Yeah that’s a reasonable point. ‘They wanted a pregnant victim’ is a little too supervilliany for me to believe.

Yeah there’s been some wild stuff coming out but this is implausible. Actual journalists who regularly deal with redacted docs must’ve been through most of it by now.

If this were true i don’t think would be a tweet, it would be an uncontainable story.

Edit: well it seems to have become an uncontainable story, though it’s a small amount of files.

When you rape a child and get them pregnant, their child is incontrivertable proof of your deed. The baby has your genes, and the mother’s, proving attacker and victim, and the age of the baby and the age of the mother prove that she was a child when it happened.

Of course it makes sense to personally oversee the destruction of such vital evidence. People don’t like killing babies. Not having the heart to kill a baby and pretending that you did is a tale as old as time, literally.

It seems like she was already pregnant when trump raped her, but given that trump was an important figure in a high profile pedophile ring, it was likely someone he knew and was protecting.

Yeah i think that’s a likely scenario as well. Murder by suicide, basically.

Isn’t internal propaganda like that just a way to sell a decision you’ve already made, rather than the cause of the decision?

I’m very skeptical of the idea that states go to war for ideological reasons. I’d always heard they were afraid of being contained and believed that their unfavourable position could only possibly get worse so they decided to roll the dice now.

He was in jail already, he knew he was about to die and he wrote to a fellow imprisoned pedophile to say trump’s one of us, but we’re the ones in jail, life’s not fair.

That’s the context.

He knew he was about to die. That could mean suicide, but he knew the rules of the game he was playing.

The gap and editing in the prison footage still implies murder, i think. He just knew it was coming.

Yeah it’s disapointing to see the guardian slowballing an explosive headline.

Epstein tells fellow child rapist trump is one of us but we’re in jail.

As an english major, let me translate:

"As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck!

By the time you read this, i’ll be dead.

We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they’d reach their full potential.

We’re both pedophiles.

Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch’

Donald trump is a pedophile too.

whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein"

But we’re the ones in jail.

The caste system of hinduism has been long used to sanctify oppresion, hindu nationalism (hindutva) is a potent force promoting authoritarianism and distruth (indus valley civ was def. not vedic nor did they have flight).

Buddhism has been used as an imperial religion less easily, but chinese dynasties have done it. In india, ashoka the great (or the terrible) probably used it as a cynical PR campaign after his empire recoiled at his brutality. In the province he most brutalised, the version of the stele that talks about his terrible deeds and his conversion leaves out the conversion and just reminds reader of his brutality.

Daoism is a bit different because it has an explicitly anarchist strain that’s harder to co-opt by the powerful. Bits of Laozi are directed at rulers, and i think we can assume that the laissez-faire style it promotes must have lead to some issues as it has in other times and places. Also though: grifters. I love daoism, especially the Zhuangzi, possibly the best book ever, but a lot of sources give me the impression that a lot of daoist priests were just going town to town grifting immortality elixirs and the like.

Also, meekness and non-violence, as much as i love them, fundementally serve the interest of brutal states in excersizing legitimate violence.

When people don’t like the present, they almost always assume the past was better. When people are broadly happy with the way things are, they argue the past was worse.

Our take on the past almost always says more about our take on the present rather than anything true about the past.

This meme seemed inaccurate to me too. Focusing on greek terms rather than hebrew for leviticus struck me as weird.

I found an academics’ discussion about arsenokoitai in Paul: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskBibleScholars/comments/18j1873/meaning_of_arsenokoites/

It seems like the question of the meaning of arsenokoitai is mostly about what paul meant by it. While all the posters above seem to agree paul’s not saying all homosexuals and probably only situations we’d describe as non-consenual, they all describe no firm answer and disagree on many details.

I think this post takes unsettled scholarship about NT greek and presents it as settled scholarship about part of the torah.

Delta mike, every day.

or like tabla music or droning stuff

Have you listened to gamelan music, from indonesia? You might like it.

That quote instantly reminded me of my “i have boring work to do” music, which also includes gamelan orchestras and beiguan music, though beiguan can be a little too distracting at times.

Shouldn’t they use that log to make a bridge over that hole?

understand how computers and critical thinking works

These are two very different things.

Being comfortable enough with computers to use anonymous forums - say, 4chan - does not neccesarily imply critical thinking skills and does not stop people getting unneccessarily upset at the harmless behaviour of others.

Wait so you would rather have shallot bread than garlic bread?

Shallot > onion is just common sense, but let’s not go dragging garlic into a fight it has no part in.

My understanding is they only generated some textures, which everyone noticed and complained about, so they had to patch in human-created textures to replace them.

They also lost a goty award because they lied about having never used ai.

I don’t think either of those situations would encourage hidden use of ai.

Nobody was there to police you for words or anything else you did.

On cue, i’d like to correct you on this.

After my fellow goth friend alvin was seen wearing a skirt on the weekend, our high school paid a christian youth group to lecture our entire grade. Their leader said they used to believe they were real actual vampires, but when his friend came home wearing a skirt, that’s when he knew they’d gone too far and turned to jesus.

The satanic panic was also still going strong - i played d&d in the 90s.

People have always been trying to police others for some bullshit. It’s easier online, but we got it done plenty before that.

I feel like a lot of people are misinterpretting your comment because of the way republicans frequently use “clintonzes are evilzes!” as a distraction from their own much greater problems.

I’d think the order wouldn’t come from clinton himself - gotta keep plausible deniability.

But i definitely agree with you - it’s unsurprising that the FBI under clinton declined to investigate child pornography allegations against a child sex trafficker who has strong links to clinton.