They dont want the other financiers tarred with the same brush, even though the capitalist scum deserve it.

I watched the first few hours of his interview that leaked. That man had a room temperature IQ. No one was asking him for financial advice.

Even that's too soft for him, makes him sound like the creep who moved in down the block.

In reality, he was the most connected and influential international child sex trafficker in history. "Convicted sex offender" sounds like one of his customers.

This is the one that pissed me off the most.

Dude ran a fucking ultra elaborate sex trafficking scheme and they label him the same way they would someone caught doing a petty crime.

They should just call him "typical rich guy"

I agree, I mean project Nimbus is a pretty good example of events like this.

Also to add onto your comment, I'm reminded of an old 4chan argument that went viral on reddit because incels were trying to rationalize why the age of consent was set to 12 years old for women in spain at the time, and I am afraid of it being where the Epstein apologists may rush to, to even preserve a semblance or rationality.

Essentially, hebephilia is not the same thing as pedophilia, even the DSM-V makes the distinction using the term pedophilic disorder for the latter. For most of humanity (pre-modern (1945 and before) agrarian societies), hebephilia was common and seen as normal since marriages would be contracted and done the second a female starts puberty, mostly as a tool for economic gain, familial association and to secure the female as a patriarchal acquisition.

It is pretty much illegal everywhere because we now understand developmental capacity enough to know that a 12 year old should not engage in sexual acts with an adult and this is why I see it as just as evil as pedophilia, but to psychologists, it is simply a natural yet immoral facet of human sexuality.

Humans and therefore males are outcomes of evolution and because of this, they feel natural aversion to sexual acts done with an already pregnant female, a female past her reproductive age, or a female that is within their immediate family, because the first two will not lead to pregnancy and the last will lead to pathologies in the offspring. This is the same when it comes to pedophilia because it is often induced from trauma, statistically, it often happens because the pedophile themselves were a victim of pre-pubescent sexual acts. They then typically will engage back into it and it is understood as an act of traumatic transferance.

Never forget, in the USA. This is not a worldwide thing.

Also,its possible to get international news.

That could be part of it. But the main reason is the same as what we saw during the manufacturing of consent for the Palestinian Genocide.

Israeli Citizens Slaughtered by Hamas

54 Palestinians dead after Israeli targeted strike of Hamas leaders

Palestinians "die" in news headlines. Israelis are slaughtered.

It got as bad as media giving us headlines of "Israeli hostage kidnapped from tank". Not even kidding. They labeled an IDF soldier in a tank as a kidnapped hostage. We have a word for that already: prisoner of war.

Once you notice this type of passive language used to describe the crimes of who the US government supports vs. who it sees as an enemy. Man, you'll start to go crazy at noticing how much it's used.

Journalist and talking heads on TV are told exactly what vocabulary to use when covering a specific topic. It's more directed at the interest of those in power and those with wealth than it is to fit an algorithm.

I mean, the people directing the vocabulary are the same group of people that ensure that algorithm favors them. They allow very extreme vocabulary like "rape" or "beheadings" through their filters when they want to lie about something that favors their narrative.

There is no prison for billionaires. Look at New York v. Trump. The only way to fix this mess is a revolution, AKA civil war.

The minimization is CRAZY. Like people are saying “Oh, no, he didn’t rape the kid he just had sex with her.” Like the child CONSENTED to it. Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.

They're just extending to elite men almost the same level of rhetorical gentleness that is typically directed at women sexually assaulting boys. It's only "almost" because they aren't also playing up how attractive these men are like they tend to when a woman sexually assaults a boy.

Like people are saying “Oh, no, he didn’t rape the kid he just had sex with her.”

It's much more likely simply a legal CYA maneuver on the part of the media outlet vis-à-vis libel allegations, to not use the name of the crime to describe an act that no one's yet been convicted of.

Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.

Well, not to be pedantic, but that's not accurate. Consent is not an intrinsic attribute of sex.

Owned by Disney conglomerate which is paid into heavily by politicians.

How the fuck was I your first upvote? You're spitting pure fact. Our MSM "news" is mostly owned by right-wing billionaires AKA oligarchs.

You would think with their funding cut off they would stop doing the "fair and balanced" act and stop carrying water for Republican liars.

I listened to part of a segment on my local NPR station last night about melania's new movie. The reporter was gushing about how great and strong melania is; how she loves fashion and children and supports her husband.

I was revolted and thought to myself about how far NPR had fallen.

Those traits are admirable* but not noteworthy. Millions of devoted parents and spouses exist, but my mother and my wife don't have access to a film crew to document them and pick highlights.

*unless your spouse is a known domestic abuser, pedophile, rapist, fraudster (...) and actively dismantling democracy in America, in which case... maybe don't support him unless you are also a monster.

Americans aren't ready for big scary words

I don't think the journalists write the headlines though.

People who rape children.

At this point it's on the wealthy to prove they aren't child rapists. Epstein is just one of many and there is zero reason to assume others like him are not still operating.

They also own big troll farms manufacturing consent.

There's a reason most social media is as opaque (algorithms, moderation et.al) as they can be.

These media corporations and troll farms work together to push a subtle narrative manufactured by their handlers.

Don't you know how many Benjamins got the right to vote on 21 January 2010

In principle, I agree.

Reaching out to the people who haven't moved on from the captured platforms, however, still has the potential to do good. If a large population is only or almost only using Twitter, then the message never reaches them if no one on Twitter is saying it. Of course, the algorithm will do what it can to minimize such voices, but a small amount of message saturation is more than none.

I am glad I was never on Twitter. I did make an account many, many, many years ago but never used it.

You could say doubleplusungood.

is this made to look like it was written by "ai" as a sort of ironic joke, or did you actually use an llm to write your thoughts for you on how powerful people controlling the language we use is dangerous?

Reposts an existing popular tweet, on X

I wouldn't describe Noam as left wing, he's advocating for Ukraine's unilateral surrender rn. He's just Red Fascist.

What does Chomsky knowing Epstein have to do with anything?

A better example would be Reid Hoffman and Laurence Summors. Both in Epstein Files, and massive impacts on Democratic party.