The infighting needs to stop.

  • Ekky@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Can’t those both be true at the same time?

    The “system” is working as intended by the rich elite/<insert antagonist>, which means that it’s fundamentally broken for the general populace, and therefore must be fixed, which is easiest done by first destroying and then rebuilding it?

    Seems like an oxymoron to me, but I’m not entirely sure of the context.

  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    Semantics is the field concerned with the meaning of words and sentences. Let’s take a look at two sentences.

    The weather sure is nice out today

    The bourgeois class must be destroyed in order to end the oppression of the proletariat

    These two sentences have a semantic difference. And sure, they also have emotional and political differences, but those differences are a consequence of semantics.

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        1 month ago

        The move to brand semantics as irrelevant is a conspiracy by people who don’t want words to have meanings. /hj

        Look at the way monkeys communicate with each other. They hoot, screech, and throw poo. That’s communication without semantics. That communication is pure emotion, no meaning. The people who think semantics doesn’t matter are people who wish we all communicated more like monkeys.