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submitted 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by Silliari@quokk.au to c/mop@quokk.au
 

Updated to remove Bakunin and Chomsky

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Chomsky is the old dude in the upper right hand corner of the left-libertarian side. Although Chomsky claims to be an anarcho-syndicalist and wrote Manufacturing Consent, he was in the Epstein files:

picture of Chomsky on Epstein's plane with Jeffrey Epstein

Apparently Epstein "collected" scientists, and besides his social work, Chomsky is also a renowned linguist. (Like if you read textbooks on natural language processing and the author starts with a historical overview, Chomsky will show up.) But based on his (non-)responses so far, I am (and basically anyone who knows about Epstein stuff is) highly skeptical that Chomsky didn't know about Epstein's monstrous activities.

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Bury your heroes, but also refrain from attacks that are biased or speculative.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago) (1 children)

Buddy, that is a photograph. I do not need to speculate about Chomsky: he's skeevy. QED.

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

The photograph shows a man seated in a chair. Get a grip.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

Oh I see, you're not wearing your glasses. Here, borrow mine. 👓

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 43 minutes ago

Glasses cannot correct your deficits in critical thinking,

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Chomsky also quite explicitly supported russia after the full-scale Ukraine invasion started. So yeah, he's all kinds of asshole.

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I doubt Chomsky "quite explicitly supported russia".

He may have simply offered a plain criticism of US imperialism and NATO expansion.

Russian aggression was simply inevitable as a consequence of the US and NATO refusing to do other than continuously escalate tension.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

According to Chomsky, Russia is acting with restraint and moderation

Is that the "critical support" so popular on .ml?

Russian aggression was simply inevitable as a consequence of the US and NATO refusing to do other than continuously escalate tension.

Ah, of course it can't be the aggressor's fault. Everyone else must be wrong.

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago) (1 children)

Please enjoy beating the living daylights out of a straw man.

The crux of the matter is that insisting the conflict is Russia's fault accomplishes nothing except to protect the nationalist ideology of American exceptionalism, and therefore, to protect the state imperialist interests of the US and states aligned to the US.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) (1 children)

Oh, I wouldn't dare lay hands on your favourite.

Though you might want to take your "US bad therefore russia good" campist shit back to the tankie instances, where it belongs.

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 minutes ago

Keep trolling, troll.

[–] Silliari@quokk.au 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

oh yeah, that’s fuck up, i’ll edit the meme

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Silliari@quokk.au 3 points 4 hours ago

I’ve already figured that out from other comments and have edited him out, thank you for letting me know