[pembrook]

Yea every other use case beyond feeding the hysterical Epstein conspiracy machine has been totally worthless. All the consumers and companies paying real money for this tech must just be stupid.

On the other hand, providing more fuel for sweaty basement dwellers to invent fake stories about elite lizard people while trashing the civil liberties of thousands of random innocents contacted by this dude? I can think of no better use case.

/s

[monegator]

>All the consumers and companies paying real money for this tech must just be stupid

yes?

[_345]

i can't wait for this epstein crap to end

[llbbdd]

If you can think of any way to accelerate that, I'm down to help. I'm so tired of these perverts

[llbbdd]

Upvoting for making me feel sane. I don't understand the level of attention paid to this shit, and it makes the people invested in it seem orders of magnitude more perverted than the financier himself is purported to be.

[dns_snek]

> purported to be

Convicted to be - proven beyond reasonable doubt. He's a child-trafficking pedophile who plead guilty, with mountains of evidence that are now public.

[llbbdd]

And he's dead and he's been dead for a long time, and people still paying daily attention to this are being played for laughs and having their rage strip-mined.

[dns_snek]

He is but everyone else who participated is very much alive and yet to face any accountability and justice. Do you genuinely not understand why people would be outraged that "leaders of the free world", namely Trump and the rest of the US government that's been keeping a lid on this, are just a bunch of unaccountable sex-trafficking pedophiles?

Whatever is left of the western social contract is disintegrating in front of us and the reaction of our societies has been extremely mild if anything - there should be mass protests over revelations of this magnitude.

[llbbdd]

Who? Most of the people "named in the Epstein files" are guilty in public of consorting with a guy with a lot of money and not much else. Pretending they're all perverts is one-handed behavior. If you think any of this is unique or exceptional or worthy of mass protest? then I think you should read closer, because you've been had for a fool.

[sumeno]

I think people who are upset about child trafficking aren't nearly as perverted as the guy who fucked children

[llbbdd]

I'm sure that relativity is very comforting for people constantly drooling over this shit.

[sumeno]

Wanting people who abused children to face consequences is not drooling. Why do you want to sweep the sexual abuse of children under the rug?

[llbbdd]

And that's the direction the conversation always turns. You literally don't have any influence over that, neither do I. We have judges for that. The man died 7 years ago now, and the ongoing drip-feed of additional salacious information is transparently only still happening to piss you off and make sure you stay mad. Holding the perpetrators responsible here is not my job, and it's probably not yours, and I personally don't enjoy reading about these crimes for fun as much as the front page of HN apparently does.

[llbbdd]

Downvoted to zero points? Maybe you could double the negatives if you had both hands available

[jrflowers]

Man you wrote that reading is a hundred times worse than trafficking children, on a text-based website

like if you’re spending a few minutes a day on here reading what are you doing the rest of the time

[llbbdd]

Half the time it's all there is to do on this text-based website, which is most of what I'm complaining about. I can read in peace just fine but there are stupid vibe-coded rape inspection projects on the front page here every single day. I think pretending you are all titillated about the same as the Facebook audience you pretend to be above is worse. Let's make a rape gmail! let's make a rapebook! How many ways can we present the rape in the most exciting way! It's disgusting to pretend it's about investigation, it's about enabling private pervert detectives.

[jrflowers]

> it’s about enabling private pervert detectives.

Yeah I know, you wrote that reading about trafficking children is a hundred times worse than trafficking children, that is why I pointed out what you wrote

How is anything you mentioned in this response worse than trafficking children? Like I would imagine that trafficking children would be the worst possible thing, can you explain how it is not actually that bad? Like if you could start a sentence with: “This instance of child sex trafficking is not nearly as bad as somebody reading about it online and posting because: “

[rexpop]

This is a patently retarded take. The guy was a child rape wholesaler.

[llbbdd]

No shit. Do you like talking about child rape every day? Is that fun for you? Are you tickled seeing "CHILD RAPE UPDATES" in 72-point second coming font over your morning coffee?

[rexpop]

No, I don't, but as an adult in a democracy I have an obligation to address harms done to my countrymen, especially insofar as they're perpetrated in collusion with my government.

I do not like it. It is not fun for me.

But sometimes, as an adult, you have to do the responsible thing, and not stick your head in the sand.

Frankly, I'm disgusted that you're blind to this, and can only imagine that people only care if they are "tickled."

Your indifference only facilitates the perpetuation of harm. Pathetic.

[llbbdd]

I wasn't blind to this many years ago when it came to light. I'm indifferent now when it doesn't matter, and disgusted when my countrymen are so easily distracted by bait. You are distracted, wasting your time, and convinced into thinking you aren't. Jerk off every single day thinking that being enlightened matters. "Blind" lol, how many times x day should I cum defending this?