Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
https://transnews.network/p/epstein-backed-prominent-anti-trans-figures
@cstross Brockman is the most interesting. He pretty much defined the pop-scientific consensus future in the 1990s and 00s.
@cstross Oh boy. I had the unfortunate experience to witness Krauss’ creepiness at The Amazing Meeting in Vegas one year (prior to the Epstein revelations). My BIL and I ran into him in the hallway of the hotel. He asked where the action was and we shared that we were off to a private party and he was welcome to join us. At the party he latched on to one of the women there and we caught him frequently refilling her drink every time she looked away. We got her out of there.
@cstross crazy that 7 years later and we are still talking about the same news. It should never be this long for anyone to be caught after doing shit like this. Trump stain promised when he gained power, he would release it but failed like all president fail to keep any promise. Its crazy that a chunk of life passed yet the same new. All them rich guys had a lot to do with it but when you have money, its easy to buy your way out of wrongdoings. DONT BE WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE PLACE!
@cstross so what's going to happen now to all those involved? Let off? Pardoned? A chance to be elected for a president? Let's face it, their are a select few that punishment will never happen to because they have already invested billions into the .gov, so much, they now own the .govs ass, when your in that position, you can walk daily, and not have any kind of fear. They should all be HUNG, riches and houses taken away and put back in to the circle to help bring life to so struggling!
Which government?
You seem to be a USAn, and fixated on your own small provincial ex-superpower.
I'd like to remind you that this corruption is global. They've taken us back to 1985, with 73% of the world population living under undemocratic regimes (the USA included, although that's only 5%).
@cstross no incorrect! I'm not from the usa, not fixated on anything and unlike yourself, dont think I have superpowers. Just a guy replying to a comment like everyone else does!
Instead of 'trying' to put someone down for what they say, try find out the reasons they have said it because noone was rude to you! You may get a reasonable answer then!
@cstross Richard Dwakin ist ein Evolutionsbiologe und Atheist. Er wurde in den US Südstaaten von religiösen Fanatikern die die Darwin ablehnen gehasst . Hetze gegen Opfer religiösen Wahn ist nicht angebracht.
@cstross Fucking Dawkins and Pinker. Before Epstein happened/was revealed I realized that who I had thought were modern intellectuals were, in fact, massive and amoral shit-bags. It made the Epstein thing burn less (ouch) but finding out that people you'd once admired were even bigger shit-bags than the shit-bags you found out they were doesn't lessen the original self-questioning: it my judgement *that* flawed?!
@sstrader No, we were ALL taken in.
@cstross How are you, my friend? You have many followers. Could you please share my latest post? Sharing is my source of income in Gaza.
@cstross
The Epstein Class
Not THE Richard Dawkins, right? The evolutionist? Please say no.
@Olson The brain eater got him a couple of decades ago.
@cstross we need to rip these people new assholes
@cstross I have been following the #Epstein case since 2019. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, wrote about how Alex Acosta's 2008 plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein hid 10 others.
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/its-not-about-cover-its-about-child-rape
Today I read
"Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell’s court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein."
FINE THESE PEOPLE!
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelpopok/p/ghislaine-maxwells-bombshell-filing
@cstross I knew Harris and Dawkins were Islamophobes hiding behind atheism, but I hadn't realized they were also anti-trans.
@dnkboston Islamophobia is "respectable" (snort) cover for racism against darker-skinned people. Racism and transphobia tend to go hand-in-glove (with a side-order of misogyny because racism then tends to veer into natalism and attempts to roll back the demographic transition by chaining women to the kitchen sink).
@cstross I assumed that someone who was Islamophobic was in general an asshole, but I hadn't realized those people would devote so much time to transphobia.
Generic misogyny, yes; I seem to remember reading one of these people refer to a strawwoman as "Muslima", and I wanted to throw up.
@dnkboston If someone is a bigot on one social issue, the way to bet is that they're a bigot on *all* of them (just, more quiet about it).
@cstross Agree! But there's a difference between an off-handed, "yeah, fuck 'em" and devoting hours of your life to it. I guess these people just have a lot of time on their hands.
@cstross From the annals of the Harvard Crimson: "Psych Professor Steven Pinker Criticizes Cancel Culture in Academia." Has he been canceled yet? 🕑
@cstross Some Wikipedia bios really need to be updated.
Pinker is such a hack. May all his rubbish disappear into obscurity.
@StephanieMoore I met him once. Did not get a great impression of him, to put it mildly.
@cstross @StephanieMoore The man has quite a reputation in linguist circles.
Another circle I am curious to see discussed in the context of billionaire-adjacent agenda setting and their entanglement beyond Pinker and Gates is the whole "New Optimism" lot and OWID. Just how deep into liberal or purportedly progressive territory does the network spread?
@cstross And everywhere Epstein went, cameras followed him. Who takes this many photos? Reality tv stars and people leaving a deliberate paper trail.
@George_Kimberly Kompromat. The only question is, which state-level actor was he doing it on behalf of?
@George_Kimberly @cstross the evidence paints a pretty compelling case for him being a Mossad agent…
@cstross for some reason Steven Pinker was a a mutual on Twitter for some years, he blocked me as soon as I asked about his association with Epstein. He almost certainly had something to hide, in my opinion
