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  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    7 days ago

    “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

    • Jean-Paul Sartre




  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    7 days ago

    take a scroll down this Wikipedia page

    I am once again asking liberals to stop treating Wikipedia as holy Scripture.

    the famine was a choice

    It was a result of bad policy, and that policy was a choice, but it’s pretty misleading to try and spin that as making the famine itself “a choice”.


  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

    • Jean-Paul Sartre

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    7 days ago

    So they want the factory to be privately owned and run for profit, but they still want the government to interfere

    We should take a step back and recognize that they want the government to interfere by recognizing and enforcing their ownership of the factory in the first place.