monoamine
12d ago
Going by your comment and just looking at that URL, I am going to guess that that is misrepresented. So I will look it up...
And, indeed, he is alleged to have shoved someone. And he was acquitted. Kind of seems uninteresting. Nothing like the UK. I don't know the facts surrounding the physical altercation, but if he had never shoved someone I highly doubt he ever would've been arrested. Seems the legal system basically worked appropriately, here.
monoamine
12d ago
That's the UK though. They don't have a strong sense of liberal values encoded into their legal system.
monoamine
12d ago
I don't think it was or would be "terrorism lite", but it might be considered intimidation or harassment. (I support the protest's cause, but they should've done it outside of the church when the pastor was entering/leaving rather than interrupting the church service and entering the church.)
monoamine
12d ago
The most we know is he met with/talked with moot a few times and looked porn on 4chan. I would be somewhat surprised if he ever posted (words, anyway) or looked at any non-porn boards.
monoamine
12d ago
I'm a hardcore leftist and of course extremely anti-right and anti-Trump, but, yeah, I'm not seeing any new revelations about Trump, here, and so far there don't seem to be substantiated allegations Trump ever did anything sexual with anyone underage. I could think of hundreds of reasons to hate Trump and to consider him a terrible person and a terrible president, but the Epstein stuff is effectively just noise when it comes to him. If there's a bombshell regarding him and Epstein, everyone will know about it immediately.
Bill Gates though does have pedophile vibes.
I think you're probably just suffering from bias due to ideological disagreements with him. While Gates was/is clearly a creep, none of the emails suggest he did anything with any underage people, nor are there any other allegations or pieces of evidence pointing to that. He probably regularly cheated on his wife, and as the emails show he even contracted an STD from a prostitute, but I see no evidence or suggestion (or "vibes") he was a pedophile or did anything like that.
monoamine
19d ago
Always fun to check in on this place from time to time to see how far it's descended. I'm grateful at least /r/SlateStarCodex and most other rat-adjacent places are still sane.
I would be fairly surprised if most of the ones who joined after January 2025 meet that description. Or, if it is most, it's cutting it close. I am basing that mostly on heuristics rather than strong evidence, but that's just how I'd lean.
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