Dragon Rider (drag)

Drag rides dragons and also “rides” dragons. drag/dragself person-independent pronouns. That means drag’s pronouns are the same in first, second, and third person.

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  • and drag is insistent on not actually engaging with the points I make.

    Drag doesn’t really understand your point"s". So far it seems like you only have one. “Industralisation is a necessary component of communism”. Drag has disputed that point six ways to Sunday, and you keep going back to it and forgetting the previous dozen times it’s been disputed. Again and again, you make further arguments based on that point, when it’s been disputed this entire time. So drag disputes it another way, and another, and another…



  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nztoMemes@lemmy.mlHappy Birthday, Karl Marx!
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    You’re confusing insults and advice. Drag is telling you how to be a better communist. You’re interpreting that as an attack because you see online discussions as being about performing correctness, instead of as a dialectical process where both parties benefit. You should read some Hegel.

    Drag is talking about a hypothetical where white people don’t suck, don’t invade Australia, and trade advanced technology like computers and looms with independent and sovereign indigenous nations. Drag believes they would industrialise without major economic changes. It would be the same communism before and after.



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    Well that requires the internet, and Aboriginal Australians didn’t have the internet before colonisation. Having the internet wouldn’t have changed much in terms of the economic ideology. It would be the same communism, just with internet. They would have shared songs by email as well as at ceremonial grounds.

    Also, don’t put Alabama on the same level as Korea. Put the USA on the same level as Korea, or put Alabama on the same level as Gyeonggi. Lemmy has enough US-centrism.


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    relatively disconnected

    https://www.odysseytraveller.com/articles/ancient-aboriginal-trade-routes-of-australia/

    Trade was a central part of life for Aboriginal people prior to the British settlement of Australia. Trading routes criss-crossed the nation, dispersing goods, information, technologies and culture thousands of kilometres away from their origins.

    ‘The lines are the way the history stories travelled along the trade routes. They are all interconnected. It’s the pattern of the sharing system.’

    This trading of songs can be thought of as a trading of intellectual property to assist travelling. Aboriginal people travelled a lot. They renewed and created relationships and socialised at small ceremonies and huge gatherings. They travelled for seasonal harvests on land, in rivers or at sea, either seeking or avoiding dominant weather events. If you knew the songs, you held knowledge of the land to aid navigation as well as find water and food resources.

    They weren’t as different from you as you think.


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    Being an internationalist doesn’t mean you don’t write to an audience. Marx was a very European man with European subconscious biases, and the readers who provided the most feedback on his ideas were Europeans. Writing to an audience is inevitable in the process of creating a work. Ideology doesn’t change the practical truths of the work. As a materialist, you should understand that.



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    Well it wouldn’t make any sense for him to advocate for a return to primitive technology, because he wasn’t a primitivist. He advocated for the kind of communism he could see in Europe’s future. He was a European historian interested in predicting and making European history.

    Your arguments are weird. You’re citing the fact that Marx talked to Europeans within a European framework as evidence he didn’t respect indigenous societies as communists. That doesn’t make any sense. Of course he did that, it doesn’t mean he thought the people he called communists weren’t communists. It just means he had an area of specialisation. Drag has specialties too; drag doesn’t know the first thing about Jewish communism, so drag doesn’t talk about Kibbutz-es. That doesn’t mean drag doesn’t respect Jewish communism. Marx is the same way. Everyone is the same way about whatever part of their field they’ve specialised in.