MindTraveller
@MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 hours ago:
I had an upvote on your comment until the last paragraph. But that’s a bad last paragraph.
Batman is a good person and that’s why it’s fiction.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 hours ago:
This fact was revealed in Batman Beyond, in which Batman’s nemesis is an evil CEO called Blight.
- Comment on gotdamn 4 hours ago:
It’s not a child. A child is defined as having been born. It’s a fetus. A parasite.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 hours ago:
I would like you to explain how Captain America and Superman are reactionary.
Captain America is an artificial warrior created by a Jewish scientist to fight the Nazis, and Superman is a baby sent away in a basket to be raised by not-dead parents who chose to use his privilege to help people.
Zack Snyder is an Objectivist and that’s why his Superman movies stink. He doesn’t understand the core themes of superheroes, he only understands the spectacle and surface theatrics.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 hours ago:
This is why I’m so excited for Batman Azteca. Aztec warrior Batman killing colonisers like the insane conquistadore Two-Face
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 hours ago:
Also the Penguin
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 hours ago:
I thought Lucius Fox was the CEO. Bruce Wayne is chair of the board.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 hours ago:
Oh n0 and Oh h1
- Comment on gotdamn 4 hours ago:
Either way, the fetus of a woman who wants an abortion is up her vagina without consent and is therefore a rapist. Deadly force is permissible in the act of removing a rapist from their victim.
- Comment on gotdamn 6 hours ago:
Water touches water and therefore makes it wet
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
🤡
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 2 days ago:
Planescape Torment
- Comment on Life pro tip: Maybe give her some pointers if it's her first blow job. 2 days ago:
I want to be a virgin because I don’t like sex.
- Comment on Thanks for teaching us how the kids with alcoholic fathers felt Mr Resetti 2 days ago:
- Comment on Thanks for teaching us how the kids with alcoholic fathers felt Mr Resetti 2 days ago:
Mr Resetti from Animal Crossing. If your game closed without saving, he’d show up the next time you turned the game on to yell at you, and he wouldn’t let you play until he was finished. He even forced players (often little kids) to repeat “I am dirt” back to him.
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- Comment on And then...it was just gone. 3 days ago:
This just in: men do not watch horror movies
- Comment on The Steam Summer Sale is live now! 3 days ago:
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
I don’t need to argue with you. The ridiculousness of your position speaks for itself.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
The part where you completely understood both Marx and my own arguments. But no, no, go ahead. I’m sure everyone at the clown college is very impressed with you.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
If you want me to take you seriously, maybe try having serious arguments.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
You see, denying the existence of the entire field of psychology and claiming I made it up is exactly what makes you an anti-science weirdo.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
Love the argument. “No u”. Great job telling me my own beliefs incorrectly. With skills like that, you could be a politician in the US.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
If you respond to nothing else I say, then at least answer me this: why have you chosen to term something that is anti-science as “reality?” It makes absolutely no sense. Just say that science is real, that trans identities are real, and that transphobes are pushing a false and unreal narrative.
I didn’t choose to term anti-science beliefs as reality. Society did, and then I went along with it so as not to be incomprehensible to you. If by “reality”, we mean “An objectively extant world”, then there’s no such thing, and I oppose belief in such a thing. But if by reality we mean “The world society thinks is objectively extant”, then that thing is anti-science.
It’s much the same language as an atheist might use to talk about the gods. The atheist would say "If by ‘the gods’, you mean ‘almighty beings’, then there’s no such thing, and I oppose belief in such a thing. But if by ‘the gods’, you mean ‘the almighty beings society believes in’, then they are anti-science.
Please don’t begrudge me for accepting your premise that consensus reality is reality. It’s just a matter of convenience. I cannot at the same time believe that reality is true, and that reality is what the realists believe in. I have to pick one or the other.
Why do you need the government for this? If you need more funds, why don’t you just alter reality to manifest them into existence?
Cause the brain doesn’t work like that, you dipshit. Didn’t I say our perceptual reality is governed by cognitive laws? Cognitive laws don’t allow me to just do that. Weren’t you paying attention, or do you just have a kindergartener’s understanding of psychology?
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
Dialectical materialism is a misnomer. I’ll give you an example. Suppose Alice’s boss pays her one dollar an hour, while Bob’s boss pays him a thousand dollars an hour. A dollar is not a material object. It’s a social construct. These quantities are, material, simply numbers in a bank account. Less than that, because numbers are social constructs two. Material, these are magnetised bits on a hard drive. There is no material sense in which Bob earns more than Alice. The fact that Bob earns a thousand times as much is purely social, not material. Yet, as a result of the exchange of social constructs, Alice lives in a slum and cannot afford medical care for the tumor that will kill her in a year’s time, and she is driven by necessity towards revolution. While Bob lives a life of privilege in a mcmansion with three healthy kids from three different ex-wives, and Bob is incentivised to maintain the status quo and oppose revolution.
If the dialectical philosophy of marxists were aptly named, it would be called dialectical determinism. Alice and Bob’s lives are governed by cause and effect, not by materials. They are governed by the cause and effect of social constructs. We can say that materially, Bob is more wealthy because he has a mansion, but why does he have a mansion when Alice does not? Because of a social construct. Not a material. It is wrong to say Alice’s desire for revolution is driven by materials. It is in fact driven by cause and effect, which is much more universal than mere matter.
Being a soulist does not make me the enemy of dialectical determinists, which is to say Marxists. But it does make me the enemy of realists, who misunderstand the lessons to be learned from Marx’s writing and fixate upon the physical to the exclusion of truth.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
The benefit Hoffman’s theory does us is that is reveals the universe is governed not by physical laws, but by cognitive laws, of which apparent physical laws are a contextually dependent subset. And we can use that, because it means reality can be manipulated not just by physical technology, but also by psychological technology. Imagine a civilisation only using half of science! It would look to the average person like a society practicing biology and medicine without ever discovering chemistry or physics. That’s precisely the situation our civilisation now finds itself in. We are only using half the science that is available to us, and half of the technologies we could have already invented by now. Antirealists demand that the government pour more research money into developing psychological technologies that alter our perception of reality. And that the public embrace such psychological technologies as have already been invented. For example, the technology to see a trans person as their preferred gender presentation regardless of their physical form. That technology is essential to preventing suicides and many people refuse to adopt it. We are fighting an anti-science platform pushed by transphobes who want trans people dead.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
They don’t want to have a communist revolution. They want to have a socialist revolution and then wait for the state to implement communism on its own. A true communist would act to bring about communism.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
Stalinists are just so afraid to actually pursue their supposed end goal. They always say “I want a stateless, classless moneyless society”, but if you say “Okay, let’s have a communist revolution and get rid of all that garbage right now”, they call you an idiot. “No, no, no”, they say. “You have to have a socialist revolution, and then wait two hundred years for the state to dissolve itself.” Well I’m sick of waiting. Russia never dissolved its socialist state, and China isn’t going to either. But you know who didn’t have a state, and still managed to fight bloody hard against the capitalists? Catalonia. They had the right idea, they just got rid of the state straight away. They were actually communists. I figure if the Stalinists keep saying no to communism, then they can’t be communists at all.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
You should watch cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman’s TED talk about how our bodies aren’t real. And here’s a youtube link in case you have trouble with TED’s website.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 days ago:
There is nothing between liberal and ML “communist”. They’re the same. Democratic socialism is to the left of both of those, and anarchist ideologies such as anarcho-communism, syndicalism, and mutualism are to the left of that.