Maine.

It’s when a drug makes you need to pee a lot

permalink
report
reply
21 points

No you are thinking of something else, a dialectic is a non-conductive material that can be polarized by an electric field.

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

No, that’s a dielectric. A dialectic is somebody who can’t eat much sugar because their body doesn’t produce enough insulin.

permalink
report
parent
reply
18 points

No, that’s a diabetic. Easy to get them confused, but a dialectic is a glyph added to a letter to distinguish it from similar letters, i.e. ü vs. u.

permalink
report
parent
reply
21 points

You have a herbivore and a carnivore. If there is no carnivore, the herbivores eat themselves into starvation and cease to exist. If there is no herbivore, the carnivores starve and no longer exist. Both are interdependent on the other to sustain their relationship and the wider ecosystem of relationships they participate in. There are contradictions in that interdependence, places where resource scarcity and social conflict favour the needs of one group over the other. These contradictions will mount- drought driving waterway changes driving vegetation distribution driving caloric availability and shelter- until there’s a catastrophic rupture. Suddenly the population of rabbits stalls and the foxes have nothing to eat. Either new relationships are formed to meet the needs of those former intertwined groups, the groups in their current state die out, or their relationship finds a new equilibrium. As you study how the natural resources drive those interconnected relationships in the ecosystem, you’re doing dialectical materialism. As you study that change over time you’re doing historical materialism.

permalink
report
reply
8 points

permalink
report
parent
reply

Damn I’m gonna steal this

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

“Nature is the proof of dialectics” - happybadger, 2024

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

[SPEECH 100] Nobody knows what the dialectic is really; but especially not Edward Sallow, who had to have gotten his knowledge of Hegel from fucking Jason Unruhe.

permalink
report
reply
15 points

You don’t need to worry about dialectics unless you have kidney failure.

permalink
report
reply
13 points

I told someone I matched with that I like dialectical materialism. We’re now discussing Palestine with historial materialism. That’s dialectics

permalink
report
reply