Hibiscus_Syrup

Hibiscus_Syrup wrote

Also sharing thoughts:

We can't erase ourselves, there is something there, with a history, which can be affected.

I think nihilism is less about destroying who we are and more about destroying oppressive ideas of humanity and the ways that those ideas determine who we are.

Nihilism comes from caring, not from a lack of it. Empathy is not meaningless and we don't need anything other than a considered intuition to justify it.

Sounds like titanic labor.

It is a titanic labor, but you or me are not an ocean, we are not built to carry a titanic, so seems fine to focus on the things we can affect and to grow you capacity to affect and be affected.

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Hibiscus_Syrup wrote

Reply to chocolate? by zoom_zip

I eat chocolate sometimes. I don't see it as a separate issue from veganism, but I'm not actually aware of child slavery issues generally in relation to chocolate.

I should be though. Does anybody have good resources on this?

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP wrote

Zionists define it every day, and you defined yourself in terms of the wikipedia article you linked, which has more than enough disgusting colonizer action described in it.

Anyway, I'm not interested to fight with a ban evader and have a lot of other things to do. Instead of being obscure you've had plenty of chances to make clear how you aren't a coloniser.

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP admin wrote (edited )

Anybody with half decent politics would know what this word means to people and go out of their way to avoid using it, definitely do their best to explain themselves if asked about it.

I'm gonna ban this person and that's it. If somehow I'm magically not clued into good-faith non-coloniser uses of "zionist" as appropriate to the world today then established users can let me know. I'm happy to learn.

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Hibiscus_Syrup OP wrote

Thanks.

Dialectical materialism, to put it simply, is a belief in an objective material reality that we can imprecisely observe.

This is most realist philosophy, which is a huge range of philosophy, so I'm not sure why Marxism is understood as scientific where presumably other positions aren't.

Maybe it will help here to introduce the idea of 'idealism', which I hear Marxists talk about. How does this relate?

It dictates that the ideas we use to describe objective reality are based on our observations. Thus as we come across new observations that contradict our previous ideas, we must develop new ideas to resolve this contradiction.

This seems to me just regular empiricism, so I'm still trying to figure out how Marxism specifically is relating to being scientific rather than other things. What is it measuring itself against?

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Hibiscus_Syrup wrote (edited )

Nothing that signals a shit superhero movie like a two-dimensional alien lord with accompanying army and no developed motivation other than wanting to destroy everything.

"I will turn the world to dust! All of existence shall be mine."

Shuddup ye boring ol turd

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Hibiscus_Syrup wrote

I've enjoyed reading this thread and have been surprised at how much you know about this. I'm surprised also in part because you called yourself a communist at least once recently iirc and I certainly don't know much about communists in other places. It's made me interested to learn more about what you think generally because I don't have a strong sense of where we disagree and what overlaps we have.

Anarchist men, especially post-left anarchists, are the primary reason why anarchists have accomplished so little

Anyway, what I'm mostly interested in is this - what is it that you think could have been done better by these people?

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