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It’s interesting that only now he is stepping back now that he’s been found out. It demonstrates that it’s not about ethics or morals, but about publicity and d
by drivingmenuts 11mo ago
It’s interesting that only now he is stepping back now that he’s been found out. It demonstrates that it’s not about ethics or morals, but about publicity and damage control.
- egillie 11mo agomost of what we know today we knew years ago, too
- zem 11mo agoit's the good old eleventh commandment, "thou shalt not get caught"
- naIak 11mo agoI understand you want to highlight this, but you don’t have to begin your sentence with "It's interesting that..." because this is not interesting or novel in the slightest.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 11mo agoYou are entitled to your opinion and they theirs.
- drivingmenuts 11mo agoIt's interesting to me because how the hell did he think this was going to end? "Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't work in the court of public opinion. So, if one was even peripherally associated with Epstein, it would seem like that would be a hell of a liability. On a side note, did Epstein have employees on his sex island and what happened to them?
- JKCalhoun 11mo agoI assume that someone begining a sentence that way is implying "It is interesting to me that…" and I cut them some slack.
- bamboozled 11mo agoThe tax paying class of the world just have to watch all this horseshit go on, watch the institutions and the law enforcement agencies protect these people with our hard earned money, meanwhile if we break a single law, there are consequences for us, sometimes massive. It's a bullshit world we're living in, but I guess it's always been the same? It seems for the wealthy, raping children is an acceptable pastime and we're just supposed to accept that it's ok?
- standardUser 11mo agoBy most metrics, it's almost always been worse. But that doesn't make the modern era suck any less.
- stinkbeetle 11mo agoAnd would most of those metrics you allude to happen to have been brought to us by institutions like Harvard, or the US Treasury Department?
- Maxatar 11mo agoBrought to you by Steven Pinker, another one of Epstein's associates.
- standardUser 11mo agoI'm talking about disease prevention, maternal mortality, infant mortality, access to clean water, anesthetic(!!) and access to things like reading glasses and hearing aids and oh, I don't know, refrigeration. What does your precious Harvard and US Treasury Department have to say about that?
- JKCalhoun 11mo agoI think the topic though was corrupt abuses of power, lack of justice or accountability for the wealthy—those kinds of things.
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- tbrownaw 11mo agoHow do we know that whoever asked him to step down already privately knew?