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  • Edit2: defecating in front of a kindergarten. Spreading desease in the subway. Locking the doors of the fire department.

  • Dumb fucks
  • You know what would create even more reach? Human sacrifice. Cannibalism. Driving a van into a crowd.

    Not all attention is helpful. I very much doubt that these attacks on art have been a net positive for their cause

    Edit: crushing puppies. Burning down hospitals. Spitting on the elderly.

    Edit2: defecating in front of a kindergarten. Spreading desease in the subway. Deflating the tires of fire trucks.

    Edit3: peeing in the pool from the diving board. Terrorism. Releasing hundreds of thousands of flies in city centers.

    Edit4: spelling out racial slurs using drone swarms at night. Sinking a container ship in the Suez canal. Digging up graves.

    Edit5: flashmob orgies. Putting laxatives into the water supply. Political assassinations.

  • Was geht eigentlich auf Reddit mit den ganzen Atomkraft-Fans ab?
  • Das Thema wird in anderen Ländern halt ganz anders gesehen als hier (in Deutschland). Frag mal die Franzosen, was die von ihrem Atomstrom denken. Oder die Amerikaner (die auf reddit sehr dominant sind). Wenn man den deutschsprachigen Diskurs zu dem Thema gewohnt ist, sind diese Meiningen erstmal ungewohnt.

    Dass die über den deutschen Strommix nicht viel wissen sollte auch nicht zu überraschend sein. Viele dieser Leute sind über Memes informiert. Die wissen von Nord-stream, dem Atomausstieg und den hohen Strompreisen. Ähnlich wie hier vor ein paar Jahren viele aus drei Schlagzeilen über Griechenland die einzig richtige Meinung ableiten konnten.

  • Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds
  • I mostly agree with your conclusion, but this is a very american (I.e. ignorant) response to her concern and i am not surprised she wasnt receptive. I think you underestimate the difference between a country like yours (which has always been a 'salad bowl' of cultures united by a commitment to liberalism) and mine (Germany, which is essentially a big tribe of tribes). This difference is even more stark if you look at a place like Denmark.

    Here are a few of your points that gave me this impression:

    Germany is actually younger than the US

    Her concern is (to me) obviously independent of the state we happen to live under. Germaneness is not tied to a political entity. East Germans were German, Volga Germans are German and the German speaking people under the hre were German. ("German" Americans are not German btw.) This also makes your comment about

    Her mom was an East German and described to us how they had an entirely separate culture

    baffling (to me).

    US culture has, ... tangibly benefitted from immigration over the centuries.

    The us is in many ways a much worse country than Germany (or almost any EU country). I don't see why we should strive to emulate that model.

  • You guys are given spells?
  • Is there a difference between warlock and cleric?

  • where are my og rulers at
  • Strongest is the caternary arch. Its not listed there for some reason. A caternary is the shape of a chain dangling from its two endpoints. Flip that shape and you get an ideal arch (assuming no additional forces)

  • What are the most mindblowing things in mathematics?
  • Maybe a bit advanced for this crowd, but there is a correspondence between logic and type theory (like in programming languages). Roughly we have

    Proposition ≈ Type

    Proof of a prop ≈ member of a Type

    Implication ≈ function type

    and ≈ Cartesian product

    or ≈ disjoint union

    true ≈ type with one element

    false ≈ empty type

    Once you understand it, its actually really simple and "obvious", but the fact that this exists is really really surprising imo.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence

    You can also add topology into the mix:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy_type_theory

  • Lenin
  • My argument is not "look how many attempts have failed" but "look, of all of these many attempts, every single one has turned into a kafkaesque nightmare". At this point it is not even clear that "successful communism" is something that can exist in our world

    On the other hand, while many (depending on your perspective you might even say most) capitalist systems fail, there are absolutely some that work ok. Of course nothing is perfect in the real world. But the life of say a danish person is not only materially well off, but also free and full of dignity, which was true of none of the experiments in communism

  • Lenin
  • What about them? The choices here are not "what we have now" vs "trust the people that want to try communism again"

  • Lenin
  • communism rises from the ashes in the form of mutual aide, community, schools, and basic infrastructure.

    This made me realize that you are not worth my time. I hope you have a nice life!

  • Lenin
  • the atrocities of the system that keeps you fat and happy.

    You misunderstand. That is not capitalism but CRONY-capitalism. The two concepts are anrithetical. In REAL capitalism everyone respects the non-agression principle and therefore everyone is free. Crony capitalism is actually the LEAST capitalist system and is closer to socialism, because the government does stuff. I am very smart

  • Lenin
  • Communism doesn't include a hierarchy of power enforced by violence

    Very convenient, since nothing will ever meet this standard, so you will be able to say "that's not communism" for the rest of your life. Actually sounds like the definition on anarcho capitalism

    The two concepts are antithetical

    Maybe to you, but many of the people in power at the time believed they were on the way to communism

    USSR was somewhere between capitalism and fascism

    I know of two common definitions of capitalism: "a system mostly organized around a profit-motive" and "a system in which individuals are mostly free to enter into consensual contracts". I don't see how the USSR is close to either of these. It was closer to fascism, tho there are also large differences

  • Lenin
  • failed attempts

    They didn't fail. I mean you can criticize the ussr, but it was not capitalist

    which were sabotaged by capitalists

    What a weird thing to say. The USSR had sovereign control over the largest country in the world by far + a lot of allies. The capitalists can't even get rid of north Korea. Its not the capitalists, the system is just shit

    the need to rebel is the problem

    I mean its fine to rebel, but if your goal is communism I will bet on another case of "tHatS nOT rEaL coMMUnIsM"

  • Lenin
  • countries in which the Dictatorship of the Proletariat failed to cede power to the working class and establish a socialist economic structure

    Oh, so like every single other place that tried to implement that deranged system? Thank you for this very important distinction.

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