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  • TenPastTwoT TenPastTwo

    @benroyce this reminds me of a recently published argument between Chomsky and Moinbot on whether what happened during the terrible Rwanda wars was a genocide or an atrocity.The letters between them really sounded like they fell out. I think there's a bit of pride in there too.

    Appreciate I'm massively simplifying their correspondence. And I say that only to somewhat mitigate fear of trolling, which further highlights your point.

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    @TenPastTwo

    i won't troll you but i will castigate you

    never mention #Chomsky again

    nevermind him licking #Putin's boots over the invasion of #Ukraine

    Noam is in the #EpsteinFiles defending #Epstein

    he did this *after* Epstein was revealed as a pedophile human trafficker

    Fuck #NoamChomsky

    And I am not attacking the left, ironically, in contradiction to what I have said above:

    A pedophile/ #imperialism apologist is not of the left

    Chomsky is not of the left

    Not anymore at least

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    • N Alex

      RE: https://mastodon.social/@Bandersnatch/116014266138722370

      @benroyce

      Oh, so this was attacking:
      https://social.coop/@Bandersnatch@mastodon.social/116014269906832170

      And this was criticism:
      https://social.coop/@benroyce@mastodon.social/116015465284947604

      I guess I'm just dumb, because to me it looked like the opposite. I guess we really need to protect the socialist vanguard, Kathy Hochul, against the reactionary terror of _labor unions_ politely asking to be left alone.

      Take some ownership over your behavior, dude.

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      #12

      @nap

      it was that post that inspired the top level comment of mine you are criticizing

      where you see contradiction is in reality perfect consistency

      fuck Hochul but she is not MAGA

      that's my point

      what the fuck does anyone gain from attacking Hochul, *especially* in the context of a topic change from attacking Trump?

      criticizing someone for attacking the left is not the same as criticizing those who are doing that

      do you understand that?

      it's not complicated

      you are incoherent

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      • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

        @TenPastTwo

        i won't troll you but i will castigate you

        never mention #Chomsky again

        nevermind him licking #Putin's boots over the invasion of #Ukraine

        Noam is in the #EpsteinFiles defending #Epstein

        he did this *after* Epstein was revealed as a pedophile human trafficker

        Fuck #NoamChomsky

        And I am not attacking the left, ironically, in contradiction to what I have said above:

        A pedophile/ #imperialism apologist is not of the left

        Chomsky is not of the left

        Not anymore at least

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        #13

        @benroyce Wow I knew he was a bit of a tankie but not the Epstein thing, now I do, I absolutely agree. That's certainly a hard reason to fall-out.

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        • TenPastTwoT TenPastTwo

          @benroyce Wow I knew he was a bit of a tankie but not the Epstein thing, now I do, I absolutely agree. That's certainly a hard reason to fall-out.

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          #14

          @TenPastTwo

          unfortunately leftists morphing into right wing turds has a number of examples in this world

          when it happens we sever all ties

          #NoamChomsky is a piece of shit

          we cannot think of him in any other way except scorn

          that he once said something insightful is still true, and we can use his past thoughts usefully: quietly, to ourselves

          what we can never do anymore is attribute any of that to a man who is now human scum

          the name Noam #Chomsky is now rat poison

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          Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage, files show

          The exchange was among the latest release of files from the US government's investigation into Epstein.

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          • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

            @TenPastTwo

            unfortunately leftists morphing into right wing turds has a number of examples in this world

            when it happens we sever all ties

            #NoamChomsky is a piece of shit

            we cannot think of him in any other way except scorn

            that he once said something insightful is still true, and we can use his past thoughts usefully: quietly, to ourselves

            what we can never do anymore is attribute any of that to a man who is now human scum

            the name Noam #Chomsky is now rat poison

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            Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage, files show

            The exchange was among the latest release of files from the US government's investigation into Epstein.

            favicon

            (www.bbc.com)

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            #15

            @benroyce yes and Putin apologists seems to be the beginning of many of them turning.

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            • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

              Part of the reason for the USA's failure is MAGA but the other big aspect is a left that does not engage the real enemy

              Toxic idealism

              Spineless capitulation

              Mindless cynicism

              "Polite society" "high road" cluelessness

              And lazy entitlement

              Not financial entitlement but this obtuse entitled foolishness that we have the time and space to criticize some aspect of the left according to deranged standards of perfection when we're facing literal fascism

              Make MAGA the target of your venom

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              #16

              @benroyce

              The biggest danger indeed, lack of focus and lack of alignment. The biggest problem, how to tackle undemocratic forces in a democracy while it is under threat…

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              • TenPastTwoT TenPastTwo

                @benroyce yes and Putin apologists seems to be the beginning of many of them turning.

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                @TenPastTwo

                #tankies are mindless contrarians

                "i hate the usa so i support vile regimes" is not principled nor moral

                the moral, principled approach is to castigate the #USA *and* #Russia

                supporting Russian #imperialism in the name of opposing American imperialism is just fucking stupid

                so supposedly intellectual #NoamChomsky is functioning on the same level as a 14 year old edgelord in this fashion

                #Chomsky's pedophile apologism in the #EpsteinFiles is just the final nail in the coffin

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                • xs4me2X xs4me2

                  @benroyce

                  The biggest danger indeed, lack of focus and lack of alignment. The biggest problem, how to tackle undemocratic forces in a democracy while it is under threat…

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                  @xs4me2

                  stand together

                  the left needs to get its fucking act together

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                  • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                    @TenPastTwo

                    #tankies are mindless contrarians

                    "i hate the usa so i support vile regimes" is not principled nor moral

                    the moral, principled approach is to castigate the #USA *and* #Russia

                    supporting Russian #imperialism in the name of opposing American imperialism is just fucking stupid

                    so supposedly intellectual #NoamChomsky is functioning on the same level as a 14 year old edgelord in this fashion

                    #Chomsky's pedophile apologism in the #EpsteinFiles is just the final nail in the coffin

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                    @benroyce @TenPastTwo all the weirder for Chomsky being an anarchist rather than a tankie

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                    • IanMoore3000I IanMoore3000

                      @benroyce @TenPastTwo all the weirder for Chomsky being an anarchist rather than a tankie

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                      @IanMoore3000 @TenPastTwo

                      I think pedophile apologist is the most apt label now

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                      • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                        @nap

                        it was that post that inspired the top level comment of mine you are criticizing

                        where you see contradiction is in reality perfect consistency

                        fuck Hochul but she is not MAGA

                        that's my point

                        what the fuck does anyone gain from attacking Hochul, *especially* in the context of a topic change from attacking Trump?

                        criticizing someone for attacking the left is not the same as criticizing those who are doing that

                        do you understand that?

                        it's not complicated

                        you are incoherent

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                        @benroyce Just because you do not understand what I am saying, does not mean that I am incoherent.

                        You seem to be pretty preoccupied with how people vote. Well, right now, in New York, there are thousands of voters who are fighting for their livelihoods. Kathy Hochul is actively stymieing their efforts. You are more upset with someone who is saying that she shouldn't do that than you are with her for doing that. And, you are doing this because, "[you] agree with [them] in the goal [they] seek, but [you] can't agree with [their] methods of direct action."

                        Like, what is the purpose of the Left if not to help working people seek better wages and working conditions? To provide them with dignity and equality?

                        This isn't a team sport. This is real life where real people are really fighting to survive. And, you are being a rude prick to those people because one of them made an extremely mild criticism about someone on the blue team.

                        Touch grass and open a book.

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                        • N Alex

                          @benroyce Just because you do not understand what I am saying, does not mean that I am incoherent.

                          You seem to be pretty preoccupied with how people vote. Well, right now, in New York, there are thousands of voters who are fighting for their livelihoods. Kathy Hochul is actively stymieing their efforts. You are more upset with someone who is saying that she shouldn't do that than you are with her for doing that. And, you are doing this because, "[you] agree with [them] in the goal [they] seek, but [you] can't agree with [their] methods of direct action."

                          Like, what is the purpose of the Left if not to help working people seek better wages and working conditions? To provide them with dignity and equality?

                          This isn't a team sport. This is real life where real people are really fighting to survive. And, you are being a rude prick to those people because one of them made an extremely mild criticism about someone on the blue team.

                          Touch grass and open a book.

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                          @nap

                          Anyone changing the topic to criticizing hochul under a comment criticizing trump is a fucking loser

                          We are struggling because of MAGA, for one, and also because of complete morons like yourself who won't criticize MAGA because you're too fucking stupid to understand *that* is job #1 is to make our lives better

                          Divided in infighting

                          Is any of that confusing to you you useless fuckwit?

                          *you* are the problem

                          If we are going to improve this world you need to grow a fucking brain

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                          • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                            @nap

                            Anyone changing the topic to criticizing hochul under a comment criticizing trump is a fucking loser

                            We are struggling because of MAGA, for one, and also because of complete morons like yourself who won't criticize MAGA because you're too fucking stupid to understand *that* is job #1 is to make our lives better

                            Divided in infighting

                            Is any of that confusing to you you useless fuckwit?

                            *you* are the problem

                            If we are going to improve this world you need to grow a fucking brain

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                            @benroyce

                            Keyboard warriors like you are the problem, and I think the reason you have so much vitriol for me is because you know that. Anytime you see someone with principle or conviction, it shames you because you have none. When you watch people do brave things, it shames you because you are a coward. You have never done anything besides post, you will never do anything besides post, and you are incapable of organizing anyone to power because you are so contemptible.

                            It does not have to be this way, but you are far too narcissistic to allow the thought that you might be wrongheaded to cross your mind.

                            It is lucky that, when people like me eventually prevail over the myopic avarice of liberalism, that people like you will just go along with us, because we will become your team.

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                            • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                              @nap

                              Anyone changing the topic to criticizing hochul under a comment criticizing trump is a fucking loser

                              We are struggling because of MAGA, for one, and also because of complete morons like yourself who won't criticize MAGA because you're too fucking stupid to understand *that* is job #1 is to make our lives better

                              Divided in infighting

                              Is any of that confusing to you you useless fuckwit?

                              *you* are the problem

                              If we are going to improve this world you need to grow a fucking brain

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                              @nap

                              Alex the keyboard warrior complaining about keyboard warriors

                              and then the instablock, speaking of cowardice

                              but not before some oddly specific insults about feelings of impotency. i say oddly specific because the emotionally immature always reveal their own internal struggles in the shaping of their insult tracks

                              people like Alex are what is wrong with the USA, as much as MAGA

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                              • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                                Part of the reason for the USA's failure is MAGA but the other big aspect is a left that does not engage the real enemy

                                Toxic idealism

                                Spineless capitulation

                                Mindless cynicism

                                "Polite society" "high road" cluelessness

                                And lazy entitlement

                                Not financial entitlement but this obtuse entitled foolishness that we have the time and space to criticize some aspect of the left according to deranged standards of perfection when we're facing literal fascism

                                Make MAGA the target of your venom

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                                @benroyce The Red Skull, the leader of Hydra, said to Captain America,

                                "Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say, you do it better than anyone."

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                                • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                                  @TenPastTwo

                                  i won't troll you but i will castigate you

                                  never mention #Chomsky again

                                  nevermind him licking #Putin's boots over the invasion of #Ukraine

                                  Noam is in the #EpsteinFiles defending #Epstein

                                  he did this *after* Epstein was revealed as a pedophile human trafficker

                                  Fuck #NoamChomsky

                                  And I am not attacking the left, ironically, in contradiction to what I have said above:

                                  A pedophile/ #imperialism apologist is not of the left

                                  Chomsky is not of the left

                                  Not anymore at least

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                                  @benroyce

                                  Ok then, if chomsky isn't on the left because he's a pedophile supporter (agreed) then people who eat other animals aren't on the left either because they perpetuate a globalised violent system of exploitation torture and murder for their own taste preferences in direct contradiction of left principles of justice equality and fairness.

                                  See what non-human victims go through
                                  VVV
                                  https://nationearth.com

                                  #Left #Leftism #Vegan #Veganism #TotalLiberation #Anarchism #Veganarchism #LeftistUnity

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                                  • Danish AkhtarD Danish Akhtar

                                    @benroyce The Red Skull, the leader of Hydra, said to Captain America,

                                    "Arrogance may not be a uniquely American trait, but I must say, you do it better than anyone."

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                                    @danish_akhtar7

                                    it's true

                                    our national character has rotted to a festering self-destructive mess of our own making

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                                      @benroyce

                                      Ok then, if chomsky isn't on the left because he's a pedophile supporter (agreed) then people who eat other animals aren't on the left either because they perpetuate a globalised violent system of exploitation torture and murder for their own taste preferences in direct contradiction of left principles of justice equality and fairness.

                                      See what non-human victims go through
                                      VVV
                                      https://nationearth.com

                                      #Left #Leftism #Vegan #Veganism #TotalLiberation #Anarchism #Veganarchism #LeftistUnity

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                                      @ambiguous_yelp

                                      interesting hijacking angle

                                      and while i have no problem with your agenda, the way you hijack this discussion isn't going to win you any converts

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                                      • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                                        @ambiguous_yelp

                                        interesting hijacking angle

                                        and while i have no problem with your agenda, the way you hijack this discussion isn't going to win you any converts

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                                        I imagine I'm one of those perfectionists you're complaining about because I don't work with carnist leftists ie 95% of them

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                                        • Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦B Ben Royce πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

                                          @ambiguous_yelp

                                          interesting hijacking angle

                                          and while i have no problem with your agenda, the way you hijack this discussion isn't going to win you any converts

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                                          @benroyce

                                          This is the larger point I was trying to make and why I don't consider what I did as hijacking

                                          You start off by saying the left must be united against the right, but then you carve out a specific exception for when we should shun those on the "left". When people "divide the left" they do it for principled reasons not because theyre opposed to any sort of collaboration. In fact it is the whole idea of "leftist unity" that is idealist, the idea that eveyrone on the left shares fundamental values is just naive and kind of patronising. Really the labels left and right aren't very useful at all they are broad tendancies and don't point to any particular ideology or set of foundational beliefs.

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