I mean can we like not fuck with Chomsky anymore?
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True, take Graeber instead
Idk. He's alright for baby anarchists, I think.
It's not like Bakunin was too great on everything, either.
Reminder: Chomsky was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
It's not like Bakunin was too great on everything, either.
Actually I'd be cool with dumping Bakunin from this image for his anti-Semitism. Actually actually, I'd be cool dumping all the people from the left side of the image and replacing them with specific books or articles because IMO hero-worship is a bad look for anarchists. We can read those authors' books without glazing those authors.
who’s chomsky? I stole this meme
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:
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.
Bury your heroes, but also refrain from attacks that are biased or speculative.
Buddy, that is a photograph. I do not need to speculate about Chomsky: he's skeevy. QED.
The photograph shows a man seated in a chair. Get a grip.
Oh I see, you're not wearing your glasses. Here, borrow mine. 👓
Glasses cannot correct your deficits in critical thinking,
Chomsky also quite explicitly supported russia after the full-scale Ukraine invasion started. So yeah, he's all kinds of asshole.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Keep beating that straw man.
Keep glazing Chomsky
Keep trolling, troll.
oh yeah, that’s fuck up, i’ll edit the meme
Also if you're editing, it's probably a good idea to toss Bakunin too.
I’ve already figured that out from other comments and have edited him out, thank you for letting me know
Noam Chomsky is (was?) a linguistics professor at MIT who is mainly known for his social commentary and criticism.