• RowPin [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      (Not intending any rudeness, just speaking direct here.) The materialist explanation is that not everything has a 1:1 base:superstructure connection, since it'd be weird if human creativity was meaningless. It should be noted that "base determines superstructure" is a mistranslation of Marx:

      You will notice that Marx does not say simply 'base determines superstructure'. The word 'determines' is actually 'bestimmt' which does not imply causation in Hegelian terminology! Marx is saying that the legal and political structure, and the content of social consciousness corresponds to the form of social productive relations. How can social relations cause you to act in ways which can be determined in the way we can predict natural scientific phenomena? If that was the case everyone would act the same as everyone else in their class, but they don't because they are individual human subjects.

      Can you imagine feudal relations of production without the legal/political/religious culture of the middle ages? Can you have feudalism without lord and serf? Can you have lord and serf without peasant and nobility? Can you have peasant and nobility without the monarchy and clergy (in some form)? Can you have this system without it being reflected in the law? Can you have at the same time slavery and The Declaration of the Rights of Man? If Caesar implemented the Rights of Man would the Roman World become free market capitalism? As is the case with everything else, the content of a society's consciousness corresponds to the form of society.

    • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Americans are inherently dumb because 12 yards if linen or something I dont know they're just really fucking dumb

      • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        i think Dumb does not cut it , its not like they are only Dumb , but that they are so sure in their Moronic opinions, Like is there anyone grabing a "Opinion" tighter than an American ?

        " Dumbnsure " or something or is there a Word for it allready ?

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Some people believe all mass shootings are done by the government because some mass shootings really are done by the government to further their strategy of tension. That tends to give people Epstein Brain.

      The Pulse Nightclub and the draw Mohammad contest shooters were both FBI informants, and there is a lot of strange stuff surrounding the Las Vegas shooting.

      I don't think any of the school shootings have been ops (much less hoaxes) though. Teens are distressed and impulsive creatures.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Mostly from here. The FBI connections are easily verified though. [1] [2]

          The Las Vegas stuff was from a trueanon episode. They didn't claim that it was (or wasn't) a conspiracy, but they showed evidence that there was a cover-up of some kind, which could be as benign as hiding gross incompetence in response to the tragedy. However, Paddock had enough family connections to Air Force intelligence that I wouldn't fault anyone for believing (with low confidence) that it was an op of some kind.