Our reality is fully conceptually knowable, but Laplace's demon is dead. Mechanistic determinism cannot work because our epistemic view of the universe is fundamentally limited. No measuring process can overcome it. This is demonstrated with the success of the uncertainty principle.

This is not incompatible with the viewpoint of a deterministic universe, however. In fact, the conclusion it tells us is philosophically congruent to the solution of the halting problem, the discovery of chaos theory, and the godel incompleteness theorem. All of these things tell us that, even if all the physical laws are known, we cannot know everything

I am convinced of the simplicity and the elegance of the universe.

The correct answer is most likely the one that is conceptually whole. Mathematical simplicity is nothing if there is no conceptual aspect to go with it.

It also bugs me the amount of people who talk about supremacism and racism and misogyny and whatever else without talking about colonialism or fascism or anything else like that. It's a very convenient way to set aside the cognitive dissonance of oppressed people serving capital and serving their own oppressors. The women in the trump administration who act as mouthpieces for the government's misogynistic policies. The cops of color who are complicit in the over policing and the mass incarceration that impacts their own communities. The poor people who repeatedly vote for oligarchical political elites time and time again. I could go on and on and on.

Systems of control are more fundamental than any one individual bigotry. Systems of control are actually oftentimes responsible for the creation of new forms of bigotry (look at antisemitism emerging out of the ancient empires, as the emperors felt the need to demonize a religious minority. Or how transphobia basically didn't exist until relatively recently)

People who are oppressed can and do regularly contribute to the systems of oppression that harm everybody else. Nobody is immune to false consciousness. In fact, every single person is manipulated by systems of social control to do things that are against their own interests and that serve systems of domination and exploitation. Including me, or you, or the man across the street. And this is a point I will expound until the day I die.

Yes, even the bigotries you're actually secretly ok with are a problem too. Transphobia, misogyny, and ableism being a favorite of liberals everywhere.

The problem is not just white supremacy, or misogyny, or ableism, or whatever other bigotry you personally want to fight. The problem is capital, the problem is colonialism, the problem is the tyrannical ruling class on top. It's all one fight. And the quicker you realize this, the easier your life will be.

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I think we know Trump and his voters all hate women

American misogyny has made life worse for women everywhere.

Social science has answered a lot of questions that we keep relitigating anyway because powerful and privileged people don't like the answers, most of which implicate them.

I find pro Putin types to be an embarrassment.

Imagine saying Putin is the good guy. He's the Russian Tzar of 2026.

Fourth speaker is Russian deserter Ilya Zaripov who recruited many people to not enlist in the war against Ukraine, explaining how he was refused vor a visa across Europe for not being “pro Ukraine enough”. “But I'm challenging that decision”, he says.

“When a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war comes, there must be an amnesty for deserters for both sides of this war. Anything else makes a ceasefire simply a preparation for the next war efforts.”

He is also known for many interviews on the topic.

Third speaker is the trans person and leader of the Tel Aviv chapter of the Communist Youth of Israel, Ella Keidar Greenberg! She refused serving the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and has experienced incredible

You may know her from the many interviews like this. Or many other videos on social media of her burning IDF conscription letters!

“Once Israel no longer has the material conditions to be a fascist society, we will see ideological change. It's your job as the international community to make that happen.”

She calls on leftist organizations across the planet to end the liberal debate around refusing military service, mainly focusing on personal choice, and to begin explaining the imperialist necessity of war in order to end it.

ipad kids are a symptom of adults thinking that a quiet kid that sits still is a well-behaved one

It's not jealousy though. I'm not jealous of the Epstein islands and the Diddy parties. I'm not jealous of the white house dinners, where they sip on expensive french wine while they laugh about the forever wars we're paying for. I'm not jealous of the elite lifestyle or the celebrity lifestyle. They all seem miserable, exhausted, and isolated from human connection.

I just think the common person should be able to, like, enjoy local food, and be able to go to fun events, without it costing 40 dollars just to bowl or eat a burger.

And I resent the fact that transportation is so expensive.

Like, I'm a college kid, and it wasn't like this for college kids in the past!

The entire opulence and splendor of the rich is financed by your austerity, by you going without

Eventually you're going to need a loan to buy a burrito.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will have nothing and be happy

Everything is fucked and has to be redesigned from first principles, is the thing

Just pulling your leg here

I am an American with controversial opinions. And, most likely, you won't like what I have to say. Because you're laaame!