/siberia/ - Off-topic

not physically. but they are as real as ideas are real. as real as any other social construct is. as real as communism, justice, mathematics etc.

>>788751
Some social constructs are real. Others aren’t
Also what you mean is abstraction.

>>788754
can you provide examples of what a fake vs real social construct would be?

Obviously. Saying otherwise is pedantry.

>>788755
The racial categorization we have used since the seventeenth century especially in the US

“White” in America is ethnic elsewhere

Or how about phrenology?
It uses a lot of abstractions that aren’t real.

it would've been better if the Union had lost. two weaker burger states at odds with each other would've been better for the world.

>>788511
I'm more of an August Willich guy

>>788700
Willich my beloved

>>788689
As a general rule, fuck alternate history, but I don't see the Confederacy surviving to the modern age. One scenario I think sounds fun is that they're secession actually ends up leading to a Haiti style slave revolt and Haiti ends up with a powerful ally in the American south. But there's no way to know.

>>788689
no it wouldn't, what would have been better, though was if the north was far more vitriolic to the confederates and decimated their troops, their cities, even executing every singular one of their generals

>>788724
How it feels to know that the Ottoman empire was the only real Roman empire…

me too

>>788651
This is also mostly true for me except for the suicides
I actually prevent suicides bc Im so cool

this is what a 5000km radius looks like btw

>>788665
This makes OP's numbers seem really low. Out of all that area there's ONLY 15 women and 18 men masturbating to OP rn? WTF?

>>788667
Yeah, there's like eight people jerking off to me in the bathroom at work right now and I called out tonight

>>788591
The closest you’ll get is someone like Luna Oi! who is openly bisexual and a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam but is married to a man

hypocrisy is an integral part of rightoidism. its the same mentality where the judge snorts lines at the night club all weekend then goes to work monday to sentence people for a few specks of ganja

And many Nazis worshipped Christ, a Jew. This "hypocrisy" doesn't in any way make these people less dangerous.

>>788573
This is the endpoint of “morality is a spook”

When rightoids complain about “degenerates” they’re complaining about them as autonomous persons, not as humans in general.
They’d rather ethnocultural and gendersexual minorities to be pets for the noble whites.

a lot of books are full of dogshit and padded out and are not written as succinctly as possible to get the point across

>>788682
Yeah, entertainment books and technical writing are a good case for reading books

Most philosophy, though, is 300 pages of cope to ultimately arrive at an arbitrary position on questions such as "is there one thing or multiple things" or "should we kill ourselves or what"

I guess the gambit is that their "system" will become the new hegemonic language of reasoning, so they want to provide a toolbox or some shit

Worst case is kant, turgid writing + complete irrelevancy today (you're either a hegeloid or a nietzschcel)

I have read some books in the what is widely considered the worst genre: utopian novels. And so, with knowledge and conviction, I can say that OP is right at least in respect to those. Just write an essay, people!

It depends.
Science books shouldn’t be reduced to summaries.
A lot of basic fiction stories on the other hand

You are basically telling on yourself. What you are saying is that a paragraph of an "executive summary" is enough to convince you that something is right or wrong. You don't need through literature surveys, detailed descriptions of the results, comparative analysis or anything else. It's sad.

Josip Brakez Tito and Slavoj Skidek

>>786750
Not old enough to drink

>>786759
in US or Germany?

>>786762
France

Although he was not a Carmunist I will give an honorable mention to Cardafi, Liftya has been a failed state ever since Barack Granada ousted him.

>>788439
Nope, just a very smug and jaded teen, though i did have a brief lolbert phase sometime after. Posting the reddit meme half-ironically.

>>788530
fucking stephen always mouthing off but then stephen goes on to be a lolcow streamer who makes 40 grand a month while you slave away at taco bell. it's an injustice but it do be like that.

>>788530
Then once again, what I said in >>788432
I used to read a lot of comment threads where there were smug and jaded teens and adults arguing their point of view with excessive wording and condemning others, especially younger people for not sharing the same intellectual inclinations as them

>>788497
This is why general education should have technical skills as part of the curriculum

I'm test playing the latest version of my Civ 4 mod.

I'm playing as the EU and decided to aid Ukraine against China, Russia, Iran, and a few other less relevant Civs. The actual diplomatic situation surrounding the war is complex, but the primary actors are NATO plus its East Asian allies versus Russia, Iran, and China. I was able to get the bloc representing Southeast Asia to declare war against Iran, but not China. Turkey is also at war with Iran, but not Russia.

All of Eastern Europe plus most of Eastern Germany was quickly leveled by Russian nukes. Brussels also got hit but it wasn't too bad. I assume Russia and China tried to nuke more targets but their ICBMs were mostly intercepted. China did hit Los Angeles though. They did shoot off all of their tactical nukes at the Pacific Rim Bloc (Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) though. Basically ensuring South Korea and Japan were leveled to the point of irrelevancy. The entire bloc is essentially just Taiwan now. There wasn't even a land invasion following it. The US retaliated against China and nuked a few of its cities but it had minimal effect, I assume their ICBMs were intercepted too.

There hasn't been any significant military action outside of Eastern Europe, where I've pretty much rendered Russia irrelevant. I'm a bit surprised North Korea hasn't entered the war to at least annex South Korea.

Oh, Israel decided to chimp out and nuke Syria in anticipation of invading much of the region.

Since the map is massive, I'm only like 4 turns in so I'll be interested in seeing what other shit happens. Also, I think post-war will be interesting. Playing this save emphasizes how much I need to flesh out the city development process, and the civilization stability system. If I actually set it up, it would be interesting trying to politically stabilize post nuclear holocaust Europe. Also, trying to either integrate the portions of Russia I occupy or divvy it up, or whatever.

>>785557
im not sure he would have adjusted well, reading his diaries i see bro was having the time of his life while the country suffered protests and an uprising

>>785577
she any good?

>>785577
PLEASE DONT
I DONT WANT YOU TO
I DO NOT CONSENT
STOP

is it ok lenin? that i sit?

>>788623
Oh okay I get it you think Im Vladimir Lenin. It's okay dude. Im not.

patrick: /leftypol/
spongebob: /pol/
squidward: squidward

>>788548
What?

>>788548
I will give you one thing, it's surprisingly difficult to win in debate against a guy whose only argument is "it's the jews". That's not something to be proud of, like how you shouldn't be proud of bullying the mentally ill.