bill maher played a key role in manufacturing consent for the afghanistan and iraq wars, disseminating the most deranged racist islamophobic garbage in service of US imperialism. here's that time he was totally destroyed and humiliated on his own show by glenn greenwald for this
liberals of the sam harris and bill maher variety performed their role as ideologists of the imperialist project by disseminating racist islamophobia so as to dehumanize and legitimize the millions killed by the empire. yet maher remains a liberal darling
btw this proves chomsky's point about the prevalence of systemic racism and islamophobia in the west: not only does indulging in it not hurt your career, it advances it, as bill maher's grotesque, depraved husk of a being attests to
a follower from brazil who's a fan of glenn's work kindly made a version of the clip of him destroying and humiliating bill maher on his own show with portuguese subtitles
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there's a lot to point to re tucker carlson to show he's a white supremacist, but for me most revealing was when he vehemently denounced fidel castro by pointing specifically to him sending aid to angola to help destroy the south african apartheid regime
in all the deranged denunciations of castro by the far right and liberals, I have never seen anyone mention his sending of aid to angola. but tucker did, bc he adores the south african apartheid regime. btw here is nelson mandela thanking fidel personally:
cuba was in fact the first country mandela visited after he was released from prison, given the central role it played in destroying the apartheid regime. in angola castro is also celebrated as a national hero for aiding their national liberation struggle against colonialism
people forget that grimes is also an anti-imperialist socialist who goes to events like the met gala and even marries a conman like elon musk to spread class consciousness
she also has some very good advice for communists. comrade grimes knows what real revolutionary praxis is
grimes: "enforced farming is really not a vibe". you know what else is not a vibe? this:
the phenomenon of rock stars like morrissey and johnny lydon going from being leftist counterculture figures in their youth to becoming far right deranged freaks in old age isn't bc that is the new counterculture, it's bc they've finally internalized that they're bourgeois now
"oh look, these extremely wealthy celebrities have the same worldview as charles koch and peter thiel, how edgy and countercultural!" no, their wealth has rotted their brains and they barely remember the class they originally came from. it's a faint memory of another lifetime
another though less extreme case of this is bob dylan. at a certain point he just stopped giving a fuck, and that point just so happened to coincide w/ the exact moment that he was becoming a rock star and accruing massive wealth. chomsky has some interesting commentary on that:
I get despising liberals for being the depraved ghouls that they are, but the primary reason for doing so is bc they enable the far right. why would you then support the far right and call for voting for them? this is what happens when you have no principled or coherent politics
"I hate gavin newsom so much he's such a piece of shit who did all this horrible stuff, that's why I now support the deranged far right republican who will do all the same things!" just endorse and support the left alternatives on the ballot instead of this asinine bullshit
I'll never in my life vote for the labour party under that blairite scumbag starmer, but that doesn't mean I'll vote for the fucking tories or some other far right creeps. WTF is that shit. just vote greens/SNP/northern independence party/plaid, or just abstain from voting at all
hardly anyone is reporting on this but deb haaland, whose appointment to secretary of the interior was hailed as a major victory and "a big deal", just last week approved 92 million acres for oil and gas drilling in the gulf of mexico
it gets even better: the offshore drilling lease was sought after by the trump administration, which came up with a bullshit report to argue that it was actually not harmful to the environment. deb haaland cited that report to justify the lease while ignoring climate scientists
don't blame susan sarandon and bernie, blame obama for blocking biden's 2016 run to clear the way for hillary and ruth bader ginsburg for being a petty, vain narcissist who mocked calls on her to resign during obama's presidency and then defended kavanaugh and gorsich
bc liberals control institutions that manufacture consent, they are able to successfully craft and disseminate a narrative of their loss that diverts blame away from themselves and shifts it onto others, whether it's bernie, russia, jill stein or ralph nader
conversely, if a leftist loses it is solely their fault and proof-positive that the entire left project is always and forever doomed to failure, as we have seen recently with corbyn in the UK and also in the US, where those deranged freaks are still talking about mcgovern