marginalforce.bsky.social
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I think that's a reasonable and grounded view on him.
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So you are saying that fascism is not a political ideology, it is rather some sort of event that happens? This means that you yourself may currently be a fascist if you happen to support something that turns out to indirectly support fascism. That is a very strange take, but to each their own.
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Except he does these things on completely different premises than actual nazis. He voices a distorted understanding of Russia and an outdated understanding of the political climate. His motives are simply not fascist.
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We need to be able to look at comments people make based on their actual motivations and intentions, not merely the opinion they happen to be voicing. It is truly damaging public discourse that we constantly fail at this so badly.
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The fact that he does not support any fascist policies. To be called a nazi you need to actually think like a nazi, and there is none of that in his comments. That he may have fallen victim to propaganda does not involve turning to fascist aspirations. That is an important distinction.
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I simply do not see any justification to call him a nazi. I do think he's misread the current climate and Russia, but his intellectual legacy or statements simply do not give that justification. I find the need to label him so rashly symptomatic of the black and white thinking of our age.
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That's an obvious deflection. You like to throw around insults based on superficial knowledge. Even if you were right about Chomsky, your opinion clearly has no basis. Having an opinion is meaningless if it's not backed up by more than moral feelings. MAGA acts purely on moral feelings.
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Have you read him?
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The contemporary tendency to assume somebody's political/value leaning from isolated opinions or quotes is damaging genuine discourse and creates opportunity for populist manipulation. Chomsky simply cannot be compared to MAGA or Russian sympathizers.
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Further, Chomsky is a theorist. Criticizing his individual comments without considering how they fit into his wider thinking will not allow you to understand them. Neither will it allow you to distinguish them from similar takes built on an entirely different basis.
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I don't agree with his takes, but trying to make him out as some die hard vatnik is simply in bad faith.
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Chomsky argued that the preferable solution would be the model of Cold War "Nordic neutrality", where Ukraine is free to lean towards the West to the extent they please without military presence or meddling from either US or Russia. In other words, outside the imperial interests of both US and RF.
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The Ukraine comments are just an excuse to bash him for people who oppose his politics. He is a legitimate critic of imperialism and no friend of Russia. It's pure opportunism coming from the liberal right.
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I take this to mean the algorithm is mirroring the tone of a snarky and sarcastic internet troll. Getting our own obnoxious bullshit thrown back in our faces is an opportunity for self-reflection, at least.
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That saying persists from a time when 1/3 of us did die in childhood
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Violence should only be used to meet violence.
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He saw the word conservative and got excited.
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The turn to authoritarianism in the US has been a recent and fast development. China on the other hand is a long standing dictatorship with well-established institutions. There is still much more potential for a change in the US, but it is also much less reliable for that reason.
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Very optimistic. Why would you make his prediction?
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So US and China are likely to completely discard international law to pursue relentless unchecked imperialism.
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Putin wants to pass the blame for the war continuing on Ukraine and Trump admin has no idea what it is doing and is mostly thinking of its own public image. It is not serious.
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He's going
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Living in a country bordering Russia is already anxiety producing in this time. Seeing the morale boost Trump has given our own right wing populists is equally concerning. Trumps actions have resulted in outright calls for dismantling institutions in my country, which is an escalation of rhetoric.
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Although these are features that are still applied to nature in the modern day, I'm not sure even most Christians really make a similar intelligible divine/unintelligible nature distinction today. It's not compatible with a view of a fully rationally intelligible nature anyway.
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The historical concept of a miracle is grounded in a very different world view. In Medieval thought miracles are grounded in an understanding of a corrupt, unjust, and arbitrary natural realm. They really can't be transferred to or understood in a modern rationalist context.
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An ideological madman who has an obsession with history and a mystical belief in destiny vs. an amoral narcissist who's never heard of history and is always winging it.
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They are trying to win him over by playing his narcissism and stroking his ego. Yeah, it's ass kissing. But I also understand that things will be much easier for Europe if we can squeeze support from the US. I don't think it means bending over; if Trump doesn't come around, we'll do it on our own.
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Why not?
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Did leopards eat his face?
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Hope it was a sobering experience.
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He originally had people who were good at maintaining his public image and running his companies. All he needed to do was do nothing to stay popular. But he failed.
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Honestly, Alex Jones's crazy has way more charisma. Musk's got nothing on him.
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Is the proper response "we don't like algorithms"?
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Next war?
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It could work if you're camouflaged on a field, for example. In the middle of a road, not so much.
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What do you mean by biologically natural state? That sounds like you are positing teleological purpose to nature where we could somehow stray from our "natural" state. It's all biologically natural if you ask me.
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The article states that the breach in Vihti was an accident caused by an excavator, not sabotage. The cause of the other breach is still unknown though.
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Next to nobody in Finland has any interest in reclaiming that land. It's been neglected by Russia for nearly a century and it would bankrupt the country to develop to our standards. Not to mention it has long since been resettled by Russians which would cause major issues.
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Was thinking the same. Of course they also have enough nukes to force some through air defense if they really want to.