VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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Thank you! ❤️

What is this from? After seeing the "both's good" gif a billion times and now this, I HAVE to know!

You've literally just said that any name appearing in the document almost certainly did the wrong thing

No, I was talking about the powerful men mentioned in the headline. Why would you think I'd widen it beyond that without saying so?

Just acknowledge that there is necessary nuance here - some people named in that document have done nothing wrong.

Of course. Just so happens that some if not all of the powerful men being alluded to in the headline have abused children and the rest have done a lot of awful things to attain their wealth and power.

Obviously, for anyone that underwent business or other dealings with Epstein, while knowing what he was: burn them

That's what I'm saying!

But the guillotine should never be indiscriminate.

Agreed.

The thing is that when you buy high quality boots, or knives, or whatever, they last a lifetime. When you buy low quality instead, you have to replace the item every couple of years and it ends up costing you considerably more overall.

I'm aware. It's the Sam Vimes Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness, named after a character in a Discworld novel who explains the concept even better than you just did.

Take your time, and build up a collection of high quality items that will last you forever.

That's just it, though, I can't. The socioeconomic unfairness part of the Boots theory is that poor people never have enough money available at once to buy the more expensive item that costs less in the long run.

To be able to save money by buying the good stuff that lasts a long time, you need a lot of money. Being poor means not having a lot of money and thus we have to to pay what's known by some as the poverty tax by buying the cheap crap that ends up costing more in the long run.

Wtf are you talking about? You're the one pretending that Trump is the only powerful man on the list.

Also, if you could drop the ableism, that would be swell.

I never said he's a nazi. I know he's not. I said he's corrupt, right wing and reactionary. Then I provided ample examples of him being a corrupt right wing reactionary. Nobody's on a cross here.

Nah, other monsters don't get off the hook just because Trump is the worst amongst them. Fuck Trump most of all, but fuck the other abusers too.

It's pronounced escrow

glasses don't have to be expensive

Someone's lucky enough to only need single strength lenses and/or have choices of lens suppliers.

My previous pair was single strength, cost me $60.

The ones I recently got are different strength in each eye and a reading field since I'm both near sighted and 41.

The new ones cost me almost 10 times as much WITH a Black Week discount. These aren't designer glasses or anything. They're the cheapest rims that could accommodate big enough lenses from the cheapest optician using the ONLY lens supplier available in Europe.

It's a huge fucking scam and the only way to avoid being taken advantage of would have been continuing to have truly atrocious vision.

That's quite an extensive list. Must be nice to be rich enough to afford the expensive version of so many things.

If you feel they have some vendetta against their readers and wanted to annoy you

Incompetence and ignorance don't have to be deliberate to be annoying. Especially when they happen often. I happen to expect better of those who are paid to inform people of breaking news. Being annoyed ≠ thinking it's about me or otherwise deliberate.

Sure sounds like you're a very stable person assuming that title was purposefully written to annoy people because [reasons].

Again, never said that. You sure sound like a very sincere person, waving around the strawman you constructed to dismiss my rational argument as paranoid ramblings.

I know why media (say they) use "alleged" all the time, but this doesn't apply.

It's by definition a link. Whether it’s a significant link is another matter, but no court would be so ridiculous as to accept a lawsuit based on a misunderstanding of what the word "linked" means.

if they're on the list, that could be argued it's not alleged that they're tied together in some form

The list itself is a link. Whether it’s a link that means anything is yet to be revealed, but it's beyond a shadow of a doubt and in every legal sense a link.

this will keep anyone from attempted to sue them over it.

No it won't. There was already precisely zero risk of it.

The only thing they're achieving by adding "alleged" to this headline is to annoy people who know what words and concepts are and then spur a lot of people to tell those already annoyed people things the annoyed people already know and have been reminded of every time they've pointed out misuse of "alleged".

This country has been anti immigrant(anti anyone not white moving here) since it's inception

Nah, until 1882, there was literally no restrictions for anyone moving to the US. If you could afford the journey or even successfully stow away on a ship or train or whatever, they'd let you in and let you stay.

When it came to CITIZENSHIP, though, you're right about the criteria being super racist from day one.

Good point, but I'm actually not that. I'm starting to suspect that very few people actually are!

That I'll accept lol

Whether or not they fully "took the bait", powerful men who hung out with Epstein are all scumbags. The ones who did after his first conviction or otherwise finding out, at least.

And of course I don't consider people linked to him through victimhood the same as the powerful men I was talking about. No good faith reading of my comment could possibly suggest otherwise.

Keep that in mind before you set up the guillotine

Nah, fuck that. No man rich and influential enough to join the upper echelon of the New York and Florida socialite scene where Epstein found customers didn't either step on or at least ignore a lot of innocent struggling people to get there. I say they're all about a head too tall.

Ah ok, fair enough 🙂

I wouldn't mind splitting the difference and being 30 again tbh 😄

It's that perfect middle where you're (just barely) old enough that most people take you seriously (or at least don't dismiss you based on youth alone), but also young enough that your body doesn't ache from approaching middle age yet 😉

That's not really pizza OR pie..

There's 8 posts or something

Weird. I set it to top all and Connect still gives me the no posts error 😔