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Are we still pretending our Trump supporting neighbors aren't cheering this on?

Nothing but 😍 for the KDE team and everything you do!

That is precisely the reason for the existential dread this has brought to my life as I ponder what kind of world will be left to my kids when I die.

I can't even rest assured that people in power after Trump will not be Trumpists, and even if I could be assured of that, I'm not at all sure we're going to get all this shit fixed before whatever the next catastrophe is.

I expect to die of old age in a world where we have not yet returned to at least as good as where things were when Trump took over. (and there was already a lot of fucked up shit then.)

And as someone who has spent nearly six decades rooting for humanity in most ways, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that we dropped the ball this hard on this one.

Or his views on seemingly eating toe nails right off of his feet in public.

I feel that's a personal matter though. Stallman can have whatever opinion he wants on that one.

Have we ever lived in a more stallmanwasright.jpg time?

You and I have no disagreement.

That is definitely a fair criticism of my viewpoint!

Maybe. Covering them up seems like it's easier than damage control no matter what, but that kind of life is scifi to me.

I'm a little less sure. I'm starting to have some (to me) obvious things click in on this.

The one thing I've had a hard time with, even recognizing this was probably part-sex-trafficking-brothel and part blackmail-generator is why these people would do this knowing that nothing is ever truly secret, and that it's becoming increasingly impossible for anything to be truly secret with the continuous onward march of technology.

DNA alone presents multiple possibilities for how even a victim of a ring such as this could easily have blown the whistle which seems like an obvious deterrent. You can threaten people all you like, but then the cops DO show up you are still going to be in a cell like Epstein, with the same people wanting to kill you for what you know.

And on Epsteins behalf - once you have sidled up to a member of the elite and dangled your pedo island at them and they say no - why on earth would it make sense for you to keep pushing someone (especially someone as wealthy and ostensibly powerful as Musk) over and over about it? The obvious response seems like it should be to hope they don't immediately report you.

So then how does it make sense? It's all right here I think.

“Reminder: Elon Musk to island Dec. 6 (is this still happening?)” reads a note found in a 2014 diary of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The revelation comes from a fresh haul of previously unreleased material pertaining to the Epstein investigation, which has continued to dog the Trump administration.

Musk has previously said that he was invited to Epstein’s compound on Little St. James in the Virgin Islands several times, but claims he turned down the offers.

In a statement to Vanity Fair in 2019, just days after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Musk confirmed that he had visited the disgraced financier’s Manhattan townhouse for about 30 minutes several years previously, but that “Epstein is obviously a creep.” He added, “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined.”

"C'mon out to the island man, it's all bullshit for the suckers, they are all legal. But they look really young, and are all really hot. They are having the time of their lives getting to live like they are rich while fucking all these powerful people."
Mark accepts invitation.
wild orgies ensue
"Oh shit man, by the way, those were the real underage girls man. And we got that all on video. Yeah, even that part. That part too. And by the way, you clearly enjoyed it, so you might as well keep coming back."
One more powerful person pocketed.

A person with nothing to fear in the files would be calling for their release. Which he has done.

Trump will make sure he gets what he needs anyhow, no worries.

I really appreciated encountering this at the end of 2020. Is there any outlet putting out things like this now? (As I type that I wonder why I haven't checked out Robert Evans lately...)

I've lost track of whether I think Portland city leadership is going to welcome them or not.

Huh.

Seems like there's a weekly article about how it's dead or an echo chamber because there's less tolerance for hatred.

Guess not.

Whoever felt the need to downvote this hug can go fuck themselves.

Windows: The top choice when you want someone else to control your computer.

Ah yes, because if there is one thing trans people are known for, it's becoming randomly undressed in inappropriate situations.

The truth hasn't mattered since at least Jan 06, 2021, and frankly I'm becoming convinced it hasn't mattered for far longer than that.

How is it such a petty and immature person is deemed fit for presidential office I may never understand.

77 million petty, immature voters who put selfishness and hatred ahead of country.

Yes, but 20th century snow was not the same thing as 21st century snow.