• BossDj@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      Trump could get on the mic and say he raped a bunch of kids and his cult would approve and value his honesty. A handful of right wing commentators are already testing the waters with “there’s a difference between older kids and really young ones” kind of talk.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        Speaking solely for myself, there seems to be a lot of corroborating circumstantial evidence, times and places and dates that check out for people looking into it, but even if it’s 100% true I don’t think it’s ever going to be verifiable.

        That said, I know a survivor, I know what their recollections tend to sound like and why, and to me Sascha Riley’s recordings do have the ring of truth to them, very much so. This is one of those things where people need to decide for themselves, but I do believe that he personally believes what he says, and that there is a likelihood that what he says is largely true in reality.

        The original reporting:
        https://lisevoldeng.substack.com/p/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find

        A partial overview of the same reasons I personally tend to believe him:
        https://bethmcdonnell.substack.com/p/a-new-survivor-speaks-epstein-files

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    This is what the “don’t react” people don’t understand.

    If he’s gonna declare martial law and take over blue states to cancel their elections; it doesn’t matter if we react or not, they’re doing it anyways.

    ICE is murdering people left and right, and trump is using the fact that protesters are being shot and killed as justification.

    People think MLK strategy alone will work, but he was very vocal that it wouldn’t have without Malcolm making the only other option violence. Passisive resistance doesn’t work when the other option for the abusuers is “just keep abusing me bro, it’s cool”.

    Passive resistance only works when the only two options are:

    1. Shit gets better peacefully

    2. Shit gets better violently

    We can’t let them the have the option of:

    1. Shit stays the same
  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    The gaslighting here - using the term “insurrectionists”. No, dimbulb donnie, those are the terrorists YOU pardoned.

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    The Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, put the blame for the chaos in his city on Wednesday squarely at the feet of Trump. “I’ve seen conduct from ICE that is disgusting and intolerable,” he said, urging protesters to go home. “We cannot counter Donald Trump’s chaos with more chaos … Anyone who is taking the bait tonight, stop,” he said. “You are not helping the undocumented immigrants in our city.”

    The protesters are doing a hell of a lot more to help the immigrants than you are, Mr. Mayor.