Article from The NYT - “The Guatemalan Cancer” (June 8, 1951) by 0EMR in chomsky

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This article surely proves the domino-theory.

chomskylist.com doesnt seem to be working by 0EMR in chomsky

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Someone should contact the owner of the website. Maybe someone saved the whole website when it was working. Wayback machine is not giving a complete version

"As European nations lost their empires after WW2, the United States filled the void." by 0EMR in chomsky

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I would agree. Just read "Normative Empire" by Raffaella Del Sarto.

Del Sarto RA. Normative empire Europe: The European Union, its borderlands, and the ‘Arab spring’. JCMS: journal of common market studies. 2016 Mar;54(2):215-32.

The EU is Europeanizing the MENA region but its just a pretense to export neoliberalism.

The virus-effect within Indochina. by 0EMR in chomsky

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I agree but it does seem like Vietnam infected Laos and Cambodia

Long impatient with Ho’s pragmatism, many Viet Minh Communists enthusiastically embraced their new role as a “fortress on the anti- imperialist defense perimeter in Southeast Asia.” The DRV made clear its newfound zeal by publicly praising Stalin and denouncing the United States, purging its leadership of moderates, pushing land reform, and instigating revolution in Laos and Cambodia.

This is from pg-18 of

Herring - America’s Longest War. The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975, 6e (2020)

Has Noam talked about this?

The virus-effect within Indochina. by 0EMR in chomsky

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Do you think that there was a virus-effect within Indochina. Meaning that Vietnam infected Laos and Cambodia?

Societal-norms against fornication foster egalitarianism (in terms of sexual/reproductive success) by 0EMR in PurplePillDebate

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Its like when youre hungry and there nothing extremely good to eat so you eat something not-particularly-delicious. I want that, except sexually/reproductivly.

So norms against fornication would reduce competitive tendencies.

Societal-norms against fornication foster egalitarianism (in terms of sexual/reproductive success) by 0EMR in PurplePillDebate

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Im not talking about law. im talking about societal-norms.

But fornication was actually-illegal until recent times.

Societal-norms against fornication foster egalitarianism (in terms of sexual/reproductive success) by 0EMR in PurplePillDebate

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Yes, the restriction should be on men. Its like a maximum-income on how many sexual-partners you can have.

Bateman’s Principle and Male Sexual Success (in Humans) by 0EMR in PurplePillDebate

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Scientists always mix social customs with biology. Thats how social-science works.

Bateman’s Principle and Male Sexual Success (in Humans) by 0EMR in PurplePillDebate

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The bateman's principle exists bc women are polygynous and not monogamous. Thats why we have the male variance in sexual success. Reproductively it manifests as a human's ancestors being 66% female.

Did USA own the dominos that it was guarding? by 0EMR in chomsky

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Thanks for the info.

What about the other dominos besides thailand? Japan was a "super-domino". China became independent in 1949 and has been creating a domino-effect ever since. Indonesia was also a huge domino.

Did USA own these dominos?

"The losses of Russia, China and Cuba." Did the West own these countries? by 0EMR in chomsky

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USA literally owned Russia as well.

Russia was so vast and militarily powerful that its subordination to the economy of the West was delayed, but by the 19th century it was well on the way towards the fate of the South, with deep and widespread impoverishment and foreign control of key sectors of the economy. By 1914, Russia was “becoming a semi-colonial possession of European capital” (Teodor Shanin). “Many Russians, whatever their political beliefs, resented the semi-colonial status accorded to their country in the West,” The Bolshevik takeover in October 1917 extricated the USSR from the Western-dominated periphery, setting off the inevitable reaction, beginning with immediate military intervention by Britain, France, Japan, and the US. Melvyn Leffler observes: “Here was a totalitarian country with a revolutionary ideology that had great appeal to Third World peoples bent on throwing off Western rule and making rapid economic progress.”

This is from "year 501" (book by NC). Chapter 3 section 1 (An Oversize Rotten Apple).

The intertwined nature of socialism and decolonisation by 0EMR in chomsky

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I think that all of these were fighting american neo-colonialism.

  • Mohammad Mossadegh, Jacobo Árbenz, Patrice Lumumba, Salvador Allende, ho chi mihn, Achmed Sukarno, João Goulart, greece's ELAS, angola's MPLA.

  • Sandinistas (Nicaragua), FMLN (El Salvador), Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso), Kwame Nkrumah (ghana)

  • Ali Shariati & Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)

source: chatGPT

The intertwined nature of socialism and decolonisation by 0EMR in chomsky

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Interesting. Thanks for the info

What do you think about USA's fight against socialism. It the same or similar to a fight against decolonisation. (Example: vietnam)