What do you guys think of this?
Chomsky's greatest strength is his ability to radicalised libs to leave him in the dust
i despise chomsky but i'm pretty sure you're misconstruing what he said about NYT, it was more along the lines of "i read the new york times because it's the most honest paper in the world", speaking about what it prints to promote imperialism
idk he's still a dumb old fuck either way
If I had to just pick one Al-Jazeera would be a good choice I think. As long as you aren't looking for Arabian Gulf news they have some good stuff. Being state funded by a small petrostate makes them fairly free to report on a bunch of stuff without running into many "conflicts of interest." They don't suck America's dick which I think is most important for global news. It also seems to be quite well funded and professional too so you can actually sent it to your friends and family without linking to "PolPotDaily.cum"
The premis of the question is invalid, theres no one paper that could ever fulfil this goal and thinking that is what gets you into the liberal mindset. Every newspaper will have an agenda (usually aligned with the ideology of the capitalist owner). This idea that there are papers more authoritative than others is just BS as has been perfectly demonstrated by 4 years of russiagate, they are all filled with lies, the only difference is how you want those lies served.
Are you fond of "anonymous US official believes.."? then go with western media like: NYT, WaPo, The Guardian, it'll scratch that brand of bland milquetoast authoritarian bs that liberals love. But expecting those papers to have any truth about what happens in the rest of the world is foolish, they are there to project the western imperial agenda into the population.
I think that makes sense in the past when you couldn't instantly load up twenty different websites.
FDR's policies were put in place to halt the left, not for or by the left. Any concessions wrung out of Biden are just that, as they were with FDR before.
Not only that but FDR's policies were at least partially designed to be easy to corrupt and tear back down over time, as has happened
Noam chomsky is a lib, he literally told me so himself, he endorses classical liberalism
No joke, I emailed him to own a chud as a joke but he actually replied
If its a difference with a distinction could you explain it to me?
Classical libs are people who believe in European enlightenment values of free speech, liberty etc.
Market libs are pro capital and privatization.
It's a very broad philosophical umbrella, most socialist and communist theory comes from classical liberalism as well.
Everyone believes in the same sort of toxic individualism, and if you disagree with me that's toxic individualism too.
Maybe he was implying that neo-nazis would use their being censored to call their detractors fascist, as dumb as that would be. Or maybe I'm being too generous
Chomsky has been fully malarky-pilled, it's time to cut our losses before he shits on his legacy like Biden shits in Depends.
Not really. He still has radical thoughts. He called Trump the greatest villain in history.
If that's radical, every wine mom and Harry Potter grad student is radical.
It makes one wonder if perhaps tenured professors like Noam and Angela Davis are a bit more invested in the status quo than they like to tell themselves.
Parenti is so much better than Chomsky it's sad. Then again, it makes sense why the person who gives straightforward, understandable analysis of political economy would be repressed and the much more liberal analyst is paraded around as a hero of leftism.
Fuck Chomsky, all my homies read Parenti
Davis was major cringe during the Obama years, identity politics rots your brain...
“Angela Davis says that Barack Obama is a man who identifies with the Black radical tradition.” https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/angela-davis-lost-her-mind-over-obama
- she is now is basically calling anyone who doesn't vote Dems, selfish and privileged
Yes, sadly. It was also in WaPo but fuck linking to them.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/angela-davis-said-she-backs-biden-because-he-can-be-pressured-by-the-left/
If Noam wants to stan Biden as the harm-reduction candidate... fine, whatever dude. You're wrong. But if he actually starts talking about Biden as having positive qualities, well fuck that noise.
Hey should I read Parenti's Inventing Reality rather than Chomsky's Maunfacturing Consent or are they different enough that I should read both?
I found Manufacturing Consent to be quite a hard read. Written Chomsky assumes lots of prior knowledge. Currently I'm reading a collection of speeches by Chomsky and it's so much better - I'm flying through it. I'm going to try Parenti's version soon because I can't see myself.getttinf through written chomsky
Chomsky was one of the reasons I got into leftism. To see him say shit like this is really disappointing. Never meet your heroes I guess? lol
It’s better to just not have heroes.
I can process this intellectually, but Fidel Castro was such a fucking baller
Who would listen to such a clown?
Even his best work, he stole from Parenti's Inventing Reality.
A) platforms don't matter, B) Chomsky is old enough to be Biden's father. Think about how much Biden has lost the plot...
