Free Market Fantasies by Noam Chomsky 2/5

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[neonaction]

Reagan is a shame to our country. He kisses the ass of rich people and screws the poor

[pvisserandorra]

US has the highest prison population in the World, 50% higher than China (who have 3 times the population).

[neonaction]

@joezuu So you can't blame Mao and Stalin then right? Cause in reality Mao and Stalin didn't really know all the policies as well, they can't possibly know- they managed like half the world's land mass and population.

Mao and Stalin are great actors as well.

[joezuu]

@neonaction Unfortunately, you can't really blame Reagan. Chances are, he didn't even know what half of the policies he was enacting were. It's the administration that's really at fault. Reagan literally was a trained actor, and a terrible one at that.

[DystopianEmpire01]

Many ppl confuse hillbilly with redneck, not the same type of person, hillbillies and rednecks, in alot of ways. Not the same. Same goes with southern and counrty.

[KraussHelmut]

I love how he slams hillbilly thinking. Truly I do.

[thirdshift47]

@37Dionysos

Great point.

We all know how welfare 'reform' and even health care 'reform' are turning out.

Another word to watch out for is 'Modernization.'

[37Dionysos]

"Watch out for the word REFORM---it's a change you're supposed to like." Indeed the word goes back to the first Euro-colonists, the Puritans, who were "reforming" everything life-loving out of English culture and promised to "reform" the Irish and American Indians until they "progressed" into worshipping property and the Bible. ANCIENT LIGHTS dot o-r-g

[johnuio]

@nomis101uk --> Sorry not that fallacy, but the fallacy of attributing specific intentions to a party on the basis of the results. The reason I give Chomsky leeway on that interpretation of neo-cons is because their anti-crime and other "tough love" policies have the direct and obvious effect of severely marginalizing/alienating social dissidents and outsiders. The related ambiance of elitist hyper competitiveness, in the business world, is infectious and very authoritarian, fear-generating.

[johnuio]

@nomis101uk --> Fair enough. I agree that pure conspiracy paranoia is unwise, but political blocs should be scrutinized at least enough to dissuade or mitigate self serving PR. You may be right that stated purposes are often real. But a discerning public cannot rely on that. Finally, it's entirely possible that Chomsky crosses the line by attributing to hypothetical motives too much from the outcomes. That would be a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy without further justification.