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[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I remember a republican coworker arguing that Interstellar’s concept of time dilation was super unrealistic and that can’t possibly be how things are. All this to say, I’m sure Einstein is about to be cancelled and relativity denied as hard as climate change.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I look forward to the collapse of civilization when all of the satellites stop communicating with our computers because our satellites are sending messages from the future.

Also, ruining GPS for everyone would be a really effective scapegoat for Tesla's full self-driving failures.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

A customer told me they don't believe in space last night 😞

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

Most intellectuals are socialist

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also, Einstein was offered a position as leader of the State of Israel. He basically said "fuck off and fuck Zionism."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Source? Never heard of this

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think they say "No intellectual would be a socialist", instead they say intellectuals are bad and evil. It's a classic pattern among dictator cults of personality.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dictators love the poorly educated.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 days ago

He wasn't a SeRiOuS intellectual though.

Need a sever lack if humor for that sweet sweet capitalistic greed.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (8 children)

socialism might be nice but just getting rid of billionaires is a great start.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Can't do that without taking supremacy of Capital. There is no path to keep billionaires from existing within Capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can recommend this piece from Hobo Johnson ("why socialism by Albert Einstein")

https://open.spotify.com/track/4LJ04AiwnuXqzufGnejnkx?si=ZtN5yWqDTE-5twhw9n2DmA

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think this short essay was the first thing that appeared in monthly review

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