Alawites are an ethnoreligious group similar to Jews

Closest I got to a hobby is reading a shit ton of books. Highly recommend listening to an audiobook while you read a physical copy, cannot stress enough how much this helps me focus.

What murrrderr?!

Because political systems are not purely ideological. They are derived from a material (economic) basis and must satisfy existing relations to production or change them. In our case the two primary relations to production are those who own the means of production and those who produce. Under the economic base of capitalist production there are multitudes of political superstructures but you will be most familiar with the liberal democracy. This form of political structure provides some extra freedoms and luxury to its domestic working class but is only able to do so while maintaining the infinitely expanding profits demanded by capitalist production by exploiting a foreign working class for cheap labor. When the cyclical crises of capitalism eventually places an insurmountable strain on the liberal democratic political superstructure which can no longer hide or balance the class contradictions at its base you get one of two things. Communism or fascism. In the case of fascism it is essentially the owning class going all in, exploiting a foreign working class stops being enough so their imperialism turns inward on their own working class. Since they cannot increase oppression on every worker without inciting revolution they pit one section of the working class against another often along ethnic lines but who is pit against who is arbitrary. An out-group is intentionally created and alienated so that the owning class can maintain economic power. In the case of communism/socialism it is basically the workers taking full control of the economy and political superstructure because the capitalist class failed to maintain it. There is also anarchism but I am not well read enough to speak on it too much.

In short, western liberal democracies have essentially only two classes and the economic contradictions that the state exists to mitigate originate from a conflict of interest between these classes. If we are to be frank there is only the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the proletariet, and classless society.

I hope this isn’t too much of a ramble lol, my partner was watching tiktok so I was a tad distracted.

The green of fir trees in the Pacific Northwest United States on a rainy day

I don’t think most of us are here seeking “maximum engagement” yk? I’m quite comfortable just getting a comment or two on a post and having long conversations (or arguments lol) in comment sections. The community of lemmy is really nice and I don’t want it polluted by people who use it in the highly impersonal way people use reddit.

I was stuck in an airport for the full eclipse without a view of the moon 🥲

Yeah I’m trying to have a breakdance breakdown actually. Would not be the first

Weed is lowkey my sleep meds. I’m highly conflicted about it

Thats definitely not a sentence I expected to read today

Capitalism is an ouroborus

No one could have predicted this

Ancient “science” is kinda like this sometimes tbh

Lowkey, just travelling back may be enough with the amount of diseases we would carry with us

just linear algebra on function space

I should strangle you lmao.

Honestly the math just took my passion out of physics. I love how physics explains the world and I love how strange everything is. I love learning about physics but doing it… I used to think I was good at math lol

I never even made it to perturbation theory but hearing about it from other physics major was part of the reason I switched to history lol

Lowkey, just differential equations made me want to kms. Shrodingers equation was bad but not so difficult as to be singularly memorable. My memory of my physics courses are a void and I switched my major.

We have a shared experience, I do history now

Its funny bc physics gets so much worse than that

They never loved me and I’ll be ok without them