The Yakubians are using their tricknology to create trickflation.

I’m guessing “agency” in this case is being used in a way that’s very specific to that area of research and not exactly how people use it in normal conversation?

I’m too lazy and tired to go into it at the moment, so I’m just going to paste this infographic explaining the relationship between the material base and ideological superstructure.

To the falsifiability point, while I can’t say a lot without knowing the specifics that Popper argued, historical materialism (and dialectical materialism, the way of understanding the world historical materialism comes from) don’t on the surface make much sense trying to attack from a falsifiability angle. While one could attempt to disprove, say, the extraction of surplus value through profit or the tendency of the rate of profit to fall being properties of capitalism (these are claims about the world that can conceivably be true or false), dialectical/historical materialism is the tool used to analyze the world, attempt to change the world based on the understanding from that analysis, incorporate the lessons learned from those attempts (be they failed or successful) into one’s understanding of the world, and repeat. It’s basically a way of gaining knowledge about the world, as well as an explanation of how people get knowledge.

Again, I’d have to check out Popper’s full argument for the specifics, but I don’t know how one can make assertions about the falsifiability of what is basically an epistemology without committing some kind of category error.

Yes. It’s an abomination.

Where does SAFe fall into this?

With egg prices the way they are, we won’t even be able to afford second breakfast. 😮‍💨

From the memorandum:

The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.

The US couping Ukraine’s government to install a neo-Nazi regime back in 2014 (not to mention Orange color revolution in 2004) isn’t a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, but Russia responding to that is? Make that make sense.

I subscribe to historical materialism, which is apparently a pseudoscience according to that Wikipedia article.

None of that is fascism. It’s just run of the mill liberalism.

It’s not stealing when the data they’re yoinking is already stolen.

Also, intellectual property is cringe.

Yes. First as tragedy, then as farce. We’re in the farce stage, for those not already aware.

I’d be surprised if your average Joe Ukrainian would want to lynch him. I could easily see him being lynched by some of the heavily armed Banderites who perceive his working towards peace as a stab in the back of the Ukrainian nation though.

Dude just wants to snort coke and play pianos with his peen in peace.

Point taken. I still think it’s cool though.

There’s a Youtube channel run by a couple with a domesticated mountain lion.

Ukraine didn’t deserve it, but Zelenskyy did.

Edit: And also the Banderites, of course.

The only wrong part of this meme is the implication that burgers would even try to not blame foreign meddling.

Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England.

They were pissy that the king made it illegal to expand westward and exterminate all of the indigenous people. They were all “no, actually, the British Empire isn’t evil enough. Let’s make an even bigger and eviller empire than the [at the time] most evil empire on Earth.”

This is a human problem, not a national one.

It is a national and class problem, not a human one. Human nature is a bs concept invented to sell the status quo.

That doesn’t mean he was actually popular though.

Holy shit, it’s Chinese Yakub!