Counterpunch dives deep into Noam Chomsky apology-speak

Gotta "love" Counterpunch running a Noam Chomsky apologist over the Epstein files all while ignoring Chomsky is a lifelong member of the left hand of the duopoly who hates the Green Party and doesn't even talk about parties to his left. 

This all happened LONG before his stroke but long AFTER Epstein's 2008 conviction. The Guardian has more. 

And, the being in the tank for the duopoly has been ardent. 

Meanwhile, yeah, I still hold a bit of a grudge that Counterpunch never ran my Jim Stiles snark, here on Substack. St. Clair may have forgotten. Or he didn't like it. Perhaps like him at High Country News, I didn't fit the site's editorial needs. 

On the duopoly and other issues?

Chomsky signed that infamous Harper's letter. 

Chomsky signed another letter, just months earlier, along with other pseudoleftists, asking Howie Hawkins not to run for the presidency on the Green Party ticket. 

Chomsky was a sheepdogger long before. 

Is it any wonder I dropped Counterpunch from my blogroll, after it sheepdogged for both him, and sheepdogger-redux Ralph Nader? (St. Clair is still, I think, butthurt over Nader vs GP 2004. The GP wasn't totally in the right, but it was no more wrong than Nader, who is himself a pseudoleftist.)

People I've blocked on Reddit and why, Jan 2026 version

Even more than Substack, I wish I had started this long ago.

Better late than never.

A few things are guaranteed to get you blocked. 

One is being a wingnut. Sometimes that's pre-emptive after my first comment.

Usually not pre-emptive, but being a BlueAnon tribalist can cause the same.

Being long-winded in the service of refusing to admit wrongness will get this more and more, since Reddit, like Facebook, has just one tool.

Being not just an idiot, but a smug and condescending one, will also get the same

Ghost commenting? Absolutely. It's cowardly weaselshit, especially when used to make a comment you don't think mods will let stand.

That leads to LaridaeLover, who did that on r/birding.

The day before, Aug. 16, Boris_Godunov was the condescending idiot on r/classicalmusic.

Not blocked, certainly, but?

Surely I had posted — not just commented, but posted — enough on r/Secularism for this piece about "Saint Acutis" to be recognized as snark. I guess not. (I not only started commenting way some time back, but even joined, because it's called "secularism" and not "atheism.")

LibertarianMeme is Mises Mice. Unfortunately, the mods aren't listed. Because, of course, they're chickenshit. And boy is that place a swill-hole. 

Glad Fig and SituationExciting137 for both being fucking morons about baseball in general, sabermetrics in particular, and Cal Raleigh vs Aaron Judge for MVP in precision. Plus, "Situation" was pulling this "you whippersnappers, get off my lawn, you've never seen baseball" bullshit, which I called him out on, before blocking him.