Well, yes really, almost all the shared criticisms are of post-2000 events.

And I agree that stuff is bad. I’m not saying he is completely defensible pre-2000, but he was much more politically consistent then than now.

EDIT: Not actually interested in defending him on re-think. My whole point is just that he’s scatterbrained and not the same thought figure he was.

“any other vehicles for imperialism?”. You gotta narrow your search there. Because the answer to that question is yes, literally thousands. More than you could ever memorise.

Try to demonise weed, accidentally trick 70% of the population into deciding helping China is good

Nobody’s asking for your life story geez

And Tibet. They sort of accidentally assumed a bunch of stuff they’re not supposed to

People I dislike = bad

Y’all like my scathing political commentary?

Howso? A lot of his work and speeches pre-turning 70 seem to focus on how the US (and the west more generally) has no justification for any of its wars and criticising its other forms of imperialism.

I’m not gonna stand by everything the guy ever said. But he is 97 years old for lord’s sake. He was born just a decade after the fall of Tsarist Russia.

Nobody stays the same over 100 years. Chomsky’s been getting noticeably more inconsistent in his actions and statements since like… the year 2000, which is when basically all these criticisms are from.

I’m not saying ‘ignore all old people’, but I am saying people change enormously over half a century and we shouldn’t judge them as if they are exactly the same person they were. To start picking apart the consistency of the ramblings or actions of a ninety-seven year old as if he’s still an on-the-ball scholar just feels a bit unnecessary.

I am very sorry for you. That absolutely sucks, shouldn’t have to deal with that shit.

I am however just gonna “not every HR person”. I have a friend who landed in HR jobs despite not really wanting to.

That friend really, honestly does their best to not flag any stuff like this when they see it (they have way too much other work to do for it to be worth bothering anyway), but upper management has nothing to do other than sit around on these systems trying to catch people out, so they force her to flag it up without even a chance to check. Every other week she has to convince upper management not to pursue some bullshit thing because it’s illegal and/or highly unethical.

So I can guarantee there’s at least one HR person out there trying looking out for people.

Well, that depends on it… being a mistrial, or missing new evidence. The appeals process doesn’t help when a hangry judge gives you a harsher sentence per their discretion.

For those who don’t realise, this is a demonstrable phenomenon - Hungry judges pass down harsher sentences, are less likely to grant parole, etc.

Thing I don’t like means OUR FOREIGN ENEMIES WIN

Repeat ad infinitum to create state policy

Amazing. Tagline material.

In bad country they treat migrants worse and take the surplus value of work

Just one more name bro, if we can just recover one more name we’ll find a non-Nazi victim I swear

I do work for a client that uses a very bespoke Linux OS setup that’s been developed over decades. They continue to frown in frustration at how AI doesn’t magically know how to support and debug it and that I continue to have to be paid to do that instead.

It’s almost as if AI ‘knowledge’ isn’t magical but mostly refers to a huge public corpus of troubleshooting, patterns and documentation by humans who already did the actual work and shared it online. Like… a search engine.

If humans didn’t already do it and write extensively about it online, then AI is just completely lost. And continues to confidently spout dangerous and bad information. Because, and I can’t stress this enough, it isn’t magic.

There’s just some freaky link between anticommunism and mouth-frothing racist genocide we can’t work out. Excepting liberal anticommunism I mean

We’re conflating precision and accuracy here. Precision is more decimal places. Accuracy is actually being closer to correct.

Never before in human history have we made such… repeated marginal improvements to a technology that’s plausibly causing us to regress in productivity and happiness.

This concept is funny.

The concept that won’t be funny is when you have to pay $20/month to NOT use an AI-powered browser. I’m expecting that to be reality in 5 years.