Chomsky wrote off a live genocide as a fabrication while the killing was still underway.
In 1977, with Pol Pot still in power, he wrote in The Nation that refugee accounts of Khmer Rouge executions were fabrications built to discredit the left.
Before the regime fell in 1979, about 1.7 million people, nearly a quarter of Cambodia, were dead from execution, starvation, and disease.
After that, he and Edward Herman treated survivor testimony as inherently unreliable and blamed Western journalists for inflating the violence to justify American intervention.
They accused François Ponchaud of revising his death toll upward for political effect. He denied it but Chomsky never retracted.
When Vietnam’s invasion made the atrocities undeniable, he recast it as a methods critique. The 1977 piece had already used “fabrication” and “conscious restructuring of history” for the mainstream accounts.
That same move is still the default on Xinjiang, Venezuela, and Cuba. The method outlived the dead.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus who had the searched the ancient annals of Rome, claimed he seen an old law which required the young to marry and outlawed celibacy.
Cicero’s treatise on the laws contained a law that forbid celibacy. At Sparta, the legislation of Lyrurgus deprived the man who did not marry of his citizenship.
A passage from Pollux claims that in multiple Greek cities they punished celibacy as a crime.
Have kids, even the ancients knew it.
NEW: The DOJ released photos of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter's guns: a shotgun with a trans flag-colored sticker, posed before a trans flag, and a rifle with a suppressor in trans flag colors.
Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people, six of them children aged 11 to 13.
Van Rootselaar sent the photos on Discord to James Cody Bryant, who also identifies as transgender.
Bryant, 30, of Bellingham, Washington, was charged yesterday with conspiracy to murder.
Prosecutors say he helped plan the shooting and agreed to livestream it.
And yet again.
I ask my family:
Did you see or hear about what is going on in the world?
One answer keeps coming:
NO.
If you aren’t on X, i
You oblivious to what is going on in the world.
Air travel is fundamentally a different service in the age of @Starlink. What I’m paying for is an Internet Cafe in the sky. Why would I pay for 6 hours at a Net Cafe without Internet? It’s more important than a bed. If Starlink is advertised and not working it’s kidnapping.
Grok Bot has completely broken my brain.
I got an insane amount of work done today.
But I genuinely feel like I did nothing.
Because I barely DID any of it.
I just told my AI team what needed to happen...
and it happened.
This is such a weird new version of work.
The sex difference in throwing is one of the largest behavioral sex differences ever measured. While training matters, the disparity appears to be mostly biological.
Yet Anne Fausto-Sterling argues in favor of pure socialization while ignoring a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
Few scholars claim to deny biology outright, with most agreeing that nature and nurture interact. In practice, however, they routinely reject biological explanations in favor of comparatively implausible environmental ones.
They pay lip service to biology, but never actually allow it to explain anything.
This new long read by professors Robert Deaner and Mike Lombardo examines the science of throwing, hunting, and combat, and ask a simple question:
What evidence would actually be allowed to count as evidence for an innate sex difference?
Read the free article on @RealLastStand below.
🔗https://t.co/HOT59TDQhE
More people died in France this year from not having air conditioning (7,300) than American deaths from mass shootings in all of recorded U.S. history (1,741).😬