• miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    just strikes me as “this can’t mean that material conditions drive history, it must be because the tungsten spirit is angry with us”

    • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Thank you. I’m sorry, I should have been more specific: Who is being mocked here? Is the author of this article esposuing an idealist perspective? I didn’t think so when I read it, but I might be missing something

      • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        no it’s my fault for riffing while drunk. it was a reaction purely to the phrase “Mineral Warfare”, which made me laugh and I started imagining a liberal trying to find a metals rulebook and asking to speak to the manager of tungsten