/lit/ - Literature

>>9632645
you write
>>9632313
>Find one
>>9632570
One is found
and now you whine
>>9632645
>n=1
You keep proving the point - this isn't about
>Was McCandless a fool?
it is about you trying to prove you are smart.
You're failing

>>9581779
I did, yes, laugh out loud

>>9365718
Good ol' Noam, one of the greatest con men of the 20th Century.
No - his linguistics are good. I am talking about the fake Socialism he pawns off on college kids and other naive suckers.
He has *publicly admitted* he is faking and, well, his supporters don't care!
I'm glad he's still alive - he makes me smile.

>>9185924
Chomsky has said
>'The pentagon is the most evil institution on earth; 'the military has no business on college campuses'; 'the US military is a menace to all human life on earth'; 'the military should be barred from offering the GI Bill because they corrupt campuses with money'; 'the military should not be allowed to fund research because they would corrupt the research'
BUT!
>Chomsky has been a contractor and grant-recipient from the Department of Defense for decades earning millions of dollars from DoD grants and fees to make the military more efficient. He continues to work at MIT specifically to have access to the DoD project that mas made him a multi-millionaire while paying for him to write several of his books
Scammer. He tells you 'don't permit X' while he earns millions doing X for 40+ years.
Chomsky says;
>'I ma a Socialist'; 'The world is the "us" of the lower 90% of earners versus the "them" of the top 10% of earners'; 'The rich must pay a much larger share of taxes'; 'tax shelters and tax avoidance are immoral and should be made illegal'; 'estate taxes must be higher and stronger so that wealth cannot become generational within families'; 'the rich are morally obligated to pay taxes to help the poor'
BUT!
>Chomsky himself is a top 2% income earner and has been for 30+ years; his home is legally owned by a family member to avoid estate taxes; the copyrights of his various books are owned by royalty trusts so that A) he pays no taxes on the income and B) the royalties will go to his heirs totally free of estate taxes. All of his personal wealth is in trusts and annuities designed so that he pays virtually nothing in taxes and everything is exempt from estate taxes
Chomsky says,
>'Personal property is a tool of the rich to suppress and oppress the poor'; 'intellectual property rights are evil and must be seen as an inherent negative'; 'copyright is just a form of pretectionism and is a bane to true free thought'
BUT!
>'he places prominent copyright notices on his works, charges fees to download his intellectual property, and sues people who violate his property rights
Chomsky says,
>"Large dorporations are just private tyrannies'; 'oil company foment strife and violence while destroying the environment; the profits they mafe are literally blood moeny'; 'pharmaceutical companies are built up on the sickness and disease of the poor - their money is wring from the cancer, coughing, and death of the poor worldwide'.
BUT!
>He is personally heavily invested in pharmaceuticals, oil firms, military equipment manufacturers, etc. and not in hedge or market funds, but directly
All this is public knowledge; anyone can track it down.
When Peter Scweizer asked him about all of this while writing a book Chomsky just said 'Do you expect me to live in a cabin in Montana?' as if it is one or the other.
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>>9113723
>I guess during the Industrial Revolution when regulation didn't yet exist
You mean other than the Poor Laws (that prevented the movement of laborers and fixed wages), the Statute of Artificers (which controlled manufacturing of almost all goods and set price limits on raw materials and controlled profit taking), the Navigation Laws and the Royal Charters (that limited what could be shipped, how it was shipped, where it could be sold, established minimum and maximum prices, *who* could ship it, *when* it could be shipped, established tariffs and duties, and limited profits on luxury goods), the Usury Laws (that controlled interest rates, loan terms, etc.), the Royal Bank Charter (that controlled who could issue loans, how they were issued, etc. and taxed interest on loans) and the Bubble Act (that heavily regulated joint stock groups)
You mean "other than those rather strict government regulations on labor, wages, shipping, manufacturing, loans, debt, as well as taxes, tariffs, and duties", right?
FFS, it is almost like you don't know what you are talking about!

>>9040090
No need, really.
A little something I learned by reading history - the Nazis (as in the real one, the NSDP) *counted on* the Communists and Anarchists being violent. Assuming they would attack NDSP meetings was key to the early growth strategy of the NDSP. Anarchist and Communist hecklers would show up and the NDSP used this as an excuse to have "guards". Then then the Communists tried to push and shove the "guards" pulled out rubber truncheons and beat the shit out of them.
The police had hundreds of witnesses that proved that the Commies started it, so when the NDSP gave their "guards" brown uniforms and called them the Sturmabteilung 'so they could be recognized as legitimate security' there was little to complain about, was there?
After the Roter Frontkampferbund began not just attacking NDSP rallies but clashing with police the SA was seen by the common man as *bringing order* by assisting the police in stopping Communist agitators.
So - way to go, Nazi-punchers!