Christ I have really come to loathe Chomsky
Are you going to paste this everywhere where a ctrl+f brings up his name?
I mean you can, but i like it more when you do your tedious takes because it looks a lot more mature even if i don't agree with most of them (this is one of those btw)
Here you go. Have fun.
https://redditsearch.io/?term=Chomsky&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=&searchtype=comments&search=true&start=1597093290&end=1597179690&size=100
Noam Chomsky: Decades of "the Neoliberal Plague" Left U.S. Unprepared for COVID-19 Outbreak
Horrible take.
It's important we besmirch and muddy the waters of allies who've demonstrated life-long advocacy and class-based analysis when they dare proffer harm reduction in a lose-lose scenario.
Noam “Dialectics are dumb cause big words and I will pretend I don’t understand them” Chomsky
Wait what. I gotta know more. I'm dumb as fuck and even I know what dialectics are.
Every Morning i Check the best newspaper in the world, the new york times
This doesn't sound like Chomsky at all. Quick google search shows nothing, although i vaguely remember that Chomsky saying he reads a ton of newspapers everyday starting with NYTimes, but not praising it.
Okay this was really surprising, mostly because you wouldn’t expect that take from a guy who called it "emperor's lapdog"
It tells him what to look into more because anything they report is probably purposeful propaganda.
It's the financial times that he praised, not nyt.
To be fair, they do have a little less thick layer of cum on their pages, but they do bend the truth to the ideology of the wall street boyz n gurls. They definitely aren't the 'only newspaper printing the truth' or whatever he said about them
So you're saying he's just the academic version of Michael Moore lmfao
I heard Vaush give the same argument, idk why these people think this will be the year the democrats actually give a fuck about people on the left.
It's been two seconds since I last complained about Vaush but fuck Vaush
They literally just got done smacking us around the living room, now they're already telling us that this time will be different, they'll be sensitive to our needs, they had to do it to keep us from making a mistake, you don't really want Bernie, do you babe?
Such a stretch to take Lenin's comments on "participate in elections" to mean "gotta vote blue no matter who". Such a fuckin dunce.
His defense of signing the Harper's letter is "if you criticize me you're helping the right wing" lmao
I wish Anand had asked him about Glenn Greenwald getting Mean Girled out of signing the letter
You're just now loathing Chomsky? The man hasn't had a good take in 50 years!
Thank fucking god someone said it. The dude has/had good shit to say, but most of it is pretty old at this point. He's also a condescending prick on the regular and he has big ivory tower vibes if you ask me.
I do! He makes a lot of noise, preens himself, but a whole team behind him actually provides all the good stuff.
A good palate cleanser for Chomsky's ridiculous lesser evilism is to watch Chris Hedges obliterate Robert Reich in a debate over whether or not to vote for Hillary in 2016.
Bottom line--it doesn't really matter if you vote for the proto-fascist or the neoliberal, you get fascism either way. And more, it fails to draw a line in the sand and tacitly permits the dems to slide further and further right. The only viable path to socialism is organizing outside the dems.
His argument about climate mitigation doesn't even make sense - if we're not carbon neutral by 2030 then no half-measures will save us anyway
I mean there's a lot of levels between no problems and total annihilation.
1.5 degrees according to the IPCC according to this article I just found when I googled it
i understand some people are saying "trump is so bad that anybody would be more receptive to left wing policies" but what i dont get is some people legitimatly having the idea that joe will be sympathetic to left wing policies, like at all? do people think his whole unity commission is really for anything but show?
I think this does make sense. Under a Biden administration the few good people in Congress will at least be a part of making legislation. The threat of being primaried might also influence some votes in Congress.
I think think worse case under Biden there's legislation that promotes natural gas and renewables. I think that's preferable to no legislation at all and the EPA rolling back methane regulations on natural gas pipelines
I agree but this is Chapo where Trump is the same as Biden and voting is stupid
ie. chomsky want you to get off your ass which requires you to stop posting.
no wonder there's so much snark
Motherfucker, the only lever you have in bourgeois electoralism is your fucking vote.
If you vote for the asshole, you endorse them and their entire platform.
No, it doesn't matter that you don't agree in your head. Or that you'll march around in the streets afterwards. You've given them the power already! Why would they listen?
There literally is no such thing as "pushing someone left" once they're elected. You fucking gave them a mandate! They do not have to listen to you, you fucking lost the primary!
This is unbelievably basic shit.
Your only ability to "push" someone electorally is to threaten to withhold your vote, which you literally cannot do if you promise to vote for them.
How do people not understand basic power dynamics?
