How many times does the same mistake have to repeat? Communists didn’t invent revolutions you know. Peasant rebellions were a thing in medieval Europe, and many different kinds of uprisings were tried during the centuries. And there’s the same pattern repeating again and again - it either fails in bloodshed, or succeeds only for the winners to establish a new tyrannical system.

The only exception was started by rich landowners because they didn’t want to pay taxes to the king. (American)

Note that I’m talking about violent revolutions - there were quite a few examples of non-violent or semi-violent revolts/uprisings that didn’t end up catastrophically. India, South Africa, Portugal, post-communist Eastern Europe come to mind.

Revolutionaries thinking that only if they terrorize enough people a new better society will magically come into existence.

And of course they will be the new ruling class, never on the receiving end of the terror.

There should be another half with Hamas doing the same to a slightly different subset of the West. Both have tuned their propaganda to 110%, Hamas is even slightly more successful.

The only solution is a 0 state solution.

How many times does it need to be repeated
correlation ≠ causation

I just love that “x walks into a bar” is such a universal joke format. Even if we don’t know why it was funny.

A very human-centric perspective.
There’s the option that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, etc, but humans are completely irrelevant to his plan.

Unsurprisingly no human religion advocates for this perspective.

You can do it!
Embrace your inner potato. Feel the potato flow through you. You are one with the potato.

And each hand is another head with 8 more Nick headed hands.
Fractal Nicolascagepus

If you write apps integrating with MS Teams you still sometimes get exceptions mentioning Skype. I’m pretty sure they reused a decent part of the code

Good luck connecting to each of the 36 pods and grepping the file over and over again

Preempting all the “he was a man of his time” apologists:

Columbus was arrested during his lifetime because his actions were considered awful by his contemporaries.

tbh, up to 80 years ago Europeans were in constant war as well and nobody else drew their borders
EU had to be created to finally stop French and Germans from killing each other

While most zodiac signs are inspired by real animals, wtf is an “aquarius”?

In which cases is this actually useful, as opposed to having a centralized database? Blockchain doesn’t provide the enforcement of ownership, which is the real problem.

I wonder if Jesus can drive on water

Don’t know about his linguistic work. As much as I can gather, even if not 100% correct he was hugely influential in linguistics. This is a how (good) science usually works. Someone postulates a theory which tries to explain a thing, and is then proven and/or disproven. If well done it stays important even if disproven.

However his politics? It’s a barely coherent mess with only one basic postulate - “America bad”. Anything that US does is automatically bad. Anything that any enemy of US does is automatically good. Turns out to be correct sometimes but there is no true moral and philosophical underpinning to it. He build his political career on the “even a broken clock is right twice a day” principle.

Anti-antism

<sad St. Peter noises>

Jesus also spent some time in jail.

If you use 72% of a cross is it still a crucifiction? That’s like both arms and one foot nailed.