you may be getting lost in the weeds if you’re thinking about the fichtean ‘thesis antithesis’ thing. for an easy understanding it’s basically just the idea that nothing exists in a vacuum - things are always affected by something else. this just means looking at contradictions and context first, so the example you used of capitalist to feudal lord is an example of dialectics but its not necessarily limited to that sort of thing, more the understanding that things tend not to happen ‘just because’.

tensegrity is a pretty useful irl example imo of the role of contradiction in a lot of systems if you’re confused about that too.

iirc a lot of the board were ea people. anthropic is a good example of what oai would look like if they sutskever/board faction had won.

‘the ick’ seems to just mean ‘neurodivergent person did something neurodivergent’ when i see it used colloquially tbh

i literally never took notes throughout the entirety of my formal education process so whilst you probably shouldn’t do what i did it’s pretty possible to have postgrad qualifications without being a ‘good’ student. idk, i just couldn’t be bothered to write shit that seemed pretty self-evident from inference personally.

uh sweaty no minority could ever be against biden, only online white teenager tankies are against him.

im as cishet as they come, but does anyone else feel like we’re too sexualised? how are the gays ever going to accept us if we’re so hypersexualised? you know i just really feel like it’s pushing our movement backwards being so open about it

fwiw i agree with this, viewing great power competition as the default of inter-state relations is basically the closest to ‘imperialist realism’ if what ‘imperialist realism’ means is the assumption that states always do antagonistic/competitive actions to further hegemonic aims, which is more or less what people mean when they say ‘imperialism has always been a thing’.

GGST

i feel like tensions about dating and romance have really begun boiling up the past few years in general. there was a short period a few years ago where i thought incel-ism was dying out as an identity, but these days it seems bigger than its ever been

i honestly dont know how men are getting so mad about the bear thing tbh. like how is your first thought when confronted with women expressing how unsafe rape culture makes them feel ‘but what about men’s feelings though’?/??

ck3 still feels really boring and underdeveloped however many years into its lifespan now, it’s so cooked

out of the big streamers of that tier im pretty sure asmon was the one that parked his bus or w/e the phrase is with the gamergate chuds, every time i see a screenshot of an ‘asmongold clips’ upload it looks like some bullshit about video game waifu booba not being big enough.

compared to like xqc debating andrew tate or smth lol

tribalism

the problem with humans is that we view everything as us vs them sports teams, everything would be better if we could just compromise

“Intent” may signify an action taken with a purpose to achieve a given result, but the term includes as well an action taken with awareness that a given result will follow. The additional intent for genocide is a state of mind that accompanies the requisite acts. In that regard, it is unlike the intent required under a criminal statute prohibiting, for example, assault with intent to kill, where the actor assaults while anticipating a harm to the victim beyond the harm involved in the assault. The additional intent for genocide relates instead to what is anticipated to result from the underlying act. The act is part of the destruction of the group of which the victim is a member. The District Court of Jerusalem, in convicting Adolf Eichmann of genocide, explained that “the people, in whole or in part, is the victim of the extermination which befalls it in consequence of the extermination of its sons and daughters.” (A-G v. Eichmann, Judgment 1961 ¶190) The group, in other words, becomes a secondary victim upon performance of the act.

Link to full article, couldn’t be assed paraphrasing myself.

idealist leftists

im going to refrain from doing something very violent by pretending he means that most people in the west who call themselves ‘leftists’ are actually just liberals :^)

YTA but you (obviously) had the correct opinion

tbf i think there are worse liberal philosophers than russel tho

idk what pulling a nashville is but hiring a truck is like the preferred form of protest in ROK i think

ikwym

furr is a 2010s tankie meme, we shouldn’t need him to defend stalin. i agree.