Virgil Texas has declared war on Anarchism

Edit: Lol did I start a site wide struggle session?

Edit2: keep it going. Is this the most commented normal post yet?

  • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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    Virgil is banned from chapo chat for sectarianism

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    Fuck, you're all a bunch of liberals. Grandpa is sounding like a neoliberal dipshit and thank god for someone putting him in his place and calling out his dumb ass toxic takes.

    Fucking thank you Virgil and Brie! Fuck Noam, dude.

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        And his dumb ass takes shouldn't be called out??? Why the fuck are some of you taking this so personally. He's saying dumb ass shit that is actively harmful. Fuck off liberal.

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          I'll forever respect Chomsky for the years of activism and writing. But the views he's expressing here are shit and should be called out. I don't know if he's gone senile or just fell behind the times, but he's not even speaking our language anymore.

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            He (wrongly) thinks that voting for Biden would create better conditions to build a left wing movement, so he says to vote for Biden.

            I thought we all agreed that whether you vote for Biden doesn't really matter very much anyway, so I'm not gonna spend my brain cells getting pissed off at people who say to vote for Biden unless they're being really shitty about it.

            • SerLava [he/him]
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              Wait, Biden is obviously going to actively devastate our capabilities, but do you really know if Ivanka 2024's blatantly fraudulent election won't lead to us getting killed?

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                  Biden will do jack shit and make a 2024 republican likely, but if Trump wins now he's going to spend the next 4 years dismantling the vote even more, and will make it even more likely than that.

            • ap1 [any,undecided]
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              How many state sanctioned murders of white American leftists happened under Obama? Kenosha style terrorism and the Portland assassination will only get worse as we descend into fascism under Trump.

              Neoliberalism sucks balls but fascism is measurably worse

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                We're talking about different conditions here, and I think you can look at Obama's ferguson response combined with Biden's race record to predict how he's going to treat the protests, especially considering that his opposition will be the Republican party, i.e. there will be no mainstream criticism of him for being too heavy handed.

                Honestly, though, I'd break with the consensus here to say that there is a meaningful difference between a President Biden and a President Trump, but I'm still voting Green because voting for Biden means perpetuating the system that gives us "choices" like this in the first place. We've reached a point where it's either the system goes or the system stays, and the latter wil have disastrous consequences.

                • ap1 [any,undecided]
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                  Being beaten up by cops is better than assassinated or being state sanctioned murdered by chuds

                  Source: been beaten up by cops, don't want to be murdered

          • rolly6cast [none/use name]
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            Chomsky was always kinda iffy even back then. Here's a fun writeup on it, but most interesting I find is his misread on the effectiveness of black radicalism during the Vietnam war. There's also his incessant general Lenin bashing, which is mostly irrelevant in the modern day, but more importantly his whitewashing of America as this great free place thanks to freedom of speech (a very liberal conception of it) or Western Europe as socialist.

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            He's been saying this stuff for so long that I don't think it's just dementia solidarity with Biden. I remember him saying this stuff when GWB was running.

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            don't make fun of my grampa, he's owld! whaaaaa.

            Yeah, you are. lmao. Fuck off liberal.

        • ap1 [any,undecided]
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          anti-communism is where you support the Zapatistas, Corbyn, Rev Catalonia, Cuba

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        He still acts like being a leftist could get him arrested.

      • anonymous_ascendent [none/use name]
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        He gets a “pass” in that he won’t be punished by us, but he doesn’t get a “pass” in that we should listen to or give any credence to his bullshit

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        I'll pay anyone their weight in Reddit gold if they can find me clip of him speaking anything other than english.

        • ap1 [any,undecided]
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          Linguistics is where you speak other languages fluently :galaxy-brain:

          • badbackjack [none/use name]
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            Not exactly. It is the study of language itself. Though with a mastery of linguistics, the mastery of individual languages themselves is supposedley a simple thing.

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              the mastery of individual languages themselves is supposedley a simple thing.

              says who lol

              • badbackjack [none/use name]
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                Are you serious? Lemme guess. Two years of spanish in high school and don't remember a thing, right? Same here till I went back and got a degree in a foreign language. They make you take at least one linguistic class and its still the only class that sticks out in my head till this day. And of course Noam Chomsky's name pops up on literally the first page of the first chapter. The father of one of my classmates was a linguist who worked in tribal areas of Colombia. He could supposedly break down a tribal language in about a day and be fluent in less than a month. I say this because I just find it odd that I've never so much as heard Linguist Number One pronounce a foreign name with any real inflection - much less speak in a foreign language. Anyway.........

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                  there are different aspects to linguistics and having a concrete understanding in one aspect doesn't give you the magical abilities to memorize and pronounce languages well

  • unsuresenior [he/him]
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    "brie told me not to harass the guests so nobody show her this post. thanks"

    Lol

    You think Brie is gonna get tired of Virgil's shit before the year is up?

    https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1315667121695862785?s=19

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      I don't see how there isn't some falling out between the two of them eventually. She seems so constantly done with his shit lmao

      • unsuresenior [he/him]
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        Yeah that voting as an individual act bit from a few weeks ago bit from Virgil was annoying af and Virgil is one of my favorite chapos.

        He sincerely was not arguing in good faith

        • bilb [he/him]
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          That was such a tedious and pointless distinction to try to agonize over.

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              Even so, whether voting is a collective or individual act is an unimportant philosophical distinction. I don't care if you consider it collective or individual.

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          Yeah, I agree more with Virgil than Brie, and I would say that under our neoliberal system voting is an individual act and an aesthetic choice that can foster no real change so long as a politicians are controlled by capitalists (unless you're voting for revolutionaries). But whatever point Virgil was trying to make was so poorly and obtusely argued that I was angry with him on behalf of Brie.

      • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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        She seemed like she was determined to REFORM his shit in the first episode and uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

        Good luck

        • 420bootywizard [he/him]
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          Reminds me of Brace quote tweeting some psycho right-winger going "I can fix her" lol

      • kilternkafuffle [any]
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        I hope not. They're a good duo. But she has every right to be tired of his shit - he may have some deeper/more interesting takes, but she's constantly making extremely well-supported basic points and he can't find in himself the decency to just go along instead of weirdly devil's advocate/irony-shitpost-ing everything.

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          Anyone who refuses to concede any points on Star Trek space NATO that Wyatt Cenac laid out infallibly deserves the Virgil Texas posting treatment.

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            I'm not a trekkie, so I could be wrong, but I thought Brie and Wyatt both had good points, so she didn't need to concede anything. And even if she was wrong that one time, she was right 9 other times and Virgil was the one being silly.

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      I kinda do, lowkey.

    • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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      Ummm, based_ball has a patreon to help him research the best struggle sessions. For $3 a month, we get to vote on one weekly topic, and the $5 a month tier means you get to vote on a weekly topic from user submissions.

    • CenkUygurCamp [none/use name]
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      how are they grifting? How I understand it there needs to be a scam involved before something is a grift

      • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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        Any Leftist who wants money for any reason is obviously an insincere grifter. It's not possible that Briahna Gray or Virgil Texas could offer genuine insights into the current Leftist movement in the US or that they could be entertaining in such a way that they would deserve compensation for their work. Every single left-ish person with a platform is a faux intellectual just trying to scam you out of money, which is obviously true as they cannot be leftists because I am the only true leftist.

    • fred [any]
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      lmao. bingo.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    I do hope Chomsky outlives Kissinger.

    • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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      That way he can finally take of the mask revealing that he was kissinger all along

  • Amorphous [any]
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    Virgil's shitposting somehow got 239 of y'all to comment arguing with each other

    the master poster is back, baby

    • Sandals [none/use name]
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      Dude is literally living out the "I dream of a society where I would be guillotined as a conservative." except it's just mild cyberbullying.

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      Fuck Noam.

      Chomsky really be like "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged" then in his next breath be like "vote blue no matter who"... 😐😬🤐

      — Morgan (@discomfiting) August 19, 2020 https://twitter.com/discomfiting/status/1296087537170219008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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          Fuck that. People listen to this guy, and use his opinions as examples of why leftists should do shit. Fuck letting his idiotic takes go unchecked.

        • kilternkafuffle [any]
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          He's still talking though. No one's coming to his house and badgering him. He's saying stupid things to a leftist audience. And it's not like he's going to be upset by some youngsters calling him a lib.

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          I mean, he is still volunteering to go onto political speaking engagements, I think he is into it. It's not like the stalked him down at the retirement community.

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          If he's gonna keep yelling at us to vote blue, then we gotta keep yelling back that it's a stupid fucking take.

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      To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

    • fred [any]
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      WTF even is this take? He's old, so his dumb ass takes can't be rebutted? get the fuck outta here you liberal.

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      uh.... it does tho.

          • crime [she/her, any]
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            Those cops? Yeah they're real bad dudes, run with a bunch of bad guys. What you're gonna do is get yourself a six-foot length of chain and you're gonna meet em after work, Jack.

        • cum_drinker69 [any]
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          There's roughly a billion anarchists in Virgil's mentions whining about this tweet, pick one.

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              I don't see how, none of them said anything constructive.

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                Pointing out that attributing Chomsky's lib take with anarchists (who are vehemently against electoral politics) is stupid is not constructive?

                I mean if he was just shitposting, then yeah, maybe not, and maybe you're just fucking with me too because i've been epicly le trolled.

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                  No I meant all I saw was sarcasm and attempts at totally epic reverse dunks, I didn't see anyone making a constructive argument. Not that Virgil was in the first place.

                  Also saw a couple profiles that identified as anarchist and had a bunch of electoralism shit. Maybe they're not "real anarchists" but I have no idea how you would determine that.

        • fred [any]
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          look at fucking Noam Chomsky for starters, lmao.

            • bamboo68 [none/use name,any]
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              nobody is lol, anarchism isn't a systemic belief, the only systemic part of it is its critique, which is the part that actually makes sense, then when the new world has to be not just possible but y'know ... brought into existence the contradictions emerge between whichever set of ideals this version of the program is built on

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        why would you vote for someone who has explicitly said they want to put you in prison

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          good fucking question, ask a lib- i mean anarchist.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      I think most DemSoc folks are flirting with MLism now

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            Aw shucks, thanks. :soviet-bashful:

            I said that because I could have done a better job with Bernie's hair and skin transitions, but I wanted it out timely. Took about ten minutes. I could have used one of those online meme generators that just puts text boxes over the models, but I think it's funnier when the gag is done visually. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer my memes hand-crafted from scratch, just like mom used to make.

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        paying close attention to that joke of a rigged primary probably helped

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          that was so mind meltingly rigged and obvious and yet no one I know even remembers it. am I terminally online??

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    I only got halfway through the interview with Noam so far, and the only charitable way i can see Noam's side is "This is a chance to pick our enemies." Which is a nice thought if you still believe there's any sort of difference between the Democratic and Republican party. Maybe for white anarchists this could be the case.

    I dont have the patience to go through Chomsky's work, and honestly I would see his interpretations useful if I keep in mind the world as he was writing it. But to keep up the act while the stage around us is breaking?

    I dunno, I'm AnCom, voting towards such a larger institution is kinda useless IMO

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      Only like 15mins in and it sounds like he is also saying we can also push Biden left???

      He is also equating not voting or voting third party as helping trump win, which is like the go-to standard tired lib argument. I don't get how can't see if we just keep voting for shit, we'll only ever get shit. Why would they ever change if it keeps working?

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          VERY excited for the neo-cons that sold us war in the middle east to be in his cabinet and I'm told to shut up because it's going to help Tom Cotton win 2024

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          abortion

          got bad news for you there chief, he hasn't actually moved left at all

          https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-s-long-evolution-abortion-rights-still-holds-surprises-n1013846

          Yet his presidential campaign confirmed to NBC News that Biden still supports the Hyde Amendment, a four-decade-old ban on using federal funds for abortion services, except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the woman. June 5, 2019

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            I mean that somewhat supports his point. He supports abortion rights through a purely cultural lens, where everyone has the right to get the treatment, but no right to any kind of material assistance that would help them afford it.

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      I don't think it matters much if the average Democrat is the same as a Republican if it means the few good Democrats have some share of influence vs no one good having any influence. Sanders as Chairman of the Budget Committee in a Biden Administration without a filibuster could actually have an influence on policy. You can look up the ranking member for each committee and subcommittee right now. I think that Warren would a better Chair for the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection then Tim Scott of South Carolina for example.

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        I dont know who else needs to hear this, but we have to be done with believing the system could be made less crueler. sure it’s nice to have bernie be chair for the budget subcommittee, but we also saw dems go through great lengths to defeat progressive candidates to then lose to the conservatives.

        The nice/painless way of changing is out, at least IMO

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          I have no illusions that they won't do everything they can to defeat progressives in the primaries. If they could successfully primary Sanders they would. But once someone is the Chair, legislation doesn't get past them without approval. Of course they'll be input from everyone on the Committee but you get what I'm saying.

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    The last Bad Faith was frustrating, I had to turn it off after a half hour.

    It seemed pretty obvious that Chomsky doesn't actually think voting is that important. The important part is the activism and putting pressure on society and politicians outside of electoralism. Chomsky's point was that even if voting was just a drop in a bucket of piss, you should still not add more piss to the bucket. A third party vote maybe makes you feel some moral superiority but come on it doesn't do anything to stop Trump, and its much harder to push Trump to the left than Biden to the left. That's Chomsky's point. Regardless if the hosts or chapo.chat agree, they should have just moved on instead of running in circles.

    Personally I don't care if anarchists are "bad" (I don't think they are, communism is a classes, stateless society). If someone wants to solve the climate crisis and end capitalism then they are an ally.

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        oh my god I wasn't saying I was agreeing with him and Chomsky is always correct and infallible, don't be a reddit essay post debater. I'm not going to agree with your premise of what you think my position is.

        I was saying that it was obvious what his point was and the hosts were kind of annoying because there's lots to talk to Chomsky about about than try to win a debate with him in the marketplace of ideas.

        Also I was saying if someone is against capitalism (Chomsky is) then they are an ally and trying to cancel him because your favorite podcaster owned him is unproductive.

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            I havent even listened to that podcast even once

            It was only cyclcial because Chomsky was making the same dumb points over and over

            hmm ok

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          I agree. Pathetic how the Left can be so tribalistic/sectarian.

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      How are you libs still falling for the “lesser evil” and “we can push Biden left” entryist and reformist arguments? Grow up

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        because they still listen to people like Chomsky uncritically.

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      Chomsky has nothing useful to say on how to bring about actual change sorry but he's part of a comfy bourgeois intelligentsia class that couldnt really give a shit one way or the other

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      and its much harder to push Trump to the left than Biden to the left

      This is absolute bullshit. The ability to push either to the left is zero. 0 isn't greater than 0.

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      Yea. Chomsky has some terrible politics but he actually put forth a decent argument, which was that you aren't going to be able to vote out capitalism, that the socdem take about withholding the vote for Biden to add pressure from the left on future dem candidates misses the point because it accepts the premise that you can have "good" democrats.

      It's actually people like BJG that believe that.

      And people here are stanning Virgil's tweet about how dumb anarchists are thinking he's making a Marxist critique of anarchism when he's actually making a lib critique of anarchism and you're all falling for it.

      But yeah, on the whole, Chomsky sucks and his thinking is terrible. For some reason BJG and Virgil just have a worse take

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      If someone wants to solve the climate crisis and end capitalism then they are an ally.

      maybe, depends if they think any laws at all are oppression, because to save the planet people are going to have to be restricted.

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      Ya, my biggest criticism of Anarchism is just that it's hyper individualist and I just think a worker's party would be a better way to use power to achieve something.

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        just that it’s hyper individualist

        I don't know what type of anarchism you're looking at. Most anarchists as far as I can tell heavily emphasize communal cooperation and mutual aid.

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        most anarchists are collectivists. the emphasis is on direct consensus democratic structure rather than hierarchical party organising. individual anarchists are the minority and get nothing done.

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    I think anyone who thinks this is anything more than virgil making a joke needs to log off for a day