bizarre fantasies about the need to “de-Nazify” Ukraine
if jerking off Chomsky for half the article didn't tip you off, there's no material analysis here
even if you limit history to the last eight years this is blinkered denialism
see your point, but "bizarre fantasy" is pure great man theory. my point is that Putin's personal preferences are LIBERAL BULLSHIT, this is a state expressing the will of its national bourgeoisie. doing psychiatry on Putin really grinds my gears, just liberals in free fall
Even if it was true, it's kind of a strange point. It would be like if the US army opened a regiment that wears swastikas and sieg heil to Hitler. Even if not literally every person in the army was part of this regiment... the fact the army would open this in the first place speaks to a much greater problem.
Libs use this logic all the time and it's just ridiculous. Yes, not literally every person in the Ukrainian armed forces is part of Azov Battalion. Yes, the Svoboda party which openly calls itself a "Social-National" party only has 2% in parliament. But the very fact these people get support at all speak to a much wider problem.
The point of showing Azov Battalion or whatever is not to show that the entire Ukrainian population is part of these organizations, but to show symptoms of a much wider problem. And this wider problem is that "Ukraine had more anti-Semitic incidents than all former Soviet countries combined". That's a study done by the Israeli government itself, so libs can't say it's a "biased Russian source."
Other symptoms include putting up statues and naming streets after the Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera who literally participated in carrying out the Holocaust, and banning books that criticize him. Libs like to treat every single incident in complete isolation to try and ignore the clear underlying problem that has lead to this.
Also, another piece of evidence that neo-Nazism is not just limited to Azov Battalion is that the Ukrainian National Guard literally just a few hours ago tweeted in support of them putting pork fat on their bullets to kill the Muslim "orcs." They clearly represent the attitude of the National Guard in general.
Chomsky being perpetually surprised at Amerikkkans is kind of fun tho
As footage of Japanese civilians with their skin peeling off played on the screen, the audience of Americans was laughing hysterically as if they were watching Charlie Chaplin or the Marx Brothers.
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a time he and his wife went to see a movie in Boston in the early 1950s.
christ he's soooooo old. my grandparents were born ~ 1950 and I'm ~ 30. sorry to be childish about this, but it's astonishing that anyone can live that long. :chomsky-yes-honey:
I liked the meditations on empathy, etc. I have no objections to the vast majority of the article... until it talks about current events, stripped of context. The article was perfectly good until it started talking about the present war in ukraine in a totally amaterial and unexamined way.
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The brutal British empire, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the current Russian invasion of Ukraine—in each case, the perpetrators think of themselves as acting rightly against an evil enemy.
This is how the soldiers might be taught to think of themselves, but this is not how the leadership thinks of themselves. The leadership does not trouble themselves with morality, only strategy. Putin does not believe he is acting "rightly" against an "evil" enemy. He believes he is defending the Russian border from NATO expansion. Anything beyond that is rhetoric.
we are just as reluctant to apply serious self-scrutiny as Vladimir Putin is to question his bizarre fantasies about the need to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
denazification of Ukraine might be a cynical rhetorical justification for Putin's broader strategic goal of preventing NATO expansion.... But the need to denazify Ukraine is not a "bizarre fantasy" for the people DPR/LPR when the USA has been in bed with Ukrainian nazis since WW2, and has been overtly using them as pawns in their geopolitical games since 2014. The need to denazify Ukraine is not a "bizarre fantasy" for the LGBTQ+, the Roma, the Jews, and the Proletarians of Ukraine, who are victims of far right violence just as much as the breakaway republics. Even Zelensky preferred peace to the present situation, but has had US-backed fascist guns to his head this whole time, preventing him from pursuing this the way he may have wanted to.
I finally got them to stop sending me magazines, but now they just pop up in the hexbear feed? Be gone, Willy Wonka socdem!
Within a society, we can see abundant kindness and love and compassion, but that society may still be unleashing utter destruction on those unfortunate enough not to live within its borders or be within its empathy circle. The British could only see how they looked to each other, not how they looked to Indians starving to death under their rule.
It is also worth noting that the British were not treating each other with love and compassion they were inventing industrial capitalism and working children to death. The empathy circle comprised of the aristocracy
Donald Trump might be elected president again, even though his climate policy (which can be summarized as burn as many fossil fuels as possible) will result in the spread of death and mayhem around the world.
Chomsky's still doing this :vote: bit? Biden’s First Year Drilling Permitting Stomps Trump’s By 34%
We need to be more disturbed by things commonly assumed to be normal.
Didn't get past this second sentence. Drives me nuts when ppl online confuse getting mad for doing something, as if their takes have any impact on anything.
