#contradiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contradiction, aggregated by home.social.
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“NATO’s Ankara Summit: Eight Contradictions Behind Nato’s Summit of ‘Love’”
in Savage Minds on Substack
@uk_politics
@eu_os
@euronews
@EUCommission
@grassrootsforeurope
@europe
@antiwar
@antiwarwarmachine
“For peace activists across NATO countries, those contradictions only reinforce what they have argued for decades: Europe needs a new security architecture based on diplomacy, arms control, common security, and cooperation, while the United States needs a foreign policy that relies on diplomacy rather than militarism. For them, the ultimate lesson is clear: the time has come to dissolve NATO and replace it with a security system that reduces tensions instead of fueling arms races and preparing for endless war”https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/natos-ankara-summit-60e
#Press #SocialMedia #NATO #Ankara #Trump #Contradiction #US #UK #Spain #Turkiye #Denmark #Greenland #Democracy #Russia #UkraineWar #Repression #Opposition #Iran #Israel
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“NATO’s Ankara Summit: Eight Contradictions Behind Nato’s Summit of ‘Love’”
in Savage Minds on Substack
@uk_politics
@eu_os
@euronews
@EUCommission
@grassrootsforeurope
@europe
@antiwar
@antiwarwarmachine
“For peace activists across NATO countries, those contradictions only reinforce what they have argued for decades: Europe needs a new security architecture based on diplomacy, arms control, common security, and cooperation, while the United States needs a foreign policy that relies on diplomacy rather than militarism. For them, the ultimate lesson is clear: the time has come to dissolve NATO and replace it with a security system that reduces tensions instead of fueling arms races and preparing for endless war”https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/natos-ankara-summit-60e
#Press #SocialMedia #NATO #Ankara #Trump #Contradiction #US #UK #Spain #Turkiye #Denmark #Greenland #Democracy #Russia #UkraineWar #Repression #Opposition #Iran #Israel
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#contradiction : a combination of opposing ideas
- French: contradiction
- German: der Widerspruch
- Italian: contraddizione
- Portuguese: contradição
- Spanish: contradicción
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#contradiction : a combination of opposing ideas
- French: contradiction
- German: der Widerspruch
- Italian: contraddizione
- Portuguese: contradição
- Spanish: contradicción
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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!
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USA: Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Also USA: Here, take these weapons that I know you'll use to kill civilians.
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USA: Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Also USA: Here, take these weapons that I know you'll use to kill civilians.
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"Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a #contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity." - #Hegel h/t @[email protected]
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reason is life
Hiott and Ng (both Hegel scholars) discuss the mystery of contradiction as a portal into holding paradox
conversation on #Hegel with #philosopher Karen Ng, feeling the movement beyond #contradiction in the #Phenomenology & how #Science of #Logic might be infused with life & #love after all
https://pod.link/YZLzbj a
https://open.substack.com/pub/lovephilosophy/p/free-love-rethinking-hegels-concept -
reason is life
Hiott and Ng (both Hegel scholars) discuss the mystery of contradiction as a portal into holding paradox
conversation on #Hegel with #philosopher Karen Ng, feeling the movement beyond #contradiction in the #Phenomenology & how #Science of #Logic might be infused with life & #love after all
https://pod.link/YZLzbj a
https://open.substack.com/pub/lovephilosophy/p/free-love-rethinking-hegels-concept -
"The bombing will continue until peace prevails."
He actually said that.🤦♂️
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"The bombing will continue until peace prevails."
He actually said that.🤦♂️
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that doesn't exist
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The contradiction I face most often as a #Marxist is that knowledge in the imperial core has been replaced in part by #propaganda. This #contradiction heightens as people start to see it in other places than politics, eg #AI.
There are books on this: inventing reality by the late Michael Parenti, rest in power, who paid the pipers of western Marxism by Rockhill or western Marxism by losurdo.
Its almost a pawlowian reflex that weaponizes the subconscious to fight progress.
How to deprogram?
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The contradiction I face most often as a #Marxist is that knowledge in the imperial core has been replaced in part by #propaganda. This #contradiction heightens as people start to see it in other places than politics, eg #AI.
There are books on this: inventing reality by the late Michael Parenti, rest in power, who paid the pipers of western Marxism by Rockhill or western Marxism by losurdo.
Its almost a pawlowian reflex that weaponizes the subconscious to fight progress.
How to deprogram?
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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #belief #change #changeofmind #consistency #contradiction #inconsistency #integrity #opinion #perspective #resolution #today #tomorrow
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#contradiction : denial of the truth of a statement or assertion
- French: contradiction
- German: der Widerspruch
- Italian: contraddizione
- Portuguese: contradição
- Spanish: contradicción
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#contradiction : denial of the truth of a statement or assertion
- French: contradiction
- German: der Widerspruch
- Italian: contraddizione
- Portuguese: contradição
- Spanish: contradicción
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A daily challenge to chain words together @ https://wordwallgame.com
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“Venezuela and the logic of US decline”
by Rares Cocilnau in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]“Trump, albeit unwittingly, has placed the US on the path of decline, one in which imperial power is no longer mediated through neat institutional consensus or economic integration, but increasingly asserted through militarisation and coercion”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/08/venezuela-us-decline/
#Press #US #Trump #Empire #Coercion #Decline #Venezuela #DonroeDoctrine #Hegemony #China #Contradiction
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“Venezuela and the logic of US decline”
by Rares Cocilnau in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]“Trump, albeit unwittingly, has placed the US on the path of decline, one in which imperial power is no longer mediated through neat institutional consensus or economic integration, but increasingly asserted through militarisation and coercion”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/08/venezuela-us-decline/
#Press #US #Trump #Empire #Coercion #Decline #Venezuela #DonroeDoctrine #Hegemony #China #Contradiction
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Aaaaaaaargh, AliExpress sellers will give me an aneurysm one of these days.
Slide switches are not toggle switches.
Toggle switches are not rocker switches.
Rocker switches are not toggle switches.
Rocker switches are also not slide switches.
"Momentary latching switch" is Not A Thing.#AliExpress #terminology #CloseEnough #description #NotAThing #contradiction #electronics #components #parts
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Aaaaaaaargh, AliExpress sellers will give me an aneurysm one of these days.
Slide switches are not toggle switches.
Toggle switches are not rocker switches.
Rocker switches are not toggle switches.
Rocker switches are also not slide switches.
"Momentary latching switch" is Not A Thing.#AliExpress #terminology #CloseEnough #description #NotAThing #contradiction #electronics #components #parts
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“If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.” - Malcolm Gladwell
#AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #SciFiWriter #BookLovers #IndieAuthor #Bookish #society #malcolmgladwell #contradiction #bookstodon
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But you were so utterly devoid of sense, that throughout the whole of your speech you were disputing with yourself, saying things which not only were inconsistent with each other, but involved direct contradiction and opposition, so that the contest was not so much between you and me as between Antonius and Antonius.
[Tam autem eras excors, ut tota in oratione tua tecum ipse pugnares, non modo non cohaerentia inter se diceres, sed maxime disiuncta atque contraria, ut non tanta mecum quanta tibi tecum esset contentio.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 8 / sec. 18 (2.8/2.18.7) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. King (1877)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #argument #contradiction #debate #dispute #incoherence #inconsistency #rhetoric #selfcontradiction #selfdefeat #speech
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"Leadership in 2025: Mastering the contradiction between knowing what's essential and eliminating it." - Futurist Jim Carroll
If anything is real in 2025, it is the fact that organizations have mastered the art of saying one thing and doing another - often with a pretty negative intent.
No wonder people are jaded, confused, wound up, and upset.
Think about it. Organizations worldwide face an existential contradiction: the very investments needed to survive the future are being slashed to survive the present. The goals they set to live up to some pretty vast challenges have been torn asunder or set aside.
And the fact is, this "say-do gap" is everywhere. (That's the gap between what they 'say' they will do, and what they actually 'do.') I used Claude.AI and Google Gemini to do a deep research analysis of what's going on, and both came back with some pretty intense reading. I then used Gamma. App to summarize this into two slide decks - one generic, and one specific.
The first, "The 2025 Paradox Report: 50 Contradictions Between Corporate Rhetoric and Reality", will give you a pretty quick idea of the nature of the gap.
To give just one example from that document:
"Organizations publicly declare workforce development as essential while simultaneously gutting the very programs and people needed to build future capabilities, creating a widening gap between skills rhetoric and investment reality."
I easily came up with 50 such contradictions. Give it a read - it's pretty stark.
The second one gets a little more specific - The Preparedness Paradox: How Organizations Are Cutting the Very Investments They Need to Survive the Future is an even more sobering read.
This one gets into actual corporate stories and observations., I ran the PDF through multiple AI systems for a fact check, and it's pretty spot on.
Consider the major contradiction between the escalating cybersecurity crisis and the slowing budget growth.
The number of breached accounts increased eightfold to 5.5 billion.
The average cost of a data breach rose by 10% to $4.88 million, reaching an all-time high of $9.36 million in the U.S.
The healthcare sector alone saw 276.7 million records exposed.
Despite these worsening threats, the growth of security budgets slowed to only 8% in 2024.Say-do!
Read the list of 50 contradictions. It's pretty depressing.
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Futurist Jim Carroll believes we are living through the era of 'shallow leadership' - a time when many organizations have lost the very essence of any type of corporate social responsibility. The extent of the damage will be evident in the years to come.**#Contradiction** **#Leadership** **#Hypocrisy** **#Investment** **#Rhetoric** **#Reality** **#Crisis** **#Paradox** **#Gap** **#Accountability**
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"Leadership in 2025: Mastering the contradiction between knowing what's essential and eliminating it." - Futurist Jim Carroll
If anything is real in 2025, it is the fact that organizations have mastered the art of saying one thing and doing another - often with a pretty negative intent.
No wonder people are jaded, confused, wound up, and upset.
Think about it. Organizations worldwide face an existential contradiction: the very investments needed to survive the future are being slashed to survive the present. The goals they set to live up to some pretty vast challenges have been torn asunder or set aside.
And the fact is, this "say-do gap" is everywhere. (That's the gap between what they 'say' they will do, and what they actually 'do.') I used Claude.AI and Google Gemini to do a deep research analysis of what's going on, and both came back with some pretty intense reading. I then used Gamma. App to summarize this into two slide decks - one generic, and one specific.
The first, "The 2025 Paradox Report: 50 Contradictions Between Corporate Rhetoric and Reality", will give you a pretty quick idea of the nature of the gap.
To give just one example from that document:
"Organizations publicly declare workforce development as essential while simultaneously gutting the very programs and people needed to build future capabilities, creating a widening gap between skills rhetoric and investment reality."
I easily came up with 50 such contradictions. Give it a read - it's pretty stark.
The second one gets a little more specific - The Preparedness Paradox: How Organizations Are Cutting the Very Investments They Need to Survive the Future is an even more sobering read.
This one gets into actual corporate stories and observations., I ran the PDF through multiple AI systems for a fact check, and it's pretty spot on.
Consider the major contradiction between the escalating cybersecurity crisis and the slowing budget growth.
The number of breached accounts increased eightfold to 5.5 billion.
The average cost of a data breach rose by 10% to $4.88 million, reaching an all-time high of $9.36 million in the U.S.
The healthcare sector alone saw 276.7 million records exposed.
Despite these worsening threats, the growth of security budgets slowed to only 8% in 2024.Say-do!
Read the list of 50 contradictions. It's pretty depressing.
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Futurist Jim Carroll believes we are living through the era of 'shallow leadership' - a time when many organizations have lost the very essence of any type of corporate social responsibility. The extent of the damage will be evident in the years to come.**#Contradiction** **#Leadership** **#Hypocrisy** **#Investment** **#Rhetoric** **#Reality** **#Crisis** **#Paradox** **#Gap** **#Accountability**
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🚀 Boldly going where no #regex should go! 🤦♂️ Let's ignore all logic and parse #XML with regex because dreams are real, right? The article is a masterpiece in contradiction—just like calling #art "content." 🎨📦
https://sdomi.pl/weblog/26-nobody-here-is-free-of-sin/ #parsing #contradiction #content #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Boldly going where no #regex should go! 🤦♂️ Let's ignore all logic and parse #XML with regex because dreams are real, right? The article is a masterpiece in contradiction—just like calling #art "content." 🎨📦
https://sdomi.pl/weblog/26-nobody-here-is-free-of-sin/ #parsing #contradiction #content #HackerNews #ngated -
Ce que je regarde ou j’écoute peut me perturber. https://tozounoir.zouluvo.com/ce-que-je-regarde-ou-jecoute-peut-me-perturber/
#démon #intérieur #films #horreur #musique #gangsta #gothique #émotions #perturbation #passion #influence #choix #âge #cœur #jeunesse #maturité #immaturité #préférence #consommation #ordinateur #télévision #sincérité #identité #goût #attirance #contradiction #réflexion #habitude #déception #personnalité #amour
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#contradiction : denial of the truth of a statement or assertion
- French: contradiction
- German: der Widerspruch
- Italian: contraddizione
- Portuguese: contradição
- Spanish: contradicción
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
-- Walt Whitman -
#contradiction : denial of the truth of a statement or assertion
- French: contradiction
- German: der Widerspruch
- Italian: contraddizione
- Portuguese: contradição
- Spanish: contradicción
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
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Without Self-Awareness 3
Without self-awareness, we can not solve, not even recognize, our own contradictions, such as why we often create our own suffering despite not wanting it. -
That #orange #turd is too #dumb to detect the #contradiction in his own words here.
#stupid #felon #idiot #bully #fascist #government #USPolitics
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“Put another way: #contradiction is essential to #Fountain as #art. And if it didn’t embody a contradiction, it wouldn’t be half as interesting; we wouldn’t still be talking about it.” aeon.co/essays/how-c... #MarcelDuchamp
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“Put another way: #contradiction is essential to #Fountain as #art. And if it didn’t embody a contradiction, it wouldn’t be half as interesting; we wouldn’t still be talking about it.” aeon.co/essays/how-c... #MarcelDuchamp
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"Here is the story I wanted to tell: There is a grinding #contradiction at the core of the current #MAGAcoalition, a fundamental conflict in worldview and values that is so extreme that the temporary expediency that currently cloaks this split is doomed to erode into mutual distrust, rivalry, and even open revolt. Pointing out and articulating this contradiction, I wanted to say, might even help hasten its exposure, as the word gets out that the orange emperor has no clothes — or rather, that he is wearing clothes that dangerously clash."
@erik_davis
