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submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by Silliari@quokk.au to c/mop@quokk.au
 

Updated to remove Bakunin and Chomsky

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[–] Silliari@quokk.au 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

who’s chomsky? I stole this meme

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Glasses cannot correct your deficits in critical thinking,

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Okay let me be a little more constructive.

Chomsky appears in some of these images within the dumps produced from the Epstein estate by the Oversight Democrats:

12-18-2025 Oversight Dems press release contains the following link:

TW: Sex, R*pe, CSAM, although no photos of CSAM are in these archives.12-11-2025 Dropbox dump: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fq3vn18ltfd83re8ggtle/AHYB3CbERvyT38o_vHllVx4?rlkey=tz5pq4zr9i6nofkpi2g7l5vne&e=2&st=z46l8nor&dl=0

12-18-2025 Oversight Dems press release contains the following link:

TW: Sex, R*pe, CSAM, although no photos of CSAM are in these archives.12-18-2025 Dropbox dump: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62lochkdzdalbzzqgq8/ADJIDEfLD1oQZrKmNeae2So?rlkey=y7529bx9tl7db6zf279jp3cyu&e=2&st=8o7kizhr&dl=0

And here is Epstein's email history with Chomsky (also his daughter) as he would have seen it, courtesy of the wonderful folks at Jmail.world:

https://www.jmail.world/search?q=chomsky

https://www.jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025893?view=inbox

Now here's what I noticed:

  • We have multiple angles of Noam Chomsky in Jeffrey Epstein's plane (12-18 dump). Even if Epstein broke no laws, his nominal position as a financier and banker makes him the enemy as an anti-capitalist. More on that in a minute. But before Chomsky started talking to Epstein, if the currently existing emails are known, he either did not stop talking to, or worse, started talking to Epstein after Epstein plead guilty to sex crimes involving minors.
  • We have a photo of Chomsky being chummy with known fascist Steve Bannon. Now do I expect Chomsky to go full antifa supersoldier and beat the tar out of Steve Bannon? No, he's a dinosaur in that photo. But it shows that Chomsky is comfortable talking with the enemy. It would be like if you saw a photo of Emma Goldman chilling with Joseph Goebbels; I don't know about you, but I just wouldn't be able to trust her anymore!

IMO any one of these things would be enough for me to dump Chomsky. There's a big club, and you ain't in it — but Chomsky is!

Chomsky is skeevy as fuck. That's not speculation anymore.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 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 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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 4 points 3 hours 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 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

Keep trolling, troll.

[–] Silliari@quokk.au 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Silliari@quokk.au 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] sheisstuckintime@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

Noam Chomsky is (was?) a linguistics professor at MIT who is mainly known for his social commentary and criticism.