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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone think it's reality? It's an unreachable ideal to be continuously worked towards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Or against, depending on your cultural values.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s an unreachable ideal to be continuously worked towards.

No it isn't. It's a pretense that the class who controls the violent apparatus of the state is impartial. It's propaganda and nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus and making it so. The class struggle will always make it impossible to reach, but it can always be pushed to be better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus

People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, beyond that the alternative is to abolish the state, which I'm not against, but the ideal would remain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

There is no such thing as "blind" justice. What they mean with "blind justice" isn't justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with "justice."