Well, he seems to take the, to me, logical point of view that as a US citizen it behooves him to critcise his own government first.
No, he should criticize bad ideas wherever they occur. It is logical to prioritize from greatest threat to least. The US has some fantastically bad ideas, but it is not alone in this. Chomsky's real problem is he is so focused on criticizing the US that he forgets that there are systems outside the US that are vastly worse. Hence, his valid but unbalanced criticism of the US is used by people who are worse to advance their terrible systems around the globe. That makes Chomsky a fool, and the people who don't understand this, or of the severe limits on his expertise (go and look up the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Chomsky is one of the worst examples of it) idiots.
Oh. Never mind. Logic is wasted on you. Carry on then.
I have a PhD in Physics. Because I try and use the Scientific Method extensively I would wager I respond to logic and *evidence* much better than you. The problem is, you have not provided any logical argument. And the evidence against socialism and Chomsky's idiotic positions are overwhelming - there are hundreds of millions of citizens slaughtered in peacetime by socialists in dozens of countries in the last century. Where socialism has not yet slaughtered its citizens it has instead corrupted the heritage of its societies, put their countries on demographic death spirals, frivolously spent the accumulated wealth of generations and enslaved the unborn in debt racked up for entitlement vote bribes.
The empirical evidence is in, socialism is harmful to individuals, social cohesion, economies, future generations, and individual liberty. Despite the manifest failures of socialism the socialists do not learn from their mistakes and always want to try new victim countries to pillage. Socialists are also intellectually dead and have had no new ideas for DECADES.
So I've taken the empirical route and used evidence-based reasoning to inexorable conclusion - socialism doesn't work because it cannot work. That does not stop clueless zealots from banging on about it though. Borg drones who think virtue signalling about 'helping people' when socialism is about State power (rule by the 'elites') which actively harms the people socialism is inflicted on. Rather than actually help people by practicing charity themselves they noisily rant about using the State to point guns at people who worked for a living and saved. of course, the socialists think they'll be the ones receiving the stolen goods and the ones pointing the guns. Despite them being greedy with the lust for the wealth others earned they call anyone who resists this tyrannous theft as 'greedy'. What evil and hypocritical people socialists are.
Here's an experiment that has been performed twice. Destroy a country in a war. Utterly level the place. Then split the country in two and make one part of the country Free Market (or the Statist approximation thereof) and one part Socialist. Its the same environment, same people, same starting point. Then see which system is better. The system you are advocating for produced East Germany and North Korea. The system I'm advocating for produced West Germany and South Korea. Only idiots like you want to take North American and turn it in to North Korea where the 'elites' rule - since your are attacking Individual Liberty and the Free Market of voluntary exchange (which is always 'win-win' as either party can walk away if they don't think the exchange benefits them).
So keep pushing your evil and failed collectivist ideology. The rest of the World are already voting to leave your madness behind. Free and sovereign UK/Brexit, Trump, and soon a Free Europe of sovereign states which will boot the parasitic collectivists out.
You are on the wrong side of history. You don't have to be a chump and worship the State your whole life - because the elites don't give a dam
Chomsky was great at linguistics. Thanks to the Dunning-Kruger Effect he cannot see the fundamental areas he mistakes he makes in areas outside his area of expertise. However, since he is articulate, and his audience often lacks great experience (eg. university students who lack decades of experience in the Real World), he persuades many that his bad ideas are god for them.
There are only two types of socialism:
1) voluntary socialism - such as a commune or kibbutz, which is voluntary for adults but generally involuntary for the child labor on them
2) involuntary socialism - where the government points guns to economically rape the innovative and industrious
In addition there is a third system which is not socialist and is promoted by the Free Market of voluntary exchange:
3) voluntary charity - people give freely from the surplus they create
So could you please describe this "anarcho-socialist" system that Orwell preferred? is it partially-voluntary like a commune ? (partially-voluntary because the individual cannot withhold what they wish, like in charity).
a capitalist dystopia that was JUST AS EVIL.
"Capitalism" is a word used by Marxist to describe systems where the State has non-neglible control of the economy. These can indeed be bad. However the "Free Market of voluntary exchange" is not the same thing as State-controlled "Capitalism". A Free Market is not anarchy and the State is still required to preserve competition, but that's all the State does. At the moment in the West we have socialist systems (the State uses force to take taxes to redistribute vote bribes for the benefit of 'elites' gaining and retaining power) that retain some hampered Free Market elements. It would be better if the Economy and State became as separated as the Church and State - but I cannot see that happening any time soon due to too many interested parties seeking to use State force to extort wealth from the productive.
Orwell was an anarcho-socialist, comparable to Noam Chomsky's beliefs.
Noam Chomsky lies his head off about everything. It is hard to fathom what Chomsky truly believes. David Horowitz has done a fine job at exposing the lies Chomsky has thrown about. I think Chomsky just talks nice-sounding stuff because it makes him feel like he knows more than his actual area of expertise (which he is truly great in). Chomsky is the perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect that applies to intelligent people (as opposed to the part that applies to unintelligent people). Don't be fooled by Chomsky !
The fundamental question really is "Do you have the right to run your down affairs, or should the elites who control State power decide for you?". That is the fundamental difference between 'socialism' and the 'Free Market'/Individualism. Everything else springs from that. Or, as Neo in The Matrix says, "Choice, the problem is choice". Who chooses, does the individual choose using Individual Liberty (restricting State power so individual can choose), or does The State (which means, the elites who control it) remove the choice and decide for you?
Given you deflect from the argument does that mean you agree with Koran 9:29 ? Christianity is fiction and is false. Islam is fiction and is false. But Christianity separates Church and State so it does not hurt unbelievers. Islam says that the separation of Church and State is a blasphemy punishable by death, and asserts that Sharia applies to believes and unbelievers equally. Thus both are false, but Islam is MUCH more dangerous (and stupid) than Christianity. Islam turns otherwise good people into deeply evil people - this makes Islam very, very evil. It is a great thing that Islam is dying as people access information that shows it is fiction and is false.
Precisely. And you can inoculate the next generation from bad ideas too. The bad ideas gradually die out on their own. The bonus is that this is all voluntary, no force nor compulsion is needed. Just pointing out the truth using Free Speech is enough and time will work its magic. The only thing that has to happen is that Free Speech has to be preserved and protected from the Collectivists and Islamists who want to shut it down.
But you can inoculate the next generation from bad ideas. Then the people who will not respond to reason will gradually die out, and be replaced by people who follow the evidence. This is exactly the same as the socialist who refuse to believe their system that elevates the State over the Individual has failed and piled up 100 million bodies as they tried to slaughter people who no longer believed in their failed idea. The socialists are just going to die out because they will never admit they were wrong and were fools to think that people become more industrious and innovative when you take the fruits of their labor away at gunpoint and give it to the politically favored (in these days the 'politically favored' groups are fast-breeding Islamists and Third Worlders - which is why pensions and benefits for the old and poor in the First World are being slashed to give to the incoming hordes - because socialism is not about helping people but about political 'elites' giving vote bribes to gain power and the ability to rob citizens using State force).
There are several great books that cover the modern scholarship, such as:
In the Shadow of the Sword - Dr Tom Holland
Did Mohammed Exist? - Robert Spencer
Quaranic Geography - Dan Gibson
If you can't be bothered reading, there is a video by a Christian polemicist who summarizes the evidence pretty well:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just like most ideologies Islam was invented by evil men to control other men, and especially, women.
Thanks for posting. Now consider this, there are two fundamental types of socialism:
1) voluntary socialism, such as a commune or kabbutz
2) involuntary socialism, practice where the State uses force/coercion to 'economically rape' the industrious and innovative to give to the politically favored as vote bribes so the self-selecting sociopathic politcal 'elites' can attain and retain power (where power means, the ability to enforce one's will on unwilling adults).
There is a third system which is not socialism:
3) voluntary charity - such as advocated and practiced by the Classic Liberals of the political Right.
Which of the socialisms was Orwell advocating? do you personally think it is moral for the State to point guns at unwilling adults for the benefit of elites, because this is the foundation of ALL systems that call themselves 'socialist'.
That may have not been the lesson Orwell understood nor intended consciously to give, and the message that Statist Collectivists wish to deny, but it is the deeper meaning underlying the messages of his great works,.
Understand the truth, 'socialism' is economic rape using State force. It is deeply immoral. Charity is moral, as are VOLUNTARY taxes (fees/contracts) for 'user pays' services.
Actually, the Afghan mujahideen were created by (Democrat) President Jimmy Carter who ordered Zbigniew Brzezinski to create them to lure the Soviet Union into 'their own Vietnam'. The mujahideen were so repulsive to the Soviets the latter dutifully invaded some six months after their creation. (Republican) President Reagan merely continued this policy.
Interestingly enough (Democrat) President Obama did the exact same playbook, arming and funding crazy jihadis to take over Libya, Egypt and Syria. This makes sense since Obama was also using Brzezinksi to advise him. The Democrats lover starting wars but their "anti-war" camouflage means they have to get deeply evil ihadis to fight for them. We are beginning to see the same playbook for a third time, this time on a slower scale with the target being Europe - the Right are resisting the 'hijra' (Islamic invasion by immigration) and the Left are enabling it and it is clearly quite deliberate (as the Left attacks its own citizens for criticizing the policy of Third World invasion).
Have you ever considered the possibilities that a) you don't know the history, b) the history you think you know is disinformation designed to keep you from knowing the actual truth of those that desire more power, c) the truth will always eventually emerge and the Left is always on the wrong side of it. Do you want to be on the wrong side of history? is your indoctrinated hatred of Individual Liberty so strong that you will continue to argue for a system which gives the sociopathic 'elites' more power ? that makes you the bad guy, amigo.
Are you a voluntary socialist or an involuntary socialist? I'm guessing the latter, so it means you are for using State power to conduct economic rape, right?
Voluntary charity is moral. Have you ever heard of it? have you ever practiced it? this is what the "sub-Breitbart" folks advocate,.
Involuntary socialism is using State force to economically rape the industrious and innovative to give to the politically favored as vote bribes so the self-selecting sociopaths of the political 'elite'c an gain and retain power. This evil and immoral system is what you are for, right ?
'Cultural Marxism' is an easy shibboleth: it invariably indicates someone with a sub-Breitbart level of political sophistication. Also known as 'an idiot'.
"Cultural Marxism" is a useful label to describe the deliberate subversion of Individual Liberty and the Free Market of voluntary exchange by retards who advocate economic rape - because they are too lazy and too greedy to generate the surplus required for voluntary charity - and too dumb to see how they are easily manipulated by the politically ambitious sociopaths with mere words.
I'm a Socialist.
Therefore you are evil and the enemy of every Free Person on the planet who believes in Individual Liberty where the individual should decide on their own affairs - not sanctimonious, indoctrinated, suib-par intellects like you.
You are the Galactic Empire, prepared to use State force to crush dissenting opinion (look at you initiate ad hominems at millions of stranger just now). We are the Rebel Alliance who seek to preserve Individual Liberty from predators like you. The lazy, stupid economic rapists of the World. You are on the wrong side of history and clinging to failed ideas promoted by evil control freak collectivist elites. Your movement is dying as hundreds of millions around the globe utterly reject rule by stupid, vain and quite frankly immoral control freaks like you.
Stop preaching about virtue with your virtue signalling about the economic rape and removal of Individual Liberty others and practice virtue YOURSELF. Sell your stuff to charity if you believe in 'socialism', and stop pointing guns at everyone else to take their stuff - all because you are a douchebag who wants to feel good about yourself without actually having to work hard so you have surplus to VOLUNTARILY donate to others. Sheeesh.
Yes, I hear that pointing out the TRUTH that their religion is a FICTION is a terribly successful way of converting believers into non believers.
You fear and reject the truth ? what is YOUR suggestion then? say nothing? be a narcissist who virtue signals their transcendance of reason by showing insane levels of tolerance to creeping Sharia ? or you don't actually have a suggestion and are just being a sanctimonious d!ck, right ?
Enlightenment Civilization wins when we point out that Islam is FICTION and is FALSE. Anything else pretends that Islam has some form of merit, and helps it grow. The appeasement of Sharia norms is the wrong strategy, and the tactic of losers who don't even believe in their own civilization. Is that you ?
It is hilarious you are so busy calling Trump fascist you are too busy to confront the actual Islamic fascists who have murdered 270 million innocents over 14 centuries of continuous jihad (exactly as the Koran and ahadith command). Do you not understand that calling Trump 'fascist' for trying to reduce State power is the deflection from a real threat? I guess not. The Matrix has you. With mere words and memes you are controlled to advance the power of the 'State' (which actually means, the self-selecting, sociopathic 'elites' who feed you those memes).
All supersititions are bad, but they are not equally bad. Christianity abrogates Judaism where the intolerance is replaced by slightly more tolerance and a separation of church and State. This Christianity is a "personal faith". Islam abrogates the tolerant Meccan Suras with the extremely intolerance Medinan Suras, so it is going in the opposite direction. Furthermore you are incorrect, the Koran is meant to be read ***literally***. Which part of the Koran says that it is allegorical ? Islamic scholars all agree it is meant to be taken literally, except when they are dissimulating to Westerners. So I'm curious where you find in the Koran it is not meant to be taken as the literal word of Allah intended for all peoples and all times (which makes Islam a political system, since Muslims claim Islam and Sharia apply to all people including the hated unbelievers - and this makes Islam EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and anti-thetical to Enlightenment Civilization ). Please stop projecting modern Western memes into Islam even if some islamic scholar says so, because the only authorities in Islam are Allah and Mohammed (both fictionaly of course, but their evil ideas motivate many).
Great. You bang the fat chicks and leave the others to us. Sounds like we have a deal. And your repetition of Cultural Marxist memes will be deeply appreciated by the fat chicks, while the others just prefer real men who are confident and have no problem nor illusions with the mating game being the jungle rules it actually is.
I'm not digging at you, I'm digging at the crazy memes. Accept reality - your genes want to reproduce and while there is some cultural variation of beauty, signs of unhealthiness (away from average) are repulsive to anyone not sufficiently indoctrinated to the Cultural Marxist memes flooding the developed World.
Yessssssss. tech conferences only for those with truly open minds. The 'pearl clutching' SJWs loons are only there to ruin things based on their unstable mental state du jour. So, 'Playboy is to SJWs as garlic is to vampires' ? I better 'arm up'.
Orwell started as a socialist, until he saw what socialism was like in practice. His writings are about rejecting Collectivism, in any form. Which is why the Limited Government people (who you call, "Conservatives" as is the US custom) like Orwell.
But I think your problem to see clearly comes from a fundamental flaw in your understanding of socialism. There are two types of socialism, "Voluntary Socialism" such as practiced on kibbutz and communes, and "Involuntary Socialism" where State force is used to extract resources from the industrious and innovative and give to the politically favored so that self-selecting sociopaths of the political 'elite' can gain and maintain POWER. There are no other forms of "socialism" - voluntary or involuntary, fundamentally that's all there are.
Now, to understand how evil involuntary socialism (aka 'Statist Collectivism') is you need to consider what makes rape evil. You see, romance and rape are the same physical act, yet one is evil. Why? It turns out that because romance is VOLUNTARY is is moral and a good, but because rape is INVOLUNTARY it is immoral and an evil. Similarly, charity (as promoted by the Right) is voluntary and moral, while involuntary socialism is immoral and evil
In (involuntary) socialism the use of State power to obtain resources involuntarily is ECONOMIC RAPE. Why would you defend and advocate such an EVIL system ? is it because you don't understand the concept of voluntary charity and how that helps people? note: the "conservatives" you have been indoctrinated to despise promote voluntary charity and resist the economic rape of Statist Collectivism.
Have you not worked this out yet? do you not understand that the Galactic Empire (Big State Left) will slander the Rebel Alliance (Limited Government Right) by deflecting you with false promises of "equality", "fairness", "social justice", "fair share" (all of which are utterly unachievable in the real universe) and all you have to do is give up all your freedom and much of your money and attack the Rebel Alliance on behalf of the Galactic Empire ?
"We've always been at war with Oceana"
And yet when the State tells you that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) is occurring, and the only solution is to give the United Nations more money and power and the ability to override your elected representatives you went along with it? ROFL ! you understand the principle of control through propaganda but have not yet done the research to distinguish fact from fiction - hence you are completely controlled by it. Did you not detect when CAGW failed to materialize the propagandists switched smoothly to the words "Climate Change" instead (a term which is meaningless, as the climate is always changing - NATURALLY). Did you not research the fact that the CAGW hypothesis' predictions not only did not come true but the OPPOSITE was seen in the Lower Tropical Troposphere ?
as for you "theory" that the "collectivists imported jihadis".....
ya that just makes you a moron who believes the crazy BS Alex Jones spews from his misplaced rear end.
You are the utter moron. Islam has not changed since the 12th Century (due to Al Ghazali freezing it) . So how is the 'hijra' (Islamic conquest by immigration, celebrated every Ramadan) happening in Europe? is it the political Right who are importing the invasion? no, it is the Left. And the Left are sending the police against people who criticize the invasion - which means the Left INTEND for the transformation of the Free World by Islam. Your ad hominem is not an argument (in fact, it shows your emotions want to make and argument but the facts are against you, so you switch to irrational and unfounded attacks. Just stop such nonsense).
Islam has not changed. What has changed in the West is that the Left lost the debate about economics and soci
Here you demonstrate you dont know what Leftist is... or have actually read Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is in words, not numbers).
Sorry amigo, it is you who doesn't understand. You are like me 5 years ago. Leftism is NOT about helping people. I'm willing to bet that you think it is.
First we need to get some definitions down. Only when you grok these will you have a perspective on the World that is outside The Matrix that has been fed to you your whole life:
What is "The Matrix?" - Like the movie says, "The Matrix is control". You are controlled with mere words. By repeating certain memes to you then you will be kept what Jon Podesta called "unware and compliant" (as per the Wikileaks revelation). While in The Matrix you will not only obey the State, you will come to Slashdot to defend it.
What is "Power"? - the ability to implement your choices. For the State, this means the ability to force people to do things against their Free Will. Power is a zero-sum system, the State can only gain power by taking it away from Individuals, conversely Individuals gain power by taking it from the State ()
What is "The Left"? - The Left are those political people who seek to increase the power of the State. The Leftist 'Big State' decides how your life is to be lived, not you. The State decides whether there can be homosexual marriage, not you. The State decides what you can say and not say. In Star Wars terms, the Left are the Galactic Empire, the ultimate Big State who promise order and fairness and use force and the silencing of opposition to achieve this.
What is "The Right"? - The Right are the political segment who believe that the Individual should decide what is best for their own lives. This requires limits be put on State power. In Star Wars terms the Right are the Rebel Alliance, who resist the Big State Galactic Empire and tolerate imperfect situations provided individuals get to make their choice on how to live their lives. Fairness and equality are not a goal for the Right since these are impossible to achieve in the imperfect universe, Individual Liberty is the best that can be hoped for.
What is "Islam"? - the world "Islam" is Arabic for "Submission". Islam is a totalitarian, theocratic political ideology with badly plagiarized superstition sprinkled on top to fool the gullible and ignorant. Islam is the ultimate Big State system that seeks to regulates your very thoughts. Islam claims universality, in that it is claimed to apply to believers and non believers alike, which means Islam is NOT a "personal faith" but is instead a TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY (which is why the Big State Left protects Islam and seeks to advance it).
What is "Evil"? - evil/immoral is the involuntary forcing or deception of a sane adult to act against their Free Will, and those that force this upon others. What is the difference between romance and rape given they are the same physical act? romance is VOLUNTARY and rape is INVOLUNTARY, and the latter is called "evil" because it is involuntary. Note: tax and socialism are both involuntary, both are "economic rape".
Now you understand the correct perspective that Orwell intended let's re-analyze your statements...
Here you demonstrate you dont know what Leftist is... or have actually read Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is in words, not numbers).
No, it is you who does not understand what a Leftist is. You think the Left (Big State) is about helping people. It is NOT. Leftism is about increasing STATE POWER. And since the "State" is an abstraction, that means Leftism is about increasing the POWER of the self-selecting sociopathic 'elites'. The involuntary economic rape practiced by the Left is all about using State force to take from the industrious and innovative and giving the politically favored as vote bribes so the political 'elite' can acquire and remain in power. 'Helping people' is just the camouflage used by this immoral s
Once you understand the Islamic Doctrine of Abrogation (later verses replace earlier verses of the Koran) then you will see that Koran 9:29 is the only verse that really matters to non-Muslims. It commands that Islam take over the World until everyone has submitted to the rule of Sharia and the supremacy of Islam.
Islam is NOT founded on what we would call 'ethical good' but instead is based on the supremacy of Allah over all others. So mass rape and murder is considered 'good' because Allah clearly commands Muslims do these to the hated kaffir unbelievers (non-Muslims).
Thus, Islam cannot be refuted on the basis of natural morality. Pointing out Mohammed was evil (from the Western point of view) will not change the mind of many Muslims. The only way to beat Islam is to point out the truth, that Islam is FICTION. The archeological record shows Islam's claims about its origins CANNOT BE TRUE. Thus, Islam is FICTION and is FALSE. To understand the archeology see:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Muslims don't report other jihadi Muslims because war against the despised infidel non-Muslims is the 'will of Allah'. Killing non-Muslims is not considered evil but is 'good' by definition, since Allah wills it.
Islam will only be defeated when the World understands that it is FICTION and is FALSE. Mohammed is a mostly mythological figure invented to advance Arab Imperialism, and Islam was invented by Arab Imperialists to counterbalance the Christianity of the Byzantines and Zoroastrianism of the Persians. Islam is false, so people should stop arguing about what Mohammed said or didn't say - the fact is that Mohammed is mostly FICTION (the earliest depictions of a person with the title Mohammed shows a Christian cross, which Arab Imperialists would later reject utterly and invent a Mohammed to suits their lusts for women, wealth and conquest).
1984 was made about a Collectivist (Leftist) dystopia. And Islamic dystopia would be worse. But the funny thing is, the people who keep bringing up '1984' to protest the takedown of jihadis don't understand that the jihadis were imported by the Collectivists so they could implement 1984. The solution is to stop the importation of jihadis and publically declare that Sharia is political and Islam is Fiction (based on the archeological record, which PROVE that Islam's claims about its origins cannot be true) - yet the Left not only does neither of this things, it actively persecutes those that point this out.
So quit deflecting from the jihad with the Cultural Marxist Critical Theory that uses the spectre of '1984' to slow down those who would actually defeat the jihad. Do you not understand that your bringing up 1984 is helping to being 1984 about ? think about it - because you are using 1984 to undermine the Classic Liberals (Individualists of the Limited Government political Right) who want to prevent 1984 AND Sharia supremacism.
Please learn about 'Cultural Marxist Critical Theory'. At the moment you are still in The Matrix. You are controlled. Oh yes, they tell you that you 'think differently', but you do not. You think exactly as you have been indoctrinated to. Learn about the reality of the last century, learn about 'Cultural Marxist Critical Theory'. Until you do, you work against your own self interest. You work for THEM, and they don't care a whit about you.
Thanks for repeating the Marxist talking points that are now prevalent throughout the West. Yes, the US has acted roughly to counter the Soviet actions. But no, Ernesto "Che" Guevara did not fight to end poverty, he fought because he was a psychopath who loved torture and murder. Fidel Castro was a fraud whose sex-drive was so strong it made him seek power so he could get all the women he wanted (women respond to fame and power). Everything else is a cover story for gullible fools who don't know the truth.
Fidel Castro had his own private island, a luxury yacht, $88 million stolen from the Cuban people, and a harem of mistresses. But he told you that he lived on $25 dollars a day and you believed him: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Che Guevara had his office sited so he could watch executions because he was a psychopath. He didn't join the Communist Socialists to advance the 'Revolution', he joined as it gave him a license to murder the people he was claiming to be helping.
The Truth about Che Guevara https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Does it never occur to you that perhaps it is you who doesn't know the TRUE history of these evil people? that perhaps you only know the widely-disseminated disinformation and propaganda of the Marxist-sympathizing mainstream media and actually believe the Marxist's false narratives - which fools you into advancing their evil agenda, which is not about helping people, it is about CONTROL by the 'elites' (sociopathic Collectivist leadership).
I hope you take time to learn the truth. That way you can start to see through the lies you've been told your whole life.
Cultural Marxism is not the same as Economic Marxism. Perhaps you could use Google to do some research and discover The Matrix you are living in. You cannot see it yet.
Noam Chomsky always seems to blame America for everything. Once you understand that this is his bias, they you understand why he says what he says. He is an excellent researcher in linguistics, but he outside that he survives on sophistry and pandering to people who also like to blame America for everything (this blaming the West for everything it has done or not done is called Cultural Marxist 'Critical Theory', and most people don't understand how the very widespread pushing of Critical Theory's memes from many sources has convinced many others to also think in these terms - which is not objective at all).
This is fascinating to watch. The 'fake news' meme itself is the disinformation (which has a specific definition, see the book "Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihao Pacepa - http://www.amazon.com/Disinfor...).
The US mainstream/legacy media disgraced itself with the recent coverage of the Presidential race. Their polls were way off because they oversampled members of one party (they oversampled Democrats by +8% and Hillary is up by +4% as a result, it told you who was actually ahead - and with high betting odds it was possible to win big), their suppression of the information about corruption and subversion of the DNC primary process, and their spinning of every situation to match their own particular worldview (instead of doing 'journalism' and presenting both sides objectively and trusting the reader to make their own conclusions).
Because the mainstream media did so poorly (with the exception of the LA Times whose polling was much more accurate than CNN, MSNC, Fox etc etc) and an overwhelming majority of people distrust them, they need a way to combat the alternative media sources that have sprung up 'Uber-like' to provide more accurate coverage. Hence, the mainstream media folks who propagate the actual 'fake news' coverage have only one card to play, and that is to accuse the less biased 'alternative media' as being the fake news sources. This 'fake news' meme is pure disinformation - and they think that Slashdotters are not smart enough to see straight through it ! But we can.
The mainstream media are doubling down on their smear tactics. They will do *anything* except do actual journalism and objectively tell all sides of a story. They will do anything except tell the truth - all the while smearing the alternative media who actually report much closer to the truth. No wonder smart people have stopped watching the mainstream media in droves and their revenue is plummeting as a result. To stop the slide they need to stop pushing their Narrative and start reporting objectively, but they will not. Hence, like all dinosaurs they will die under the evolutionary pressure of the democratization of information (amateurs who are more dedicated to the unvarnished truth than the legacy media are).
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Well, he seems to take the, to me, logical point of view that as a US citizen it behooves him to critcise his own government first.
No, he should criticize bad ideas wherever they occur. It is logical to prioritize from greatest threat to least. The US has some fantastically bad ideas, but it is not alone in this. Chomsky's real problem is he is so focused on criticizing the US that he forgets that there are systems outside the US that are vastly worse. Hence, his valid but unbalanced criticism of the US is used by people who are worse to advance their terrible systems around the globe. That makes Chomsky a fool, and the people who don't understand this, or of the severe limits on his expertise (go and look up the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Chomsky is one of the worst examples of it) idiots.
Oh. Never mind. Logic is wasted on you. Carry on then.
I have a PhD in Physics. Because I try and use the Scientific Method extensively I would wager I respond to logic and *evidence* much better than you. The problem is, you have not provided any logical argument. And the evidence against socialism and Chomsky's idiotic positions are overwhelming - there are hundreds of millions of citizens slaughtered in peacetime by socialists in dozens of countries in the last century. Where socialism has not yet slaughtered its citizens it has instead corrupted the heritage of its societies, put their countries on demographic death spirals, frivolously spent the accumulated wealth of generations and enslaved the unborn in debt racked up for entitlement vote bribes.
The empirical evidence is in, socialism is harmful to individuals, social cohesion, economies, future generations, and individual liberty. Despite the manifest failures of socialism the socialists do not learn from their mistakes and always want to try new victim countries to pillage. Socialists are also intellectually dead and have had no new ideas for DECADES.
So I've taken the empirical route and used evidence-based reasoning to inexorable conclusion - socialism doesn't work because it cannot work. That does not stop clueless zealots from banging on about it though. Borg drones who think virtue signalling about 'helping people' when socialism is about State power (rule by the 'elites') which actively harms the people socialism is inflicted on. Rather than actually help people by practicing charity themselves they noisily rant about using the State to point guns at people who worked for a living and saved. of course, the socialists think they'll be the ones receiving the stolen goods and the ones pointing the guns. Despite them being greedy with the lust for the wealth others earned they call anyone who resists this tyrannous theft as 'greedy'. What evil and hypocritical people socialists are.
Here's an experiment that has been performed twice. Destroy a country in a war. Utterly level the place. Then split the country in two and make one part of the country Free Market (or the Statist approximation thereof) and one part Socialist. Its the same environment, same people, same starting point. Then see which system is better. The system you are advocating for produced East Germany and North Korea. The system I'm advocating for produced West Germany and South Korea. Only idiots like you want to take North American and turn it in to North Korea where the 'elites' rule - since your are attacking Individual Liberty and the Free Market of voluntary exchange (which is always 'win-win' as either party can walk away if they don't think the exchange benefits them).
So keep pushing your evil and failed collectivist ideology. The rest of the World are already voting to leave your madness behind. Free and sovereign UK/Brexit, Trump, and soon a Free Europe of sovereign states which will boot the parasitic collectivists out.
You are on the wrong side of history. You don't have to be a chump and worship the State your whole life - because the elites don't give a dam
Chomsky was great at linguistics. Thanks to the Dunning-Kruger Effect he cannot see the fundamental areas he mistakes he makes in areas outside his area of expertise. However, since he is articulate, and his audience often lacks great experience (eg. university students who lack decades of experience in the Real World), he persuades many that his bad ideas are god for them.
There are only two types of socialism:
1) voluntary socialism - such as a commune or kibbutz, which is voluntary for adults but generally involuntary for the child labor on them
2) involuntary socialism - where the government points guns to economically rape the innovative and industrious
In addition there is a third system which is not socialist and is promoted by the Free Market of voluntary exchange:
3) voluntary charity - people give freely from the surplus they create
So could you please describe this "anarcho-socialist" system that Orwell preferred? is it partially-voluntary like a commune ? (partially-voluntary because the individual cannot withhold what they wish, like in charity).
a capitalist dystopia that was JUST AS EVIL.
"Capitalism" is a word used by Marxist to describe systems where the State has non-neglible control of the economy. These can indeed be bad. However the "Free Market of voluntary exchange" is not the same thing as State-controlled "Capitalism". A Free Market is not anarchy and the State is still required to preserve competition, but that's all the State does. At the moment in the West we have socialist systems (the State uses force to take taxes to redistribute vote bribes for the benefit of 'elites' gaining and retaining power) that retain some hampered Free Market elements. It would be better if the Economy and State became as separated as the Church and State - but I cannot see that happening any time soon due to too many interested parties seeking to use State force to extort wealth from the productive.
Orwell was an anarcho-socialist, comparable to Noam Chomsky's beliefs.
Noam Chomsky lies his head off about everything. It is hard to fathom what Chomsky truly believes. David Horowitz has done a fine job at exposing the lies Chomsky has thrown about. I think Chomsky just talks nice-sounding stuff because it makes him feel like he knows more than his actual area of expertise (which he is truly great in). Chomsky is the perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect that applies to intelligent people (as opposed to the part that applies to unintelligent people). Don't be fooled by Chomsky !
The fundamental question really is "Do you have the right to run your down affairs, or should the elites who control State power decide for you?". That is the fundamental difference between 'socialism' and the 'Free Market'/Individualism. Everything else springs from that. Or, as Neo in The Matrix says, "Choice, the problem is choice". Who chooses, does the individual choose using Individual Liberty (restricting State power so individual can choose), or does The State (which means, the elites who control it) remove the choice and decide for you?
Given you deflect from the argument does that mean you agree with Koran 9:29 ? Christianity is fiction and is false. Islam is fiction and is false. But Christianity separates Church and State so it does not hurt unbelievers. Islam says that the separation of Church and State is a blasphemy punishable by death, and asserts that Sharia applies to believes and unbelievers equally. Thus both are false, but Islam is MUCH more dangerous (and stupid) than Christianity. Islam turns otherwise good people into deeply evil people - this makes Islam very, very evil. It is a great thing that Islam is dying as people access information that shows it is fiction and is false.
Precisely. And you can inoculate the next generation from bad ideas too. The bad ideas gradually die out on their own. The bonus is that this is all voluntary, no force nor compulsion is needed. Just pointing out the truth using Free Speech is enough and time will work its magic. The only thing that has to happen is that Free Speech has to be preserved and protected from the Collectivists and Islamists who want to shut it down.
But you can inoculate the next generation from bad ideas. Then the people who will not respond to reason will gradually die out, and be replaced by people who follow the evidence. This is exactly the same as the socialist who refuse to believe their system that elevates the State over the Individual has failed and piled up 100 million bodies as they tried to slaughter people who no longer believed in their failed idea. The socialists are just going to die out because they will never admit they were wrong and were fools to think that people become more industrious and innovative when you take the fruits of their labor away at gunpoint and give it to the politically favored (in these days the 'politically favored' groups are fast-breeding Islamists and Third Worlders - which is why pensions and benefits for the old and poor in the First World are being slashed to give to the incoming hordes - because socialism is not about helping people but about political 'elites' giving vote bribes to gain power and the ability to rob citizens using State force).
There are several great books that cover the modern scholarship, such as:
In the Shadow of the Sword - Dr Tom Holland
Did Mohammed Exist? - Robert Spencer
Quaranic Geography - Dan Gibson
If you can't be bothered reading, there is a video by a Christian polemicist who summarizes the evidence pretty well:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just like most ideologies Islam was invented by evil men to control other men, and especially, women.
Thanks for posting. Now consider this, there are two fundamental types of socialism:
1) voluntary socialism, such as a commune or kabbutz
2) involuntary socialism, practice where the State uses force/coercion to 'economically rape' the industrious and innovative to give to the politically favored as vote bribes so the self-selecting sociopathic politcal 'elites' can attain and retain power (where power means, the ability to enforce one's will on unwilling adults).
There is a third system which is not socialism:
3) voluntary charity - such as advocated and practiced by the Classic Liberals of the political Right.
Which of the socialisms was Orwell advocating? do you personally think it is moral for the State to point guns at unwilling adults for the benefit of elites, because this is the foundation of ALL systems that call themselves 'socialist'.
That may have not been the lesson Orwell understood nor intended consciously to give, and the message that Statist Collectivists wish to deny, but it is the deeper meaning underlying the messages of his great works,.
Understand the truth, 'socialism' is economic rape using State force. It is deeply immoral. Charity is moral, as are VOLUNTARY taxes (fees/contracts) for 'user pays' services.
Actually, the Afghan mujahideen were created by (Democrat) President Jimmy Carter who ordered Zbigniew Brzezinski to create them to lure the Soviet Union into 'their own Vietnam'. The mujahideen were so repulsive to the Soviets the latter dutifully invaded some six months after their creation. (Republican) President Reagan merely continued this policy.
Interestingly enough (Democrat) President Obama did the exact same playbook, arming and funding crazy jihadis to take over Libya, Egypt and Syria. This makes sense since Obama was also using Brzezinksi to advise him. The Democrats lover starting wars but their "anti-war" camouflage means they have to get deeply evil ihadis to fight for them. We are beginning to see the same playbook for a third time, this time on a slower scale with the target being Europe - the Right are resisting the 'hijra' (Islamic invasion by immigration) and the Left are enabling it and it is clearly quite deliberate (as the Left attacks its own citizens for criticizing the policy of Third World invasion).
Have you ever considered the possibilities that a) you don't know the history, b) the history you think you know is disinformation designed to keep you from knowing the actual truth of those that desire more power, c) the truth will always eventually emerge and the Left is always on the wrong side of it. Do you want to be on the wrong side of history? is your indoctrinated hatred of Individual Liberty so strong that you will continue to argue for a system which gives the sociopathic 'elites' more power ? that makes you the bad guy, amigo.
Are you a voluntary socialist or an involuntary socialist? I'm guessing the latter, so it means you are for using State power to conduct economic rape, right?
Voluntary charity is moral. Have you ever heard of it? have you ever practiced it? this is what the "sub-Breitbart" folks advocate,.
Involuntary socialism is using State force to economically rape the industrious and innovative to give to the politically favored as vote bribes so the self-selecting sociopaths of the political 'elite'c an gain and retain power. This evil and immoral system is what you are for, right ?
'Cultural Marxism' is an easy shibboleth: it invariably indicates someone with a sub-Breitbart level of political sophistication. Also known as 'an idiot'.
"Cultural Marxism" is a useful label to describe the deliberate subversion of Individual Liberty and the Free Market of voluntary exchange by retards who advocate economic rape - because they are too lazy and too greedy to generate the surplus required for voluntary charity - and too dumb to see how they are easily manipulated by the politically ambitious sociopaths with mere words.
I'm a Socialist.
Therefore you are evil and the enemy of every Free Person on the planet who believes in Individual Liberty where the individual should decide on their own affairs - not sanctimonious, indoctrinated, suib-par intellects like you.
You are the Galactic Empire, prepared to use State force to crush dissenting opinion (look at you initiate ad hominems at millions of stranger just now). We are the Rebel Alliance who seek to preserve Individual Liberty from predators like you. The lazy, stupid economic rapists of the World. You are on the wrong side of history and clinging to failed ideas promoted by evil control freak collectivist elites. Your movement is dying as hundreds of millions around the globe utterly reject rule by stupid, vain and quite frankly immoral control freaks like you.
Stop preaching about virtue with your virtue signalling about the economic rape and removal of Individual Liberty others and practice virtue YOURSELF. Sell your stuff to charity if you believe in 'socialism', and stop pointing guns at everyone else to take their stuff - all because you are a douchebag who wants to feel good about yourself without actually having to work hard so you have surplus to VOLUNTARILY donate to others. Sheeesh.
Yes, I hear that pointing out the TRUTH that their religion is a FICTION is a terribly successful way of converting believers into non believers.
You fear and reject the truth ? what is YOUR suggestion then? say nothing? be a narcissist who virtue signals their transcendance of reason by showing insane levels of tolerance to creeping Sharia ? or you don't actually have a suggestion and are just being a sanctimonious d!ck, right ?
Enlightenment Civilization wins when we point out that Islam is FICTION and is FALSE. Anything else pretends that Islam has some form of merit, and helps it grow. The appeasement of Sharia norms is the wrong strategy, and the tactic of losers who don't even believe in their own civilization. Is that you ?
It is hilarious you are so busy calling Trump fascist you are too busy to confront the actual Islamic fascists who have murdered 270 million innocents over 14 centuries of continuous jihad (exactly as the Koran and ahadith command). Do you not understand that calling Trump 'fascist' for trying to reduce State power is the deflection from a real threat? I guess not. The Matrix has you. With mere words and memes you are controlled to advance the power of the 'State' (which actually means, the self-selecting, sociopathic 'elites' who feed you those memes).
All supersititions are bad, but they are not equally bad. Christianity abrogates Judaism where the intolerance is replaced by slightly more tolerance and a separation of church and State. This Christianity is a "personal faith". Islam abrogates the tolerant Meccan Suras with the extremely intolerance Medinan Suras, so it is going in the opposite direction. Furthermore you are incorrect, the Koran is meant to be read ***literally***. Which part of the Koran says that it is allegorical ? Islamic scholars all agree it is meant to be taken literally, except when they are dissimulating to Westerners. So I'm curious where you find in the Koran it is not meant to be taken as the literal word of Allah intended for all peoples and all times (which makes Islam a political system, since Muslims claim Islam and Sharia apply to all people including the hated unbelievers - and this makes Islam EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and anti-thetical to Enlightenment Civilization ). Please stop projecting modern Western memes into Islam even if some islamic scholar says so, because the only authorities in Islam are Allah and Mohammed (both fictionaly of course, but their evil ideas motivate many).
Great. You bang the fat chicks and leave the others to us. Sounds like we have a deal. And your repetition of Cultural Marxist memes will be deeply appreciated by the fat chicks, while the others just prefer real men who are confident and have no problem nor illusions with the mating game being the jungle rules it actually is.
I'm not digging at you, I'm digging at the crazy memes. Accept reality - your genes want to reproduce and while there is some cultural variation of beauty, signs of unhealthiness (away from average) are repulsive to anyone not sufficiently indoctrinated to the Cultural Marxist memes flooding the developed World.
Yessssssss. tech conferences only for those with truly open minds. The 'pearl clutching' SJWs loons are only there to ruin things based on their unstable mental state du jour. So, 'Playboy is to SJWs as garlic is to vampires' ? I better 'arm up'.
in fact, Orwell was himself a socialist.
Orwell started as a socialist, until he saw what socialism was like in practice. His writings are about rejecting Collectivism, in any form. Which is why the Limited Government people (who you call, "Conservatives" as is the US custom) like Orwell.
But I think your problem to see clearly comes from a fundamental flaw in your understanding of socialism. There are two types of socialism, "Voluntary Socialism" such as practiced on kibbutz and communes, and "Involuntary Socialism" where State force is used to extract resources from the industrious and innovative and give to the politically favored so that self-selecting sociopaths of the political 'elite' can gain and maintain POWER. There are no other forms of "socialism" - voluntary or involuntary, fundamentally that's all there are.
Now, to understand how evil involuntary socialism (aka 'Statist Collectivism') is you need to consider what makes rape evil. You see, romance and rape are the same physical act, yet one is evil. Why? It turns out that because romance is VOLUNTARY is is moral and a good, but because rape is INVOLUNTARY it is immoral and an evil. Similarly, charity (as promoted by the Right) is voluntary and moral, while involuntary socialism is immoral and evil
In (involuntary) socialism the use of State power to obtain resources involuntarily is ECONOMIC RAPE. Why would you defend and advocate such an EVIL system ? is it because you don't understand the concept of voluntary charity and how that helps people? note: the "conservatives" you have been indoctrinated to despise promote voluntary charity and resist the economic rape of Statist Collectivism.
Have you not worked this out yet? do you not understand that the Galactic Empire (Big State Left) will slander the Rebel Alliance (Limited Government Right) by deflecting you with false promises of "equality", "fairness", "social justice", "fair share" (all of which are utterly unachievable in the real universe) and all you have to do is give up all your freedom and much of your money and attack the Rebel Alliance on behalf of the Galactic Empire ?
"We've always been at war with Oceana"
And yet when the State tells you that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) is occurring, and the only solution is to give the United Nations more money and power and the ability to override your elected representatives you went along with it? ROFL ! you understand the principle of control through propaganda but have not yet done the research to distinguish fact from fiction - hence you are completely controlled by it. Did you not detect when CAGW failed to materialize the propagandists switched smoothly to the words "Climate Change" instead (a term which is meaningless, as the climate is always changing - NATURALLY). Did you not research the fact that the CAGW hypothesis' predictions not only did not come true but the OPPOSITE was seen in the Lower Tropical Troposphere ?
as for you "theory" that the "collectivists imported jihadis" .....
ya that just makes you a moron who believes the crazy BS Alex Jones spews from his misplaced rear end.
You are the utter moron. Islam has not changed since the 12th Century (due to Al Ghazali freezing it) . So how is the 'hijra' (Islamic conquest by immigration, celebrated every Ramadan) happening in Europe? is it the political Right who are importing the invasion? no, it is the Left. And the Left are sending the police against people who criticize the invasion - which means the Left INTEND for the transformation of the Free World by Islam. Your ad hominem is not an argument (in fact, it shows your emotions want to make and argument but the facts are against you, so you switch to irrational and unfounded attacks. Just stop such nonsense).
Islam has not changed. What has changed in the West is that the Left lost the debate about economics and soci
Here you demonstrate you dont know what Leftist is... or have actually read Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is in words, not numbers).
Sorry amigo, it is you who doesn't understand. You are like me 5 years ago. Leftism is NOT about helping people. I'm willing to bet that you think it is.
First we need to get some definitions down. Only when you grok these will you have a perspective on the World that is outside The Matrix that has been fed to you your whole life:
What is "The Matrix?" - Like the movie says, "The Matrix is control". You are controlled with mere words. By repeating certain memes to you then you will be kept what Jon Podesta called "unware and compliant" (as per the Wikileaks revelation). While in The Matrix you will not only obey the State, you will come to Slashdot to defend it.
What is "Power"? - the ability to implement your choices. For the State, this means the ability to force people to do things against their Free Will. Power is a zero-sum system, the State can only gain power by taking it away from Individuals, conversely Individuals gain power by taking it from the State () What is "The Left"? - The Left are those political people who seek to increase the power of the State. The Leftist 'Big State' decides how your life is to be lived, not you. The State decides whether there can be homosexual marriage, not you. The State decides what you can say and not say. In Star Wars terms, the Left are the Galactic Empire, the ultimate Big State who promise order and fairness and use force and the silencing of opposition to achieve this.
What is "The Right"? - The Right are the political segment who believe that the Individual should decide what is best for their own lives. This requires limits be put on State power. In Star Wars terms the Right are the Rebel Alliance, who resist the Big State Galactic Empire and tolerate imperfect situations provided individuals get to make their choice on how to live their lives. Fairness and equality are not a goal for the Right since these are impossible to achieve in the imperfect universe, Individual Liberty is the best that can be hoped for.
What is "Islam"? - the world "Islam" is Arabic for "Submission". Islam is a totalitarian, theocratic political ideology with badly plagiarized superstition sprinkled on top to fool the gullible and ignorant. Islam is the ultimate Big State system that seeks to regulates your very thoughts. Islam claims universality, in that it is claimed to apply to believers and non believers alike, which means Islam is NOT a "personal faith" but is instead a TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY (which is why the Big State Left protects Islam and seeks to advance it).
What is "Evil"? - evil/immoral is the involuntary forcing or deception of a sane adult to act against their Free Will, and those that force this upon others. What is the difference between romance and rape given they are the same physical act? romance is VOLUNTARY and rape is INVOLUNTARY, and the latter is called "evil" because it is involuntary. Note: tax and socialism are both involuntary, both are "economic rape".
Now you understand the correct perspective that Orwell intended let's re-analyze your statements ...
Here you demonstrate you dont know what Leftist is... or have actually read Nineteen Eighty-Four (the title is in words, not numbers).
No, it is you who does not understand what a Leftist is. You think the Left (Big State) is about helping people. It is NOT. Leftism is about increasing STATE POWER. And since the "State" is an abstraction, that means Leftism is about increasing the POWER of the self-selecting sociopathic 'elites'. The involuntary economic rape practiced by the Left is all about using State force to take from the industrious and innovative and giving the politically favored as vote bribes so the political 'elite' can acquire and remain in power. 'Helping people' is just the camouflage used by this immoral s
Once you understand the Islamic Doctrine of Abrogation (later verses replace earlier verses of the Koran) then you will see that Koran 9:29 is the only verse that really matters to non-Muslims. It commands that Islam take over the World until everyone has submitted to the rule of Sharia and the supremacy of Islam.
Islam is NOT founded on what we would call 'ethical good' but instead is based on the supremacy of Allah over all others. So mass rape and murder is considered 'good' because Allah clearly commands Muslims do these to the hated kaffir unbelievers (non-Muslims).
Thus, Islam cannot be refuted on the basis of natural morality. Pointing out Mohammed was evil (from the Western point of view) will not change the mind of many Muslims. The only way to beat Islam is to point out the truth, that Islam is FICTION. The archeological record shows Islam's claims about its origins CANNOT BE TRUE. Thus, Islam is FICTION and is FALSE. To understand the archeology see:
"An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginnings"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Muslims don't report other jihadi Muslims because war against the despised infidel non-Muslims is the 'will of Allah'. Killing non-Muslims is not considered evil but is 'good' by definition, since Allah wills it.
Islam will only be defeated when the World understands that it is FICTION and is FALSE. Mohammed is a mostly mythological figure invented to advance Arab Imperialism, and Islam was invented by Arab Imperialists to counterbalance the Christianity of the Byzantines and Zoroastrianism of the Persians. Islam is false, so people should stop arguing about what Mohammed said or didn't say - the fact is that Mohammed is mostly FICTION (the earliest depictions of a person with the title Mohammed shows a Christian cross, which Arab Imperialists would later reject utterly and invent a Mohammed to suits their lusts for women, wealth and conquest).
1984 was made about a Collectivist (Leftist) dystopia. And Islamic dystopia would be worse. But the funny thing is, the people who keep bringing up '1984' to protest the takedown of jihadis don't understand that the jihadis were imported by the Collectivists so they could implement 1984. The solution is to stop the importation of jihadis and publically declare that Sharia is political and Islam is Fiction (based on the archeological record, which PROVE that Islam's claims about its origins cannot be true) - yet the Left not only does neither of this things, it actively persecutes those that point this out.
So quit deflecting from the jihad with the Cultural Marxist Critical Theory that uses the spectre of '1984' to slow down those who would actually defeat the jihad. Do you not understand that your bringing up 1984 is helping to being 1984 about ? think about it - because you are using 1984 to undermine the Classic Liberals (Individualists of the Limited Government political Right) who want to prevent 1984 AND Sharia supremacism.
Please learn about 'Cultural Marxist Critical Theory'. At the moment you are still in The Matrix. You are controlled. Oh yes, they tell you that you 'think differently', but you do not. You think exactly as you have been indoctrinated to. Learn about the reality of the last century, learn about 'Cultural Marxist Critical Theory'. Until you do, you work against your own self interest. You work for THEM, and they don't care a whit about you.
Thanks for repeating the Marxist talking points that are now prevalent throughout the West. Yes, the US has acted roughly to counter the Soviet actions. But no, Ernesto "Che" Guevara did not fight to end poverty, he fought because he was a psychopath who loved torture and murder. Fidel Castro was a fraud whose sex-drive was so strong it made him seek power so he could get all the women he wanted (women respond to fame and power). Everything else is a cover story for gullible fools who don't know the truth.
Fidel Castro had his own private island, a luxury yacht, $88 million stolen from the Cuban people, and a harem of mistresses. But he told you that he lived on $25 dollars a day and you believed him:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Che Guevara had his office sited so he could watch executions because he was a psychopath. He didn't join the Communist Socialists to advance the 'Revolution', he joined as it gave him a license to murder the people he was claiming to be helping.
The Truth about Che Guevara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Truth about Fidel Castro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Does it never occur to you that perhaps it is you who doesn't know the TRUE history of these evil people? that perhaps you only know the widely-disseminated disinformation and propaganda of the Marxist-sympathizing mainstream media and actually believe the Marxist's false narratives - which fools you into advancing their evil agenda, which is not about helping people, it is about CONTROL by the 'elites' (sociopathic Collectivist leadership).
I hope you take time to learn the truth. That way you can start to see through the lies you've been told your whole life.
Cultural Marxism is not the same as Economic Marxism. Please use Google to find the difference.
Cultural Marxism is not the same as Economic Marxism. Perhaps you could use Google to do some research and discover The Matrix you are living in. You cannot see it yet.
Noam Chomsky always seems to blame America for everything. Once you understand that this is his bias, they you understand why he says what he says. He is an excellent researcher in linguistics, but he outside that he survives on sophistry and pandering to people who also like to blame America for everything (this blaming the West for everything it has done or not done is called Cultural Marxist 'Critical Theory', and most people don't understand how the very widespread pushing of Critical Theory's memes from many sources has convinced many others to also think in these terms - which is not objective at all).
Well said.
This is fascinating to watch. The 'fake news' meme itself is the disinformation (which has a specific definition, see the book "Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihao Pacepa - http://www.amazon.com/Disinfor...).
The US mainstream/legacy media disgraced itself with the recent coverage of the Presidential race. Their polls were way off because they oversampled members of one party (they oversampled Democrats by +8% and Hillary is up by +4% as a result, it told you who was actually ahead - and with high betting odds it was possible to win big), their suppression of the information about corruption and subversion of the DNC primary process, and their spinning of every situation to match their own particular worldview (instead of doing 'journalism' and presenting both sides objectively and trusting the reader to make their own conclusions).
Because the mainstream media did so poorly (with the exception of the LA Times whose polling was much more accurate than CNN, MSNC, Fox etc etc) and an overwhelming majority of people distrust them, they need a way to combat the alternative media sources that have sprung up 'Uber-like' to provide more accurate coverage. Hence, the mainstream media folks who propagate the actual 'fake news' coverage have only one card to play, and that is to accuse the less biased 'alternative media' as being the fake news sources. This 'fake news' meme is pure disinformation - and they think that Slashdotters are not smart enough to see straight through it ! But we can.
The mainstream media are doubling down on their smear tactics. They will do *anything* except do actual journalism and objectively tell all sides of a story. They will do anything except tell the truth - all the while smearing the alternative media who actually report much closer to the truth. No wonder smart people have stopped watching the mainstream media in droves and their revenue is plummeting as a result. To stop the slide they need to stop pushing their Narrative and start reporting objectively, but they will not. Hence, like all dinosaurs they will die under the evolutionary pressure of the democratization of information (amateurs who are more dedicated to the unvarnished truth than the legacy media are).