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  • The issue here is whether or not you are talking about something concrete or abstract and in current physics there’s a lot of concepts that are being treated as if they are objects.

    It’s as if you were reading a scientific paper where meteors are losing materials due to rocks breathing or birds flying into certain directions due to winds howling.
    Winds don’t howl, rocks don’t breathe.
    Poetry does not help one understand the fundamentals of how physics work.
    And I argue that this kind of fallacy is rampant throughout the physics community.

    I (and some others similarly) suggest that there should be a systemic rules to prevent that from happening.

    Here’s my proposal:

    1. Every sentence in the entire paper needs to be checked for fallacies and if they contain them, then they need to be crossed out with a red pen.
    2. This checklist of fallacies should be universal, thus not be part of a blind peer review where the peer could uphold his or her own logic.
    3. Every fundamental concrete word can be drawn with a shape.
    4. Every fundamental relational abstract word can be drawn with shapes and arrows.
    5. Every fundamental dynamic abstract word can be drawn with multiple frames.
    6. Other fundamental words are names.
    7. Words that are abstract cannot use verbs or properties that belong to concrete words, just like non-organism cannot use verbs or properties that belong to organisms.



  • What about trying to figure out first what the other two buttons do? Maybe they turn on the light of the room you’re in. And I can see light without entering a room right? Just open the door, no need to enter it. If not allowed, look at the foot of the door or try to see if the room has a window.

    No need to buy fancy equipment or even go into the room at all.


  • Computers.
    Not even computer games, although that would have added bonus points as a target for bullying, but using a computer in general.

    Then again, bullying was more of an attitude thing during my youth, so you didn’t get bullied for your hobbies, but for your behavior.
    Ugly geeky kids were left alone if they hung out with other geeky kids. They got bullied as soon as they tried to associate themselves with the cool kids.

    That took me a while to think about.



  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlAm I wrong??
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    4 days ago

    Oh, so the bigger issue was whether or not to trust the peasantry, as they were not the labourers Marx thought would come to overthrow the capitalist system, more so than national socialism versus world government socialism?

    If so, thank you for making me learn something new.



  • No, I simply read wikipedia and followed the news as history took place and over the years I noticed so much hypocrisy on the US side and so little information from the other side, that I started to read more indepth to see what else might be going on.

    I still remember how many times the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were called “full scale invasions of US aggression” that impede on these two nation’s sovereignity.

    I also remember all the things said about “US freedom” a million times, like other countries will always use more tarrifs, because they don’t have such a great democracy like the US, which is why the US will always have the most open and free trade.

    And so many more things.

    Like one poster here said, most people in the west don’t become communist by reading communist propaganda, but by reading capitalist propaganda and seeing through its contradictions.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlEmpire propaganda is ahelluvadrug
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    6 days ago

    No, it makes it okay for a foreign country to invade with just cause when there was…

    1. A coup
    2. The next election was won through the popularity of a tv series, where the election winner played president on tv. This was not a coincidence.
    3. It became very clear that the policies of these two presidents that it would completely isolate Ukraine from Russia, despite half of Ukraine being Russian and the other half semi-Russian.
    4. This upset parts of Ukraine that have deep economic ties with Russia so much, that they declared independence of Ukraine to join Russia, starting with Crimea.
    5. This in turn was painted by US/UK media as aggressive annexation by Putin.
    6. It also became clear that Zelensky wanted to join the EU at all costs.
    7. This concerned Russia as the EU doesn’t seem to be independent of NATO policy and having nukes placed close to Russia’s border aimed at Moscow in areas where xx% of the population would consider themselves Russian wanting to join Russia is considered a nightmare scenario for Russia if separatist conflict would be taking place there.
    8. Russia then made negotiations with Ukraine to address both concerns and Ukraine did not uphold their part of the agreement. This happened twice and in both cases this ended up with military victory for Russia and the separatist areas.
    9. Russia also negotiated with NATO, since NATO was supplying Ukraine with arms to end this conflict and it became clear that NATO and the EU were pushing Ukraine to further the conflict.
    10. At this point Russia decided that it was time to act before things would get further out of control, showing Ukraine’s president that they were willing to wage war in order to prevent high otential nuclear conflict, by doing a small flash invasion, while preparing for world war III.
    11. Ukraine’s president then flipped, saying he was willing to take the situation serious, but then flopped when UK’s former prime minister came to visit him telling Zelensky that NATO was prepared to fully support Ukraine with whatever military equipment he needed.



  • In all four circumstaces you have US meddling with democratic rule. Chechnya went from newly formed democracy to Russia-isolated dictatorship in a blink of an eye and immediately killed the regional Russian leader, which was absolutely not what people voted for. Georgia attacked a Russian majority area. Ukraine attacked the Russian majority area in the Donbass in 2015. Crimea did not get invaded. It declared independence, because their then current leader was unelected.

    China liberated Tibet since 1951 by popular demand. People were sick and tired of their absolutely brutal theocratic leader enslaving most of their populace and invited China to take control over their nation as long as they could rule as an autonomous region. The Uyghurs are a majority group in autonomous Xinjiang. What’s a minority is the ISIS-affiliated terrorist group that want a theocratic state. The South China sea was agreed upon during world war II. The US now denies that claim, because it is being a sore loser as the communist party has practically won the civil war.

    The US has invaded Iraq, killed over a million people based on a complete and total lie. The US invaded Afghanistan to find a terrorist. He wasn’t there. The US invaded Libya, because they didn’t like the way Ghadaffi ran his country. The US plotted coups in every Arab nation and then called that “the Arab spring”, because they weren’t considered loyal enough to the US empire.
    The US is being a sore loser protecting the Chinese Republicans that fled to Taiwan, because the communist party has practically won the civil war. The US is starting a war with Venezuela based on lies of drug trafficking, but recently being more honest that it simply wants to destroy that nation so that they can steal all of its oil.

    One is not like the other two.





  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlVictims of Communism
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    8 days ago

    There are also victims of Jews.

    When OP criticizes “Mein Kampf” for it’s ridiculously demonizing claims against this group of people by saying that these “Victims of Jews” mentioned in the book were warmongering imperialists, then it doesn’t mean that OP is concealing true victims made by Jews.