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JHB

(38,221 posts)
Wed Feb 4, 2026, 11:11 AM Feb 4

Reminds me of why I call an affliction of superlefties "overdosing on Noam Chomsky"

...by which I mean viewing all sorts of problems as rooted at such a high level that working within the system for reform seems futile so they want more radical solutions. The end result of which is that they make those reforms harder because they don't want to be "co-opted" or whatever.

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