Josh Potter

Hegel was simultaneously right and wrong about everything. Platonic cave diving is the best kind of cave diving. If Nietzsche lived today, he’d be a groyper.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@billyraptivist @NathanNgumi @witte_sergei It doesn’t seem to be about cash flow, the US could pretty much spend infinitely, it’s an issue of production capacity.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@homosexualmouse @PedanticKilljoy If you are a progressive, talking like that, then the word has become meaningless.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@Nate_Sinclair @trouble_man90 Shit your dumb fucking shitlib mouth. You have had your chance. We aren’t playing your dumb games anymore.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

I thought all the shitlibs went to Bluesky. Can they please just go to Bluesky because if I have to read another shitlib rant about Gavin fucking Newsom I might have to throw myself into boiling water to escape the pain of their stupidity.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@reset_by_peer As if that genocide-loving shitlib could win a primary.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@beetlesarefake @MrOofnik @BobFakeNameEsq Banger comment, ngl.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@nazzobetweeting Bruh this is a wild take considering how many lefties held their noes and voted for Biden.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

How about no. We are going to win the democratic primary, and we are going to deliver material gains for the working class.

Like it or not, that is where the democratic base is now.

We are here to stay, and this is our party now.

[Knowing Better @KnowingBetterYT]

We're not doing this again.

Nobody is listening to your sorry asses. You played your hand this last election and lost. You get nothing.

You can either get on side or be ignored forever.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

Wait… I thought @hasanthehun was responsible for Harris losing in 2024. If true, that seems pretty politically significant.

So is he a so influential that he can bring down a presidential candidate or is he a “glorified podcaster” who has never done anything?

Which is it?

[Maya Luna @envisionedluna]

"Movement" and it's just some glorified podcaster who has never done anything of political significance in his life

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

To characterize “Berners” as the ones doing the ratfucking — as opposed to the ones being ratfucked — is peak political DARVO.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@wordsaladjones @JeanGreige This feels like we are narrowly defining material conditions as simply the historical period in which we live. That certainly plays a role, but you and I live in the same historical period, and yet our material conditions are not identical, or even similar, necessarily.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@wordsaladjones @JeanGreige Material conditions and ideas are a perfect example of dialectics (and central to both Hegel and Marx’s work). The two things are exist as pieces of the larger whole, and neither can be understood with first understanding the whole. They must be understood hermeneutically.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@wordsaladjones @JeanGreige 1. Apologies, I was being glib. The problem I see with your statement is that it seems to miss something fundamental about the nature of ideas. You seem to be treating ideas and material conditions as separate and distinct categories.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@wordsaladjones @JeanGreige Tell that to Isaac Newton

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@Smiley_Gate @JeanGreige Read it again. Truth is not a minted coin that can be given and pocketed ready-made.

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@newentropian @JeanGreige I have read and criticized him, but this is a false equivalence. When people criticize Marx, they are almost always criticizing his theoretical work. The people criticizing Chomsky are criticizing his choice to hang out with a pedophile. See how one thing is not like the other?

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@steppinlaser @JeanGreige Agreed, 100%

[Josh Potter @ooshthots]

@steppinlaser @JeanGreige I agree about the preface material, strikes me as geared toward analytic Marxists (yuck), but I did enjoy the afterward, and though I found the change from “primitive” to “original” weird at first, their explanation does have merit. Overall I have mixed feelings.