MarxMadness

@MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let the power of your ideals stand on their own.

  “Fascism will die in the marketplace of ideas” has been conclusively disproven.

  This is not because fascism is a strong idea, it’s because the marketplace of ideas (like most markets) ranges from “doesn’t work very well” to “rigged.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian Thompson killed tons of people in cold blood. There’s basically zero chance he would have seen any justice for that in the foreseeable future. Taking him out was no different than taking out an active shooter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  selling lumber and steel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s

  Every future member of the Allies did this.

  What really separated the Soviets from other future Allies is [it approaching Britain and France on the eve of the war with an offer of an anti-Nazi pact.](

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as civil rights that women do not have (or are being taken away), all three articles only speak of abortions. Men already can’t have abortions.

  You really thought you were cooking here, didn’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smort⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the comparison to measuring physical attributes, but I think a better analogy for IQ testing would be “trying to measure athleticism by trying to measure who’s best at playing basketball.”

  Defining “athleticism” itself is hard. It might include reaction time, coordination, strength, speed, flexibility, etc. There are some naturally occurring differences in those attributes, but to a degree they are also changeable. Any bottom-line, all-in measure is going to include some arbitrary decisions about the relative value of each attribute.

  Trying to measure athleticism by who’s best at basketball adds another layer of problems. Basketball (analogous to test taking, cultural context, etc.) involves skills that are separate from whatever you’re calling athleticism. It’s also a game where a big factor in success – height – is also probably something a lot of people would consider separate from athleticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of Death in London (1623)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you survived childhood, and there wasn’t a plague around, or a war

  Lot of “ifs”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’d had Star Trek for two years by that point. It really was not that groundbreaking.

  Star Wars came out 9 years after 2001. The visuals absolutely were groundbreaking – they still hold up, and look better than all but a handful of space movies that came out before about the 90s.

  Your point with the pacing is fair, but I think about half that is an artifact of the time or a byproduct of watching it on a couch with a smartphone instead of in a theater.