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uomo_senza_nome_0 says

When fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it’s extremely dangerous.

Big bad Republicans, who are completely racist and eat poor peoples babies while secretly planning to put negroes back to pick cotton, are out to get you, so better vote for Bernie to save yourself! Quickly, before the Republicans get you, you don't have much time.

FortWayne says

Big bad Republicans, who are completely racist and eat poor peoples babies while secretly planning to put negroes back to pick cotton, are out to get you, so better vote for Bernie to save yourself! Quickly, before the Republicans get you, you don't have much time.

Ah the sarcasm. If only you realize there's truth in it.
A Republican presidential candidate has based his entire candidacy on divisional rhetoric.
Another Republican presidential candidate wants to carpet bomb civilians.
And then there's the myth of the pragmatic progressive.

This video describes clearly the state of electing a president in an empire.

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uomo_senza_nome_0 says

Ah the sarcasm. If only you realize there's truth in it.

Noam Chumsky is a brilliant man, but all his stuff is theories and ideas.

uomo_senza_nome_0 says

A Republican presidential candidate has based his entire candidacy on divisional rhetoric.

Every single candidate is "divisional". You don't get a party nomination if you don't do that, for there is no "American" party. There are liberals and conservatives, D's and R's, you get the point... The most divisional are Democrats, they call everyone a racist, an anti-woman, Hitler, just about anything.

So the only difference is you picking the side you probably what easier appeals to you, if younger = Democrat, if older = Republican.

Whenever liberals want to drag out an "intellectual" they go pull old Noam out of the woodwork. In the times I get suckered into listening to him, I feel that his voice after about two minutes is like gargling nails. His circumlocutory rants are insane, nattering, endless logorrhea, like he needs his meds doubled or tripled to make him actually get some kind of syllogistic perspective going.

Taking a class from him, aside from the bizarre commentary, must be pure torture.

Ceffer says

In the times I get suckered into listening to him, I feel that his voice after about two minutes is like gargling nails. His circumlocutory rants are insane, nattering, endless logorrhea, like he needs his meds doubled or tripled to make him actually get some kind of syllogistic perspective going.

Taking a class from him, aside from the bizarre commentary, must be pure torture.

Excellent Ad-Hominem. Bravo! Not a single word actually critiquing the message.

FortWayne says

but all his stuff is theories and ideas.

That indicates you did not even listen to what he had to say. Mainstream academic papers, such as this are showing citizens have zero effect on public policy. Chomsky also cites IMF studies that show how subsidies benefit big corporations (corporate welfare).

Even with these practical references, calling what he says as "theories" is not sincere.

FortWayne says

Every single candidate is "divisional". You don't get a party nomination if you don't do that, for there is no "American" party. There are liberals and conservatives, D's and R's, you get the point... The most divisional are Democrats, they call everyone a racist, an anti-woman, Hitler, just about anything.

I think the establishment Democrats are divisive, but not Bernie.
He is pointing out why division is useful in a political sense, but very damaging in a human sense.

It's probably a standard freshman prank at the MIT cafeteria.

"Hey, there's the brilliant Noam Chomsky. He just loves to talk to freshman, why don't you go over there and say hello!"

Snigger, Snigger as they watch the expression on the newbie's faces as Noam launches off on one of his endless schizoaffective tirades.

They have guys like him on the street corners in Berkeley.

FortWayne says

Big bad Republicans, who are completely racist and eat poor peoples babies while secretly planning to put negroes back to pick cotton,

Well, let's go over the Republican record since the Southern Strategy was implemented. Republican were for
- segregation
- the Vietnam War
- shooting Vietnam War protesters (which they actually did at Kent State)
- pollution that causes miscarriages, birth defects, developmental diseases in fetuses and children, methylmercury poisoning
- destroying the middle class with economic policies that allow the owner class to steal vast quantities of wealth from the workers that produce that wealth
- a war on drugs that has killed millions including innocent grandmothers, sleeping children, and babies
- letting criminal police literally get away with murder
- preventing U.S. citizens from legally casting votes as is their right under the 15th Amendment
- gerrymandering districts to a ridiculous extent
- lying under oath to Congress and the American people during questioning about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and NSA domestic spying
- engaging in a political witchhunt against President Clinton derailing mid-East peace talks and ultimately lead to 9/11
- starting an illegal war on false pretenses which killed over a million civilians including children, a body count that is still rising, destroyed America's credibility, prevented us from stopping genocide in other areas, and allowed ISIS to rise to power
- allowing cops to strip search and body cavity at gunpoint search men, women, and children for traffic stops and other alleged minor offenses without them even being charged with a crime
- forcing every man, woman, and child to get a virtual strip search at airports using machines that record images of breasts and genitalia and saving these images, some of which have been circulated around the Internet
- yet at the same time bitching and moaning that a post-op transgender using a woman's bathroom is somehow a perversion and will lead to rape
- allowing the NSA and other agencies to remotely activate mobile phone cameras, steal pictures including nude selfies that adolescent girls take of themselves, and listen in on private phone conversations including sex talk between deployed soldiers and their wives, all without warrant, accountability, or oversight

So now, I don't blame Republicans for making negroes pick cotton in the 21st century; that's what they use illegal immigrants for. But I do blame Republicans for all the above. And feel free to challenge me on any of those issues so I can write a 15-page exposé on it.

Dan8267 says

Well, let's go over the Republican record since the Southern Strategy was implemented.

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. - freed slaves and made America great.
Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican. - fought against Monopolies and made America great and strong.

Jimmy Carter (D) - increased welfare, increased inflation, failed the nation miserably.
Kennedy and LBJ (D * 2) - started Vietnam war, failed America.

Dan8267 says

So now, I don't blame Republicans for making negroes pick cotton in the 21st century; that's what they use illegal immigrants for. But I do blame Republicans for all the above. And feel free to challenge me on any of those issues so I can write a 15-page exposé on it.

It's the Democrats who keep on trying to bring them here as much as possible and give them government assistance so subsidize their lifestyles. You probably missed that Republicans want these people out, or as usual like a typical liberal put your head in the sand to ignore reality.

uomo_senza_nome_0 says

This video describes clearly the state of electing a president in an empire.

Damn good video.

Have to comment on the part that begins at minute 17.

U.S. Marines have no honor. They illegally attacked a hospital, the doctors and patients in it, because the hospital released honest casualty statistics, something that one expects from a hospital. As long as those marines, and the assholes who gave them the orders, are not tried and punish, this despicable act reflects on ALL marines. There is no honor in the U.S. Marine Corps until there is justice for this atrocity. Period.

FortWayne says

Jimmy Carter (D) - increased welfare, increased inflation, failed the nation miserably.

Carter's economic record is stronger than that of George W. Bush, in the sense of jobs created per capita and other metrics.

The inflation of the 1970s began under Nixon and Ford; Carter appointed Volcker, whose actions brought inflation under control early in Reagan's first term.

Most of the inflation was due to energy supplies. The Brent oilfield in the North Sea solved that problem.

HydroCabron says

Carter's economic record is stronger than that of George W. Bush, in the sense of jobs created per capita and other metrics.

The inflation of the 1970s began under Nixon and Ford; Carter appointed Volcker, whose actions brought inflation under control early in Reagan's first term.

Most of the inflation was due to energy supplies. The Brent oilfield in the North Sea solved that problem.

Carter's inflation was there because he was a tax and spend politician. He did not know how to "WIN" (if you remember those buttons). It took a visionary like Reagan to turn it around. And boy he did. Carter was proposing tax increases on the middle class, so that the government would spend the money. Reagan turned it around by letting us keep more of our money and spend it the way we want to.

FortWayne says

"WIN"

"Whip Inflation Now". We didn't until 1983.

1965 1.0 1.0 1.3 1.6 1.6 1.9 1.6 1.9 1.6 1.9 1.6 1.9 1.6

Great Society spending starts along with Vietnam, both from the same impulses at home and abroad:

1968 3.6 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.2 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.2

1970 6.2 6.1 5.8 6.1 6.0 6.0 6.0 5.4 5.7 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.7

1974 9.4 10.0 10.4 10.1 10.7 10.9 11.5 10.9 11.9 12.1 12.2 12.3 11.0

1980 13.9 14.2 14.8 14.7 14.4 14.4 13.1 12.9 12.6 12.8 12.6 12.5 13.5

1981 11.8 11.4 10.5 10.0 9.8 9.6 10.8 10.8 11.0 10.1 9.6 8.9 10.3

1982 8.4 7.6 6.8 6.5 6.7 7.1 6.4 5.9 5.0 5.1 4.6 3.8 6.2

1983 3.7 3.5 3.6 3.9 3.5 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.9 2.9 3.3 3.8 3.2

FortWayne says

Reagan turned it around by letting us keep more of our money and spend it the way we want to.

Reagan turned it around by writing a rubber check for 2 trillion dollars, 1980's dollars. The godhead of the republican party was the greatest keynsian of the 20th century. How soon they forget.

FortWayne says

Carter's inflation was there because he was a tax and spend politician. He did not know how to "WIN" (if you remember those buttons). It took a visionary like Reagan to turn it around.

Carters inflation was mostly the collapse of nxon's (hint, republican) wage price controls along with energy prices going up by a factor of 4 in an extremely energy inefficient economy. I don't suppose you've ever heard of nixon's wage price controls. Whip Inflation Now (WIN) was ford (hint republican) not carter. It took a visionary like volcker to turn it around. I'm guessing you honestly don't know volcker was appointed by carter. I'm also guessing that you don't have a clue that government spending went from 24% gdp to 21% gdp under carter's tax and spend then up to 26% gdp under reagan. Don't let facts interfere with your babbling.

There is this really cool tool called google that lets you look shit up before you spout out nonsense and look like a total fool. Check it out sometime.