Strictly speaking, this image is grayscale, not black and white.

an ocean vessel flying around

I’m choosing to make this my reality now

Yeah but if you chose a different word you wouldn’t have to later clarify that you stand with disabled people

Yeah my comment is more about the procedure than the effect. Like I don’t think there’s gonna be an official proclamation like “Elections are hereby cancelled”, they’re just gonna come up with enough ways to “cancel” undesirable ballots that it’ll be like the election never happened. I.e., more of what has been done before, but done harder. IMO, going this route would be harder for people to call out because it’s systemic and “quiet”, and USians have zero systems thinking skills overall.

They’re not gonna cancel elections. They’re just gonna make it so only rich white people can vote and only fascists can run.

Yes, Democrats are largely warmongers too, but that they ran the table against his handpicked candidates shows a clear repudiation of his policies and governance.

The Republicans and Democrats are basically uniparty on foreign policy and regime change. People are opposed to the thousands of ways he’s ruining our bags. Americans have not suddenly gained a conscience with respect to the atrocities our government commits outside our borders.

Donald’s misadventures in Venezuela resulting in the deaths of Americans, on an American airliner, for no good reason, would have a profoundly negative effect on his intentions toward warmongering.

Maybe Donald’s intentions for all of three seconds, but not the rest of the AmeriKKKan political apparatus. Life has no value in the US.

IMO it depends on if you are interested in the language or culture, or if you plan to be in contact with Russia or Russians. For example, do you plan to translate Russian? Do you plan to read Russian-language literature?

Will that be offensive?

Bigots deserve to be offended.

Many people HATE Russia and the language.

Not your problem if people are prejudiced against Russians for the actions of the government that lords over them. If you want to learn the language, go for it.

I mean I’m not sure how a collision would have stopped or even delayed regime change in Venezuela. The AmeriKKKan government barely even has to manufacture consent anymore for their atrocities.

Like this year started off with the deaths of 64 innocent people in AmeriKKKan airspace, mostly USian citizens, due to military incompetence, and we’ve basically forgotten about it. USians clearly don’t care whenever the military is the cause. Or basically ever unless it fucks someone personally.

LIFE IS A DEATH SENTENCE 🤘👿🤘

I mean it would be nice if you could say that without throwing disabled people under the bus with that r slur. Which I’m sure you can, so I’m not sure why you’re choosing not to, especially since we’re an anarchist community and ableism is a hierarchical structure of domination.

Freedom of speech just can’t be applied selectively, tho.

I mean, for freedom of speech with respect to the State, yeah I’m with you. But if I remember correctly, Chomsky was arguing against antifascists deplatforming fascists, using freedom of speech to justify that opinion, which I think is a weak argument because the whole point of deplatforming fascists is to allow the maximal subset of people to speak.

One day you restrict someone’s speech, the next day they are in power and restrict yours.

IMO deplatforming oppressive groups should be considered the maximalist position for freedom of speech. Letting them speak is equivalent to letting them win, which results in a net loss of free speech averaged over the whole community (e.g., LGBTQ people feel less likely to speak freely when homophobes are allowed to freely express LGBTQ-phobic views).

Not a defense of Chomsky because fuck him, but he claimed he was an anarcho-syndicalist, i.e. not a tankie. Not everyone who sucks is a tankie.

And it didn’t end in… tragedy? Because the ending of a fart is arguably its most important quality.

Chomsky’s got a lot of explaining to do 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

I mean I would argue that caring is more important than ever, and that’s why the care-bear is throwing Molotov’s 🏴🏴🏴

Even before this Epstein shit, I knew he had severe liberal tendencies (yes even from an anarchist position) and yeah honestly he became a court jester for capitalism, but at least he has some good takes in his past. Like at a bare minimum he had Manufacturing Consent.

Unironically if you have an alternative recommendation for Manufacturing Consent that doesn’t have his prints on it, I’d love to see it because I’m so tired having to cite this fucking clown 😮‍💨

I listened to a lot of Chomskys talks on YouTube, which have always been very critical of capitalism and the elite.

Yeah if Chomsky is to be taken at his word, he was an anarcho-syndicalist. Too bad he betrayed his principles, if he ever really held them in the first place 😮‍💨.

Is the dude just too old to give a shit now?

One of my critiques of Chomsky even before this Epstein shit is that he’s too tolerant of monsters. For example, he defended freedom of speech, which okay cool, but even for fascists. I always chalked it up to the fact that he has been cancelled various times throughout his career for his anti-war stances and probably found the experience unenlightening, and the fact that he’s a bit of a liberal. And honestly, I can agree to disagree with others to some extent about who is worth talking to, especially since some of those people are more likely to listen to Chomsky based on his background and signals of privilege. And personally, I do lie closer to “I’m willing to talk it out” than “We should to beat up people with bad ideas”.

But this…this is beyond reasonable disagreement. Even if he ends up being cleared of Epstein-related crimes (which I gotta be real with you, I fully believe at this point that he knew what was going on), he is clearly in bed with the monsters destroying our world. Steve Bannon is not going to listen to a loony “”“leftist”“” like Chomsky, and Chomsky is not gonna get anything from Bannon that he couldn’t have figured out by watching the news.

Like even if Chomsky didn’t want to tell the guy off, he could have declined the invitation or left the room. And it’s Noam fucking Chomsky. No shot he didn’t know who Bannon was! And it would be an abdication of duty for a so-called leftist so-called academic to not know the names in his field. I.e. even if this was an accident on his part, it should seriously damage his credibility.

All this to say, Chomsky became what he wanted to destroy.

Idolize no one, unless they die a hero.

IMO we can pick and choose parts of a person to admire without idolizing them.

Left: Steve Bannon. Republican strategist, Trump ally, active fascist piece of shit.

Right: Noam Chomsky. Linguist, activist, self-descibed anarchist. If you asked him, he would say he’s one of us. Many of us here probably read Chomsky. Frankly, most people on the left, even non-anarchists, routinely use the logic in Manufacturing Consent to analyze how capitalist media manufactures consent from the working class for their various atrocities.

I’ve had my critiques of Chomsky for a long time, but his apparently deep connections with Epstein (not just this picture) and willingness to talk politely to fascists are absolutely beyond the pale.

I took the photo straight from the pictures released yesterday by the House Oversight Democrats, which itself came from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.

See I’m an engineering major but on opposite day, like all the time. I’m unironically like “please I beg you just let me do more integrals, I don’t wanna build the prototype, I just want to do all the math to control it.” So whenever it’s just more integrals I’m like “Finally some fucking good food” 😆

I mean I pulled a muscle lying in bed a couple months ago 😭