twovests wrote on March 17, 2022 at 9:16 PM

Reply to comment by neku in DSA on the war in Ukraine sucks ass, regrettably by Moonside

Also, the person we really ought to listen to is Noam Chomsky and the publication to read to stay informed on the war in Ukraine is The Jacobin.

What are you talking about???

I'm mainly lurking here but FWIW I read this as part of "The seeming conclusion", i.e. a take being criticized. I.e.

The seeming conclusion is [some stuff]. Also, the person we really ought to listen to is Noam Chomsky and the publication to read to stay informed on the war in Ukraine is The Jacobin.

neku wrote on March 17, 2022 at 9:33 PM

sure, but that's still totally unsupported by the actual contents of the thread??? its easy to say that DSA nerds love chomsky and jacobin, but the IC thread didnt have anything to do with them. just seemed like a totally unrelated barb thrown in for no reason

devtesla wrote on March 17, 2022 at 9:45 PM

it's online posting snark, Lol. I think it's a weird thing to be snarky about but whatever just post

twovests wrote on March 21, 2022 at 4:08 PM

Ah I misunderstood you. I thought you interpreted that as an unrelated and sincere suggestion from Moonside that we only listen to Chomsky and Jacobin

neku wrote on March 21, 2022 at 7:17 PM

oh yeah no i knew that was sarcastic. but there just wasnt anything in the dsa thread about jacobin or chomsky so i was like ??? where did this come from

Moonside OP wrote on March 19, 2022 at 3:43 AM

I'm just finding the appeal to Jacobin and Noam Chomsky to be signs of parochial and a sign of inflexibility, inability to develop self-standing expertise and research outside of one's own echo chamber, but it is also snark just as /u/devtesla said.