[pravda]

Gore Vidal pointed this out many years ago:

  "There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."

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I really wonder what Vidal would be saying today.

I guess it would probably be something similar to Noam Chomsky, who is voting Democrat this year because the policy differences are so stark.

https://the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-for

[justanotheranon]

Chomsky denied the genocide of Pol Pot and defended the Khmer Rouge to score points against CIA and Western Imperialism.

start here on page 19 of Chomsky's book he wrote in 1979.

https://libcom.org/history/chomsky-pol-pots-genocidal-regime...

Chomsky was dead wrong about his heirarchy of languages and he set back computing by 50 years. He has also been wrong about geopolitics, since he ends up supporting the very Western Imperialism that he rails against.

[shadowfox]

> he set back computing by 50 years

No opinion on Chomsky's politics. But that quote definitely needs some substantiation.

Personally, I don't see how anyone, has managed to set back computing by 50 years.

[stjohnswarts]

They haven't, it's a clear exaggeration, and lacks any substance at all.

[ncmncm]

Which is not to say he was right about human language acquisition. (He wasn't.)

But the three grammar classes were correct, and are still in use. They were later found to match work done 2500 years ago, in India.

Being wrong in science, particularly biology, is not a crime, nor, usually, even a shame.

[justanotheranon]

i still wonder what was the significance of Assange carrying Gore Vidal's book when he was arrested (kidnapped) from the Ecuadorian Embassy.