My life is not a dinner party you debate with fucking fascists, and nobody deserves a platform of millions to say people like me shouldn't exist.

- Fin

So no, I'm not surprised to see Chomsky there. He has some great political stuff, he was a great debater at times, but his allegiance isn't with the oppressed, it's with ideas. And while there's certainly overlap between the two, they are not the same.

They are the kissing cousins of toxic leftists who are "just asking questions", or think we need to form alliances with monsters who we agree with one thing on, or those who think Holocaust deniers deserve a fucking platform.

What people might not know is Epstein had A LOT of friends in all walks of life, but particularly intellectuals. Scientists like Laurence Krauss and Steven Pinker were close friends of his, and Laurence Krauss even tripled down on his disgusting friendship going as far as victim blaming young girls.

There is a whole brand of person who thinks that the material world is a secondary concern to the "marketplace of ideas". That Holocaust deniers, or Charlie Kirk, just need to be debated out of existence, and their ideas will be shamed into defeat.

The point is, we only have as much free speech as we are "allowed", and we are seeing right now what happens when monsters get big platforms. Fascists don't argue to change minds, they do it to recruit, and boy have they recruited. Chomsky is partially complicit in this.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories but I do strongly suspect this was a huge reason why Twitter became what it is today.

(Not glazing Twitter that place has always been a cess pit, just acknowledging uncomfortable contradictions)

This sounds counter intuitive to anyone who has a social media account literally anywhere. As a matter of fact, a lot of first hand accounts of BLM protests broke on Twitter, and they often became primary sources for the actual news outlets because they were so ahead of the game.

What I wish I could have told myself back then is that not all "free speech" is equal, and how much you have is very tightly wound up with how much money you have.

(I'm getting to Epstein hold on)

I don't believe that Chomsky is a Holocaust denier, and to be honest, that line stuck with me for many years and became the backbone of a political philosophy I stubbornly held on to until I spent 5 minutes online as an openly trans person.

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You want people to act like adults start with yourself, you are here in bad faith offering a hand grenade as an olive branch.

I mean the second half is also true obviously, but that's the game we've been playing since the dawn of capitalism, it's just more now...

Do some people also not know that..?