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(I'm on team "Kash Patel would absolutely not keep that secret" and "that's not the sort of creep there's any other evidence of him being, mostly")

I have to assume that if he was an Epstein client, he told her no later than 2019, probably no later than 2015

Those aren't mutually exclusive! Especially for Boomers

I think with a lot of powerful men they see access to sex as their rightful due and that aren't all that embarrassed by that and for the longest time society as a whole wasn't either.

And yet even with that there are people who find a line to cross for the thrill of crossing it.

Not dismissing this, but consider: a discussion abt false accusations is very different when it's with someone envisioning themself as the accuser who isn't believed vs as the accused who would never Do That (regardless of the accuracy of that self-assessment)

Yeah but he obviously thinks assimilation is bad

I read it not as "she's hot except for her face" but as "people who rave about her don't mean her face, orthogonal to whether they should"

(Not that I have anyone specific in mind, but that's why I don't)

I don't want to answer this because I'd feel terrible if someone that person had victimized saw it

Hard to tell if he sees it that way

Crime is what criminals do. Someone who isn't a criminal (a category in which he includes all rich white people) cannot commit a crime, regardless of what they do. Criminals (a category in which he includes all nonwhite foreigners) commit crimes regardless of what they do

Oh good

Apparently Mace is withdrawing her name, but my source is BlueSky

Though I think the Venn diagram of "presidents who would accept it if impeached and removed" and "presidents who would resign before it reached that point if the writing were on the wall" is a circle

I think it should happen, but Trump is a really terrible president to bust out our removal from office procedures for. Johnson and Clinton would have gone quietly.

Just block the SWAT team and move on

I feel like at one time NAMBLA membership was seen as outre, perhaps, but not something sophisticated people were supposed to find truly objectionable.

the musical "Hair" features the following list: "Sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, pederasty."

In context of the show it is a list of sex acts that the MAN doesn't want us to do but which are harmless.

In reality three of the four are that, and the fourth is CSA.

The sixties were bad actually

I hadn't thought about this, but she's right, and I think the difference mattters in some ways

Or both

Who is guilty of worse wrongdoing here, Garland or Trump?

He's more of a Christian than a Nazi to the point that he's offended by Nazi paganism

Everybody: just put your Merrick Garland stuff on hold. Y’all talk about message discipline, now’s the time. Do this shit like tomorrow or Friday.

Yeah, I'm not sure how I personally feel about the Vetinari approach to justice here, but I definitely don't completely support it

I repeat, I don't need an edit button but I do need a drafts folder

I get what you're saying but I think they're pretty solidly correct in this particular case. But that's because I don't think what they're describing as "terminal Math Brain" is the same thing as knowing math. I'm not even sure the latter is necessary or sufficient for the former

When fighting and losing is treated as worse than just not fighting no one should be surprised when that's what they do.

One of the big stories of this age is fraudsters taking advantage of anti-establishment movements.

Kind of an endemic problem with US culture.

The poor people all work for Walmart, and Walmart sucks (because it underpays workers), ergo the workers don't deserve to eat, you see

If they say that, half this site will say "oh, they're just trying to divert attention from them selling out healthcare to feed poor people"