Well in game theory at least we learn tit-for-tat is a strategy that works. It's nice to see things finally being handled rationally around here, around these parts... ๐ค
13.08.2025 18:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@cade76.bsky.social
I'm an international human rights lawyer at Human Rights Now, a Tokyo-based NGO. I'm into int'l law, jazz piano, cognitive science & philosophy of mind, continental philosophy, modern art, indie games, movies and music, and lately quantum physics.
Well in game theory at least we learn tit-for-tat is a strategy that works. It's nice to see things finally being handled rationally around here, around these parts... ๐ค
13.08.2025 18:52 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0All roads lead to Katie Johnson's rape claim now.
The handler that witnessed the rape & signed an affidavit on it, Tiffany, Virginia's direct predecessor, was a witness for other victims that got compensation. It's only a matter of time until she's publicly seen w/the same credibility as Virginia.
According to Maria Farmer's 2020 interview (from 43:48 on this page www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/epstein-vict... ), by 1995 Ivana Trump was regularly joining Ghislaine Maxwell on the trips to the high school to bring back girls for Epstein to abuse. So I think it was way beyond "knew".
13.08.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0He assumes that every leader is as corrupt and lawless and as fine with corruption and lawlessness as he is.
13.08.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I believe the plan is to put them into internment camps, & if so it's a lot worse than that. It, along with the detention camps for the mentally ill and addicted persons, are the first steps in building a gulag archipelago to arbitrarily & indefinitely detain undesirables and critics of the regime.
12.08.2025 22:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I believe the plan is to put them into internment camps, & if so it's a lot worse than that. It, along with the detention camps for the mentally ill and addicted persons, are the first steps in building a gulag archipelago to arbitrarily & indefinitely detain undesirables and critics of the regime.
12.08.2025 22:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We have a consolidating DICTATORSHIP in our country
06.08.2025 19:28 โ ๐ 3942 ๐ 1754 ๐ฌ 155 ๐ 358In his worldview, "everybody is obviously abusive", so the only thing he recognizes is that "we" have more power than "them", so that our abuse can eliminate them before their abuse gets "us", by whatever means, and by we and us he just means himself of course. He throws everyone under the bus.
12.08.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I like how Stacy Williams puts it (speaking about being groped by him): "Everything Donald does is hidden in its brazenness. [He] just does it right out there, and everyone goes, well, that can't be happening because it's totally wrong and he's doing it right in front of everyone."
@20:45:
The point could be made even more strongly, in terms of what they claim to care about. If you actually listen to many religious same-sex couples, getting married and having a family is a really important element in their relationship with God that would actually be undermined by preventing it.
12.08.2025 19:22 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Of course before you even get that far, arbitrarily and indefinitely detaining the homeless, addicts, and mentally ill without evidence of wrong doing or due process is illegal and must be stopped to begin with.
12.08.2025 19:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was warning about this back in December. It was in the Project 2025 blueprint. It's what countries like China do.
It's easier to arbitrarily & indef'ly detain dissidents if you just call them homeless, addicts, or mentally ill since these people are assumed to be invisible, & basically they are.
Even w/all we know, just how involved will still shock people.
From Maria Farmer's 2020 interview from 43:48: "By 1995โฆ [Ghislaine] was full time getting children for [Epstein]โฆ And the other person going with her was Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivanaโฆ They'd come back & there'd be a pile of kids."
Worth noting that Trump didn't break with Jeffery but the other way, by the big betrayal in 2004. JE consulted w/DT on renovating Wexner's (JE's patron) Maison de l'Amitiรฉ when it went up for a bankruptcy sale, then Trump outbid him, bought it for $41M and sold it in 2008 for $95M to a Rus oligarch.
12.08.2025 11:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This quote still floors me. The Trumps not only knew but participated.
"By 1995โฆ [Ghislaine] was full time getting children for [Epstein]โฆ And the other person going with her was Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivanaโฆ They'd come back & there'd be a pile of kids."
Starting from 43:48, playable on this page:
They think it's not possible here even as it's happening in the full light of day for all to see.
Reminds me of people saying the US has never seen anything like fascism before, but the Jim Crow South was so openly fascist for like a century that Nazi Ger took notes & it just doesn't occur to them.
Listening to Stacey Williams's interview, it's the third time I've heard this theme about their rivalry.
1993: Epstein is enraged she "allowed" Donald to grope her.
1994: Epstein is enraged Donald took 13 year old Katie Johnson's virginity before him.
2000: Donald is upset Epstein "takes" Virginia.
Stacey Williams on being groped:
"You know, everything Donald does is hidden in its brazenness. [He] just does it right out there, and everyone goes, well, that can't be happening because it's totally wrong and he's doing it right in front of everyone. So therefore it can't be happening."
@20.45:
Keep spreading the word. They participated.
From Maria Farmer's 2020 interview:
"By 1995โฆ [Ghislaine] was full time getting children for [Epstein]โฆ And the other person going with her was Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivanaโฆ They'd come back & there'd be a pile of kids."
Starting from 43:48, playable here:
@nicholdav.bsky.social Yes, I think you probably recognized it, but the bottom is in fact Cisek's graph that I took from the time he spoke with Yohan John & friends: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Wz... It was a really influential talk for me at least.
11.08.2025 02:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I've got an intuition there are diminishing returns on human progress, but maybe they thought that way too about things we'd think very old fashioned now. But e.g. look at 1970 vs today compared to 1920 vs. 1970.
09.08.2025 07:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Quantum physics was invented 100 years ago this year, or anyway Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, the first really consistent & solid version of it, and looking at it now, I think that's still pretty modern and advanced, even by today's standards.
09.08.2025 07:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Harrison already said homeostasis, so I can't be original. But it always puts in my mind those behavioral state loops, so I felt topic-appropriately moved to post one or two.
09.08.2025 07:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1One of the first or early etymology stories that I recall striking me as fascinating is "strategy", which has its origins in stratum, the Latin word for lines, originally referring to the activity of creating the lines of Roman troop placements for battles.
09.08.2025 01:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I see what you did there.
09.08.2025 01:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Uncompassionate" isn't the word. He participated.
From Maria Farmer's 2020 interview:
"By 1995โฆ [Ghislaine] was full time getting children for [Epstein]โฆ And the other person going with her was Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivanaโฆ They'd come back & there'd be a pile of kids."
Starting from 43:48:
He needs to be held accountable through a fair judicial process for crimes so terrible that elementary schools will want to remove his face from those posters of presidents' faces classrooms have on their walls, not to mention the official portraits in official rooms.
08.08.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This episode: www.imdb.com/title/tt6869...
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