This is an intelligent comment because no other cardinal direction has caused wars

Take that shit away from her right now

Shocking

Vagueposting

Where do you monitor the collapse of late stage capitalism on the internet

Can I see the evidence? inb4 you deflect and refuse to cite anything

So the evidence doesn’t exist yet, but you’ve decided the conclusion anyway. That’s exactly the problem I’m pointing out. This is what MAGA does btw

I’m glad we agree capitalism has problems

At least you’re honest about pushing a narrative rather than engaging with evidence

The civil war has a clearly dominant causal factor that historians overwhelmingly agree upon. Modern socio economic issues don’t have that same level of single cause consensus. That’s why boiling everything down to ‘capitalism’ is overly reductive

It feels really gaslighting/dismissive to read things like this. Why is it that people who talk about concepts like capitalism assume a bunch of information about you based on a complete lack of information? Is the idea the only reason I’m not anti capitalist must either be because a) I’m rich (extremely far from the truth), or b) I’m especially susceptible to propaganda? (Which would be weird… Otherwise why would I be using Lemmy in the first place when perhaps capitalism instead suggests I should be using Reddit).

My opinion: It kind of sucks to reduce people down like this lol. Am I insane for thinking this

It’s very convenient that the explanation for a complex series of problems is reducible to just ‘capitalism’. Isn’t it like saying WWI only started because of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

All I said was gg 5 times

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I agree kind of :) They’re absolutely not a replacement for actual research, but I think videos like these can inspire interesting questions which encourage further reading. Most people as well probably aren’t willing to critically and factually research a given subject, so well structured and fact based debates I think could be helpful for helping inform a wider audience maybe

Wasn’t Destiny worthy of the debate when Finkelstein accepted the debate? I really don’t understand. Why are we talking about worthiness.

I’m not able to check the example you sent yet (Thank you, btw!!) but if you’ll allow me to extrapolate, I feel like “Just Google it” means “This statement I made is correct, and is easily provable with a quick search”. If he didn’t cite anything, that would be kind of weird I think. I think it would depend. If I forget to come back to this I’ll cry in real life

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Hey you’re being kind of mean towards me. I haven’t said anything about the conflict in this entire thread. I don’t think I even said anything about Destiny being correct. Do you think I’m in favour of Destiny’s arguments because I think he was the better debater?