woodenghost [comrade/them]

Maybe not from the outside, but you’d still know if you’re conscious, right?

Yes! Thank you, I love it! <3

Thank you, this is good to know!

It’s funny, because it’s true, but now I need a wholesome version of this with left unity pls,

The ML should playfully insult the anarchist back, then they just look at each other, then they make out and then they join hands in left unity.

Literature vampires are a metaphor for landlords. It couldn’t be more obvious in Dracula. Not just because he’s a lord who owns land. The protagonist is a solicitor and Dracula’s whole evil plan is to buy various properties in England. Multiple chapters are about him learning English laws and customs around buying and holding land and houses.

Except the study has some issues.

Well, there’s also apps you can use to scan a leaf and others to scan a recording of a bird song and it’ll tell you what it is with some accuracy. Combine this with a field manual (paper or digital) and you’ll learn it over time.

Their citizens deserve better.

What their government is doing has wide public support among the citizens of the settler colony.

• 95% of Israelis supported the Israeli forces’ level of use of firepower in Gaza; 58% said they are using too little firepower (Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index, November 2023)
• 64% of Israelis believe there are ‘no innocents’ in Gaza (Hebrew University aChord Center, June 2025)
• 82% support the full ethnic cleansing expulsion of Gaza (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
• 56% support expelling Palestinians within Israel itself (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
• 47% want to kill every man, woman, child (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
• 65% oppose the criminal prosecution for soldiers who were caught on video gangremoved Palestinian detainees.

Sources linked in this article.

Here are some quick thoughts:

Ask, who’s making the original claim and who much do they stand to gain and lose from lying about it if it were false and compare that to how much they stand to gain and lose from not covering it, if it were true. There’s pressure to lie, but there’s also pressure to report on real events. Think about material gain, but also about reputation, hype, clicks and career options. Think short term and long term.

For example, economic news offer lots of opportunity to gain from lies short term, but if an economic journal loses it’s reputation, it might lose more long-term, as investors lose trust.

If you want to compare multiple sources, make sure they have different incentive structures, or you won’t get truly different perspectives. For example compare news from imperialist and anti-imperialist countries.

To check if a story is plausible, it helps to have an historic materialist understanding of who the actors in the story are, what their history is and which classes material interests they share in.

Ideally, you shouldn’t come away from a confirmed story with the notion: “Wow it’s true, they really did that crazy thing! How dramatic and sensational!”. Rather, in confirming the story, you will have developed a deeper understanding of the underlying social forces driving individual actors decisions. So instead you’d be more like:“Now I understand why this thing that first seemed very surprising to me was bound to happen sooner or later.”

Dems(if they were honest): With us, live will continue to get worse and worse. And not only that, it will get worse faster and faster in an exponential way. And we’ll do everything in our power to speed things up even more (it’s what the shareholders demand). We can’t even promise to always lie to you anymore. Even empty verbal statements to appease your suffering will more and more often be to much to ask in the future. But we promise to let the mask that hides fascism’s ugly face drop a little bit slower than the opposition. And who knows, the speed at which the worsenings acceleration increases could maybe be a little bit higher without us, so vote blue no matter who.

Communists: Okay, crazy idea, but how about we turn things around and away from the looming abyss we’re accelerating towards?

Okay, I just got a great idea (or maybe I’m just way to tired to think straight). We should make a weekly (or daily?) lib bingo where everyone has a different bingo card and if you have a bingo you post in the weekly lib bingo thread (maybe with sources to the comments you found that give you a bingo). Oh and everyone who has a bingo just replies “bingo” to the lib comment (and maybe with a picture of the card).

We need at least sixteen lib comment tropes for a four by four game or 24 for a five by five game with a free field in the middle. I’ll start to list some:

• both sides / two things can be true (false equivalence)
• lapping up CIA propaganda unquestioned (this covers most instances of comments on China, North Korea, Soviet Union, etc. it would be too easy, if we made separate fields for all of those)
• selective scrutiny (suddenly very careful about sources when reality is biased against their prejudice, ready to believe in any conspiracy theory or to make one up to save their world view)
• empathy gap racism (“I just don’t feel emotionally invested in bad things, when they happen to non-white people.”)
• “That’s authoritarian! Why no, I can’t provide a definition.” (it’s code for anti-imperialism)
• “violence against fascists makes you a fascist”
• vote blue no matter who
• having no memory at all
• Nordic countries “social democracy” is the best possible system
• colonialism is a thing of the past
• the most radical political activity possible is pre-scheduled, non-violent, non-constructive protest, everything else is terrorism

I could make a card, but I need more lib-tropes and shorter names for them.

I’m sorry reality is biased against your prejudice.

Probably neutral alien monks from Mars who observe earth through a slightly broken amateur telescope, never read, watch or listen to any news themselves, have sworn an oath of silence and only communicate their news cast in form of slight alterations in pitch of a constant monotonous humming sound they make.

It’s all over the news so just google and pick a source.

Are you kidding? It’s all over the news so just google and pick a source. How about you provide sources for your weird conspiracy theory.

Isn’t that German flag and not the Nazi Germany flag?

No, you can see the fascist black sun on the upper flag in the video.

Math: here’s a theorem, if it’s proven, it’s true until someone finds an error in the proof or in the computer program or its compiler, if it’s a computer assisted proof and the compiler can never be proven not to be flawed (Turing). Or until someone finds an error in one of the assumptions or in their proofs. Or until the axiomatic system used is proven inconsistent and it can never be proven not to be inconsistent (Goedel). Or until you decide you need to work in a different system. Or technically if we stay in the system, but language or culture shifts and we change what we mean by the specific words and symbols used in the theorem.

Even if it’s true, unless you’re a platonist, it’s not true in the sense that it corresponds to a factual state of affairs in the world (there are no triangles). It’s only true within the system you’re using, just like the sentence: “Sherlock Holmes lives in Baker Street” is only true in the fictional world of the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. But in a more redundant way, because unlike novels, math statements are tautologies, reducible to a small number of axioms or axiom schemes, while novels don’t follow necessarily from, say, the table of contents.

Ah, that makes sense

Trump literally said:

‘We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds.’

And Netanjahu blamed Mossad as responsible for the failure of the protests to affect regime change.

I literally had an intense discussion about this in real life and said the same thing. The victims and the perpetrators both agree that CIA and Mossad were trying to affect regime change. But westernern libs know better of course…

Neither. Math builds a lot on other math. And the curriculum is very standardized. That’s why, when people just happen to miss something at any point, because maybe they have more important stuff going on in their live right now, they never catch up. We should drop the requirement that everyone has to learn the same math at the same time, hire more teachers and allow students to flow freely between courses to focus on the stuff they can learn with the math they already know. This will allow students to catch up and, paradoxically, produce a higher over all level of math knowledge, if less standardized and predictable for employers.

Now, to ensure students also want to learn math, both abstract math courses and mixed seminars should be offered. Students could choose to attend either or both. In the seminars, math, physics and engineering would be mixed in challenges where students with different skills and preferences have to work together to produce a cool result (like a robot, a game, an experiment, etc.). The abstract courses shouldn’t be forgotten, because many students actually enjoy learning math. Instead of just teaching rules and how to follow them, they should involve a creative aspect, where students are encouraged to break rules by making their own definitions, formulate their own theorems and try to prove them (like actual mathematicians do).