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    Chomsky in writing: the world is being destroyed and looted for the profits of billionaires and the media is manipulating you to think this isn’t a problem

    Chomsky in person: the media needs to stop reporting on the sex crimes of my billionaire “banker” best friend so he can throw me a birthday party.

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      • Chomsky in writing: the world is being destroyed and looted for the profits of billionaires and the media is manipulating you to think this isn’t a problem so you should vote Democrat and do nothing about it
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    First thought that goes through my mind is: Chomsky is critical of Israel so the zionist troll army goes all in on this story to distract from bigger targets.

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        I was deeply interested in … Zionist affairs and activities – or what was then called ‘Zionist,’ though the same ideas and concerns are now called ‘anti-Zionist.’ I was interested in socialist, binationalist options for Palestine, and in the kibbutzim and the whole cooperative labor system that had developed in the Jewish settlement there (the Yishuv) … The vague ideas I had at the time [1947] were to go to Palestine, perhaps to a kibbutz, to try to become involved in efforts at Arab-Jewish cooperation within a socialist framework, opposed to the deeply antidemocratic concept of a Jewish state (a position that was considered well within the mainstream of Zionism)

        Quote from Chomsky, on wiki

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          “I wanted to do kumbaya with genocidal ethno surpremacists instead of siding with the colonized but then didn’t”

          Notice how you didn’t post the BDS part.

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    Wasn’t he really weird when it came to describing a genocide as a genocide because the numbers where a bit low. I always found him to be a very odd person.

    He acts in a very quasi enlightened way similar to the most snarky liberals or “enlighten centrists”. Never understood the hype around him

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      The"hype" around him is about the fact (yes it’s a fact) that he made generational contributions to the field of linguistics (probably decades before he met Epstein) and a lot of people like his book “Manufacturing Consent”.

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      He is the epitome of “Murica bad”. Every opponent of America has to be incapable of evil (Serbians would never commit a genocide) while it’s allies are evil personified.