What “principles” were holding you back from gloryposting?

leo point meme

my neighbor told me Iran keeps bombing his missile defense systems so I asked how many missile defense systems he has and he said he just goes to south korea and gets a new missile defense system afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding missile defense systems to Iran and then his daughter started crying

I hate /e/OS for sucking the air out of the room and leaving divestOS stranded. Fuck you /e/OS.

Well two wrongs don’t make a right. Food for thought.

It seems to me that dialectical materialism is a tool for post hoc analysis of society that is useful for constructing narratives and not much else.

have you not heard of the russian and chinese revolutions or what am I missing here? Two of the largest nations in the world mobilised their masses, led them into war against the ruling class and won. They lead huge literacy and industrialization campaigns that allowed their nations to leapfrog most other nations and made them able to compete with europe and the us in terms of technological advancements. Their leaders, now famous worldwide, are thought leaders in dialectical materialism and how to apply it. As a more concrete example Marx successfully predicted the monopolisation of market segments for instance. Which was a wild prediction to make in the 19th century when every town had their own factories and competition among them was fierce.

Yes words have different meanings in different contexts. “Blockade” has a common meaning and a different meaning in graph theory. But if you used it in its graph theory meaning unbidden in an online discussion thread that wasn’t already about graph theory, and without introducing the context of graph theory into the conversation first, then I would say you are using the word incorrectly.

You are free to do so of course, but there are quite a few people around who have read about imperialism and got the meaning behind the comment immediately, making an outright statement like “i mean contradiction in the diamat sense” seem superfluous to me.

Try George Politzer “Elementary principles of philosophy” maybe? Its a term coming from Hegel, it makes more sense in german (Widerspruch literally means contradictory statement, e.g. parents might say “I don’t want to hear a Widerspruch!” to their kids when they’re refusing to cooperate).

I also don’t know what you mean by “dialectical materialism kool-aid”, it’s a useful toolbox for analysing society not some belief system one professes. And yeah someone using that toolbox will use the names those tools are called by other people who use the same toolbox. If you don’t use diamat, then the names won’t make much sense to you. E.g. I had to present a math paper where the person destructed a graph into “blocks”, and called that destructure a “blockade”. Which doesn’t make much sense, when we think of a “blockade” it’s an obstacle, not something we want on our way to prove a theorem, but within this framework it’s a tool that was used to find a certain type of graph within the larger graph and not at all an obstacle.

Well if you think that it’s capitalism you think the primary contradiction in china is between the bourgeosie and the proletariat. Which of these control the state?

the contradiction is between the imperialists and their subjects. That’s what they meant by the primary contradiction. It’s a term from dialectics.

“On contradiction” by mao zedong is a good introduction to the concept

I am afraid you have committed two logical fallacies. A whataboutism and an ad hominem. I am therefore declaring myself victorious in this debate and taking the last word.

I leave you with this final thought: Have you considered that two things might be bad at once? Think about it.

europissants when people talk about someone else:

with as few words as possible, how can I make this about me

I don’t think Truman wanted to change the mode of production lol. Amaleka never had a real left wing.

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Sure but I don’t care about these people. They are in a straight forward transaction. They’re selling out their country and they know why. To the pit with them, they evoke no emotion. But the people that give up so much in their beautiful home countries full of life to come here and sit in an office during the long and cold winter days, because they bought the propaganda? They fill me with sadness.

Diaspora people want to be part of white culture and therefore take on the mannerisms. This necessarily includes the belief in and obedience to white institutions. It’s a sad thing to see.

To be absolutely clear I’m not talking about migrants in general here, this is a tiny fraction of all the migrants to the empire and it’s court.

Same diff tbh, I have a venezuelan neighbor stanning machado and she sounds exactly like that. Completely clueless people.

You’re willing to distract from the terror attacks on your own country by repeating the terrorists lies and slander. This is beyond depraved. Trying to relativize the death of an entire school of children is sickening and you should be ashamed.

Here is what your countrypeople think of you https://lemmy.ml/post/44100896

The amount of depravity I’ve seen these last couple days from libs, ostensibly dem voters, defending trumps terror attacks is jokerfying

Oh I guess one wasn’t a yank but iranian diaspora in europe

https://lemmy.world/comment/22535878

(I think I can guess the country based on the depravity)

death to amerikkka and death to pissrael includes death to tükürmeye

Least depraved yankee. Your countries existence makes me question gods. Why does your kind have the compulsive need to justify school shootings