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  • I mean, if you get into any real depth with math, you are going to reach a point where you can't use conveniently use words to describe the symbols being manipulated.

    As an example for the math I am doing literally right now, I very much prefer using C+R compared to "semi circular arc in the upper half of the complex plane with radius R", or M+(f(z)) which means "Maximum of the magnitude of the function f(z) over C+R", which if I were to write out in full, would just become a clusterfuck.

    Also you still wouldn't be able to get rid of symbols because some symbols are placeholders and straight up don't have any meaning in natural language. This occurs often in physics as well, not just pure maths. For example, the laplace transform of any function is written as a variable of "s", but "s" doesn't have a clear meaning (at least as far as I know).

  • I personally lost all interest in math because there are way too many opinionated or non-standard symbol definitions

    That seems like a strange reason to quit math since most symbols are pretty well agreed upon, and maths has little to do with the actual notation either way.

  • Complain more on the same internet invented mostly by the country you hate?

    Says the guy from the country which is by far the bigger drain of Industrial products in human history (you owe the planet something on the order of $50 trillion from the trade imbalance alone iirc). And that's not counting for hundreds of millions killed from pollution, poverty, wars, co2 emissions and so on.

  • No, they’re not the same. None of us are buying it.

    The American empire is the American empire regardless of who is in charge. Let's get off our great-man theory high horse and actually analyze material conditions

  • “Regime” is a derogatory method of describing a group

    Not really, I've heard it be used in a neutral context to describe not just groups, but ways of doing things.

    But at least in this case, it is being used in a derogatory way to describe a country which has brought untold amounts of suffering to so many people on the planet, and continues to be a capitalist hellhole. Like, I have never met an English man who doesn't hate the UK government, and all of them would be on board with calling it a "regime" (derogatory).

  • There is a strong chance that even if Biden Kamla wins the election, the GOP will simply pull a coup like they did in 2000, or tried in 2021. The dems will almost certainly do nothing to resist, and may in fact even willingly hand over power like they did in 2000.

  • Even if we are under US hegemony, we don't have a horse in the race. US foreign policy is dependent on the decades of built up institutions and material forces beyond any individual's control. There is no meaningful difference depending on who is president besides optics.

  • insurrectionist

    Insurrection against the US government is not a bad thing.

    nuke gaza, beating protestors, ensuring ukraine is wiped out

    This is happening right now under Biden. Casualties in Gaza are estimated to be on the order of 200,000 (the official numbers have stayed around 40,000 for so long now because the health ministry's capabilities have been decimated). Protestors are being beating, not just in the US tbf, also across the whole of the "democratic" and "free" west. Ukraine has been utterly failed by the western powers who have opposed both a peaceful settlement to the conflict or fully committing. Once the war ends, it doesn't matter if Biden or Trump is in charge. Ukraine will be looted again just like Russia in the 1990s.

  • There were plenty of mildly progressive candidates that could have done things in power were modern America not a neoliberal hellhole. Beanie, AOC, the squad, Jill stien, Claudia de la cuz. Those are the current ones. Going further back, people like gore or nader could have played the role. But all of these people either got shafted through institutional factors or got cooped and forced to water down even their milquetoast radicalism. Many of these people were neutered by the Democrats.

    On the movement level, the Democrats coopted, neutered then mutilated the corpse of the BLM social unrest in 2020, which could have been used to otherwise fuel a lot of progressive changes. Instead, the dems not only killed it, but poured salt on the wounds by increasing police budgets nationwide and even helping to build cop cities and expanding surveillance now!

    The fact that the Democrats are less rabid than the Republicans does not make them easier enemies to deal with, but more dangerous. They have more patience and play the long game.

  • You don't have a democracy that can be ended. You haven't had one from the beginning of your republic. America is an aristocracy and anyone deluded enough to believe that it ever had anything approximating a democracy simply hasn't learnt anything.

  • I mean, given how far revolutionary socialist movements went, especially in the 20th century, it fucking worked lmao. The ascendant economic and geopolitical power today is ruled by revolutionary socialists. And they achieved turning one of the poorest regions of earth beset by imperial powers on one side and warlords on the other.

  • If that changes I will be glad to dump them

    If genocide doesn't change the calculus in your mind, then nothing ever will. And genocide is only like the tip of the iceberg in terms of problems with the democratic party.

    The Biden admin has single handedly fucked my budget despite me living in europe by bombing the nordstream and the shit they pulled with project Ukraine.

    They are actively trying to drag humanity into world war 3 on like 3 different fronts. That's not getting into the shit the Biden admin is probably pulling in Africa and Latin America (which I am less knowledgeable about).

  • It's not about defeating the us army lmao. It's about striking and civil disobedience, even when illegal. That is the basic strategy to win concessions. On a long term basis, there needs to be more pressure on Democrats to maintain standards instead of just electing garbage candidates.