I agree but the term 'class traitor' does not appear in Marx or Engels texts because they do not discuss individual 'guilt' or any form of individual morality, they discuss the overall econimcal and societal relations to each other.

Class traitors as a term appears later in revolutionary rhetoric and it usually describes a conscious effort against the interest of the own class. Soldiers act within the power structure of the state, not as free actors representing their class. Their role is institutionally dictated, not a individual ideological 'betrayal' like for example union busters.

With the term lumpen Proletarier Marx himself describes something similar but different. The Lumpenproletariat according to Marx does not live within the structures of typical class, they do not own means of production, but they are also not giving their labor for a wage. Through that they can not have a unified class consciousness and act largely indivualisticly. He means economic minorities like beggars, vagabonds, criminals, grifters and the like. According to Marx they are 'politically unreliable ' and usually reactionary in nature.

It's worth noting that this kind of classification was criticized widely, the term itself is seen as problematic even within Marxist circles.

According to Marxist theory the individual soldier usually is working class since class is not defined by the function or moral evaluation but by their position within the economical and power structures.

A regular soldier does not own land, a factory or any other means of extracting profit, they are selling their own labour, they do not exercise power over their own labour other than providing it in exchange for a wage and they are usually recruited from lower/middle class.

With Marx class does not equal a political function, a soldier can be objectively working class and still be used by their employer (state) against the interest of their own class. In Marx's theory that is not a contradiction but a feature of the state as a class instrument.

There is no paradox. Tolerance is a social contract, if one party breaks that contract, they're excluded from it's protection, to protect the ones honoring the contract.

Ride it to work every day, taking the best parking spots. Good luck trying to tow ab elephant.

On Voyager you can give tags to users, anyone I might want to steer clear of gets a red tag with a short description why I don't want to engage with them, for example ' Religious asshole', 'Tankie', 'Miserable prick'.

You got the first green Tag - 'No, not that one'

Because it represents a connectedness to everything that surrounds us. Everything around us, including us, is nothing but stardust and that's what it'll eventually become again. It's not 'you're special because we are unique in that' - it's :' you're part of something that is unfathomable bigger than you are and that is special'. And that includes, among many other things, smelly garbage.

Also, the negativity that shows up so frequently on the Threadiverse is part of what made me severely cut back participation.

It's not only that they were dismissing cutesy pleasantries, they were trying at every turn to be the turd in the punch bowl. "We are made from stars" - "yeah, so is smelly garbage" - " that's still beautiful" - "yeah but it doesn't solve racism!" - "things don't have to have a bigger purpose to be enjoyed" - " well that's just trivial nonsense". Insufferable prickishness.

That's what makes me participate less and less in these spaces, because there's always some asshole trying to make everybody else just as miserable as they themselves are. It's fine if you don't share the perspective, but there's no need to be a dick about it.

Anyway, thanks for trying, I enjoyed engaging with those thoughts :)

While I partially agree with your sentiment, I am nonetheless a little confused why we're trying to solve racism here all of sudden.

I just see it as a beautiful little metaphor for life. Sometimes things don't have to serve a bigger purpose than just being beautiful.

It's a humbling thought, we are but stardust and that's what we, and everything else will eventually become again.

And it's not even something esoteric or magical, it's just the physics of the Universe as we understand them.

Great, now you got the genocide still going AND a fascist takeover of your country, with even less possibility to change anything and plenty of distractions to the Palestinians cause because your country is falling apart around you.

and all of you are complicit

How elegantly she absolves herself of any complicity.

To imagine the huge difference between a billion and a million I always liked the example - a million seconds is roughly 11.7 days, a billion seconds is around 31.7 YEARS.

Worst aviation disaster in history. Basically the pilot initiated the take off during poor visibility and without proper take off clearance despite his cabin crew repeatedly voicing doubts about the runway being clear. The plane taking off crashed into another plane that hasn't cleared the runway yet, killing 583 people.

This accident lead to several changes in aviation procedures, including Crew resource management. The captain overruled legitimate concerns of his crew by pulling rank - now the procedures call for every cabin crew member having equal voice in concern to flight procedures. Also :

The word "takeoff" is now spoken only when the actual takeoff clearance is given, or when cancelling that same clearance (i.e., "cleared for takeoff" or "cancel takeoff clearance"). Until that point, aircrew and controllers should use the word "departure" in its place (e.g., "ready for departure").

That was also a point of confusion due to garbled radio calls.

Oliver Welke had a great bit about the FIFA, at the time they had an ethics commission over the corruption scandals and his comment was 'Ethics commission of the FIFA is like marriage counseling in a brothel'

Well to be fair the X7 can seat 7 passengers while the Pz. II has only 3 seats.

There's the German saying, that the shoemaker always has the worst shoes.

From the official website:

Admission to the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial is free of charge. The entry cards should be reserved on visit.auschwitz.org. For better understanding the history of Auschwitz we suggest a visit with a guide-educator

I went there last month, you have to register online, then you can book a tour (which cost about 45€) there are tours free of charge but you have to book them way in advance. Upon arrival you have your personalized ticket and they do ID and security checks not unlike at an airport.

I suppose the need to register is for security reasons and to not overcrowd the place since tickets are limited.

I highly recommend a visit, I am well educated on the topic but being there, realizing that 1.1 million is not just a number is unreal.

Walking the same route from the loading ramps to the gas chambers, a group of people just like us, with the same hopes and dreams, the same fears and worries was just a harrowing experience.

Gul Dukat was the better villain in my eyes. At least he was way more interesting than Kai Winn.

I generally agree with your premise up until the point where you argue for accelerating the rise of fascism.

NOTHING has been gained by this, NOTHING changed for the better, it only got harder to bring about change. The people who could've mobilized and fought for those causes are now busy trying to stop the gestapo from deporting their neighbors.

I mean, everybody knows what I'm doing on the shitter, I'm gonna close the door anyways.

What's wild to me is how openly they communicated about all this shit. Like, I'm way more cryptic when writing my weed guy.