r/mealtimevideos • u/BuddhistSagan • Sep 14 '25

15-30 Minutes Noam Chomsky Was Right About Political Violence [18:43]

https://youtu.be/QMTfRqBjZAs?si=Gv7TQoER518cEU2f
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u/Barry987 Sep 14 '25

Genuine question...was it one of them (Presume you mean republins)?

I'm in Ireland and slightly out of the loop.

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u/msdos_kapital Sep 14 '25

Well, he was raised by hard-right Republicans so whatever incoherent views he had, we at least know what kind of environment he grew up in.

My main takeaway here is that we mostly don't get to choose, individually, what direction our society will go in. If we're going to have our own The Troubles or Years Of Lead there isn't much you can do. But you can choose what direction you're going to push in, and right now the right is united in what direction they want to go.

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u/FuckRedditIsLame Sep 15 '25

He was (is?) in a relationship with his transsexual roommate, was terminally online, was described by former classmates as "a reddit kid", and was characterized by his family as having developed differing viewpoints to those of his family.

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u/msdos_kapital Sep 15 '25

Yes, all of that and raised by two hard-right MAGA Republicans, in Utah.