awrf [pup/pup's]

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  • I worded my response poorly because my point wasn’t about excusing anyone but that Marx didn’t do a fraction of the horrible shit that Chomsky did constantly.

    Fair I guess, maybe Marx wasn’t the greatest example of the most evil person to ever exist, but to be fair it is really hard to even come close to running the largest international child sex trafficking ring like Epstein did!

    And I don’t think Mein Kampf is that helpful an example since there’s a difference between viewing a work as being credible versus analyzing it due to its historical importance.

    I mean, people read a lot of things that they know aren’t credible, I can’t comment on any of Chomsky’s works personally because I never read them, but I don’t think it’d be any different than reading liberal economic “solutions” to housing (lol) or something of that nature. It’s obviously not credible, but I personally find it interesting to see how people think and what conclusions they come to with that thought process even though I disagree with them and maybe have some fun dunking on them in the process if I’m bored.



  • I think you are missing my overall point, maybe I worded things badly (and if I did please tell me, I struggle with trying to get my point across) but I never said we should excuse Chomsky, in fact I said he was deplorable in my earlier comment which I think we can all easily agree with for obvious reasons. My point was basically just because someone did something horrible doesn’t mean you can’t read their work. Hitler was obviously a bad guy (as you may know!) but Mein Kampf is fairly interesting, like the bit where he talks about how he had co-opted socialist iconography and names (red flags, party name, etc.) to try to bring more working class people into the party. Obviously there’s a lot of evil shit in Mein Kampf too and I wouldn’t hand it to the wrong person because it may end up filling them with Hitler particles, but hopefully you get my point even though I’m using extreme examples here.

    Sorry for the wall of text sort of, just felt I need to clarify myself thurston


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  • This is probably one of those “separate the art from the artist” situations, but as others said, this is really pushing that to it’s limit. As deplorable as Chomsky is for being in the Epstein orbit, let’s not pretend Marx and a lot of other people who arguably made very important works were saints either. You can argue that Marx and others “were products of their time/environment” but that still doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day, they were assholes.




  • I also had to drop bcachefs recently, which was really upsetting because it is a very cool filesystem. Unfortunately it now has the same issue as ZFS, it’s out of tree, it being in the mainline kernel was one of the biggest selling points for it since it clearly took inspiration from ZFS in a lot of areas and having a filesystem like that in the mainline was super cool. Oh well.







  • You are supporting the death of innocent people instead of alterior methods

    Time to just wipe Russia off the map already, split the country up and give the land to the other surrounding nations.

    Ah yes, your barbaric death of innocent people vs our glorious wiping a country off the map. I’m genuinely curious how often liberals think of shit like bombing the Three Gorges Dam and fantasizing about “wiping Russia off the map”. It has to be once a day at least, right?!