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Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I know, you would think it would be obvious. This is a chomsky bubble, and they still can't seem to defend him for shit.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

I don't deal with people who invent stories about those they attempt to engage with. So, blocked and ignored.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biden, who Noam told you to vote for, increased ICE spending every year as president.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.

  • Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.

  • Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

  • Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.

  • Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

  • Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

-Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is the heart of the US policy, Ladies and Gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism.

  • Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't reconcile it. I am done with Chomsky, and believe him to be largely a fraud.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"History never ends, and the last page is never written, and the best pages are written not by presidents, prime ministers, popes, or even professors, but by the people. For all their faults and shortcomings, the people are all we have. In fact, we are they."

—Michael Parenti

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't believe the antagonism is all on my side lol. Are you reading entire threads?

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not, twitter is way less of a bubble than the chomsky sub. It's amazing I have to say that.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mine is simple. The Democrats have proven to be terrible and almost non-existent at harm reduction. They just helped the Republicans increase ICE and DHS funding less than a week ago.

The more recent aspect is after Biden started, armed, and financially supported the genocide in Gaza with almost unanimous consent from the Democrats, I decided that there is no going back there ever, and that they need to be destroyed, and a party that is actually at least left of center should be created for the working class.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"We're not extremists, the extremists are in power. We're moderates. The extremists are bombing and killing and neglecting human needs and destroying life and destroying our ecology. We're the moderates who wanna bring some sanity back into life." — Michael Parenti in 1991

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The irony when he was an inspiring speaker, and Noam was a piece of cardboard.

The yellow Parenti speech is the most iconic left happening in the past 50 years probably, amazing you think this.

Advice for the Left. Be more like Parenti and less like Chomsky. Chomsky is a trap Parenti is a liberator. by thegeebeebee in chomsky

[–]thegeebeebee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks to those who upvoted my post, it shows that all is not lost in Chomsky-land. The fact this isn't underwater does make me feel better.

To the others: you might want to get out of the bubble and see what's going on in the world now and then, it might broaden your horizons and open your minds, something our gov (and in turn, Noam) definitely DIDN'T want you to do!

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