• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    There’s a nugget of truth inside ultras which is why they are ostensibly leftist but their rhetoric is hyperbolic to the point it’s unhelpful. I shouldn’t have to go read like a bunch of books so I can decode the class struggle inside the message telling me meemaw and pop-pop should have to wear barrels on suspenders.

    • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I shouldn’t have to go read like a bunch of books so I can decode the class struggle inside the message telling me meemaw and pop-pop should have to wear barrels on suspenders.

      see that’s why I just don’t read, I think I already have good takes and I see the cognitohazardous damage done to the ultras by clearly reading too much of the wrong nonsense

      • LeninWeave [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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        6 days ago

        see that’s why I just don’t read, I think I already have good takes

        In case this is not ironic, “some people learn wrong things from books” is not a good reason to reject literacy. Reading is useful, you just also have to think about how what you’re reading applies to reality. Theory without practice is useless, but usually not actively harmful. Practice without theory can be much worse sometimes.