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Sune AukenOk once more. Do NOT quote Noam Chomsky to me as any kind of oracle on anything. I shall post this each time one of my followers does the "Chomsky Is a Good and Wise Man"-thing. He is not.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Vatnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vatnik</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UkraineWillWin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UkraineWillWin</a> <a href="https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/181/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/181/</a>

Erik L. Midtsveen 🚩🏴<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/NoamChomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoamChomsky</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syndicalism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnarchoSyndicalism</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"If we choose to take seriously the overwhelming consensus position of credible climate scientists, we have to accept that climate change represents a truly existential threat to the continuation of life on Earth as we know it.Given this reality, it is not the least bit surprising that Noam Chomsky has been committed to educating the broadest possible global audience on the basic science behind the climate crisis, the factors that have produced the crisis, and how to advance a viable path forward for reversing the crisis.It is also not surprising that Chomsky understands the crisis as a severe malignancy of contemporary neoliberal capitalism and that, correspondingly, the work of reversing the crisis will require mass popular mobilization to defeat neoliberalism under the combined banners of social justice and ecological sanity.Of course, Chomsky’s profoundly impactful research contributions, spanning over seven decades, have primarily covered the fields of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. He has never claimed to be an expert on the technical details of climate science or the economics of building an alternative clean energy system.At the same time, Chomsky, legendarily, is a man who “reads everything.” And he does not merely read everything. Rather, over decades, Chomsky has demonstrated a breathtaking ability to absorb a huge range of material on critically important social and political issues. He is then equally capable of explaining these issues to millions of readers throughout the world through his unparalleled combination of moral passion, rigor, depth of insight, clarity, as well as — when he chooses to unleash it — bracing rhetoric force.These are exactly the qualities that Chomsky has brought to bear in addressing the climate crisis. His contributions are critical for understanding the crisis..."<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/03/noam-chomsky-neoliberalism-climate-crisis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/03/noam-chomsky-neoliberalism-climate-crisis</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a>

La GriffeInterview d’un des plus grands intellectuels du XXIème siècle : Noam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://lareleveetlapeste.fr/noam-chomsky-a-ce-moment-de-lhistoire-nous-devons-decider-si-la-vie-humaine-peut-continuer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lareleveetlapeste.fr/noam-chomsky-a-ce-moment-de-lhistoire-nous-devons-decider-si-la-vie-humaine-peut-continuer/</a> "Ils appellent ça le libertarianisme. On doit laisser libres les maîtres, les propriétaires, ceux qui amassent l'essentiel du capital. Ils doivent être libres de détruire le monde aussi vite qu'ils le veulent. Les institutions fondamentales sont suicidaires. Le capitalisme est un arrêt de mort, c'est évident."

kravietz 🦇Never suspected I will see Steve Witkoff, right-wing <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> diehard anti-communist speak literal <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/chomsky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a>, far-left Soviet and Russian apologist 🤦<blockquote>The war didn’t need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn’t necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn’t need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians.</blockquote>As a reminder, no “conversations” about <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/nato" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NATO</a> would ever happen if <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> had not been threatening newly liberated Eastern European countries with return of Eastern Bloc regime all 1990’s. This was literally the only reason why these countries joined NATO in 1997-2004. It was Russia’s invasion on neutral and non-aligned Ukraine in 2014 that made it to add the goal of joining NATO in 2019. And it was Russia’s 2022 invasion on Ukraine that made <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/finland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finland</a> and <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/sweden" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sweden</a> join NATO. So let’s not mistake the cause and effect here…

kravietz 🦇Worth reading interview with Slavoj Žižek, whose view of <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> is both distinguished by realism and compliance with leftist values so much contrasting with <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/chomsky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a>, for example:<blockquote>It’s incredible to me how many pseudo-leftists are drawn to this strange fascination with Russia. Even though they admit that Putin is horrible, they still cling to the idea that Russia, somehow being less affected by Western consumerism, somehow preserves more “authentic” human relationships. For example, an idiot once told me that while the West is all about promiscuity and sexual freedoms, in Russia, “true love” is still possible. This romanticized notion of Russia is often combined with another leftist dogma: that NATO is the ultimate evil. According to this view, anyone in conflict with NATO must have something good or virtuous about them. By this logic, Ukraine is disqualified from support because it’s seen as merely fighting a “proxy war” on behalf of NATO.</blockquote><a href="https://kyivindependent.com/slavoj-zizek-putin-represents-the-worst-of-a-longstanding-trend-in-russian-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kyivindependent.com/slavoj-zizek-putin-represents-the-worst-of-a-longstanding-trend-in-russian-history/</a>

José-Luis MendívilEl sentido del número y el instinto del lenguaje: semejanzas, diferencias y evolución. ¿Cómo se relacionan el conocimiento numérico y el conocimiento del lenguaje? En este texto propongo un modelo específico en el que la sintaxis es la base de ambas capacidades humanas.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linguistics</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistica</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://zaragozalinguistica.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/el-sentido-del-numero-y-el-instinto-del-lenguaje-semejanzas-diferencias-y-evolucion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zaragozalinguistica.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/el-sentido-del-numero-y-el-instinto-del-lenguaje-semejanzas-diferencias-y-evolucion/</a>

skua<a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@paninid</a> [humour]Oh you sadistic brute.I post a whimsy and you respond with a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> video![rushes from room in tears]

yianirisThere is a difference between "corporate media" as in NYT preventing any other expression than their own managed rhetoric, and something like fb/twit/reddit/...For example you can start a "room" on reddit and critically analyze where and why has Marxist theory failed, or how Marxists treating original theory as holly script have prevented revision of theory when it is needed. On lemmy m-l fediverse servers your material just gets deleted and account banned.see <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aspensmonster</a>

DB 🌱💦Noam <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> on <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BobDylan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BobDylan</a>:

ZNet (unofficial)Trump's policies are pushing the country toward <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a>, but violence in response isn't the solution. While anger can feel justified in response to injustice, try drawing on Noam Chomsky’s advice and focus on "necessary" actions. Real change comes through organizing, solidarity, and resistance. These actions are far more effective than violence, which only derails real progress.Instead of helping justice, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> said, violence makes resistance harder. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/by-any-means-necessary/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/by-any-means-necessary/</a>

James Endres Howell has movedHappy 96th birthday to Noam Chomsky.A national treasure.<a href="https://social.howellcloud.org/tags/chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chomsky</a>

Catharina Bethlehem ☑️ CathReview by Prof. Stephen M. Walt:"The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World""Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right The claim that U.S. foreign policy is guided by the lofty ideals of democracy, freedom, the rule of law, human rights" is "nonsense". <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/chomsky-foreign-policy-book-review-american-idealism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/chomsky-foreign-policy-book-review-american-idealism/</a><a href="https://archive.is/MQTT9#selection-3265.0-3265.34" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/MQTT9#selection-3265.0-3265.34</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Robinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robinson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanrights</a>

JcmacomberThe general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.- Noam Chomsky<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chomsky</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quote</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"For Chomsky and Robinson, these claims are nonsense. Not only did the young American republic fulfill its Manifest Destiny by waging a genocidal campaign against the indigenous population, but it has since backed a bevy of brutal dictatorships, intervened to thwart democratic processes in many countries, and waged or backed wars that killed millions of people in Indochina, Latin America, and the Middle East, all while falsely claiming to be defending freedom, democracy, human rights, and other cherished ideals. U.S. officials are quick to condemn others when they violate international law, but they refuse to join the International Criminal Court, the Law of the Sea Treaty, and many other global conventions. Nor do they hesitate to violate the United Nations Charter themselves, as U.S. President Bill Clinton did when he went to war against Serbia in 1999 or as President George W. Bush did when he invaded Iraq in 2003. Even when undeniably evil acts are exposed—such as the My Lai massacre, the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, and the CIA’s torture program—it is low-level personnel who get punished while the architects of these policies remain respected members of the establishment.The record of hypocrisy recounted by Chomsky and Robinson is sobering and convincing. No open-minded reader could absorb this book and continue to believe the pious rationales that U.S. leaders invoke to justify their bare-knuckled actions."<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/chomsky-foreign-policy-book-review-american-idealism/#cookie_message_anchor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/chomsky-foreign-policy-book-review-american-idealism/#cookie_message_anchor</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Imperialism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Idealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Idealism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ForeignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignPolicy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Warmongers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Warmongers</a>

ZNet (unofficial)Read an excerpt from Noam <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a>'s new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a>, and an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interview</a> with editor and coauthor Nathan J. Robinson on countering the threat of Trumpism and the way forward for the left.<a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/noam-chomsky-on-the-responsibility-to-act-against-fascism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/noam-chomsky-on-the-responsibility-to-act-against-fascism/</a>

Pete🎸🎶🐍📽🎞☮🌍🙂😭<a href="https://beige.party/@PhoenixSerenity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@PhoenixSerenity</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ReadChomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReadChomsky</a> Who Rules the World<a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Who-Rules-the-World-Audiobook/B01FSS70PQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Who-Rules-the-World-Audiobook/B01FSS70PQ</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chomsky</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>

MMR Nmd« Il existe deux ensembles de principes. Les principes de pouvoir et de privilège et les principes de vérité et de justice. Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice » - Noam Chomsky -<a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quotes</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Citations</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Privileges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privileges</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Pouvoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pouvoir</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Verit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Verité</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Justice</a>

Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀<a href="https://agora.echelon.pl/users/kravietz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kravietz</a> The joke here is that he'd never demand Mother Russia do anything for peace. Instead, it's always the job of Ukraine and West to compromise and capitulate.<a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://fedi.truth-sandwich.com/tags/chomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chomsky</a>

kravietz 🦇Daily wisdom from Noam <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/chomsky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chomsky</a> - of course it’s a joke, but representative.

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