There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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