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to everyone mad about this: yes chomsky is an old man but anarchists periodically need to be put in their place so people dont start thinking they have rational political views— Virgil Hexas 🦇🦇🦇 (@virgiltexas) October 12, 2020

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?

  • kilternkafuffle [any]
    4·
    4 years ago

    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.

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
      3·
      4 years ago

      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]
        2·
        4 years ago

        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?

          • SerLava [he/him]
            2·
            4 years ago

            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.

              • SerLava [he/him]
                ·
                4 years ago

                But he still will need a Republican win to help threaten states to avoid state charges. The state prosecutors aren't invested in federal power structures in the same way as feds are, and they actually think it would be cool if they got a PRESIDENT

      • ap1 [any,undecided]
        2·
        4 years ago

        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

        • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
          ·
          4 years ago

          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]
            2·
            4 years ago

            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]
      1·
      4 years ago

      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.

    • grillpilled [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.