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Hegel's relation to Marxism is that Marx and Engels were big Hegel nerds (the Young Hegelians) before they got cool and they decided to incorporate a small piece of Hegel's thinking (the dialectic) while flipping all the rest on its head.

So it's useful to know Hegel so you know the lineage of thought but important to know that Marx used Hegelian thought as a critical target more than anything.

Ice is made up of water molecules. Very tiny things.

When water molecules move around really fast, that's the exact same as them being hot. They are steam when they move around a lot, and steam is hot - and a gas. Steam might even be so hot it hurts - that's because they're smashing into the molecules in your body and making them move around too even when they shouldn't and could damage you. Your body senses this and sends you pain signals so that you know to move away from the steam.

Water molecules can also stick together. With steam, the molecules move so much that they're just bouncing around all over the place and the stickiness doesn't really matter. If two water molecules stick together in steam, other ones are likely to ram into them and break them up This is why steam billows out in all directions. When water molecules in steam cool down, as in slow down, their stickiness to each other becomes a more important factor than before. The molecules still move around, just less than before. They interact with one another, keeping themselves tied together in the same general area but still moving a lot. This is why water settles into one place in a glass and why you can pour it as a room temperature liquid.

When water molecules get even cooler, the stickiness starts to matter even more. The molecules aren't bouncing off each other much anymore, they're just stuck together. This is what a solid is and ice is a solid.

Now, I've been saying stickiness, but with how small water molecules are, and what they're made of, it's actually very specific properties of the molecules that make them interact to "stick" together, with the strongest one being charge polarity. But that's for a difference explanation!

Finally: so, for ice to melt, you need to get its molecules moving again. One way to get them moving is to expose them to a hot material, i.e. one that's moving around a lot. Put your ice cube on a room temperature table and it will slowly melt because the molecules in the air and table are moving along so much that if the water molecules were doing the same they'd be in "liquid mode". Another way is to add energy to the system in the form of radiation, which induces movement within the molecules and, therefore, between them since they're in close proximity. The reason it makes them move is complicated and is literally quantum mechanics so I'll also leave that for a different explanation.

The natural enemy of me, who is just a smol bean

Liberals skim NYT articles and Stephen Pinker books.

They don't know how to think and therefore cannot learn. The idea that reading entails actually reading multiple history books in a topic from hard-nosed scholars and from different angles of political theory is an unimaginable amount of work to them, which is what I personally think of when I say liberals don't read. Sure they're literate and do a little half-assed reading but they refuse to acknowledge their ignorance and instead think their half-assed reading is sufficient to form a good opinion.

lol I always see that mouth one wtf.

I think there's a horny boomer at the top of their marketing department.

In fact, organizing is how we beat the fash and prevent their desire to become popular terrorists against us. Keep up the fight! We only win if we build.

lol I thought this was fake how is this real

Whatever part of the political class they want and/or the installation of an "interim" occupation.

Maybe Zelensky et al become too frustrating for the plan to draw down aid and start spinning a failure narrative. They can just throw him under the bus as corrupt in an attempt to preempt a narrative of betrayal. Instead, they can say it was actually Zelensky's fault for being corrupt. Or they can skip Zelensky directly, leaving him as an icon that suddenly shuts up so he can have his house in Florida or whatever, while Western powers select the new political class for Ukraine as part of "anti-corruption".

Maybe they use it for a purge of the Ukrainian elements that would seek the betrayal narrative because they're aware that supporting a bunch of Nazis will have blowback.

Yeah I think it should be understood as a pretext for whatever NATO wants to do to Ukraine.

It may be something along the lines of regime change meddling or an excuse for stationing troops at checkpoints or taking over even more of Ukraine's finances.

They try but they're always late(via)

You can't walk three feet in Ukraine without accidentally weaponizing their corruption

Full solidarity with whatever cool things you're doing.