Chomsky's principal claim in linguistics, that recursion is fundamental and unique to human speech, has been soundly debunked.

I know this because I've covered it in various anthropology classes about four times now.

You are high on your farts if you think Bill "crime bill" Clinton was to the left of Barack "Obamacare" Obama.

The party has moved far left from where it was in my lifetime.

You just don't care because most of the movement has been on racial and gender equality.

Yeah tbh I don’t really understand “right now the party feels immoveable” when it has visibly moved with each recent general election, sometimes by quite a lot

I think the filibuster (particularly Freedom to Vote Act/John Lewis VRA and DC/PR statehood) and Making Consequences™ are the two big corrections the next admin is going to alter

If they're not all the same, it's worth it to compete in the primaries, and to select the best Democrats, to control the makeup of the party as best we can.

Your point is "everything is pointless, give up."

And yeah, I refuse to acknowledge that.

A burnout, a man who died before the Trump era began, and some guy "Herman."

Watch out, the intellectual heavyweights have arrived.

A.) This is an appeal to authority.

B.) Chomsky is hardly regarded as a valuable voice in linguistics anymore, let alone political science, lmao.

I do not regret to inform you that primary elections are real.

If you don't like the Democrats on offer, you can choose better ones.

You can run for office yourself if it's so obvious and easy what to do.

Your point is bad.

If you care about things, you should vote in the primaries.

Summary execution is fundamentally incompatible with democracy.

Of course the powerful won't fight fair, they never have.

Maybe it will require violence, it often has.

But we abolished monarchy and slavery already, capitalism will wither away before long, we just have to stay committed.

Also an excellent point.

Indeed indeed, leftists need to stop acting like permanently scorned exiles and start acting like a vital part of a coalition party.

Whether or not the right wing Democrats want to admit it, we're a real, potent force, and we should make that abundantly clear.

"Poland, New Zealand, Japan - the West."

Statements dreamt up by the median-right.

When Japan, Canada and Germany are all equally "Western," perhaps we should use a different word.

Something true, maybe.

If only there were a word for like "politically valuing individual liberty."

Alas.

The only way to defeat the concentrated power of capital is through the distributed power of democracy.