TL;DR stop getting your talking points from the feds and read theory

  • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I don't think I would respect Contra enough to put her in the same bracket as Orwell and Chomsky, at least they pretended to believe in something lmao

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
      hexagon
      MA
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      3 years ago

      at least they pretended to believe in something at least lmao

      What, right-wing talking points? She's in good company then lol

      • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I mean, at least Orwell fought in the Spanish civil war a Chomsky wrote manufacturing consent. That’s better than day drinking and releasing a video twice a year.

          • SiskoDid2ThingsWrong [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            might be a coincidence, but Parenti wrote “Inventing Reality” two years earlier, and it contained a lot of the same salient points as Manufacturing Consent. Some have suggested that Chomsky plagiarized Manufacturing Consent

            So this is actually provably false. Manufacturing Consent began as a series of articles that were written before Inventing Reality. Parenti actually quotes a few of them in Inventing Reality.

        • pppp1000 [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Someone should ask Chomsky on how Biden is tackling climate change. And how AES states aren't real socialists and how the fall of USSR is good for socialism. Old man is a privileged white dude who has never had to suffer like my people did.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
      hexagon
      MA
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      3 years ago

      at least they pretended to believe in something at least lmao

      What, right-wing talking points? She's in good company then lol