Is Guns Germs, and Steel good? Way back before I knew anything about politics I thought it sounded neat

Lowk tuff, but worried this guy is in the process of becoming a Nazbol

I’m having trouble seeing what the issue is with mechanistic materialism, particularly on the third point:

That all motion, all change can be reduced to the mechanical interaction of the separate particles of matter;

How is this not the most scientific/least metaphysical way to view the world? This sentence is the basis of all physics! I also saw a post a while ago saying that dialectical materialists “understand that consciousness is real” while “a mechanical materialist treats humans like passive objects, reduces consciousness to brain chemistry”. In this case, is the second statement really incorrect? To say otherwise would be reintroducing metaphysics, denying that neuroscience/psychology can describe the brain because of some supernatural force.

Thanks! And of course HOI4 is involved lol, there’s always something going on with that game’s fanbase

Steins;Gate and Code Geass are literally must-watches (would recommend reading the S;G VN instead of the anime though). I think FLCL, Serial Experiments Lain, Soul Eater (until it diverges from the manga), Black Lagoon, and Gurren Lagann are all great animes that are a bit less popular

they have a dedicated hating community? son im crine

what is this style of meme called? I love it so much

If the reserve keeps falling at the same rate, that would mean 11 weeks until the legal limit and 27 until the operational minimum

Is wikipedia a good source for reading about this topic or is it biased?

Ah I see, I guess we don’t really disagree then, thanks

Yeah i’m not trying to equate them, and I do genuinely want to learn since i’m new to Marxism. I guess I need to study the history of the levant more, I have no idea how life was for Jews in the area before Israel was founded

ukraine is also controlled by neonazis

how so?

ima be real, i have no idea what you said

I definitely agree with you that Palestinians have more of a “right” than Zionists to live in the area. I’m just taking issue with your original comment implying that land should be divided according to what group has the “right” to live there, since as an internationalist I believe in freedom of movement.

brandslop :(

Isn’t there a proposal that consciousness is a quantifiable gradient, which means that everything capable of performing logic (even basic AND, OR, NOT gates) has at least a tiny bit of consciousness? It’s called phi-star IIRC, very interesting to think about

How did palestine earn the right to the land? Is it because they were living there first before they were kicked out? In that case, I’m unsure how this is different from Zionists claiming that they were there first, or any other group of people who ever lived in the region?

Does land in general rightfully belong to anyone? Isn’t this the same argument Zionists use to justify Israel?

Is Machiavelli worth reading? I want to be a tuff sigma male just like ayanokoji