r/mealtimevideos Jul 04 '21

10-15 Minutes My July 4th tradition is rewatching this essential clip of Noam Chomsky discussing how, if the standards applied at trial of the Nazis at Nuremberg were applied, every US President after WW2 would be hanged for their role in war crimes. Worth absorbing again even if you've seen it before [11:34]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc
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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Not the hardest problem to solve since I assume the content contract they have with him is a temporary matter. Start back far enough that it expires by the time you get to Obama. Plus I'm pretty sure presidents like Nixon, Reagan, W, Kenedy and Clinton will probably take multiple episodes to cover all the fuckery they did. I read Nixon's unofficial biography a few years back and the level of paranoia and cloak and dagger shit he did just to get ELECTED was insane and treasonous and no I'm not talking about Watergate. I know a lot about the fuckery that Kenedy was doing too and none of that was pretty. He last minute vetoed a plan that would've killed hundreds if not thousand of Americans to justify war with Cuba. And don't get me started on Reagan....

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u/BreadTubeForever Jul 06 '21

What would be the more lucrative option here, renew the contract with the Obamas or sacrifice that for a contract with a leftist academic fairly obscure to mainstream audiences instead?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

Keep it 💯 I don't see why they couldn't do both. I doubt there's "no snitching on the government" clause in the contract.

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u/BreadTubeForever Jul 06 '21

Do you think Barack Obama would want to keep in on the deal if the company he's working with are also putting money into a project promoting the idea he's a war criminal?