equinox [he/him, any]

How can I get better at understanding contradiction? Specifically identifying contradictions, I’m still struggling a bit with the dialectical part of dialectical materialism.

Can you still feel it? I lost feeling in one of my fingertips after an incident with a forklift, which is small but annoying sometimes lol

better than before. legit like 2 days after joining the kapital book club my friend’s mom died so we’ve been caught up with that but things are starting to settle somewhat now, so hopefully i can catch up 🙏

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And yet, you want to using a word that is sacred for some other culture.

don’t put words in my mouth. i never used either term. im criticizing your decision to call out people for using the wrong term instead of the person who wants jewish people dead.

your point is true, it’s just that you’re defending it in a way that diverts attention away from the more immediate problem of anti-jewish hate

this is your response to a story about someone spreading anti-jewish rhetoric

i love the big sweeping sickle, goes hard af

(he poisoned it)

I feel like the thing with “scary” dogs is related to the problems we’re seeing with guns and stuff too. The same type of person who wpuld want a gun or a big truck would probably also want a pitbull, they’re “tough-looking” but they don’t wanna put in the effort to earn it.

i know this is cheap but does that pseudo-AK have a flintlock hammer

Nice to see the younger ones polled favor Palestine’s struggle more

A few comments down threw some sense into the mix saying it sounds like astroturfing is at least playing some role, and someone linked a very interesting web archive link: Reddit admins accidentally reveal "Eglin Air Force base as the most “Reddit addicted city”, from 2013. (and here’s a link to the web archive page if the original reddit post goes missing)

I found this paper that a Redditor said was funded by Eglin which shows how to influence conversations online and control majority opinion, but keep in mind I haven’t read the paper nor looked any deeper into the authors so take it with a grain of salt, unless you wanna look further.

Edit: apparently the official explanation is that Eglin is where military VPN traffic goes through, so everyone browsing Reddit on military networks does through Eglin. Kinda sus but seems reasonable imo

It references evergreen trees, the ones that don’t lose their leaves in the winter and are green year-round, in this case it says the essay is applicable to many scenarios and not just a few, like how normal trees are only green for parts of the year

I listened to the Deprogram episode with Lady Izdihar last night (she’s a muslim who specializes in USSR history) and she talked a little about her history as a worker for a Democratic candidate. Apparently the team she was with wanted to celebrate winning a lawsuit against an anti-Muslim Trump policy by… going to a bar.