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by piyh 1913 days ago
Wow, there's Richard Stallman level Epstein/pedo comments, then there's this. I don't know why she has a job right now. I get that some people have rough childhood, go through things that a normal person can't comprehend and we shouldn't hold that against them, but why in the world would you take someone who is either that stunted or a pedo and put them in a position of power?
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Please don't compare RMS and Epstein. RMS made a comment re consent, which I believe he said he had reconsidered.

Epstein was not just a pedo but a pimp for all sorts of rich and powerful people, complete with a pedo-jet, private-pedo-island and shitloads of money nobody seems to know from whence it came.

He didn't compare RMS to Epstein, he referenced RMS' comments about Epstein.
Phrasing-wise, it did sounded like a comparisson/association.
They meant there's comments Stallman made about Epstein/pedophilia and then there's this.
It is common for sexual abusers to have been abused as children themselves. Her father was a pedophile. There is a decent chance she was abused, which would explain the weird behaviour.
> Wow, there's Richard Stallman level Epstein/pedo comments, then there's this.

But on one hand you have an old, white male. On the other, a clearly oppressed minority who happened to make a little mistake. In the current climate, where do you think this is going?