@bfandthoughts i didnt think she had enough consciousness or creative ability to produce art to any extent and yet she managed to produce something very good
@fl0riduran@cde_six also, your original point was that no one has done more for oppressed peoples yet you’re arguing the genocide of an oppressed people doesn’t matter in a discussion of his emancipatory politics?
@fl0riduran@cde_six literally the results lol. A moral cause of warfare is so obviously better than an ambivalent one. Maybe someone who really cared about black americans would have came up with a solution that didn’t leave them as second class citizens for over a hundred more years
@fl0riduran lincoln didn’t start and win the civil war because he hated slavery, he ran on an anti-slavery platform which was popular in the north and the south seceded taking much of americas agriculture,economics and talent, it was a necessity for Lincoln to fight the civil war
@fl0riduran Well that’s valid, there are things to be learned from losses & wins but you were talking about the best individual seemingly from a moral perspective, I just don’t think fighting in a war because your country basically has to is infinitely better than cause of a moral obligation
Merkel genuinely saved countries like Britain and Greece from the economic crisis and is probably the single most important thing when it comes to unifying Germany. Germany also has europes strongest economy but we’re supposed to believe she is worse than the black plague??
Right-wingers actively hate some of the most significant conservatives in recent politics yet claim it’s the left who has become radical or extreme with the same breath and see no issue
I’ve enjoyed their work in the past but the new melt-banana album was terrible. Most significantly because it was sonically repetitive to an agonizing extent
@BrettG09002618 @colinbodayle it’s a pretty well known fact about Wittgenstein that he advised his students to pursue other paths such as engineering with that in mind this really is not hard to believe