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Context: He's in the files

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Goddamn so everyone's a bastard, eh?

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He wasn’t known for being a great guy, just a really smart guy.

The name of the late Cambridge physicist was included in a 2015 email in which Epstein told Maxwell to offer a reward to any of Giuffre’s “friends acquaitonts [sic] family” who could prove false an allegation that Hawking had participated in an “underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands. Hawking, who died in 2018, has not been accused of a crime related to Epstein.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

First, how does a 70 year old man in a wheelchair who has been unable to move for half a century participate in an orgy? Second, having ALS, wouldn't he have lost interest in sex during the Nixon administration? I'm thinking the demand for pedophiles might be outstripping supply.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Like 2/3 of us plebs are not. But if any of us becomes rich or famous....

Someone who would do whatever it takes to get rich or famous is more likely to become rich or famous.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That kinda makes it sound like most people are bastards, they just don't usually get the opportunity to show it.

[–] JeanForgeron@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Which is the truth. Wealth doesn't just corrupt, it also reveals.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People who need remedial logic would think that, maybe. Punxsutawney Phil is also in the Epstein files.

Did you know anyone can allege absolutely anything? Did you know conspiracy theorists were spinning their fabulist nonsense about Epstein & beyond[^nonsense] years before the scandal gained traction mainstream & their half-baked ideas continue to shape our discourse?

A skeptical insistence on conclusive evidence & not falling for logical fallacies is rudimentary to scientific reasoning. It's pathetic a community purportedly interested in science seems to forget that.

[^nonsense]: blood libel, pizzagate, qanon, cabal of pedophile adrenochrome harvesters, political & Hollywood elites, George Soros