Too many rich leftists and powerful leftists like to have sex with children. It's like a sacrament to communists. Is it organized? I don't think so. But too many 'important people' are covering for the ones caught, either because 1) they're doing it too, or 2) they owe or are owed favors, or 3) they're just evil too and don't have any issues with it.
The abuse of underaged pages in Congress is a wonderful example of this, and while democrats lead the way, I'd be surprised if the republicans weren't doing it as well. However, even when caught, no one is ever punished.
It's a human issue, not a party line issue. As far as I can tell, the staunchest objectors to removing legal child marriage are solidly in the "family values" party for some fucking reason...
What age do you consider to be ‘child marriage’? I know a fair number of people who got married at 17, and a few even at 16. Not sure I would call them ‘child marriages’.
Now while it might seem kinda silly to put it in terms of D&D Alignment, Back when I was playing I tended to internalize the Good/Evil axis in terms of Civic-mindedness, and Selfishness and disregard for others. The Paladin wants to save the world and the Assassin wants to line his pockets.
Judging by the sheer number of scammers looking to rip everyone else off by exploiting whatever loopholes they can find, evil is ascendant in most of the world.
You get it. It's the same predation on innocence minus financial or business networking built over generations. I think Trump might be holding back because the country pretends to be naïve about it and because he has to pretend it's left vs. right to survive politically. It's not left vs. right.
I remember reading a LawDog Files blogspot/blogger in the '00's. Was that you?
It is so sadly human that by using the coping mechanism of the conspiracy theory to deny the Banality of Evil, that very denial allows the banal and the evil to slip through the cracks while everyone is chasing the white whales.
People keep talking about the list as if it's some holy grail. I'm figuring that if that list ever existed it's been destroyed many times over by now. But people will continue to focus on it because they fantasize about the double plus ungood people that they don't like being on it thus proving how evil they are.
ehhh.. your right about the banality of evil and wrong about some of it not being a conspiracy. I used to be very anti conspiracy and have been slapped in the face time and again in the last decade with them being true. again like my post on your last topic... illegal sexual activity especially involving minors is a old tool and in our information age an even better tool to control people in positions of influence for bad people that have no moral compass and want power and control.
Most of the politicians I see nowadays seriously seem like sociopaths who are exactly the type of people that would use such methods. Also a lot of really powerful in all walks of life sort of people who got to where they are by walking all over everyone around them unethically and or illegally.
It appears to me that sociopathy gives the sociopath an advantage over the normal empathetic people in the race to the top.
This isn't to say that the majority of this type of fuckery and loathsome behaviors aren't done by sick individuals in all walks of life that are just sick individuals and not part of anything organized. I know this for a fact as there are at least 4 or 5 females I know in my immediate circle that have shared stories of everything from rape, molestation, torture, stalking, pressure to bend over the bosses desk if you want to keep your job or get a job, etc.. I have heard second hand way more than that of stuff to more than I care to think of in my outer circles.
I have to take deep breaths and remember all the really good people in my life and that I know about that do amazing acts of charity and kindness all the time that massively outnumber the sick bastards I have heard about or seen. I carefully don't think about that I live in on average a nice area that probably has a lower number of sick bastards per square mile than a lot of other more urban areas.
People would rather think that the world is controlled by some sinister cabal with an Eeeeeviiiillll agenda because that also means things can be controlled.
And if the evil people can control things, maybe the good people can do it too!- as a certain failed Austrian painter thought.
You keep making sense. There are perverts out there. Much too many for safety sake. Conspiracies are fun. Tech millionaires seem to me to be a cross section of humanity. Maybe a little less civilized if you will so they behave like it. Ditto rap artists so called.
Elizabeth Nickson got closer to the centre of this. Real close. And she wants to go hunting. I won't quote, because reading it made me and Mrs K. physically sick.
The sheer amount of bullshit in the first part of that essay belie that track record.
ErMahGerd! Sulphuric Acid! Yeah. It's an island, too small for springs. It needs fresh water. The most efficient way to get fresh water from sea water is a reverse osmosis plant. Which uses ... sulphuric acid to prevent calcium build-up on the filters.
"No! It's to dissolve bodies!"
It takes a week for sulphuric acid to dissolve the bones of a human body, and leaves behind a quite distinctive residue. Why the hell would you wait a week for a body to dissolve -- a week in which that slowly dissolving body might be found -- when you've got several thousand square miles of ocean? And -- I assume -- access to something ... heavy?
And -- again -- the damned island wasn't hooked up to your local municipal water supply. The only way the taps are going to run is using sulphuric acid in the RO plant.
Too many rich leftists and powerful leftists like to have sex with children. It's like a sacrament to communists. Is it organized? I don't think so. But too many 'important people' are covering for the ones caught, either because 1) they're doing it too, or 2) they owe or are owed favors, or 3) they're just evil too and don't have any issues with it.
The abuse of underaged pages in Congress is a wonderful example of this, and while democrats lead the way, I'd be surprised if the republicans weren't doing it as well. However, even when caught, no one is ever punished.
It's a human issue, not a party line issue. As far as I can tell, the staunchest objectors to removing legal child marriage are solidly in the "family values" party for some fucking reason...
What age do you consider to be ‘child marriage’? I know a fair number of people who got married at 17, and a few even at 16. Not sure I would call them ‘child marriages’.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) on "The Banality of Evil". She sums it up very well:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-arendts-lessons-for-our-times-the-banality-of-evil-totalitarianism-and-statelessness/
There is an extra bit of rage in this example and the Diddy example because those jagoffs knew they were above the law but your point is taken.
Now while it might seem kinda silly to put it in terms of D&D Alignment, Back when I was playing I tended to internalize the Good/Evil axis in terms of Civic-mindedness, and Selfishness and disregard for others. The Paladin wants to save the world and the Assassin wants to line his pockets.
Judging by the sheer number of scammers looking to rip everyone else off by exploiting whatever loopholes they can find, evil is ascendant in most of the world.
You get it. It's the same predation on innocence minus financial or business networking built over generations. I think Trump might be holding back because the country pretends to be naïve about it and because he has to pretend it's left vs. right to survive politically. It's not left vs. right.
I remember reading a LawDog Files blogspot/blogger in the '00's. Was that you?
C'est moi! Welcome to my new home on the Interwebz.
Thank you!
It's him. His web host was... we're not going to go there. I'm pretty sure that he's still likely to blow a gasket over that.
It is so sadly human that by using the coping mechanism of the conspiracy theory to deny the Banality of Evil, that very denial allows the banal and the evil to slip through the cracks while everyone is chasing the white whales.
Shi yeah, Dawg!!
We really need capital punishment applied more frequently.
We all die sooner or later.
When we identify a real threat, that person should be sent on to be judged by the Creator.
People keep talking about the list as if it's some holy grail. I'm figuring that if that list ever existed it's been destroyed many times over by now. But people will continue to focus on it because they fantasize about the double plus ungood people that they don't like being on it thus proving how evil they are.
The conspiracies are real. They're also local, sordid, and baked into the public and private bureaucracies*.
Huzzah for DOGE and the Data Geeks!
*See also: Minneapolis.
ehhh.. your right about the banality of evil and wrong about some of it not being a conspiracy. I used to be very anti conspiracy and have been slapped in the face time and again in the last decade with them being true. again like my post on your last topic... illegal sexual activity especially involving minors is a old tool and in our information age an even better tool to control people in positions of influence for bad people that have no moral compass and want power and control.
Most of the politicians I see nowadays seriously seem like sociopaths who are exactly the type of people that would use such methods. Also a lot of really powerful in all walks of life sort of people who got to where they are by walking all over everyone around them unethically and or illegally.
It appears to me that sociopathy gives the sociopath an advantage over the normal empathetic people in the race to the top.
This isn't to say that the majority of this type of fuckery and loathsome behaviors aren't done by sick individuals in all walks of life that are just sick individuals and not part of anything organized. I know this for a fact as there are at least 4 or 5 females I know in my immediate circle that have shared stories of everything from rape, molestation, torture, stalking, pressure to bend over the bosses desk if you want to keep your job or get a job, etc.. I have heard second hand way more than that of stuff to more than I care to think of in my outer circles.
I have to take deep breaths and remember all the really good people in my life and that I know about that do amazing acts of charity and kindness all the time that massively outnumber the sick bastards I have heard about or seen. I carefully don't think about that I live in on average a nice area that probably has a lower number of sick bastards per square mile than a lot of other more urban areas.
People would rather think that the world is controlled by some sinister cabal with an Eeeeeviiiillll agenda because that also means things can be controlled.
And if the evil people can control things, maybe the good people can do it too!- as a certain failed Austrian painter thought.
But that ain't the way the world works.
1) are you suggesting that you're not SUPPOSED to look for ambush patterns on the front porch?
Also, that was insulting to brain damaged dung beetles....
You keep making sense. There are perverts out there. Much too many for safety sake. Conspiracies are fun. Tech millionaires seem to me to be a cross section of humanity. Maybe a little less civilized if you will so they behave like it. Ditto rap artists so called.
I have nothing to add other than: Hear-Hear! ( Or perhaps "Word!" In the parlance of my generation. )
Elizabeth Nickson got closer to the centre of this. Real close. And she wants to go hunting. I won't quote, because reading it made me and Mrs K. physically sick.
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethnickson/p/this-is-armageddon-energy-for-them?r=1e10ez&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Oh, god. More "eating babies" bushwa???
I sincerely hope it is conspiracy theories! Nickson, sadly, has a track record of being correct.
The sheer amount of bullshit in the first part of that essay belie that track record.
ErMahGerd! Sulphuric Acid! Yeah. It's an island, too small for springs. It needs fresh water. The most efficient way to get fresh water from sea water is a reverse osmosis plant. Which uses ... sulphuric acid to prevent calcium build-up on the filters.
"No! It's to dissolve bodies!"
It takes a week for sulphuric acid to dissolve the bones of a human body, and leaves behind a quite distinctive residue. Why the hell would you wait a week for a body to dissolve -- a week in which that slowly dissolving body might be found -- when you've got several thousand square miles of ocean? And -- I assume -- access to something ... heavy?
And -- again -- the damned island wasn't hooked up to your local municipal water supply. The only way the taps are going to run is using sulphuric acid in the RO plant.
I'm iwith you. Say the names and get them out there. Those who make a difference will right some wrongs.