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Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
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I'm sure Epstein was very far from the only Epstein, too.
Considering that abusive sociopaths with entirely too much money don't seem to have much in the way of imagination, screwing the vulnerable seems to be their ultimate fantasy. Like they can't come up with anything more satisfying or interesting to do with all those riches.
@violetmadder I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the story of Sacha Baron Cohen accidentally finding a pedo ring and the FBI declining to investigate...
Of course they didn't investigate, because they already knew what they'd find.
Long after the official abolition of slavery, Theodore Roosevelt decided to do something about all the reports of it still happening. He sent the secret service out to investigate and they realized that actually doing something would basically dismantle the entire Southern power structure. Slavery was still everywhere. Agents started getting shot at and they backed down. No one touched the issue again until WWII.
I get the feeling that this is the same type of thing. To do something would annihilate the power structure, so they just pretend everything is fine and keep going. Like, the QAnon shit is silly but I do think there's a lot more because power imbalances alone drive people to become abusive. There just can't be this level of power imbalance without something fucked up going on.
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Thank you. Rural community are targets for fraud. There was a thing called "snake oil salesman" back in the day.
The most important thing in my mind about the Epstein paradox is that the Government claims he committed suicide.
As citizens, we should all be on high alert when our due process rights are ignored and discarded in favor of the US government narrative. Epstein was evil and likely was blackmailing his customers...
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#RapeCulture and pedophilia is always about power. Everywhere. In my youth, at the age of 14, I fortunately was able to escape an "old friend of the family", in a german rural village, who cornered me and tried to abuse me. A girlfriend of mine had been abused by the local pastor. The rural communities know very well that this kind of evil is among them, but in my experience, in their neighborhood they are fine with looking away.
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harrowing story. And sadly you're probably right and that type of thing isn't as rare as we would like to believe.
I think the raving hatred of pedophiles also serves as a psychological projection mechanism. Some of these people are pedos themselves. Some of them know people who are. Some of them may just have hunches about friends, family members, colleagues. Some of them beat their kids. Some of them have raped or assaulted adults.
QAnon and similar conspiracy narratives allow them to lock away that guilt and suspicion and direct it at political opponents who are so far away, they barely even seem human.
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you're definitely on to something. I never stopped to think about it, but in rural areas, pedophilia and basically every other form of abuse is more known and accepted and something to just avoid rather than to confront. Part of it is the culture, the more progressive and proactive people tend to leave those areas. And part of it is the relative wilderness of it, where you know that your neighbors are few and far between, so the likelihood of someone seeing, caring, or helping is much lower. And the authorities are fewer, more distant, and more openly corrupt. Being a girl or young woman in the country feels like being a prey animal in the wild. You constantly have to watch your back, know who is around, avoid going anywhere alone. And I was targeted by creeps way more as a young teenager than in my 20s. The sexual predation starts around 12 years old for most women I think, often before they have any understanding of what it is. A few other women will whisper "look out for that guy" and then people invite him to the barbecue anyway.
Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Sounds familiar enough...
Couple high points from my small town cops:
The time the cop accidentally locked himself in the back of his cruiser with an underage girl. Their clothes were NOT in the back with them.
The time the cop accidentally filmed himself having sex with the underage girl at the local drive-in burger joint. I don't know if he thought the security camera was off, or what.
David Lammy has joined other foreign ministers in condemning the Israeli government for depriving Gazans "of human dignity" as they called on the war to "end now".
Chaque jour, des Israéliens viennent contempler, d’un promontoire transformé en mémorial du 7-Octobre, la guerre qui ravage l’enclave palestinienne et fait, quotidiennement, des dizaines de morts.
Pro-Banderista General Is New Head of the German Army July 2, 2025 . 11:43 AM 1 min read
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius appointed Major General Christian Freuding as the new chief (General Inspector) of the German Army. Freuding has led the planning staff of the Army and the situation room for Ukraine. source
I don't doubt the content. I just want to point out that this is a La Rouche publication. I think you could run into an open knife with such links. Do you know La Rouche?
@Diggers If you don't listen to the enemy's radio station, then you don't have a perspective on facts that may be hidden in your home country. However, it should not be forgotten that the enemy broadcaster is also trying to form your opinion.
It's not about what you read. I really only meant well. Because that makes you unnecessarily vulnerable. I was also shocked that Kim Iversen gave La Roughe a stage from time to time. And I'll ask you again. Do you know La Rouche? So I'm not just talking about hearsay. I know their methods, because I've often encountered them in some of their spin-offs. Sect is really the closest thing to it.
That's a good question. Don't expect me to give you a definition right now. I'll tell you how I differentiate between the two. A sect is not a voluntary gathering of all sect members. There is at least peer pressure, but sometimes also deliberate psychological terror. A cult, on the other hand, is something people join voluntarily. That's what I mean about La Rouche. It's often married couples who take on the leading role. They set themselves apart from all other groups. They are very engaging. In left-wing circles, there are many circles that all have something sect-like about them, but even the MLPD would not be described as sectarian in the same way as La Rouche. La Rouche members are very demanding; they quickly sell you a newspaper or something similar. This is in stark contrast to other left-wing groups. La Rouche may have been anchored in the left-wing milieu at some point, but they are very technocratic, cybernetics, fusion reactors, etc. It's all very strange and, in some cases, unique to this group.
In doing so, Pashinyan systematically neutralized all domestic opposition. Most recently, he turned his sights on the Armenian Apostolic Church. Declaring himself the leader of a divine national mission, he accused the clergy of being heretical, anti-national, and enemies of the state. Pashinyan now pledges to personally “cleanse” the institution, accusing Armenia's Archbishop Acapahyan of displaying a “complete lack of connection and relationship … with Jesus Christ and His teachings.”
Azerbaijan and Armenia’s growing alignment disguises a deeper agenda: expel Russia from the Caucasus and reorient the region to support western interests. Iran, meanwhile, draws its territorial red lines.
In the early days, Super Nintendo Emulation was inaccurate and required a fast Pentium II PC to run at full speeds with sound, but in 1997 everything changed...
Microsoft wants to know why, exactly, Windows 11 is slow, so it’s adding a feature in the latest Insider Preview to collect data when a Windows 11 machine is experiencing slowness or sluggishness.
Plot twist: Microsoft finds out that data collection is the reason Windows 11 is so slow.
If everything is eventually evolving into Crabs and the genus Brassica keeps expanding to become more and then everything, then logically the final form of all life will be a Crab Cabbage, or “Crabbage” if you will.
Two people, including a child, were seriously injured on Saturday evening in a spectacular accident which saw a car leave the road, crash through a hedge and hit a trampoline before lodging itself in the roof of a barn.
For some reason, Democrats are flocking to deep-red South Carolina. In recent weeks, California Gov. Gavin Newsom; Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and Kentucky Gov. Andy...
Όταν συναντάω τι γράφω μερικές φορές λέω στον εαυτό μου, τι ωραία που τα λες ρε σύ! Μπράβο σου δηλαδή, οι τελείες, τα κόμματα (κόμματα με ένα μυ?) Ιτώνη μου, τα ερωτηματικά, δίνουν όλο το νόημα ρε παιδί μου & ακριβώς, με θαυμάζω δηλαδή 🖐️
So what's the plan here? We just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments?
And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization is comfortable allowing something like that to happen? And that our rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any time?
We're just meant to be cool with that? And go on living like it's normal?
Mikhail Bakunin: “I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.”
FTA: "Trump has been racing over those alligator-backs for so long now, it can sometimes feel like he'll never miss a step. But he's one snap away from losing a leg, and after that, it'll be a bloodbath."
As Jigsaw would say, "oh yes, there will be blood."
I saw a video on twitter earlier today where someone was annoying a little black kid. Giving him some candy thing and ripping it away again repeatedly. And someone reposted it as proof that dark skin people are inherently born evil.
Right because no other race would have a baby get annoyed and scream if they actively get fucked with.
Aruban-Argentine writer Arturo Desimone explains how the European Union's worship of the U.S. has doomed them to weakness, how NATO’s Mark Rutte financed jih...
action games that involve a man beating on others with a licensed music budget for songs from the 2000s that exceeds development cost are in fact "hard as fuck". being denied my linkin park soundalike songs (or on some cases, the actual songs) in these games should be considered a high crime and lead to the immediate termination of the company that would think to create something like that.
the dubbed dragon ball z movies had the right idea (Sorry, Europeans!) and I won't rest until every game that has technobop, holy choir, and/or AMBIENT music in their big final boss battles as had a complaint filed to the company that made it.
> Thing from the 20th century that killed millions of people was actually good and should be tried again and the only reason it failed was because of reasons (Jews, never been tried, ww2, ...) not because it's actually a terrible idea. Also I have no interest in slightly more moderate governments which had many of the same principles but actually survived more than a few decades and were not a massive blood bath.
we are in a day and age where the only way to matter to tech giants is to hurt them directly. Boycotting doesn't work, it's been proven. Most people don't care about it anymore, some are even annoyed at people who denounce the catastrophic consequences of AI over and over. So what else can we do? What other options do we have except preventing its access to us and bombing it?
You don't need Anubis. Preventing scraping is an old problem, usually solved using blocklists and rate limiting and many other techniques. Please only use Anubis only as a last resort.
AI scrapers are LITERALLY BYPASSING block lists and robots.txt. Rate limiting only slows them down and will hurt regular users' experience. The "many other techniques" are either unheard of or unreasonable to use. Anubis just works and works well. Are for or against AI?
I am not against AI as a concept as I think machine learning programs can be useful for many tasks. I don't want to completely discredit an entire section of computer science research. I have even written some of my own machine learning programs.
But it is true that many companies at the moment are not behaving ethically in many aspects, like making their machine learning models proprietary and only usable behind a proprietary SaaSS API and lying to public about what their programs are capable of. I obviously do not support companies such as OpenAI, Twitter, Google or Facebook.
Of course the scraping they do is terrible too. It is essentially a DDOS attack and the companies doing this should be taking to court as conducting DDOS attacks is literally illegal in most parts of the world.
However I also think Anubis as a countermeasure is quite unacceptable for regular users just trying to read a website. It requires me to enable javascript and it also requires me to disable the JShelter browser addon (which is supposed to prevent malware from running on your machine). So what Anubis is doing is equivalent to malware, even though that is not the intend.
first of all let me apologise for being so aggressive in the past post. I understand your stance on AI, as a concept, it's not evil. What you say about JavaScript is a valid concern, and you should see if it's possible to run Anubis with JShelter, ask on their repo. But requiring it to be disabled doesn't make it malware. Anubis is open-source and you can check out the code for it here : github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis And even though it could be hijacked to make it malware, the people who use Anubis set it up themselves, and they obviously won't just let malware run on *their own website*. Overall, you're extremely unlikely to be up against malware with Anubis. If you're still worried, you should blame the scrapers, not the users of Anubis. Scraping costs them A LOT. They're doing this as self-defense and preservation.
... Because it's not requiring you to mine bitcoin?? If it did, and transferred you the bitcoin you earned in your wallet, I don't think too many people would complain, considering it's self-defense, and the only alternative is NOT having the site be available at all. If it stole that bitcoin, that would be a whole different story. But it's not. It's just requiring proof of work. You need to understand that whatever tests you can make a scraper do, AI companies will try to (by)pass them. The only known solution to this problem that's available RIGHT NOW, because hosters need it to stop NOW, not after they figure out a new way to block scrapers, is Anubis. Hosters don't have the resources to jump method-to-method, test to test, block to block as soon as the thing they use gets inevitably passed by scrapers. They need something that WORKS and will KEEP working. Overall, I think you don't measure how much stress (financial, or resource-wise) this is putting on hosters. They are resorting to Anubis knowing that it's slow. They just can't afford to do anything else. To come back to the dilemma : you can only use Anubis, or make scrapers stop by getting their attention.
indeed, it isn't requiring you to mine bitcoin. it's worse: it's requiring you to waste your computing resources, so that the site doesn't have to waste fewer resources of its own. proof of waste is an overall environmental, security and freedom loss. blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-2…
oh what's that? too risky? you're scared? you have family and friends? you don't want to help me destroy datacenters because its dangerous and stuff? well then shut your bitch ass up and give me proof of work.
"Ils viennent d’avoir le bac et s’apprêtent à quitter leurs montagnes pour les études. Au cœur du Massif du Jura, la jeunesse de la ville de Saint-Claude raconte ses envies d’ailleurs, souvent restreintes par le manque de transports et de moyens.Reportages"
I DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE LOLCOWLIZATION DONE BY THOSE CALIFORNIANS "NATIE" IS WORSE THAN NEI-CHAN AS NEI-CHAN IS SIMILAR TO NEE-CHAN SINCE SHES AN OLDER SISTER "NATIE" DOESN'T HAVE SHIT ON THAT
Το ντοκιμαντέρ καταγράφει τη μοναδική διάσχιση των τριών ψηλότερων βουνών της Ηπείρου —Γράμμου, Σμόλικα και Τύμφης— μέσα από τις Δρακόλιμνές τους, από τον Θοδωρή Ζιάκκα, σε μια ξεχωριστή αθλητική πράξη με βαθύ οικολογικό μήνυμα και στόχο την ανάδειξη της παρθένας φύσης της Πίνδου.
Φανταστείτε λέει να υπήρχαν παίκτριες με διπλό διαβατήριο που είχαν το δικαίωμα να επιλέξουν με ποια εθνική ομάδα θα έπαιζαν και να επέλεγαν τις ΗΠΑ για να κερδίσουν περισσότερα μετάλλια. Ουπππς Τι? Υπάρχουν στ αληθεια?
»Two individuals responsible for grave international crimes—including war crimes and genocide committed in the Gaza Strip—are currently on Belgian soil, attending the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom.«
Brussels, Boom – 19 July 2025 Two individuals responsible for grave international crimes—including war crimes and genocide committed in the Gaza Strip—are currently on Belgian soil, attending...
»They are directly implicated in some of the most egregious crimes committed during Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza, including:
Indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, homes, and hospitals; The use of torture and human shields; Mass arbitrary detention and forced displacement of civilians; And the deliberate infliction of conditions calculated to destroy the Palestinian population, consistent with genocide under Article 6 of the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention.«
Update: »Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war crimes in Gaza.«
»The suspects were identified and arrested with a clear show of force at the Tomorrowland festival in Boom. After being taken into custody, they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway.« hindrajabfoundation.org/perpet…
Boom, Belgium — In what may become a turning point in the global pursuit of accountability, Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers credibly accused of war...
It's a shame there isn't more information, such as whether they are allowed to leave the country, or whether the criminal investigation means that the interrogation yielded incriminating insights (or at least, failed to establish their innocence) or was already in place as the basis for the temporary arrest…
Under National socialism, unemployment was cut from 50% to 2%
A nation where before millions were starving was now thriving. So much that former German territories asked to once again be united with Germany. A Germany that quickly advanced and became the leading industrial nation in the world.
National Socialism can never be compared to Jewish Socialism.
Please do not compare National Socialism with the Jewish Socialism as described by the Jew Ludwig Von Mises
I didn't see the link when I first answered, I could only see Ur comment. But "Socialism" and Socialist economy as described by Mises had nothing to do with National Socialism.
If U claim that Adolf Hitler faked economic development then U are miss informed.
What National Socialists did under Adolf Hitler was not some political trick. They transformed the nation in a way that no other nation have done. Their progress have not seen the likes after or before.
Germany under that time was not a planed economy. Like I already said, it was nothing like communism.
U do well to actually read something. Preferably not Jewish propaganda.
I have noticed a disturbing trend in #donation pages of respectable #charities.
In the course of the last few months, it seems that the options to designate a donation to a specific world region or conflict zone have been silently dropped, and replaced by generic "designate globally" donation forms.
Charities may always take the stand that they know best where donations should flow, of course.
I find it slightly unethical though to use photographs of the #Gaza genocide for fundraising, when donors are only informed in the small print that their donations are distributed world-wide.
If you know of trustworthy charities that don't follow this trend, please suggest the respective URLs in a reply. If you're a VPN user, by all means pick a US-based server for testing, and check where the respective donation link leads you to, before recommending it.
❞ Will this dropping of the fig leaf of Israeli ‘liberalism’ finally make Druze Palestinians aware of the way they have been suckered into service and loyalty for a state that ultimately reviles them as Palestinians? One can only hope. ❝
~American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test~
Ιούλιος 1945, μια παρέα 13χρονων κοριτσιών πάνε κατασκήνωση και κολυμπούν στα νερά του ποταμού Ruidoso του New Mexico. Αυτό που δεν γνώριζαν τα κορίτσια είναι ότι εκεί κοντά, το Manhattan Project πυροδότησε δοκιμαστικά μια πυρηνική βόμβα. Όλα τα κορίτσια πέθαναν από καρκίνο πριν τα 30 τους, μοναδική επιζών η Barbara Kent, το κορίτσι μπροστά στην φώτο, αναλυτικά στο
The Trinity test site was chosen, in part, for its supposed remove from human inhabitation. Yet nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion, with some as close as 12 miles away.
wwwwow crazy. more #ResistanceGB revealing their crazy, and the crazier they report on...
how thin the veil on christian fascism, and nothing christian about it.
[1]problem? the other.
how shallow manipulative.
and did you catch all the outrageous bald faced hypocrisy too? the things we hate in others, are the things we hate in ourselves, yet do not face.
and wtf was that bs about Catholicism as the paragon of virtue he spouted? ... like the scandals are not enough clue?
so much more... one could critique for an hour, every utterance, uttered without any witting irony...
astonishing.
good to be aware.
hopefully more people see such for what it is, not for what it strives to preen as, and more so, people see past their "othering" hateful distraction ploy, and even more so yet, look to somewhere that's actually going to do something good.
gotta wonder too... is it psyop at the level of making us hate the idea of being independent, if that's what those most vocal for independence are like? ew. wouldnt wanna be like that. better join the other groupthink instead, huh?
[1: [nor nationalist. [pls stop using language of the oppressor... oh, national, that's nice, socialist, that's nice... see? lets start calling them what they are. totalitarianising fascist supremacist eugenicists]] "christian nationalist", "national socialist", #stopfallingforit #theylie #bewarethenamechangers #itsjustmarketing ]
seems easier, if you're "really" christian, you'd be better considering:
WWJD
... doesnt seem likely that this paragon of virtue we all hold up in such high regard, would be encouraging the kinds of things that monster was ranting hatefully about. ... i must have missed that version of the bible where jesus avoids mentioning helping the sick and poor etc, and instead rants on about the other being the problem, and that if we could just get them, everything would be fine. ... could swore the genius of it, almost like the defining grand spiritual emphasis clarification evolution that is christianity, is the forgiveness... to no longer be making the whole world blind with an eye for an eye, instead turning the other cheek, expediting peace and introspection in the cestation of the generation of fear, hate, and anger... no? ... maybe i need go see what sacrement this guy's using. maybe i have the wrong end of the stick, and jesus really wants us to arm up with uzis and go kill people who are not the right colour or accent or whatever next criteria in this tightening exploit of a true scotsman fallacy. what an obnoxious set of ideas espoused by that fella... but hey, maybe he has some insight... we should approach him with our socratic questions...
ps, some of those stopped clocks could chirp well when it was just problem identification re-chirpings... but when you start probing them for what their ideas are in terms of an ideal outcome and means of remedy... wwwwow does the crazy come out. #weareinalotoftrouble #idiocracy #stultophobia
reminds me of my advocacy of broad spectrum aptitude testing, to help avail to people, where they're a fucking idiot and should take a step back before they do serious harm.
and simultaneously reminds of (worth looking up the whole bit, or even the whole set, but that minute clip probably gets the main gist).
“Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an…
"Πάργα: Απευθείας ανάθεση σε επαγγελματία που είναι υπόδικος για ηθική αυτουργία σε ληστεία.
Σημειώνεται ότι ο ίδιος επαγγελματίας έχει λάβει πολλές απευθείας αναθέσεις συνολικού ύψους εκατοντάδων χιλιάδων ευρώ τα τελευταία χρόνια από τον Δήμο Πάργας."
φίλος ήθελε βοήθεια με τα ΕΣΠΑ για τα eshop, αν θυμάσαι. Φυσικά πήρε τα… (συμπληρώνεις κατά το δοκούν). Του έλεγα δεν είναι για την πλεμπα, θα τα φάνε μεταξύ τους. Οχι μου έλεγε, υπάρχει αριστεία, αξιοκρατία, διαγωνισμοί και άλλα κουλά. Τελικά τα έκλεισε όλα και έφυγε έξω.
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Violet Madder
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I'm sure Epstein was very far from the only Epstein, too.
Considering that abusive sociopaths with entirely too much money don't seem to have much in the way of imagination, screwing the vulnerable seems to be their ultimate fantasy. Like they can't come up with anything more satisfying or interesting to do with all those riches.
hex
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@violetmadder I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers the story of Sacha Baron Cohen accidentally finding a pedo ring and the FBI declining to investigate...
independent.co.uk/arts-enterta…
Of course they didn't investigate, because they already knew what they'd find.
Long after the official abolition of slavery, Theodore Roosevelt decided to do something about all the reports of it still happening. He sent the secret service out to investigate and they realized that actually doing something would basically dismantle the entire Southern power structure. Slavery was still everywhere. Agents started getting shot at and they backed down. No one touched the issue again until WWII.
I get the feeling that this is the same type of thing. To do something would annihilate the power structure, so they just pretend everything is fine and keep going. Like, the QAnon shit is silly but I do think there's a lot more because power imbalances alone drive people to become abusive. There just can't be this level of power imbalance without something fucked up going on.
Sacha Baron Cohen thought he had exposed paedophile ring while filming 'Who Is America?' | The Independent
Jacob Stolworthy (The Independent)Violet Madder
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Exactly. If anyone went after one of these lists with REAL rigor, it would bring probably at least 90% of Washington and Wall St crashing down.
Ain't happening. Not in this system.
hex
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Fyi, the Legal Eagle video on Epstein
youtu.be/4Xuu7Jtt-ik
The Epstein File Fiasco
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Thank you. Rural community are targets for fraud. There was a thing called "snake oil salesman" back in the day.
The most important thing in my mind about the Epstein paradox is that the Government claims he committed suicide.
As citizens, we should all be on high alert when our due process rights are ignored and discarded in favor of the US government narrative.
Epstein was evil and likely was blackmailing his customers...
Groschenromanautorin
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schratze
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harrowing story. And sadly you're probably right and that type of thing isn't as rare as we would like to believe.
I think the raving hatred of pedophiles also serves as a psychological projection mechanism. Some of these people are pedos themselves. Some of them know people who are. Some of them may just have hunches about friends, family members, colleagues. Some of them beat their kids. Some of them have raped or assaulted adults.
QAnon and similar conspiracy narratives allow them to lock away that guilt and suspicion and direct it at political opponents who are so far away, they barely even seem human.
Mother Anarchy
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The Great Llama
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Couple high points from my small town cops:
The time the cop accidentally locked himself in the back of his cruiser with an underage girl. Their clothes were NOT in the back with them.
The time the cop accidentally filmed himself having sex with the underage girl at the local drive-in burger joint. I don't know if he thought the security camera was off, or what.