2mo ago

"Wow, this math/science YouTuber seems pretty smart..." 😀

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I trust The Economist magazine for thoughtful analysis and [...]

"Lmao okay I guess not then."

Or they'll be discussing politics and history with an (otherwise) interesting guest when the subject broaches Marxism, and you hear the same old, first-grader, thought-terminating misconceptions about "human nature" or "works in theory".

Edit: One guy remarked that the Nazis were a result of the October Revolution, which may be technically accurate because some White Russians worked with the Nazis, but he was definitely framing it in a "communism did WWII" way.

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I mean, I trust The Economist to have thoughtful analysis from the perspective of the international capitalist class with uncrossable ideological boundaries providing the framing.
I don't often need a reminder of "how these people think" but sometimes I do, like when the administrative state of the US is undergoing a proscribed burn that seems to be getting out of hand. The Economist is probably one of the more salient examples of capitalist logic... the steady hand and voice on the wheel of slave ship that is compartmentalizing leaks by insisting more and more of the workers keeping it afloat must be confined to quarters below and silently drown with honor, dignity and civility.
- Isn't it written by 19-year-olds?
  
  so are my posts but i could probably give a pretty good summary of the war in sudan if i felt like it smh
  
  i think of them, the "writers", more like monkeys banging on keyboards while Baron Paul Deighton and others on their group boards playing the Mr. Burns role when the monkeys' narratives are too incomprehensibly out of pocket.
- 😌
I assume that every YouTuber is a completely incoherent libertarian until directly proven otherwise.
- That's a good heuristic.
- How often were you right than wrong?
  
  I'm batting well above .900
being a subject matter expert is extremely different from achieving enlightenment.
- Which is fine as long as they're not arrogant.
  
  the whole system is built around telling people they're extra special smart little kiddos for knowing the right and correctly true answer, and that's why they deserve petty boug incomes and consumer habits. it's baked in.
I mean I think there's a lot of merit to say the Nazis were a result of the October Revolution. Historians like Enzo Traverso and Domenico Losurdo would argue that WWI and WWII are part of the same thirty years war, and that the fascists were the direct result of the communist challenge to capitalist supremacy. There was no other method aside from fascism to restore the Capital order in a place like Italy.
- if you want to you could argue that like 1850-1950 was a hundred years of labor conflict bubbling up to these wars which were a result of capitalist and imperialist forces with the influence of "communism" really just representing the rising education and class awareness of the proletariat as well as an increasing ability to threaten order through better organization and coordination
  anyway it's almost like the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles
- Oh most definitely, I just think it's wrong to blame communism for the atrocities done in reaction to it. That was the subtext I was offended by.
  
  Ah got it, agreed.
As someone in STEM, I can say, we suck
Add every victim of WW2 to the communist death count

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