#201
Rosa Lichtenstein is a “Wittgensteinian Trotskyist” who runs the website Anti-Dialectics.

lol this person actually posted here. given their purported background in activism clearly a fucking cop
#202
C man attempting to re enforce his chosen ideology via down vote. Sad really.
#203

littlegreenpills posted:

i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that dialectical materialism may not be able to explain literally everything in the entire universe



it's no more ridiculous than saying logic can explain literally everything in the universe or "the scientific method." it just sounds ridiculous because of your ideological baggage

#204
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#205

babyhueypnewton posted:

littlegreenpills posted:

i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that dialectical materialism may not be able to explain literally everything in the entire universe

it's no more ridiculous than saying logic can explain literally everything in the universe or "the scientific method." it just sounds ridiculous because of your ideological baggage



correct, it is no more ridiculous than either of those ridiculous statements

#206

babyhueypnewton posted:

littlegreenpills posted:

i'm going to go out on a limb here and say that dialectical materialism may not be able to explain literally everything in the entire universe

it's no more ridiculous than saying logic can explain literally everything in the universe or "the scientific method." it just sounds ridiculous because of your ideological baggage



actually the scientific method can explain everything in the universe

#207
dialectical materialism also can explain everything in the universe, for some values of "explain," eg, unfalsifiable and frequently incoherent truisms
#208
We should have a goatstein tpaine bhpn who is the gooniest goon election
#209
its me im the gooniest goon
#210
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#211
why did you downvote my post chickeon
#212

dipshit420 posted:

I would contend that science is, in fact, real



yes, on the condition that God is more real

#213

shriekingviolet posted:

"scared straight" programs have a massive body of research demonstrating
their total uselessness and dysfunction. random article that is evidence based:

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/11/26/scared-straight-not-really/

they're so terrible that even the us justice department doesn't want them

https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/news_at_glance/234084/topstory.html




#214
that's a good bit and i generally like doug stanhope but i really hate this post-bill hicks thing of lacing standup recordings with background music to make them sound more profound than "hurr hurr normie life sucks im glad im an alcoholic"