• thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    When the geocentric model prevailed, astronomers tried to make sense of planetary motion from that point of view. They tried to match up what they were seeing with their own eyes, with what the theory was. They had to create epicycles, strange orbits where planets danced around the earth in geometric patterns.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Cassini_apparent.jpg/1024px-Cassini_apparent.jpg

    They didn't take into account gravity or anything, because they didn't know about it yet. And they certainly couldn't go take pictures from space. But then people realized the sun was the center of the solar system, not the Earth. And then later discovered elliptical orbits and gravity and all that.

    The point is that Q is basically a geocentric model of politics, power, and economics. Historical Materialism is Kepler, Newton, and Galileo wrapped up in one. Historical Materialism explains gravity and why stuff does what it does. Q is just an attempt by ignorant people to explain with they see with elaborate, strange connections between people and events.

    • constantly_dabbing [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Historical Materialism explains gravity and why stuff does what it does. Q is just an attempt by ignorant people to explain with they see with elaborate, strange connections between people and events.

      The Truth About Beauty in Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKgIOX8IRE

      a theory is "beautiful" if it's simple and explains a lot of stuff, like "e=mc2"

      Qanon: [complex theory, needs thousands of pages to understand]

      Marx: "The gap between the bourgeois haves and the wage-slave have-nots is increasing to a point of crisis"

    • cum_drinker69 [any]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Great analogy. You can tell simply from the fact that they have domestic spying and surveillance programs littered throughout but seemingly no awareness of who these programs overwhelmingly targeted, which were leftists.

      Edit: and also black/minority liberation movements, but you can also consider those under the umbrella of the left.