Unfortunately, his UG work in the field of linguistics turned out to be really bad.
Universal Grammar states that all of the knowledge about languages is already in your brain when you’re born. The only thing that happens in language aquisition is figuring out which parameters are in what state: If your mothertongue is German, then the parameter “has case system” is switched to “yes” and the parameter “has tone system” is switched to “no”.
The idea is that there is some parameter that is set to yes in ALL languages. But everytime such a parameter is put forward, we find that it isnt the case actually.
The next problem is its eurocentrism. Languages, through the lens of UG, all have to have similar parameters as Indo-European languages. Whenever languages do not fit that model, the first instinct in UG is to press it into that model, which leads to stuff like invisible affixes, invisible words and even invisible subjects.
Instead of analyzing a language on its own, forming new categories to understand the mechanics of the language, UG tries its hardest to computerize and systematize languages.
The Molotov-cocktail was a finnish strategy of dealing with tanks during the Winter War in 1939-40.
Molotov was the foreign minister of the USSR and he apparently said that the russian bombers were dropping bread for the finnish people. To no ones surprise, they didnt drop bread, they dropped incendiary cluster bombs.
So the Finns started called bombs “Molotov bread baskets” and then returned the favor with their homemade cocktails.
Literal Lyndon LaRouche talking point.
Zionists were both for and against this agreement. Some Zionist leaders opposed this agreement, because if a british company paid Nazi Germany, it would break the boycott of Nazi Germany that had been initiated by Zionists.
We can hate Zionism for a lot of things, we dont need to steal talking point from literal nazis.
In that case, the prosecutor was approached by the victims families. They did not want to the death penalty, because it would have meant having a trial until at least 2028.