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  • While I agree that my proof is blunt, yours doesn't prove that .999... is equal to -1. With your assumption, the infinite 9's behave like they're finite, adding the 0 to the end, and you forgot to move the decimal point in the beginning of the number when you multiplied by 10.

    x=0.999...999

    10x=9.999...990 assuming infinite decimals behave like finite ones.

    Now x - 10x = 0.999...999 - 9.999...990

    -9x = -9.000...009

    x = 1.000...001

    Thus, adding or subtracting the infinitesimal makes no difference, meaning it behaves like 0.

    Edit: Having written all this I realised that you probably meant the infinitely large number consisting of only 9's, but with infinity you can't really prove anything like this. You can't have one infinite number being 10 times larger than another. It's like assuming division by 0 is well defined.

    0a=0b, thus

    a=b, meaning of course your ...999 can equal -1.

    Edit again: what my proof shows is that even if you assume that .000...001≠0, doing regular algebra makes it behave like 0 anyway. Your proof shows that you can't to regular maths with infinite numbers, which wasn't in question. Infinity exists, the infinitesimal does not.

  • Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan
  • I thought perhaps the part where we organise was implied, but that's my bad. Obviously just shooting the first republican you see won't do much. It seams then that the preferred tactic here is accelerationism. Make it way worse quicker, so more people become friendly to the revolution.

    Edit: The reason democrats don't like shooting fascists is because they are have bought their own lies about the current system working, and because they foolishly think violence is never the answer, horseshoe centrists as they see themselves.

  • Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan
  • Name one thing he did that was worse than what the republicans have done? Voting for Biden this fall doesn't means you have to agree with him. You simply have to agree that having Trump win would be worse. This is like the trolley problem - you're fucked either way but you can decide how fucked you prefer being.

  • Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan
  • I didn't ask for details, I was merely curious if you are prepared to take your conviction to its logical conclusion. Letting dictatorship happen doesn't sound like something a principled communist would do either. Sadly I am on the other side of the planet, so I wish you good hunting. Until the republican scum are cleansed from this world we cannot rest.

  • Donald Trump wants to control the Justice Department and FBI. His allies have a plan
  • So when the republican christofascist dictatorship comes, at least you will have a clean conscience, knowing you didn't vote for preserving satus quo, shitty as it may be. Good for you!

    I hope, if you can't find it in yourself to put a ballot in the urn for the lesser evil, that you can put a bullet in the head of the greater.

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  • Two candidates that support genocide, but one is a christofascist. No matter who you vote for, genocide support wins. But you think it's better to give the christofascist better odds than to inconvenience yourself with a vote you don't 100% agree with, and possibly abstain from your chance to ever vote again. Not voting won't fix the issue, since there's no threshold on voter turnout for the election to count. The struggle against genocide must be fought in other ways. So unfortunately, this fall you're getting genocide, so please make sure you don't get fascism too.

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