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[–] yesman 66 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What frustrates me about Epstein is that everyone just wants to find out who was gooning on teenage girls: hopefully their political enemies. The real lesson we should have been learning was not "who was a creep", rather "why are wealthy creeps allowed to get away with shit like this"?

I feel like a scandal of rich privilege could have been helpful for the Nation, oh well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Ahh, abstract thinking. That's your problem, the people who vote Conservative... well they can't. Manage to think abstractly, that is. Anything beyond blue = boy and pink = girl is just too much for their tiny little brains to wrap around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

why are wealthy creeps allowed to get away with shit like this

Because they are wealthy. Wealth buys lawyers, accountants, politicians, private security, private planes, private islands. Law enforcement resources are finite, a sufficiently motivated and very wealthy person can exploit any system.

[–] Boddhisatva 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Republicans are morally bankrupt? next you'll be telling me that the sky is blue and water is wet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Oops, better watch out about that last statement you made there!

[–] MisterCurtis 32 points 5 days ago

The party running on moral bankruptcy, does something morally bankrupt. Voters who vote for it are mildly outraged, but will keep voting for them because of morals.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When everthing is a joke, nothing is a joke.

[–] paraphrand 7 points 5 days ago

We have been slowly boiling in a pot of irony since the 90s. It’s really fucked a lot of people up, IMO.

[–] GraniteM 11 points 5 days ago

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

--Jean-Paul Sartre

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Mocking justice for victims with memes? A disgraceful low for public representatives.

🐱

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Body slammed?

[–] Placebonickname 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who thinks that getting rick rolled is something that should’ve been stopped in like the 90s??

[–] thallamabond 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes?

A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.

[–] Raiderkev 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn't exist yet then.

[–] thallamabond 7 points 5 days ago

And that's only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.

[–] grue 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Sigh... newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture.

This is a "'90s Rickroll:"

(According to knowyourmeme.com it's actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren't really a thing.)

[–] FauxLiving 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc

Google them at your own risk

[–] thallamabond 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that's 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Imagine being the historian researching these for dates...

[–] grue 4 points 5 days ago

Knowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time.

Not even joking about that.

[–] Chip_Rat 5 points 5 days ago

Wasn't it a duck roll back then?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Excuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.