The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
NOAM CHOMSKYGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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