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- Comment on Kellogg ---> Epstein 1 day ago:
The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.
- Comment on News these days 2 days ago:
Gary Webb killed himself. He was divorced, unemployed, and his professional reputation was ruined. His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.
But his article was published and is still available to read. The idea that the CIA assassinates people 20 years after they “spill the secrets” stretches credulity. Makes since he’d punch his own ticket.
The idea that he was shot twice “in the back of the head” is a myth. He did shoot himself twice, but that’s not so unusual. 42% of gunshot and penetrative wounds to the brain are survivable.
This meme irritates me because it depends on the misinformation that suicides are unusual or suspicious. Suicides are common as dirt. To the tune of like 40K people/ year in the US. It’s a major public health crisis but gets ignored because of taboo and because it’s a gun issue.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 2 days ago:
Because WWII is the only history.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 3 days ago:
What you’re being distracted from is the fact that rape and sexual assault, especially of children is normal and accepted in our society. You may be confused by all the hate and demonetization pedophiles get, but like all rape, the status of the perpetrator matters most.
Until 1971, married men were immune from charges of raping their wives. And several States protected them after that. For every 100 rapes reported to the police, only 18 charges will be filed ^1^. And of course their are incompetent pigs and timid prosecutors. But it’s also the public at large who won’t convict rapists. (because nobody believes women)
Epstein wasn’t hiding anything. And all those people around him knew what he was up to.
But forget about Epstein. What powerful men are snatching teenagers off the street today? Nobody cares.
The Epstein scandal is about embarrassing powerful men. Nobody gives a shit about raped little girls.
- Here is a reference to that figure, but for some reason, the referenced study isn’t on the DOJ’s website anymore.
- Comment on But bro please 5 days ago:
Who you gonna shoot? I’m serious. Stalin was a bankrobber. Haitians drove Napoleon’s army into the sea with machetes. The Black Panthers took several pigs off roll-call. What’s your plan, revolutionary?
- Comment on Little quick question: what do you think of advertising from a Marxist perspective? 5 days ago:
Advertising adds cost but no value. Advertising, along with profit are the largest capitalist inefficiencies.
The tragedy of a potential customer being ignorant of a product is something must learn to cope with…somehow.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 6 days ago:
Kid Rock is music for dudes who can only see their kids on the weekend, but don’t.
- Comment on Important Announcement 6 days ago:
Miss Rachel is not a radical activist, that’s Zionist propaganda. Portraying her that way, even as a joke, makes Mossad laugh.
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
The American war for Independence is a pretty sad example of revolution.
Think of the average American, how much did their material conditions change? Now compare to the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Bolshevik revolution.
America by comparison, was just an “under new management”.
- Comment on Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are 1 week ago:
Well, he has defended pedophilia in the past.
Recently, his essays were in a volume edited by Kraus, titled the “War on Science”. And you probably think the war is anti-vax, RFK jr., or the dismantling of federal funding for basic research. No, it’s holding professors accountable for sexual misconduct actually.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 1 week ago:
People on a budget can just slow the fuck down. Speeding tickets are not cheap.
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 1 week ago:
Because most people have a parasocial relationship with media personalities so it kinda feels like it’s happening to people you know.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 1 week ago:
It’s not obvious to people who like evidence. What you describe is called suspicion.
Suspicion is a reason to start look for evidence, not a reason to stop.
Your opinion is that secret assassins killed a man in prison. And you aren’t interested or even curious to back that up with anything.
I’m not going to just buy “secret prison assassins” without any evidence that they even exist. Especially when ‘jailbird kills himself’ is reasonable and likely.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 1 week ago:
What you should take away from this is not that suicide is difficult in prison, but rather that suicide is so common they have specific policies in place.
It makes 10000% perfect sense that Epstein would kill himself. He just got busted down to the justice system tier for mortal Americans and his life was over. People killing themselves in this situation is so common that it’s a trope in media.
The idea that some CIA-Mossad-Legion of Doom joint operation to assassinated him is the claim that’s short on evidence.
- Comment on One way to guarantee your paper blows people away 1 week ago:
I’ve been told that Kaczynski’s manifesto is compelling and some of his ideas about the danger in technology makes more sense now than when he was captured. I’m kinda scared to read it.
- Comment on Taking bets. How many days until alex pretti is completely memory holed? 1 week ago:
I don’t understand what you mean. How is one “memory holed”? Presumably this means to encourage people to forget, which is why Sandy Hook is a weird example. Not only was that one of the biggest stories of that year, it echoed through the news cycle for years through lawsuits, the Alex Jones thing being the most famous.
It’s ironic to use anything as an example of something people forgot.
- Comment on They're perfect 2 weeks ago:
2 more weeks and that’s vanilla beans.
- Comment on Every night 2 weeks ago:
You could have just said ignorance is bliss.
- Comment on If if the subtext of america has always been government as 'Donald Trump' imposes, where did liberals go wrong? 2 weeks ago:
In so many ways ‘Donald Trump’ is a victory of liberalism. Arrogance and incompetence flourish in societies where the beneficiaries of great wealth and power are two or three generations removed from the people who were clever enough to steal it in the first place.
And America has been such a place of abundance for the highborn for so long. Their blatant criminality is tolerated and normal. Is it any wonder that people who’ve never faced meaningful consequences have trouble with making big decisions?
I think it’s interesting to contrast Germany’s fall into Fascism coming from humiliating loss and economic ruin, to America’s slide from a position of global dominance and unimaginable wealth. Maybe second time as farce?
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 2 weeks ago:
The Barber’s hair is long because he’s not allowed to cut it himself.
- Comment on Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion? 2 weeks ago:
One of the biggest victories of capitalism during my lifetime is how consumerism has swallowed ethics. I’m not saying that buying stuff from shit-heel companies is OK, or that boycotts are useless. But the mentality of shopping as ethics reduces moral agency to consumer choice and spending habits. Its gross.
Has anyone else noticed this? We don’t shop anymore, we support businesses now. Maybe the reason Americans are reluctant to protest is because we already feel like an activist for spending an extra dollar on cage free eggs.
- Comment on Linux just works until it doesn't 2 weeks ago:
This works on libertarians too.
- Comment on Currency 2 weeks ago:
Fiat currency is socially constructed and would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It’s just that the value of gold works exactly the same way.
- Comment on Interesting concept 2 weeks ago:
Sci-fi eugenics is still eugenics.
The Nazi term is “useless eater”, but I suppose “drain on society” is a pretty good translation.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 weeks ago:
Media criticism has become so full of right-wing messaging, that quality-slop doesn’t sound off-base. Kinda like poes law.
These CHOADS take the time to learn media-criticism jargon and aesthetics, but they use those to make single-digit ‘your Dad’ type complaints. The most popular being the existence of black actors.
I’ve seen people vehemently argue scientific accuracy in Star Wars. People are aggregated right now at the “unrealistic” casting of black actors in a Cyclops movie. Next to this insanity, quality-slop sounds pretty reasonable.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 weeks ago:
All the talk of games ownership and preservation overlooks the fact that I can play my first steam game today, while so many of my disks have been lost to time.
And let’s not forget how much bullshit came with those disks. DRM schemes up to and including root-kits. Serial # and activation codes. And don’t forget, though you had physical media, what you actually owned was a licence.
- Comment on You could make it your homepage 2 weeks ago:
Con man Albuquerque
- Comment on Is there a Paula Deen of the Midwest? 2 weeks ago:
Anybody can cook like Paula Dean. All you need is lots of butter, cheese, and racism.
- Comment on Penetration 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Black Influencer says Black People Deserved To Be Called What They Are, thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
Being the “black friend” providing cover for White Supremacy is hardly anything new. Relying on black identity to legitimize racist ideals is some nested dolls of irony and hypocrisy.
I know a white guy who admits his is a race isn’t so good at critical thought.
