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This is more argument than Chomsky presented. And if it's really as simple as: "surely you can't believe you will know everything", then I didn't need...

What I said quite specifically was that the arrogance resides in procedures that Chomsky uses to get at the conclusions you nicely hightlight in bold....

I honestly can't help but find a note of arrogance in the essay - as if, if the world does not conform to the categories that we would like to impose ...

idk I feel the same about everything you say ever so

A complement from you. --- Guess this is what Biden meant by flattening the curve. https://i.ibb.co/q7M9dKx/flatten.jpg

Imagine if the general Covid response under Trump would have been "go to work if you have Covid and if you would be so kind, kindly just fucking die f...

This is all well and good but it would also be nice if the US stopped supporting Nazis, which, of course, they are.

By all means ignore what I cited and blather on about irrelevancies. And the US is of course well known for only ever working with offical representat...

I think the Ukrainians that the Americans are supporting are Nazis, even if not exclusively. It helps of course that Americans also support Nazis dome...

Because the US likes helping Nazis when it suits them. Because the US has never had any issue supporting genocide, when not conducting it itself.

Looked into the Ukrainian Nazi thing. It's good stuff. Because of course the US is materially supporting literal Nazis. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01...

Worth treating the whole Ukraine thing with a giant tub of salt. https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/false-flags-suddenly-no-longer-a And from the...

This seems exactly right. The whole essay is incredibly underwhelming. It reminds of that parable about the man who can't find his lost keys because t...

Hit me up :)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-12/covid-supply-chain-crisis-economy/100750814 Marxist theory of value in the ABC. Things are looking up.

Because the financial crisis of 2008 wasn't a financial crisis but an general crisis of capitalism that just so happened to begin in financial markets...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-11/how-the-omicron-covid-19-outbreak-is-affecting-nsw/100749102 So here's the question. If there is, in fact, an s...

https://acmeanjin.org/articles/why-everything-has-gone-wrong-with-covid-19/

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-commits-to-3-5-billion-tank-purchase-from-the-us-20220109-p59mub.html "Australia has not deployed a ...

:up:

For the love of God you people need to read this interview: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/michael-hudson-what-is-causing-so-much-inflation.h...

Ah, fare enough.

What? Able to spell words correctly?

Oh dear I should have known that you don't know what fentanyl - or opioids - are made out of. My mistake I should not presume basic competence, very s...

Funny you mention that. Just before the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban had basically all but eliminated the poppy trade in the country. This was...

Even after the US withdrawal, the US is going to kill more Afghanis than the Taliban: https://theintercept.com/2022/01/09/afghanistan-sanctions-human-...

There is no discord between Trump and the elites, and the policy divergences you mention are minor blemishes backed up more by rhetoric than by action...

"It was no heroic storming of the Bastille. January 6th was a massive LARP that got out of hand. Trump has been around long enough for us to know his ...

https://i.ibb.co/zSbYPvz/Biden.jpg B-b-but Jan 6! Our "democracy" was uNdEr AtTaCK!!

Like I'm sorry but anyone not embarrassed or outright laughing at this pseudo-gravitas ought to jump down a well and stay there forever. It's like som...

That's what's nuts. There are plenty of reasons that Trump should hang from his neck until dead: his treatment of migrants, his persecution of Assange...

Yes, but if I understand correctly, Smith is interested in the particular form in which profit upon alienation takes under imperialism. To the degree ...

It's really not this big complex thing. Jan 6 was never a threat to anything resembling the American political system. Not even a little bit. It doesn...

Really? You think a conflict of interest that directly plays into how a nation's laws are made - which itself is nothing but one case among others - i...

If you think Jan 6 was ever even remotely a genuine threat to the certification of the Presidential election than it deserves to have been one. By con...

It is no more, in fact far less, of a mischaracterization than the idea that this 'attack' merits even a fraction of attention given to it by the pund...

Nah, I just don't buy into liberal side-shows that matter to no one. If there was even a tenth of the energy invested into, I dunno, Pelosi's insider ...

Attack? They were basically waved in by cops while staying obediently between the velvet ropes while dressed up as fucking moose. This is a bread and ...

No, but as long as people keep frothing about stupid shit like some shiny building getting scuffed - instead of, I dunno, literally anything of substa...

Exactly what is obvious? Exactly when did getting shot in America become something exceptional?

What choice do they have? It's why the democrats are going so hard into this. It's an easy win for them. It's possibly the only win they might ever ge...

I hope it hurts. https://twitter.com/PatsKarvelas/status/1479389559607627776

Lol, Trump is a consummate product of the American political and judicial system, perhaps its most paradigmatic and representative one, and the only i...

One wonders where that warm and fuzzy feeling was when liberals were losing their mind over Russian "interference" because they could not possibly ima...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-histrionics-and-melodrama-around In full:

This is the way.

Yeah but I don't take you seriously.

Yeah that ain't it chief.

I'm going to quote you back at you, and let's see if you pick up how dumb this sounds:

Considering the democrats have failed at delivering literally anything save a modest bit of funding to prop up the US's crumbling infrastructure to ke...