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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean it's a state election. Even if they gained 100% control of that state's government they wouldn't have taken over Germany.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

He's free to discuss this article any way that he thinks is interesting. Just because he found it helpful to point out the bias in this case doesn't obligate him to do it in any other cases. He doesn't owe you anything.

Also, responding to someone noting the reputation of your source with what amounts to "ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF BREAKING THE RULES? ARE YOU SAYING CONSERVATIVE LEANING SOURCES ARE ILLEGAL?” is basically the textbook definition of a wildly defensive response lmao.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To oversimplify, it's a metaphor about what it's like to go through life relying only on your senses and not using reason to question or analyze the deeper meanings behind your surface impressions. The story goes on to discuss a prisoner who escapes the cave and gets a taste of true reality, that prisoner is meant to represent a philosopher. When the escaped prisoner returns and tells the others of what he's seen, they reject his claims saying how absurd it would be to believe that there's anything more than just the shadows. I think in this day and age it's easy to guess what that interaction represents, but Plato had a particular bone to pick about this since his mentor had essentially been executed for questioning various things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The default wallpaper looks so much like testicles photographed from below and I can't unsee it