• kungen@feddit.nu
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    2 days ago

    I can also dodge questions by asking a different question. Is it immoral to steal from billionaires?

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      You: “hey, child rapist, can I have some money please?” Child rapist: “sure, no problem, my friend”

      “see, fellow child rapists, most people will allow us to do what we want because we have money. They don’t see anything wrong with personally profiting from us. Right, who’s up for more child rape?”


      Now, if you were to take all the money from the child rapist and then use it to tackle human trafficking, etc etc etc, then, yeah, there’s nothing wrong with that. But taking any money from any paedo/evil cunt is just allowing them to carry on doing their evil shit by sharing their riches.

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      It’s essentially signing off on his other actions by engaging in business as usual after his conviction.

      I didn’t think I needed to spell that out to anyone who wasn’t an Epstein supporter.

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        Maybe it’s some kind of language barrier, but my definition of business is “any activity or enterprise entered into for profit”. So again, where would his profit be in giving me money with no strings attached?

        How do you get so caught up in thinking wrong? I asked a hypothetical question and you’re acting like I’d ever support him? The only negative thing about him being killed is that his victims can’t get retribution.

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          It’s the soft power of being charitable. There’s reasons that the rich fund projects like this - it’s to make people like you defend them even after they’ve committed terrible crimes against humanity.

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            2 days ago

            make people like you defend them

            I have never defended anyone with excessive wealth in my entire life, and especially not a sex trafficker or other criminals. Do you normally slander people, or what’s your problem with putting false words into someone else’s mouth?

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              2 days ago

              You are arguing with me right here and right now how it should be totally OK to take this predator’s funding.

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                2 days ago

                No, I have never done that. You’re slandering me yet again.

                A refresher: I originally asked what the problem would be. And then it took me asking 4 different times before you gave the answer “soft power”. You could have just done that originally, instead of being toxic and insulting me.

                Not everyone is as smart as you, why do you have to be such a jerk about it?

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                  “Just asking questions”

                  I have no patience for someone asking why taking funding from Epstein is a bad thing. Read the post. There’s a reason DinoCon put their foot down. They BANNED those scientists who thought the same as you. It’s deplorable. It’s right there in the post from DinoCon.

                  Everyone should have no tolerance for allowing this behavior to go unchallenged. That’s one of the main reasons Epstein was so successful.

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                    2 days ago

                    “Just asking questions”

                    Not fully understanding why no-strings-attached money is a bad thing, isn’t the same thing as sealioning.

                    You’ve wasted so much time trying to justify your toxic outbursts instead of simply saying “soft power” from the start. Then you could have used your time and energy for something more productive. Do you get joy out of this or what?

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                    What about people doing business with Trump? What about people doing business with the U.S. government under Trump? What about all federal government jobs? What about working for any company that gets any kind of direct or indirect federal subsidies?