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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
The entire world was communist from the time cave paintings were drawn in France tens of thousands of years ago, to about 10000 years ago. Whereas capitalism has only existed as the predominant economic system anywhere for a few centuries.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
People have been saying the CCP is on its last legs for over 70 years. In those seventy years it has led a country which grew to have the second largest GDP in the world. -- writing this from the USA, where Covid is spiking, where there are
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> While of course we should try to prevent it, we should also try to mitigate the consequences in the even a war does occur! I used to have an old Stanford Research Institute report from the 1980s where the author tried to project that i
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
999 times out of 1000 if I ask a working class American to explain Marx's concept of surplus labor time, they would have no idea of what I was talking about. That is false consciousness. You're talking as if they rejected the ide
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> inflation protection and avoiding capital controls are arguably the most impactful innovation since the internet Inflation protection? Bitcoin lost one third of its value in the past three years. How is that inflation protection? Yo
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> There was a whole probably 4 years (at least) to register to vote up to this day. For the prepared... I moved from one state to another in June. I did not have four years to prepare. I was also not allowed to register immediately, y
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
The smallest measure of blacks as a percentage of US population would be 12%, and at Yale blacks are half of that.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
The southern states had laws, somewhat compliant to federal law, that you could vote if your grandfather could vote. A way to keep those of African descent out. Yale has policies to give slots to legacies, effectively the same thing. Only
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
Also, if anti-colonial feelings in Africa are a black American export, I guess that means the 1879 victory of the Zulus over two British columns in the battle of Isandlwana were a black American export.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> Africans in Africa share little of the fervent anti-colonial attitude prominent in the American Black community here. Like who, Umkhonto we Sizwe? Patrice Lumumba? The MPLA? > African writers in Britain and Africa, respectively,
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> A sane response would challenge the claim that lockdowns are the answer with a simple question: where is the proof that the last one worked? New Zealand has two large islands, and some smaller ones. Lockdown worked there. 5 million p
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. Cicero was a man who fought against the tribunes representing
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
If saying "now" is "terribly misleading" - the Federal Reserve says black unemployment was higher from 2010 to 2012 then it is now.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> Or the greater access to jobs blacks and other minorities have gained in this time. The black unemployment rate - 13% according to the Federal Reserve - is higher than it was a half century ago.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
Much of the reason for it is to pump money into the economy via Raytheon, Lockheed Martin etc. It all ultimately boils down to money.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
The US backed the jihadists (mujahidden) against the secular Saur government in the 1970s and 1980s, so that blew back from that too. Along with the US military opening foreign bases in the Arabian dictatorship a decade before 9/11 (m
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
From the time of the cave paintings and Venus figurines tens of thousands of years ago, to about 10000 years ago, there is no evidence of government, a working class and a hereditary idle class, specialized police and military and so on. I
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> little or no growth in working-class wages, lower social mobility Murray, and the AEI he works for, have fought against higher wages for workers and social mobility for decades. I don't take seriously him bemoaning the results of
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> [Putin] consolidated all the political and judicial power. Destroyed, physically, politically or judicially all the opponents. You are writing in English, and thus aimed at a US/UK audience - the president of the US (Clinton) and
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
Rod Holt helped Woz build the Apple ][, and was then responsible for its design and manufacture, he was one of three VPs when Apple incorporated (Jobs and Woz were the other two) and he was in charge of the Macintosh group when it launched.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
You mean the quackery of Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Ricardo and so on? Someone should tell the record companies who say when you pirate a song, you're stealing from the artist who will not be properly compensated for the time they
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
Wealth is not zero sum, but whether the wealth a worker creates is kept by him or sent to an heir in a dividend check is zero sum.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
The idea that the problem is that some own more than others is itself an idea promoted by those who "own more than others". They set that as the thing to be argued about. The actual problem is social relations. The heir expropri
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> horrors of the Japanese war machine, and maybe actually more the non-horrific but relentless robotic support for the war (or obedience towards the emperor, government, etc) among the people When you think of the black ships of the Perr
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> A supermajority of people in every western country believe in god or higher power: https://www.pewforum.org/2018/05/29/beliefs-about-god/pf_05-... Your link belies what you said. That survey was no
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
It's funny how the managers, executives, board of directors, stockholders, business associations and their lobbyists all act together, pushing the political agenda - acting as a mob, as sheep - coming to a consensus - but we who are ac
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
Here, definitely the latter over the former.
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> the US did not choose to replace the Shah with Khomeini. The US (and UK) replaced Mosaddegh with the Shah. Then the Shah and SAVAK (with CIA help) launched a decades long attack on the secular, parliamentary oriented forces in the cou
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
As I said - Venona data collection stopped in 1945 (although analysis did not). The analysis efforts were what was wrapped up in 1980. Insofar as other efforts, there was wiretapping in Berlin ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by ChomskyNormal4m 6y ago
> The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets. Actually they don't reveal this at all. The cables mention someone in New York, then someone els

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