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TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD.

@redsunrisinginthesky

They/He/It Marxist-Leninist. 20's, USAmerican. FREE PALESTINE, FREE SUDAN, FREE THE CONGO, FREE THE WORLD
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i share a lot of fundraisers on here but right now i want to take a moment and bring extra attention to @ibrahim-family's campaign, #25 on the @gazavetters spreadsheet:

  • he's only fifteen years old. younger than my youngest sibling. and he's responsible for saving the lives of his family. can you imagine having to grapple with that at 15? would you be able to handle the pressure?
  • every day he messages me, full of anxiety when my responses lapse, and when i share his posts or tell him what i can do to help he tells me he loves me.
  • today he told me that his uncle was martyred just hours earlier.

when the genocide is over, ibrahim is still going to need love and support, but right now he needs the resources to survive. please, please, please donate what you can to his campaign, no matter how small.

Donate to Help Ibrahim's family escape the Gaza war, organized by Safaa Alanqar
Hello I am Ibrahim, 15 years old, I seek your help and assistance to save … Safaa Alanqar needs your support for Help Ibrahim's family e
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This one is very low, please help out and boost it as much as possible, everyone!

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@tamamita ❤️❤️

Thank you for these kind words and I thank you very much for helping me, it means a lot to me. Please share and donate.

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Please, @tamamita 🥺🥺Please brother, you are a wonderful person, don't ignore me, please 😞😞😞

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@officialspec ❤️

Brother, if you see my message, please ignore me. Just open the messages between me and you. Please, I am Ibrahim, the little boy.

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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
aeon.co
Worse still, even if we had the ability to take a snapshot of all of the brain’s 86 billion neurons and then to simulate the state of those neurons in a computer, that vast pattern would mean nothing outside the body of the brain that produced it. This is perhaps the most egregious way in which the IP metaphor has distorted our thinking about human functioning. Whereas computers do store exact copies of data – copies that can persist unchanged for long periods of time, even if the power has been turned off – the brain maintains our intellect only as long as it remains alive. There is no on-off switch. Either the brain keeps functioning, or we disappear. What’s more, as the neurobiologist Steven Rose pointed out in The Future of the Brain (2005), a snapshot of the brain’s current state might also be meaningless unless we knew the entire life history of that brain’s owner – perhaps even about the social context in which he or she was raised.
Think how difficult this problem is. To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes to the integrity of the system. Add to this the uniqueness of each brain, brought about in part because of the uniqueness of each person’s life history, and Kandel’s prediction starts to sound overly optimistic. (In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, the neuroscientist Kenneth Miller suggested it will take ‘centuries’ just to figure out basic neuronal connectivity.)
Meanwhile, vast sums of money are being raised for brain research, based in some cases on faulty ideas and promises that cannot be kept. The most blatant instance of neuroscience gone awry, documented recently in a report in Scientific American, concerns the $1.3 billion Human Brain Project launched by the European Union in 2013. Convinced by the charismatic Henry Markram that he could create a simulation of the entire human brain on a supercomputer by the year 2023, and that such a model would revolutionise the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders, EU officials funded his project with virtually no restrictions. Less than two years into it, the project turned into a ‘brain wreck’, and Markram was asked to step down.
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
aeon.co
Worse still, even if we had the ability to take a snapshot of all of the brain’s 86 billion neurons and then to simulate the state of those neurons in a computer, that vast pattern would mean nothing outside the body of the brain that produced it. This is perhaps the most egregious way in which the IP metaphor has distorted our thinking about human functioning. Whereas computers do store exact copies of data – copies that can persist unchanged for long periods of time, even if the power has been turned off – the brain maintains our intellect only as long as it remains alive. There is no on-off switch. Either the brain keeps functioning, or we disappear. What’s more, as the neurobiologist Steven Rose pointed out in The Future of the Brain (2005), a snapshot of the brain’s current state might also be meaningless unless we knew the entire life history of that brain’s owner – perhaps even about the social context in which he or she was raised.
Think how difficult this problem is. To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes to the integrity of the system. Add to this the uniqueness of each brain, brought about in part because of the uniqueness of each person’s life history, and Kandel’s prediction starts to sound overly optimistic. (In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, the neuroscientist Kenneth Miller suggested it will take ‘centuries’ just to figure out basic neuronal connectivity.)
Meanwhile, vast sums of money are being raised for brain research, based in some cases on faulty ideas and promises that cannot be kept. The most blatant instance of neuroscience gone awry, documented recently in a report in Scientific American, concerns the $1.3 billion Human Brain Project launched by the European Union in 2013. Convinced by the charismatic Henry Markram that he could create a simulation of the entire human brain on a supercomputer by the year 2023, and that such a model would revolutionise the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders, EU officials funded his project with virtually no restrictions. Less than two years into it, the project turned into a ‘brain wreck’, and Markram was asked to step down.
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
aeon.co
Worse still, even if we had the ability to take a snapshot of all of the brain’s 86 billion neurons and then to simulate the state of those neurons in a computer, that vast pattern would mean nothing outside the body of the brain that produced it. This is perhaps the most egregious way in which the IP metaphor has distorted our thinking about human functioning. Whereas computers do store exact copies of data – copies that can persist unchanged for long periods of time, even if the power has been turned off – the brain maintains our intellect only as long as it remains alive. There is no on-off switch. Either the brain keeps functioning, or we disappear. What’s more, as the neurobiologist Steven Rose pointed out in The Future of the Brain (2005), a snapshot of the brain’s current state might also be meaningless unless we knew the entire life history of that brain’s owner – perhaps even about the social context in which he or she was raised.
Think how difficult this problem is. To understand even the basics of how the brain maintains the human intellect, we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point, but how the moment-to-moment activity of the brain contributes to the integrity of the system. Add to this the uniqueness of each brain, brought about in part because of the uniqueness of each person’s life history, and Kandel’s prediction starts to sound overly optimistic. (In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, the neuroscientist Kenneth Miller suggested it will take ‘centuries’ just to figure out basic neuronal connectivity.)
Meanwhile, vast sums of money are being raised for brain research, based in some cases on faulty ideas and promises that cannot be kept. The most blatant instance of neuroscience gone awry, documented recently in a report in Scientific American, concerns the $1.3 billion Human Brain Project launched by the European Union in 2013. Convinced by the charismatic Henry Markram that he could create a simulation of the entire human brain on a supercomputer by the year 2023, and that such a model would revolutionise the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders, EU officials funded his project with virtually no restrictions. Less than two years into it, the project turned into a ‘brain wreck’, and Markram was asked to step down.
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If we lived in an imagined idyllic age of days gone by, Sony would be running TV ads featuring a guy with frosted tips in a sports car saying shit like "switch 2? Try switching 2 Playstation instead" and he'd drive off and you see his car is full of beautiful women and twinks (it's woke) but they'd never do that these days

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"oh why are the boys there why is it woke" I'm projecting cherry-picked pieces of modernity I personally find palatable onto my imagined idyllic past that's what makes it imagined and idyllic dipshit

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yeah the joke is funny but it’s actually really sad that people who are struggling can’t be candid about experiencing suicidality without threat of incarceration. and that the role ‘mental health’ professionals play in enforcing state policy is so normalised that everyone in these comments finds it funny. what kind of fucked up system insists that those deemed mentally ill must be subjected to therapy and then can’t even allow those trying to glean whatever small benefits are possible, to be genuine and talk about their real feelings?

also what’s particularly horrible is the self confessed therapist saying that ‘y’all ain’t slick’ as if incarcerating people and subjecting them to state violence is funny. fucking man…

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Anonymous asked:

If marxist-leninism is scientific, why did the USSR promote Lysenko's idiotic pseudo-sciences (which partially contributed to a very large number of starvation deaths in various countries) and kill several of the real, prominent biologists who opposed him.

forevergulag answered:
  1. the ussr was not perfect
  2. the ideology was, iirc, a sort of antithesis to fascist gene pseudo-science
  3. i would love to see a source to that claim that they just. killed biologists. and that those biologists like nazi pseudoscientists
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Robert Young-Getting Started on Lysenkoism
marxists.org

according to this text, lysenkoism was an attempted proletarian response to the science of genetics and biology, to lamarckism, etc.

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of course it was. wrong. but give them some credit

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it was supported also as a means to improve agricultural production

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Im sorry but acting like the USSR is not responsible for the deaths of any scientists is literally an insane thing to say if you have read the history of the USSR. Like have you never heard of NI Vavilov, one of the most important plant scientists in modern history?

Like Wikipedia etc isn't the best source but this is widely known and agreed on history, even by most communists and USSR supporters

Its very clear that Lysenko was essentially just projecting political ideology and his own mad ambitions onto science, and its very clear that he was largely accepted by the Soviet government due to a) his views on genetics being more explicitly 'proletarian' and ideological and b) his success in convincing Ukrainian farmers to return to collective farms and work on them and finally c)the fact that he was presenting 'radical new ideas' that sound great if you know nothing about plants or biology, and which were materially disastrous but ideologically appealing to the upper echelons of soviet government. Like, if youre going to defend the USSR you should be very clear and honest about its real, actual history, both the bad abd the good. Stalin/the USSR were not perfect scientific materialists and made some very serious errors in numerous cases. This is not a controversial statement among most communists. Like, Lysenko is one of the reasons the 1930s famine as well as the later one in the PRC were so bad, they tried to follow his erroneous strategies for increasing yield and found the opposite effect. Like, any rational materialist wouldve understood that lysenko was essentially a reaction to what were perceived as bourgeois influences in classical genetics. It wasn't based on any actual confirmable science beyond concepts that existed in Lysenko's head, rather, it was based in an ideologically driven political understanding of science, and Lysenko personally headed up a witch hunt against actual geneticists (the USSR was originally one of the world leaders in genetic sciences, especially with regard to plants!) And accused them of practicing bourgeois western science essentially. It was all very stupid and very ideological, it's one of the clearest instances in which Soviet government policy diverted from their materialist ideas. Like no defense of the USSR can be made without first understanding its (very serious) flaws. I don't particularly blame Stalin for this per se, although he really should've known better, but in his defense, he was not a scientist, and the Ukrainian peasant issue was probably more important to him than Soviet academia's formerly prestigious place at the front of the pack when it came to groundbreaking genetic science

Like, there is no such thing as 'proletarian science'. Vavilov et al were all communists, Lysenkoism was a ideologically driven political corruption of genetic science. There is zero point in trying to defend it. You can still support the USSR while acknowledging that they did sone really fucking stupid things. Also Lysenko didnt really present himself originally as a counterpoint to fascist genetic race science, his claim was essentially that Mendelian genetics were bourgeois western pseudoscience brought into the USSR to sabotage Soviet agriculture and science because Vavilov and anybody claiming not to believe in the falsehoods Lysenko was perpetuating were clearly Trotskyist/Bukharinist traitors. He was like, very bitter about the fact the both Soviet and western geneticist had repeatedly called his stupid, false ideas stupid and false. The destruction of the Soviet genetics community at his hands was really a national tragedy for the USSR imo, they lost some of their best scientists to a ridiculous ideological purge

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i should have researched it further, but at no point did i express support for lysenkoism, just a joking "give them some credit". the post was in response to the ask i was sent. for all i preach no investigation no right to speak i struggle with following that

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anyways thanks for the criticism. genuinely

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guys this is so crazy to me i feel like we're regressing if we, despite the history of this country droning and bombing civilians and covering it up to, are still led to believe at face value that the people killed were "justified targets this time around!" And now that trump is in charge well the guy and his fascist crew certainly believe who theyre bombing are all guilty, right?

In 2009, the Obama administration conducted "the first known U.S. cruise missile strike in southern Yemen . . . That strike, which killed 14 alleged "militants," also killed at least 41 civilians, including 21 children and nine women, five of whom were pregnant at the time."

The Obama administration would continue to claim that their drone strikes were "exceptionally surgical and precise" and "do not put… innocent men, women and children in danger" but we know then and now there was mass civilian casualties.

In 2013, the administration launched four Hellfire missiles in a counterterrorism operation in Yemen. The Obama administration claimed all killed were militants and terrorists, witnesses said the administration killed a wedding procession

We know that the Obama administration would define militant as any "military aged male" to drastically lower the "non-combatant" death

Biden continued this policy. In 2021 there was footage showing a drone strike killing civilians, seven of the ten those killed children. In fact civilian deaths are so rampant that this "mistake" continues to happen. In Syria, the biden admin claimed to kill an al-Qaeda leader then find out they killed a father of ten children

Now, with the lack of accountability, may we ask why the hell we should believe that this airstrike the TRUMP administration sent killed only the "bad guys". He killed civilians in Yemen before

Whats even more just disappointing is that people not only believing at face value what the administration will say who they target, but the complete pivot from "progressive" people being against droning to just not caring. I was in class this semester and my professor thought it would be a fun learning exercise to ask the class how many civilian deaths would they be alright with if it killed so and so top dictators and people kept their hand up for 100+ civilians. I had to disrupt that shit and say "so would any of you would have raised your hand if it was you and your family at risk of being killed because canada claimed they needed to bomb your town to eliminate a terrorist group and they cant help but kill civilians because its just war?" and surprise i was met with silence.

Can we bring back being against droning? can we make that a mainstream belief again wth.

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Trump claims he targeted Houthis

Locals know this is how men gather in general

But sure the neoliberals on here would have you support the airstrikes on Yemen because the "HoUThI TERRORISTS WANNA KILL US ALL 😡" but idk I think droning anyone is bad but basic views like that make me a psyop on here lmaooooo

**Can't argue with me unless you look and read all the previous mentioned articles above

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I think this has been posted on here before but this one always makes me laugh

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For those not in on the joke. The Soviets were considered an Allied nation during wwii.

Only two nations deployed troops against the Soviets, and those were Nazi Germany and Fascist Spain.

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This is completely reductive, sorry. Spain did not have troops deployed in World War 2 for the sake of ""neutrality."" Even if they did, they wouldn't have been only one of two nations deployed against the Soviets. Romanian troops famously collapsed on the flanks at Stalingrad, and Italians made up a significant portion of Army Group South. Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, and who could forget Finland were also heavily involved.

It's always overlooked that a main reason the Japanese surrendered was due to a massive Soviet offensive in Manchuria, as well.

This isnt to detract from the main point of the post, I just feel like we need to be accurate about the true magnitude of the situation the Soviets faced. 80% of the fighting in World War 2 occurred on the Eastern Front, and it was much more than just Nazi Germany vs. The USSR.

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okay im going to be a little unserious as a treat and explain my politics through a quote from a video game is everyone ready

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there is one thing the deserter says, "No superiors can relieve me of my duty, you bulldozed them all to a mass grave for trying to free humanity" -- & i feel like that line expresses better than anything i could ever say why reading any history of working class & indigenous movements across latin america, of their crushing defeats and wholesale slaughters and only occasional shining victories, more than anything else maintains my resolve

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