so, start with:

x = 0.999…

now multiply each side by 10

10x = 9.9999…

now we subtract x from the left side, and 0.999… from the right, which is fine because they are equal:

9x = 9

and from there it should be fairly obvious that x is also equal to 1, which means 0.999… is also equal to 1

i think this is the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/comments/1dii2hl/leftoid_ethnostate/

i have a hard time reading the conversation as anything but pro-colonial

ah yes, the “i don’t want you to know how much this is astroturfed” protests, against the “we want to know how much astroturf is there” law.

“you can maybe criticize our ally, but only if you give an equal amount of time, or maybe a bit more, to criticizing their enemies”

i was almost following until i hit guyana

i know you probably know this, but in case anyone has not made the connection, 23andme (and related services) are trying to make real the link between ethnicity and biology which is the fundamental project of (psuedo-)scientific racism. once you have tied ethnicity to a certain set of DNA markers, it is much easier to argue that certain ethnicities are inherently certain traits, which is doing racists work for them.

ethnicity has always been a social and cultural construction with only incidental correlation with biology.

a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide

fucking nazis

i’ve only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i’ve got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.

i don’t consider anti-communist NATO “leftists” to be on the left. if you are palling around with Vaush, it’s pretty clear what’s up.

you don’t get into his sort of situation if “enough” means anything to you. to them, there is only the need for more.

one of those “why i left the left” people. like, clearly was just riding the wave of popular sentiment from Bernie running, and now pushing some very reactionary shit

another example of how applying fanfic reasoning to real life events is inherently reactionary. like, in terms of story beats, some of those are interesting/funny ideas, but they ultimately assume that Trump is the main driver behind his movement, rather than someone skilled at riding already existing forces.

it takes 7 red lines to make an american flag. he’s trying to be patriotic

the coolest part of the ruling is that congress gets to decide what “insurrection” means re: the 14th amendment. get ready for a whole lot of red baiting targeting the most centrist of dems so that they can be “credibly accused” of insurrection.

you come onto the Posters Instance, and complain about people posting about one of the most postable topics in existence

it’s white supremacist settler colonialism with a healthy dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory

lol at the person being all “why hasn’t threads or bsky killed twitter yet?” like that would meaningfully improve the situation. those platforms also have a bunch of reactionaries on them, and well boosted by their algos to boot

america will always work to keep the most heinous racism alive

to go back to the original post, where she is getting angry at zionists (presumably about the genocide israel is doing), i care much more whether you are doing anything about it than what emotions you have about it. different people work differently. i’d rather someone contribute to a local org and be ignorant of global struggles instead of spending all of their time getting angry at people online so that they contribute nothing.

i’m talking about trying to break a habit that you find negative in your life, and some specific things that can help with that, not saying that you should do these things on this site.