• comfy@lemmy.ml
      21·
      8 天前

      If minor grammar mistakes must bother you, politely explaining them will help educate readers and ensure they occur less often. This kind of reply is rude and unhelpful, especially since many people posting are not as experienced with the clusterfuck known as the English language, but also since this isn’t a formal setting where properness matters at all.

  • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    9 天前

    George Washington. He would be rolling for so many different things. Political parties existing, America becoming the new british empire basically, black people having rights, the fact he wasnt alive to get modern dental care, non-landowners being able to vote, women being able to vote, etc

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    3210·
    9 天前

    Aaron Swartz.

    Guy was opposed to any and all censorship and was politically left-leaning.

    Almost immediately after his death, such people started to die out, opposition to censorship has been a right-wing cause for about the last decade.

    • Enkrod@feddit.org
      284·
      9 天前

      BULLSHIT. Opposition to censorship continues to be strong on the left. I was there for “Stasi 2.0”, “Schäublone” and “Zensursula”. And nobody could EVER justifiably accuse Wolfgang Schäuble or Urula von der Leyen of leftism.

      It’s continually the right that screeches “cEnSoRsHiP!!1!” when they get deplatformed by someone who has the right to deny them service, but it’s also the right that continually tries to implement state censorship.

      • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
        1·
        5 天前

        How would you fight the far right trying to silence you if there is no censorship of their hatred?

        They don’t listen to facts. Shouldn’t you draw a line somewhere and say, regardless of what you scream, this is not acceptable?

  • Merlu@lemmy.ml
    10·
    8 天前

    -Karl Marx: his ideology, that intended to fight oppression, was only used to build dictatorships.

    -Martin Luther King: institutionalized racism is still alive and well.

    -Marsha P. Johnson: the current situation of american queer -and especially trans- people in America is self explanatory.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      16·
      9 天前

      For real. Lenin’s introduction to The State and Revolution is evergreen:

      What is now happening to Marx’s teaching has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the teachings of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes struggling for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their teachings with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time emasculating the essence of the revolutionary teaching, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. At the present time, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the working-class movement concur in this “doctoring” of Marxism. They omit, obliterate and distort the revolutionary side of this teaching, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). And more and more frequently, German bourgeois scholars, but yesterday specialists in the annihilation of Marxism, are speaking of the “national-German” Marx, who, they aver, educated the workers’ unions which are so splendidly organized for the purpose of conducting a predatory war!

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          4·
          9 天前

          Certainly a banger way to start! I think it’s easier to appreciate after having read Marx and Engels prior to it, but Lenin is so fiery and darn smarmy with his writing that it’s hard not to love the guy, and State and Revolution in particular is a classic for good reason.

  • yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
    11·
    9 天前

    John Brown has been writhing and spinning (and mouldering) in his grave for a very long time. Vengeful Wraith of John Brown for President!

  • eightpix@lemmy.world
    221·
    9 天前

    Socrates.

    This man upheld his right to think his own thoughts and to go where the evidence led him. He stood trial and was sentenced to death.

    Now, the most powerful people do not think, have zero principles, disregard evidence, and would gladly have others die to secure their power.

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 天前

    Probably William Thomson after his body started breaking the laws of thermodynamics like that.

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    9 天前

    Since others have been poking fun but not helping…

    “Who’s” = “Who is”. So the post title asks “Who is rolling grave […]”.

    Instead, it should be “whose”, which is the possessive form of “who”. It’s equivalent to “yours” or “his”.

    • TheColonel@reddthat.com
      12·
      9 天前

      So what you’re saying is that grammarians, with their total collective rollage, would be the correct answer.

      Perhaps, in order to simplify, William Bullokar would be a good answer?

      I’m sure I made mistakes here because one can’t discuss grammar without completely fucking it up.

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
    101·
    10 天前

    One of the many obscure, mostly forgotten philosophers as college students thinking Philosophy was going to be an easy A absolutely butcher their language and thought.

    • abrake@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 天前

      What Nietzsche really meant in Thus Spoke Zarathustra is that we all just need to get along :)

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
    201·
    9 天前

    I was going to say George Washington with the direction the US is going he’d be pissed

    But someone else said Jesus Christ, so yeah I think I’ll go with Jesus