Bro me defending Epstein after being exposed for having received large amounts of money from him is disniformation
Fight disinformation but it's fight dis information and the information is allegedly incriminating.
I've often wondered who masterclass is for. It seems like it is exclusively made for California Liberal types, who want to loudly show off how educated they are, and how "tolerant" they are, but don't ever want to actually put in the effort of learning anything, and constantly blame "the red states" for causing every problem in their lives.
I've pirated a few to get insights from movie directors, artists, writers and such. Like to learn their process. Would not pay for it though
I'd usually assume that 'would not pay for it' means 'shit'. But that's not necessarily the case around here lol. So I'll ask. What did you think? What's/who's worth watching?
I liked spike lees course focusing on making your first feature film. It's not really academic, but some of his experiences are applicable.
Kinda wack but... Kevin Spaceys acting course was good too.
Been a long while though, so would have to dig thru old notes to find which ones I could use
Liberals love nothing more than huffing their own farts circlejerking about “disinformation” to prove how smart and intelligent they are for only reading NYT opinion pieces on why genocide is good, actually
I don't think Masterclass is just political related courses
It seems to be for the average Californian office worker who primarily gets their knowledge about the world and history from podcasts and subscribes to the "hustle grindset" culture (which is what Masterclass is a part of)
and constantly blame "the red states" for causing every problem in their lives.
and also want to watch George Bush talk about how great he is. They do remember he's a republican right? It's not just me
But he shared sweets! He's just an innocent old man who likes painting these days! We should let the past stay in the past!
i think it used to purport to offer educational material from real experts in some field, but by this point has devolved into letting famous people ramble in front of a camera for the benefit of a handful of diehard fans who will buy a subscription service to see one person.
Yeah the one time I ever considered getting Masterclass was when Tom Morello had one about how he does the weird shit he does with a guitar. But that seems pretty different from what they do now lol
These remind me of "The Great Courses" that they used to release as videos/audiobooks back in the 00s and 10s. Maybe they still do. The Great Courses, some of which I pirated out of curiosity, were often slower-paced and worse than your average Khan Academy video or random powerpoint presentation uploaded to youtube, but they were always taught by "critically acclaimed" professors (bourgeois best selling authors with good connections who happen to be tenured professors). The economics courses were of course just dismal and regurgitated nonsense about how "wall street and main street share common interests and shouldn't fight each other" in the middle of the 2008 crash.
i have access to a bunch of those on audiobook, via my public library and I've found some really good ones. But for every genuinely good lecture series on a topic like Ancient North America, there's like, 5 with titles like "wisdom of Europe's greatest generals" that's just utter slop for pseudo-intellectual chuds.
I'm in silicon valley right now and I just saw a homeless guy that looks just like Chomsky
Everything I hear him speak on marx or lenin it blows my mind how wrong he is. What really struck me was the realization that he is just a left lib Betty Shapino. Fairly intelligent/educated, but mostly Fast talking with massively oversized confidence. He will say shit about Marx that is objectively hilariously untrue, but he says it so confidently and with such professorial gravitas that people who just don't know better just nod sagely and go "Yes of course." Mean while this asshole goes on recod as saying "I never did understand dialectics."
He's also said that the fall of the USSR was the greatest victory for socialism ever, which is absolutely deranged when you consider the misery it lead to in the post-Soviet states and the countries that were supported by them.
Fuck Chomsky.
I recently read a book written in the 70s by some American Marxist and surprise surprise Chomsky was already much hated in the Marxist circles back then.
Has Chomsky ever written at length about Marxism? The most I've heard him say sounds indistinct from anything a liberal would say, like that Marxism is outdated, it's a model of 19th century capitalism that fails to analyze blah blah, and he'll even say stuff like Marxism has the same roots as fascism, or that Marxism is like a religion. The one thing that really baffled me is one time Chomsky said Marx devised an abstract model of capitalism, and that essentially capitalism is too complex to make into an abstract model and remain scientific. That's really perplexing that a supposed social scientist like Chomsky would say. What's a good alternative to modeling capitalism then, Noam? Nothing? Liberalism?
marxism idk but he talks ad nauseum about the horrors of AES
As opposed to my social libertarianism, which has no roots in settler colonialism!
Ugh. Just read Inventing Reality.
Edit to bring receipts: The Mainstream and the Margins: Noam Chomsky vs. Michael Parenti
damn this is really good shit, and I've read a fair amount of parenti v chompsky pieces before.
And showing how obama was, far from being the lesser evil, actually a more effective evil because he could get away with things the republicans could never dream of? absolute gold
Edit: finished it, I didnt know a lot of this. Chomsky shitting on Aaron Swartz was a new low in my opinion of him. Quite a compendium of chomsky's long history of disappointment and palatiability to the ruling class
Lorenzo’s a smart & funny guy, if you can still find his work, which requires elbow grease & the Wayback Machine.
For example: 5 people who deserve as much shit as Banksy for their half-baked politics
Epstein would have 100% gotten a masterclass if they didn't kill him when they did.
Saw this ad on Facebook and the top comment was like “Chomsky is a Russian asset, he is the disinformation!”
THIS is what he's been doing while he's been ignoring the situation in palestine devolving to blatant genocide???
Fuck chmosky, I hope he fucking chokes
This is not new. By all accounts Chomsky is not physically or mentally able to discuss the current situation. Finkelstein said as much - he said in an interview a couple weeks ago that he reached out to Chomsky for moral clarity right after the 7th, but he was unavailable so Norman had to figure things out on his own. And the way he discussed it, it definitely was not that Chomsky was like off on a beach somewhere or wasn’t returning his calls, definitely implied that Chomsky was not able to respond.
Given that Chomsky has been pretty good about Palestine for his whole career, it seems much more plausible that he’s incapacitated and not just like, choosing not to comment on it.
he reached out to Chomsky for moral clarity
This is like reaching out to Kamala for consolation
I asked Kamala for a hug once and she said only after I run a small business in a disadvantaged community for 3 years
okay thanks for clarifying, seriously. For all his faults, perhaps " I hope he chokes" was a little too severe, and I'm happy to learn this wasn't new and he wasnt simply ignoring the situation. I too heard mr. Finkelstein mention being unable to reach him and together with this post, assumed the worst.
it's disturbing is what it is. usually they wait until the radical icons die before puppeteering the body.
oh, gross. but better than it coming out now. I take back what I said about chokin, even if he is kind of a shitbag still
So?
I definitely take back the "hope he chokes" bit, but not because he's ancient, more because this masterclass bs was actually made the better part of a year ago, his current absence is more likely health related.
Mr. Chomsky, you ever wonder why usa capitalists are feeling comfortable paying you?
Step 1: Rather than denying it, simply say that it's none of the public's business and refuse to elaborate
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the anti-Chomskÿng ☭ or “That’s Enough of Noam Chomsky”
https://dashthered.medium.com/the-anti-chomsk%C3%BFng-66dcd8224729 -
On Chomsky
https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/
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