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[–] Keftedes89 4 points 15 points 19 points (+19|-4) ago
I can't even watch this guy for 2 minutes before spews so much garbage. "People who are so terrified they have to carry a gun to a coffee shop." This guy is so delusional and is the perfect example of what happens when you read too much. Yes he is right, in the perfect world we should even need guns. However in the REAL world there are evil people and/or mentally deranged people out there. If you take a step back from all his hot air, you realize he is anti-western, sadistic moron who doesn't believe in common human natures like self defense.
[–] 2957212? 6 points 2 points 8 points (+8|-6) ago
Americans are strange.
In most places, people against gun control say "these are tools, I'm not going to kill anyone". In America, people against gun control say " but what if I need to kill someone and don't have my gun?"
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[–] Kurplow 7 points 0 points 7 points (+7|-7) ago
Yup, the most quoted man in history, a fearless public intellectual with a decades-long career, author of more books than you've read.... "spews so much garbage" because your uninformed opinion differs from his understanding.
Please don't reproduce.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
He's an intellectual giant in the field of linguistics. That still doesn't give any credence to his delusional ramblings in poli sci, a field in which he isn't taken seriously by the professionals.
[–] goatboy 10 points 10 points 20 points (+20|-10) ago
Chomsky is a hypocritical ass. I can't believe anyone is dumb enough to suck his shit.
[–] mamwad 9 points 12 points 21 points (+21|-9) ago
Well thought out rebuttal there goatboy.
[–] goatboy 9 points -2 points 7 points (+7|-9) ago (edited ago)
We've left the part of the dialectic that involves argument, reason, and persuasion. Both sides have proven they refuse to truly hear each other or be persuaded. We are now in the arm yourself, pick a side, throw the dice, and lets see who wins history's lottery- phase of the dialectic. My money's on the group that uses bio-weapons first... which will probably be leftists, because they've always been cruel sadomasochistic fuckers, like Chomsky.
[–] SirRender 1 point 9 points 10 points (+10|-1) ago
Yeah because belief in the Bill of Rights and wanting to live in a lawful nation is considered extreme these days.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point 7 points 8 points (+8|-1) ago
Speaking of extremists, Chomsky is a Khmer genocide denier and a huge fan of Pol Pot and Mao.
[–] ScreaminMime 1 point 7 points 8 points (+8|-1) ago
Chomsky calling anyone an extreme ideologue?
[–] ThePinkTiger 2 points 5 points 7 points (+7|-2) ago
"The spectrum is basically from center to extreme right" really? Noam Chomsky, really?
[–] Kurplow 4 points -3 points 1 point (+1|-4) ago
Yes. Go outside the U.S.
[–] mamwad 6 points 4 points 10 points (+10|-6) ago
Important to note that when Chomsky talks of a "social justice movement," he's talking about economic justice, not PC bullshit.
[–] mcwilshire 1 point 11 points 12 points (+12|-1) ago
Economic justice is achieved when all transactions are made freely and voluntarily.
That is not what he or his ilk have in mind at all.
[–] mamwad ago
I'm not an idealist. That's just never going to be possible.
[–] brother_tempus 5 points 4 points 9 points (+9|-5) ago
The problem is he advocates violence , coercion and theft to get there thus such an outcome is tainted and will never work
[–] flimflamedthezimzam 4 points 6 points 10 points (+10|-4) ago
Will you layoff on every post talking about how "taxes are literal violent theft"
[–] Pawn 6 points 2 points 8 points (+8|-6) ago
He's not wrong. Read up on all the bullshit they do in congress like spoiled children. Blocking bills because it's not their way, trying to lower taxes on the rich so middle class has to pay more. War mongering. Did anyone forget who started the wars in the middle east? That's right a REPUBLICAN. Cutting social systems because they believe in the old drag yourself up by your bootstraps bullshit. The only thing I agree with cuckservatives on is gun control needing to be lessened, that will stop all the crime when people are scared of getting a bullet in the box.
[–] vuke69 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I'm not sure if it's funny or sad that "cuck" is your favorite word, yet you don't even know what it means. Unless you're intentionally using it wrong every time, which just makes you look stupid.
[–] Pawn 3 points -3 points 0 points (+0|-3) ago
am I using it wrong or am I using it as an insult? if you we're smart you'd know the answer before asking it.