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[–] 64 points 9 months ago (1 child)

How did I not see this one coming. Being cartoonishly evil while transparently sucking up to power is her main move

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago

    Just when I thought she couldn't be any worse.

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  • [–] 119 points 9 months ago* (15 children)

    God do I want JK to go down for being an Epstein crony, but from the evidence here this appears to be entirely the fault of Peggy Seigal: well known for being a gatekeeping socialite idiot and good clout-chasing friend of Epstein.

    While JK Rowling herself is not a direct participant in this specific email chain, the event was a cornerstone of her franchise's Broadway expansion. The documents do not indicate whether the author was personally aware of the guest list additions made by the production office.

    On the morning of 20 April 2018, Peggy Siegal initiated a high-priority request to Colin Callender, the acclaimed producer of the Harry Potter stage play. In her email, Siegal described Epstein as a 'very important friend' who wished to witness the 'spectacle' of the Hogwarts-themed dining room.

    Her inclusion is bad on it's own, but it's not quite on the level of "JK invited Epstein to her play" like the title implies, it's "someone on the production staff invited Epstein".

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    yeah, really feels like people aren't reading the article ...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I honestly don't care anymore. If there is the slightest hint of a connection between right wing freaks and Epstein, I'm just going to assume they fuck kids. I see no reason to give them the benefit of any doubt.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Rowling didn't even invite Epstein and wasn't even in the email chain, we have no evidence they've corresponded, let alone that she visited his island or fucks kids - I get not having good feelings towards a villain like Rowling, but I think you're engaging in poor reasoning

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I am making an affirmative decision to engage in poor reasoning in a specific circumstance. It seems to work well enough strategically for the right, including Rowling, so I figure I'll try it out.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    When we abhor the immoral actions of an evil person, we do not usually think their immoral actions give us moral license to engage in immoral behavior.

    This is childish and indefensible, and I think you know that - so what's the point here? You're wasting my time, I'm not interested in talking to you further.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Your scolding was entirely unexpected. Really.

    I'm not interested in being "the good guy" anymore. I've seen too many Ned Starks. This is a war, and I think it's you acting like a child. Trump went low and Hillary went high, and look where that got us. I've got sand in my pocket and I'm not afraid to use it.

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    In her own Democratic establishment way anyways. Just in case you are unaware, I was referring to a Hillary quote, "when they go low, we go high".

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah I remember, that and the "Deplorables" comment which should show you how committed she was to, "going high"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    If the deplorables comment was the second biggest misstep of her campaign, backing down from it was the biggest. The comment was valid in it's full context, even though it was politically tone-deaf. A large chunk of Trump supporters really are deplorable. Backing down or "going high" is what made it into such a massive vulnerability.

    As an aside, Democrats have a lot to answer for in how we got to a culture that generates so many deplorable people.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My feeling was that if someone on her senior staff was inviting people personally to a major event... it had to have been approved by her right?

    Like theres no way she would allow the guest list to be entirely in the hands of someone else right??

    Maybe I just have too much confidence in these people to manage thier own shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    My feeling was that if someone on her senior staff was inviting people personally to a major event… it had to have been approved by her right?

    Aside from this being a relatively minor VIP event (it wasn't a premier or anything, as far as I can tell this was just a regularly running broadway pay-for-VIP event themed to tie in to the show) I don't think this really tracks - the goal of having senior staff is to not need to scrutinize each of their decisions, and although JK is many many awful things I've never seen her accused of micromanaging.

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  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    He might have rapped children, and then traded the children to other rapists but at least he didn’t put dresses on people that had a winkle.

    She has standards!

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] [S] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah... I'm thinking of posting it individually but at the same time I don't know how to mark it as spoiler/nsfw so that people can choose not to see it.

    Anyway, remember how the right said we wanted to forcibly trans children? Every. Accusation.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    NSFW can be done on posts by just clicking the "NSFW" checkbox—at least on standard lemmy web ui, I'm not sure about other UIs and apps, but its probably about the same.

    Spoilers look like this:

    TitleText

    On the standard Lemmy ui the button with an exclamation point (!) with a... diamond? Or what you might call it, around it will paste that code in.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago

    Maaaan, it sure seems like.... someone rolled a 20 when casting cuntus maximus.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    We already know she is a freak of some kind. The freaks can't stand trans.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Mind you, this play was her shitty fanfiction of her own damned series...

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    God please, give me this one. It'd be so funny.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    It’s always the people I most suspect.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Bad headline = downvote

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