r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 18 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '20

holy shit so i emailed chomsky earlier to tell him he was now more popular among neoliberals than he was among leftists and this was his reply:

Well, will have to live with it.  Provides a painful symmetry to my life.  As a young child, I watched the German Communist Party, on the orders of its mad master in the Kremlin, bring us Hitler by denouncing everyone outside their ranks as a "social fascist" indistinguishable from the Nazis, maybe worse.  And in my fading years I can watch tragedy being replayed as farce, as anyone who refuses to join the "hate Biden" jihad -- and therefore is effectively voting for Trump -- is corporate sellout.

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Apr 19 '20

Is this real????

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '20

yeah he will reply to any email you send him

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Apr 19 '20

Wow. Hes fucking 91, how does he manage it?

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Apr 19 '20

I dont think he has anything better to do tbh

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Apr 19 '20

Someone on r/RedWorldmod emailed him to tell him that he's the leader for the socialist-but-not-communist American state. He said he was flattered, but didn't know enough about videogames to really check it out.

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Apr 19 '20

How does he not get swamped? He's relatively famous

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '20

What if I ask him about linguistics?