• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    –Jean-Paul Sartre

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    18 hours ago

    What frustrates me about Epstein is that everyone just wants to find out who was gooning on teenage girls: hopefully their political enemies. The real lesson we should have been learning was not “who was a creep”, rather “why are wealthy creeps allowed to get away with shit like this”?

    I feel like a scandal of rich privilege could have been helpful for the Nation, oh well.

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      why are wealthy creeps allowed to get away with shit like this

      Because they are wealthy. Wealth buys lawyers, accountants, politicians, private security, private planes, private islands. Law enforcement resources are finite, a sufficiently motivated and very wealthy person can exploit any system.

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      Ahh, abstract thinking. That’s your problem, the people who vote Conservative… well they can’t. Manage to think abstractly, that is. Anything beyond blue = boy and pink = girl is just too much for their tiny little brains to wrap around.

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    18 hours ago

    The party running on moral bankruptcy, does something morally bankrupt. Voters who vote for it are mildly outraged, but will keep voting for them because of morals.

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      We have been slowly boiling in a pot of irony since the 90s. It’s really fucked a lot of people up, IMO.

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    18 hours ago

    Am I the only one who thinks that getting rick rolled is something that should’ve been stopped in like the 90s??