The last time bitcoin was at 65k, I bought a house with it. I'm just saying, this is still not an unreasonable price for grug brain old schoolers to be selling at. I don't have to pit pat wiffy wang wong some lines on a chart to know that.
Very little of a moral purge is actually about morality. It's mostly a bunch of individuals with a grudge who want a scalp and a vacuum of power. That's why apologizing never works, and in some cases, turns up the heat.
"How could all these people associate with Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 child prostitution conviction?"
1. Epstein's sentence was a joke. Even when he was imprisoned, his cell was often left unlocked. He was back on the streets on work release after 3.5 months of an 18 month sentence. Pretty clear that everything was arranged to be treated like NBD.
2. Epstein was a billionaire and a known benefactor of many initiatives. His status among the elite barely suffered, and among those who overlapped his interests and sought funding, he was known to be generous.
3. Money + Systemic legal system failures = major incentive to not ask a lot of questions. It's not notable that Epstein continued to network extensively. It would actually be notable if ANYONE stood up and said "Hey isn't this guy the one who got pinched for child prostitution?"
Do I need to cite Milgram to explain how this works psychologically?
Fireside chat with wife:
Me: "I dunno, people back home probably still think I'm a crank..."
Her: "Crank? Really? I wouldn't go that far!"
Me (reading dictionary): "Someone who is eccentric, especially one who is unduly zealous"
Her (pointing at me): "THATS TOTALLY YOU"
But Luke said I maybe wasn't a pedophile, so that's a win, I guess. He did report me to the Nostr Trust and Safety team for profanity, tho.
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