• bulwark@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    That motherfucker ruined tarnished dinosaurs too!? edit, i still like dinosaurs.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      That fucker ruined Linguistics too — he was in friendly terms with Noam Chomsky.

      Personally I am not aware on how much Chomsky should be blamed for this association; it’s possible Epstein was simply using him. But even in the hypothesis Chomsky is innocent, it stinks.

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        When Chomsky was asked what he corresponded with epstein about years ago, he said essentially “none of your fucking business”.

        Which is such a bad answer, I am half inclined to believe he just wanted help filing his taxes and a guilty Chomsky would have the sense to lie.

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          I am half inclined to believe he just wanted help filing his taxes and a guilty Chomsky would have the sense to lie.

          Yup, that sounds like him. He isn’t above bullshitting but not bothering to bullshit hints he believed he had nothing to hide.

          I guess he’s still in the “when in doubt, treat them as innocent” category for me.

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      7 hours ago

      Sadly there’s a lot of intelectuals that were involved, Lawrence Krauss, Noem Chomsky, Steven Hawking just scratching the surface.