Contravariant

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Agreed, but I am sad that they don't choose to share any of those personal experiences that they claim are vital for understanding communism.

Even if communist revolutions tend to fail for the same reasons most revolutions fail (a need for temporary authoritarian rule followed by fumbling the succession) anything that can help understand how and why something failed is useful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you place killing an ideal beyond implementing your own you're making exactly the same mistake.

The best we've come up with is to try to ensure people are educated and well informed and only a majority can make certain decisions. Not all countries are doing too well on all 3 (heck the U.S. doesn't even manage to ensure decisions require a majority) but if an ideal gets accepted under anything resembling those conditions then killing the bigots is no longer an option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Please tell me someone thought about a switch to take them offline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (9 children)

You can pretend all you like the problem is that there have been leftist wack jobs that very much did exterminate people for political gain.

Things would be so much easier if we could simply argue about ideology without anyone getting the 'clever' idea that you can simply exterminate everyone who disagrees and end up with a harmonious society of people all working towards the same ideal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Technically he was 19. Also under Dutch law the term rape would imply the use of force, which was either not the case or not considered proven hence why the sentence ended up being lowered.

Still awful. Just trying to get the fact straight so people can judge for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can stick your tongue in it. Wouldn't recommend actually trying to get anything in your mouth.

You're protected by the thin layer of nitrogen that immediately sublimates, this lasts until the nitrogen heats up so the liquid can touch you directly, which you want to avoid.

For mostly the same reason you can stick a finger into molten lead (without losing said finger), provided you do it fast enough and your finger is wet enough.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

If someone's licking any of the transuranic elements I'm not sticking around to watch.

Some stuff should simply not exist in a lickable quantity.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't surprise me if that's what sealed the deal for him.

I mean the deadlines are closing and having to fight to even stay in the race while president of the U.S. and recovering from an illness is not something anyone looks forward to.

Frankly I hope he can catch a break for a bit, and enjoy a pension after all this is over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe some idiot shot straight up into the air?

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