• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      Ditto. Specially because they’re focusing on the executives of those organisations, i.e. the people with actual decision power. That’s the right way to do it.

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    No, I’m not defending Epstein. Fuck that guy and all his cronies. But you guys are being played like a piano.

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        You have literally gone from persecuting child rapists to persecuting people who might be child rapists to people who might be associated with people who might be child rapists. You’re literally persecuting paleontologists. That’s insane.

        If I was going to fuck up a society or make a big distraction this is probably how I do it.

        Hook them with the worst thing in the world. Get them pointing fingers at each other. And while they’re distracted, fuck with Greenland or something

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          People directly corresponding with and doing business with someone after they have been convicted of raping and trafficking literal children is a bit beyond association. That’s not hard to comprehend. They’re not taking them to court, they’re choosing to have nothing to do with them.

          You’ve got some boot polish on your nose, there.

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    That motherfucker ruined tarnished dinosaurs too!? edit, i still like dinosaurs.

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      That fucker ruined Linguistics too — he was in friendly terms with Noam Chomsky.

      Personally I am not aware on how much Chomsky should be blamed for this association; it’s possible Epstein was simply using him. But even in the hypothesis Chomsky is innocent, it stinks.

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        When Chomsky was asked what he corresponded with epstein about years ago, he said essentially “none of your fucking business”.

        Which is such a bad answer, I am half inclined to believe he just wanted help filing his taxes and a guilty Chomsky would have the sense to lie.

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          I am half inclined to believe he just wanted help filing his taxes and a guilty Chomsky would have the sense to lie.

          Yup, that sounds like him. He isn’t above bullshitting but not bothering to bullshit hints he believed he had nothing to hide.

          I guess he’s still in the “when in doubt, treat them as innocent” category for me.

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            That sounds like Chomsky? Doing the taxes of an uber wealth financier/convicted pedophile?

            Stop lying to yourself.

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              That sounds like Chomsky? Doing the taxes of an uber wealth financier/convicted pedophile?

              The inverse: the über rich paedophile doing Chomsky’s taxes. Get things right if you want to screech dammit.

              Plus Chomsky being smart+shitty enough to bullshit when in trouble, instead of saying “none of your business”. If Chomsky did the later instead of the former, it’s a sign he didn’t see any need to bullshit.

              Stop lying to yourself.

              A person lying to oneself would not say “when in doubt”. Or to “not [be] aware on how much Chomsky should be blamed”. Or talk about the “hypothesis” he is innocent. They’d be vomiting certainty: “Chomsky is [innocent|guilty] lol”.

              Instead, a person lying to oneself would be vomiting certainty like an assumer, re-eating their own vomit, and expecting others to eat it too.

              So perhaps the one being a liar (or worse, an assumer) here is not me.

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                Sure thing, buddy. Whatever you need to tell yourself.

                We all knew who Epstein was by that point. He should know better.

                How self deluded do you need to be in order to convince yourself that Chomsky reached out to the most notorious convicted pedophile in American history for some help with his taxes?

                I mean, Jesus Christ dude… It’s like you NEED this to be true.