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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I believe Trump and Epstein were friends, and that Trump is a rapist, and that Trump knew Epstein was trafficking and raping children, because those are all things Trump has admitted or confirmed out loud into a microphone on camera. I don’t need additional proof of any of those things, but I would not be surprised to learn that it exists in the Epstein files.

    Trump also denied all of those things, but that’s not he said/she said where you have to present both sides as though they are equal. A man who constantly changes his story is not a credible source of information, and his denials can be dismissed outright.






  • Politicians lie. People seeking positions of power and influence should be treated with heavy skepticism and scrutiny. Whether they are ideologues or charlatans, their motivations should be measured against their actions. Some ideologues may hide their extremism to gain power. Some charlatans may hide their indifference to gain power. But anyone who’s actions don’t match their promises shouldn’t earn your vote, regardless of whether they wear your colors or not.














  • You can discuss the events of a story, and the relative morality and social etiquette of the characters in it, even if the whole thing is entirely fiction. Functionally, it makes no difference if it really happened or it didn’t. Sometimes that matters, but here is doesn’t. You don’t know these people, you’ll never meet these people, and there’s no real-world effect of discussing this story (except maybe someone learns not to touch somebody else’s food?).

    Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously. I could be an AI created to respond to your prompts to try to convince you not to complain about fabricated stories. This entire interaction could be four bots engaged in a learning exercise in a simulated online forum. Or maybe it was all a dream the whole time.


  • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldsigh
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    5 days ago

    No, but I didn’t say that either. You did say to just people die from living. Old people need young people to support them. If everyone just stops fucking, as you suggested, society would collapse under the weight of all the suffering of old people. Those will be your grandparents and then your parents and then you, and probably your kids, too, because that sort of disaster lasts a long time.