's the question -- less with respect to these individuals that sparked my feelings, but more with respect to ourselves: Who is ...
Yeah -- I've seen other reports too I've been sticking to the "conservative" ones because the topic is controversial, and really even the small counts...
I think this is a bit much. You may not recognize it as transphobia, but you're talking the points up front while ending with classist points. And yet...
As you noted -- "We aren't going to agree here" And that's OK for the purposes of this discussion. Since I get my information from people from Gaza it...
The wiki on Palestine defines this well enough for me. "Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by 147 of ...
Part of the absurdity I feel is the celebration I see. Not really people directly around me, but just generally on the internet and through the media ...
What is a genocide, in your view? I wouldn't say that Israel is "holding back", but that's a vague criteria. I'd go with Merriam-Webster: Now if you'r...
There's a sense in which complaining about its existence is like complaining about the United States' existence -- both are colony's that took other p...
Eh, fair. I've been reading along and thinking here. I think it's a "reader comprehension" issue on my part. I'm wondering what you mean because I fel...
It didn't make sense to me how what you said connected to @"Christoffer" Chris did not make a connection between the act of holding and espousing one'...
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