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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they're going to do that anyway. it's a bad reason not to dunk.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, at that. I was thinking of dunks like this:

Classical economy always loved to conceive social capital as a fixed magnitude of a fixed degree of efficiency. But this prejudice was first established as a dogma by the arch-Philistine, Jeremy Bentham, that insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of the ordinary bourgeois intelligence of the 19th century. Bentham is among philosophers what Martin Tupper is among poets. Both could only have been manufactured in England.

Imagine if libs came along with wit like this. Unlikely, still, but is it worth the risk?

(A: yes)

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ahh but see, this proves my point. theory is the highest form of dunk. cf literally anything Lenin ever wrote.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago