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Re:The American socialist worldview is just broken by itsoktocry on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:10PM (#31073547)
>The arrogance of this kind of armchair quarterbacking is breathtaking — an American public intellectual dictating territorial and diplomatic concessions to Ukraine. Chomsky uses the word “we” to describe the parties that he imagines will make these concessions to Russia, but the first person pronoun is totally unwarranted — it is 100% Ukraine’s decision how much of their territory and their people to surrender to an invader who is engaging in mass murder, mass rape, and mass removal to concentration camps in the areas it has conquered. It is 0% Noam Chomsky’s decision.

What a strange paragraph. Chomsky is using "we" in the context of America because he is American. If "we" cut off support to Ukraine, the environment there will be much different. The idea that the rest of the world has no say in and/or effect on what's happening there is a weird claim.

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Re:The American socialist worldview is just broken by slowmovintarget on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:57PM (#31075666)
No. That is not how Chomsky uses the word "we." Chomsky is clearly saying "we" in the sense of what Ukraine ought to do.
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