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Updated to remove Bakunin and Chomsky

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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 15 points 15 hours ago

I mean can we like not fuck with Chomsky anymore?

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago

True, take Graeber instead

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago

Idk. He's alright for baby anarchists, I think.

It's not like Bakunin was too great on everything, either.

[-] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 hours ago

chomsky is like the modern tankie? Supportive of the russian invasion and a genocide denier. (cambodian genocide)

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

I think your definition of tankie is a bit off. AAFAIK, he opposed the USSR and stated that he didn't consider it socialist. Don't know enough about his stance on the war in Ukraine. But that doesn't make you a tankie.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[-] Silliari@quokk.au 3 points 14 hours ago

who’s chomsky? I stole this meme

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 4 points 11 hours ago

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 10 hours ago

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

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[-] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Glasses cannot correct your deficits in critical thinking,

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 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.

[-] Silliari@quokk.au 5 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 14 hours ago
[-] Silliari@quokk.au 4 points 14 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 14 hours ago

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

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