CascadeOfLight [he/him]

It’s good to be skeptical of any claims that are extreme, and “Kinzhals have never been shot down” seems like a strong claim, like you would expect by simple random chance that one might eventually get shot down. However, I distinctly remember the ‘Kinzhal shootdown’ story, so I present you these images.

Those boys in the back sure don’t look 27 to me.

Labour could axe all hereditary peers…

…from the House of Lords

What if an ambulance gets stuck in traffic? What if a road’s blocked by an accident? Or because it’s being repaired or relaid because of all the car traffic over it?

What if all the ambulances are occupied tending to one of the ~2,500,000 people injured in car accidents each year?

If you need to go to the hospital, you can call an ambulance that will be able to quickly and easily reach you due to there not being any car traffic. (The utterly ludicrous cost of US healthcare is its own separate problem)

Going to the countryside? Take a bus to the outskirts, or even out into the country itself, and cycle to a particular spot. Going to or from a club? Take the metro, take the bus, maybe even (depending no the strictness of ‘no cars’) a taxi, which you can afford on special occasions with the literally tens of thousands of dollars you’ll have saved by not needing to buy, insure, repair and fuel a car.

You have to also understand that for a car-free society to even be on the table, a number of other social changes will have to have been made too. So just arguing that going without cars is impossible due to the limitations of the car-centric society that currently exists is just circular reasoning. There SHOULD be ways to do the things you’ve listed without using a car, and the reason there aren’t is BECAUSE of cars.

Shut the fuck up stupid piece of shit, go slam your head in a car door. Other comrades are gonna put up with your bullshit and try and educate you but I’m in ad-hominem mode.

Looking through your comment history you truly are the most trivial motherfucker I’ve encountered in a while. Coming in here and running an absolutely default smug liberal redditor dialogue tree.

You are not an “”“intellectual”“”, you’re an LLM trained on a fiftieth generation facsimile of a bad impression of a teleporter accident between Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. You would fail the Turing test. My fellows are trying to raise you to sentience, but personally I’d keep you in a museum as proof that p-zombies do exist.

Your next line is “UM ACKTUALLY- UM IN THE DICTIONARY-” instead just stop posting.

pit of nazis

An excellent choice of words

I think they’re saying that liberal “democracies”, as soon as they need to, will use the exact same censorship that they claim “autocracies” use, and which not using is the entire source of their supposed moral superiority.

Ah yes, I too draw my ‘preliminary estimate’ line as solid, and my ‘actual data’ line as dotted.

Lenin banned it for a reason

Defense so elastic that it just keeps stretching

As long as these missiles are made with the same German Efficiency™ as the ones they fired at that Reaper drone, Russia should be fine

See also: Surprisingly Cowardly Ukrainian Soldiers Help Russia Advance

It’s concerning because they’re approaching a certain mountain range of unusual height and blasphemous age, dotted here and there with strange Cyclopean stone blocks and cave mouths of unusual regularity… at all costs, they must not investigate those mountains of madness!

NOOOOO how dare you question our imperial loyalty?? We’re lifetime running dogs of the Empire! We would never aid and abet the barbarians with our superior western knowledge!!

Obviously not true

But if it was: skill issue, communists stay winning, better at capitalism than capitalists

That was my take away: brand new thought terminating cliche dropped.

“Teleology” is the idea that a system will inevitably end up in a certain state. The end state is defined in advance - from a distance (Greek: teleo, as in television, teleport etc.) - and any developments of the world before then will have no effect on the end state.

Christian dogma is ‘teleological’ for instance, because it states that eventually Jesus will return to Earth, return the dead Christians to life, and then everyone will live eternally in the kingdom of God. Its end state is completely defined, and no actions of humanity can affect whether or when Jesus’ return will happen.

Hegel’s dialectical idealism is also teleological, because he believed that each epoch of history is defined by certain internal contradictions that, when resolved, would lead to a new epoch - each epoch being “closer to God” until the perfect social system was reached (which he also thought had already happened, the literal perfect system of society in his view being constitutional monarchy).

Marx’s dialectical materialism is often slandered as being teleological, because it states that capitalism will eventually be overthrown due to its internal contradictions, resulting in communism. Critics say things like, “it’s utopianism”, “it’s just another kind of religious belief”, etc. However, this is not just a philosophically idealist assertion of what will happen, it is a scientific prediction based on the observable development of capitalism. It is no more teleological to say that capitalism will give way to communism than it is to say that a fire will eventually burn to ash - a full understanding of the internal contradictions and laws governing each process means you can accurately predict the end state.

However, unlike a teleological framework, dialectical materialism also understands that those internal contradictions and their development can be overpowered by external conditions - the fire, which operating under its own laws must burn all its fuel to ash, could have a bucket of water dumped on it. The fire would go out without having turned the fuel to ash, but the original prediction based on its internal contradictions wasn’t wrong, it was just superseded by external factors - just like Marx’s original prediction, that communist revolutions would take place in the most developed capitalist countries, was thrown out by imperialism, which introduced a greater contradiction between imperializing countries and the peripheral nations they exploit. Lenin found that, due to the confounding factor of imperial plunder pacifying the workers of the imperial countries, communist revolutions would instead take place wherever the chain of imperialism was weakest - exactly as it was in Russia in 1917.

So tl;dr, teleological frameworks are incorrect, being philosophically “idealist” - suggesting that purely mental processes (originating in either human will or “the mind of God”) determine the development of the world. Thankfully, the philosophy of the working class does not have this flaw, instead making predictions based on scientific analysis.

Really obsessed with faces but you love to see a guy furiously posting Ls because he thinks he’s scoring points against his boogeyman