Fight disinformation but it’s fight dis information and the information is allegedly incriminating.

I’ve pirated a few to get insights from movie directors, artists, writers and such. Like to learn their process. Would not pay for it though

Liberals love nothing more than huffing their own farts circlejerking about “disinformation” to prove how smart and intelligent they are for only reading NYT opinion pieces on why genocide is good, actually

I don’t think Masterclass is just political related courses

It seems to be for the average Californian office worker who primarily gets their knowledge about the world and history from podcasts and subscribes to the “hustle grindset” culture (which is what Masterclass is a part of)

and constantly blame “the red states” for causing every problem in their lives.

and also want to watch George Bush talk about how great he is. They do remember he’s a republican right? It’s not just me

These remind me of “The Great Courses” that they used to release as videos/audiobooks back in the 00s and 10s. Maybe they still do. The Great Courses, some of which I pirated out of curiosity, were often slower-paced and worse than your average Khan Academy video or random powerpoint presentation uploaded to youtube, but they were always taught by “critically acclaimed” professors (bourgeois best selling authors with good connections who happen to be tenured professors). The economics courses were of course just dismal and regurgitated nonsense about how “wall street and main street share common interests and shouldn’t fight each other” in the middle of the 2008 crash.

He’s also said that the fall of the USSR was the greatest victory for socialism ever, which is absolutely deranged when you consider the misery it lead to in the post-Soviet states and the countries that were supported by them.

Fuck Chomsky.

I recently read a book written in the 70s by some American Marxist and surprise surprise Chomsky was already much hated in the Marxist circles back then.

Has Chomsky ever written at length about Marxism? The most I’ve heard him say sounds indistinct from anything a liberal would say, like that Marxism is outdated, it’s a model of 19th century capitalism that fails to analyze blah blah, and he’ll even say stuff like Marxism has the same roots as fascism, or that Marxism is like a religion. The one thing that really baffled me is one time Chomsky said Marx devised an abstract model of capitalism, and that essentially capitalism is too complex to make into an abstract model and remain scientific. That’s really perplexing that a supposed social scientist like Chomsky would say. What’s a good alternative to modeling capitalism then, Noam? Nothing? Liberalism?

damn this is really good shit, and I’ve read a fair amount of parenti v chompsky pieces before.

And showing how obama was, far from being the lesser evil, actually a more effective evil because he could get away with things the republicans could never dream of? absolute gold

Edit: finished it, I didnt know a lot of this. Chomsky shitting on Aaron Swartz was a new low in my opinion of him. Quite a compendium of chomsky’s long history of disappointment and palatiability to the ruling class

dude’s about to enter Torpor

This is not new. By all accounts Chomsky is not physically or mentally able to discuss the current situation. Finkelstein said as much - he said in an interview a couple weeks ago that he reached out to Chomsky for moral clarity right after the 7th, but he was unavailable so Norman had to figure things out on his own. And the way he discussed it, it definitely was not that Chomsky was like off on a beach somewhere or wasn’t returning his calls, definitely implied that Chomsky was not able to respond.

Given that Chomsky has been pretty good about Palestine for his whole career, it seems much more plausible that he’s incapacitated and not just like, choosing not to comment on it.

This masterclass was released in July 2023.

It’s been around for a while

He’s 94 years old…

Chomsky literally founded JVP.