• Numberone@startrek.website
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    7 days ago

    Yeah, I honestly don’t know what to make of that, it’s personally a real letdown as Chomsky’s power came from truth telling and moral clarity, and then he hangs out with that fucking pedo. I’m not sure what he was accused of specifically. I thought it was that he had dinners with Epstein. I hadn’t heard he advised him. That’d be next level bad.

    However, I don’t think that changes his analysis. Either it’s valid or not.

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      5 days ago

      He exchanged emails in 2019, advising Epstein on how to rebuild his reputation and lementing how hysterical people are about abuse of women.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9ykjlyv50o

      This is after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor as part of his plea deal to avoid going to trial where the prosecution had identified 36 victims between the ages of 14 and 17.

      So I guess Chomsky’s well honed epistemology wasn’t able to detect a pattern here, or his moral clarity is worth spit. I’m fine with either because I think he’s correct about 70% of the time, and a populist grifter for the rest.