Wuddi@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agoBill Gates testifies Epstein pressured him using knowledge of his affairswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square100linkfedilinkarrow-up1564
arrow-up1564external-linkBill Gates testifies Epstein pressured him using knowledge of his affairswww.reuters.comWuddi@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square100linkfedilink
minus-squareExLisperAlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoThat’s if you believe Gates is telling the truth and not simply covering his ass.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoThere is nothing to indicate that Bill Gates isn’t telling the truth. Maybe not the whole truth. But no doubt Epsteins main business was to create compromats.
minus-squareExLisperAlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoHard to lie and tell the truth at the same time.
minus-squarefizzle@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoSorry that’s a fairly simple view of reality. People convince others of fallacies without lying all the time. You can absolutely tell the truth while presenting a fiction. The only question here, which we will likely never know, is the extent to which this testimony is an objective, balanced recount of the circumstances.
minus-squareIusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoThe best lies are rooted in truth The thing that stands out though is none of the women abused by Epstein ever mentioned Gates and he is a well known figure
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoMaybe they accepted the deal and are still satisfied.
That’s if you believe Gates is telling the truth and not simply covering his ass.
There is nothing to indicate that Bill Gates isn’t telling the truth. Maybe not the whole truth. But no doubt Epsteins main business was to create compromats.
Why not both?
Hard to lie and tell the truth at the same time.
It’s not hard to omit certain details.
Sorry that’s a fairly simple view of reality.
People convince others of fallacies without lying all the time.
You can absolutely tell the truth while presenting a fiction.
The only question here, which we will likely never know, is the extent to which this testimony is an objective, balanced recount of the circumstances.
The best lies are rooted in truth
The thing that stands out though is none of the women abused by Epstein ever mentioned Gates and he is a well known figure
Maybe they accepted the deal and are still satisfied.