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Well there you have the roadmap of your errors. Chomsky is a linguist by profession and a master of deception in political discourse, evading answers by shifting blame or assigning blame to both sides to focus attention on state actors as the oppressors. And his anarcho-syndicalism is the dead giveaway of his stateless, communistic idealism. Similarly, your political views are so idealistic that you don't operate in the real world. Democracy is damn hard and always imperfect. There are always at least two opposing sides to every issue. Democracies constantly have to deal with conflicting economic and political philosophies -- and unfortunately religious questions that by all rights shoudn't even exist in government. Progress is slow and often painful. But there is no alternative to democracy if the goal is to deny fascism and theocracy. I can't help it if somany voters are so stupid as to follow the insane ravings and policies of the GOP and their wealthy handlers. But elections are the only way to deal with our problems. Otherwise, Trump wins by default, which means that Putin wins, and so do all the other pathetic liars and grifters who follow them. All of the things you listed can be improved only through democratic processes. The struggle is hard and dangerous. It will never be perfect. But allowing full power to the proletariat is a disaster -- for Chomsky as it was for Marx.

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If you don’t think Israel is a state actor of oppression, we have no need for further discussion. But nice trolling.

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It's too bad that you can't see reason. I never said that any state was innocent of oppression; of course states are guilty of oppresssion. That's why I stand in oppostion to fascism and theocracy. I simply said that anarchy and statelessness is not the solution. Only democracy can improve the world. It's hard work. To call me a troll is laughable. I owe allegiance to no one. I am a member of nothing. It's as if you cannot read and cannot think, much less contemplate your own errors. The only purpose in life is to improve things, to correct errors. History is full of such efforts.

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I see reason well. There is little to none in your commentary, though it is humorous with the many fallacies and deflections you use in making your argument. Your ‘only purpose’ definition of life is laughable in its cluelessness.

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I gave it my best shot. I truly pity you.

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Save your pity for the victims of American Empire, like the children of Ukraine and Gaza, dead, maimed, and traumatized by our stupid pursuit of hegemony.

That you considered the propagandized drivel you wrote your best shot, going all the way back to the Hartmann deflection you used as your weak-ass defense of Malcolm Nance, on through the ridiculous assertion of Chomsky’s ‘communist’ intention, is illustrative of your own logic and reason deficit.

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I still haven't heard one word about exactly how you would solve any of these problems. Do tell.

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Is this another one of your ‘best shots’?

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No, tell me literally what you would do.

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About what? Gaza? Ukraine? China? Russia? America?

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