We must protect the Kiwi
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/.ㅤ — 1 year ago(March 18, 2025 07:11 AM)
Ypu really don't remember that Ash was talking to Magnetic Monologue about Barbecue when you attacked him? it happened exactly 1 day ago and you spent the next 24 hours melting down over it.
My password is password. -
IsraHell — 1 year ago(March 18, 2025 07:15 AM)
Nah. I got caught up on the condescending **** he always does when talking politics despite having no substance or weight to any of his arguments. All of the ones I had with him ended with some mealy mouthed agree to disagree bullshit.
He's politically illiterate like eveey other right wing or "centrist" ****tard. None of them read books. -
soapbox original gangster — 1 year ago(March 18, 2025 07:28 PM)
He's politically illiterate like eveey other right wing or "centrist" ****tard.
None of them read books
.
what do you read? who do you consider (political) thinkers worthy of studying?
you name-dropped Machiavelli a few replies earlier. . . and that is definitely NOT a good sign: the Bible(s) is the most commented upon book in the western world.
The Prince
is the second most analyzed. So if that is the work most representative of Machiavelli's efforts, and after over 500 years of detailed tear downs of it, and there's absolutely no consistent consensus across the centuries about what Machiavelli was attempting to present in that work- let alone his other major political/historical works- then we mere average to sub average thinkers cannot possibly refer to ourselves as " Machaivellian", unless we're pranking ourselves. -
IsraHell — 1 year ago(March 18, 2025 07:36 PM)
I read a lot of different stuff. Politically, Marx is a must especially
Das Kapital
. Even if you're opposed to communism, you should at least know what you're argiong agaisnt. I've read from capitalists like Adam Smith.
Emma Goldman and Mikhail Bakunin are must reads
Apart from politics and fiction, I like specifically the nihilistic or existential side of philosophy. Most of it bores me, but Camus is a fun read. Probably more aligned with Sartre. Nietzsche is really interesting, but I findnanlot to disagree with in his works.
Do you have nay specific questions?
