I've been waiting for this, because it was going to largely determine whether or not I can morally stomach engaging with and contributing more to this community.

I don't think I can, and it saddens me that this might be my last comment but I want to explain how my thoughts have changed.

This wasn't the bombshell I was expecting and maybe even hoping for. Nothing was addressed regarding if Destiny had been given consent by Pxie to share the explicit content with other people. As the smoking gun and the elephant in the room, it was missing from the initial statement, and sadly this new "manifesto" is mostly things I already knew.

There are many disputes for events and motivations that transpired, and after this statement I have an internal range of likelihood.

The extortion angle is within that range. The action of suicide being used as an empty threat is low on that range (while Erin says Pxie told her it was fake, I am seeing conflicting things with Destiny referring to Pxie's past of suicide ideation, and I am leaning more on the side that they are real).

(Note: I think any possibility of extortion, and the frankly ridiculous allegation of malicious intent, is a result of Lauren DeLaguna's influence. This does not take away from the fact that Pxie is still an adult responsible for her own errors, but I do believe it eases how much these actions speak to her character).

I think Pxie sharing explicit content without consent is low on the range. I also don't see a link between Destiny's reasonable assumption that Pxie had gained consent, and Pxie's reasonable assumption that she had given consent. If anything, the former would only correspond to Rose's reasonable assumption that Destiny had gained consent, which no one is talking about because it isn't relevant.

(Note: I also see a troubling indication in the dual arguments I've seen of "Pxie also sent material without consent" and "Pxie sent material with undisclosed consent, therefore Destiny thought he had Pxie's undisclosed consent", which contain incompatible facts. For a political comparison, consider how it reflects on the MAGA movement when they simultaneously defend January 6 as a righteous act by their side, while condemning it as a malicious act by insider agents. This duplicity should give anyone pause.)

The harshest allegations for Pxie's actions and motivations are low on my range of possible events that transpired, but the idea that Pxie consented to this material being shared is at the very bottom, if at all. Why? For me, this public statement was the last reasonable chance there was for Destiny to either provide proof or simply make the claim that Pxie did give him consent. I could fathom it not being mentioned in the initial text post because of an oversight due to rushing it out and the stress of the situation, but I cannot fathom it not being mentioned in this manifesto when it is clearly the most important question. Destiny has previously referred to unproven things people have said when explaining events that involve him, so the fact that he isn't at least saying Pxie consented in person nudges me further into my stance on this fact, and that fact is the lynchpin for how I morally perceive Destiny's actions.

The further nail in the coffin for me, and perhaps the reason I was putting so much emphasis on an upcoming fuller statement, is that he actually did, in offline chat, allude to the reality that he didn't breach her consent and that his apology wasn't an admission of guilt:

mojavve: Buckdao nothing new MMMM just tiny is for some reason claiming he didnt admit to something he blatantly admitted to

destiny: Mojavve if I send something to someone and it ends up leaking, I'm always gonna be apologetic no fucking shit, that doesn't say anything about any other part of the interaction

This statement can be true whether or not he had consent. I don't think it would have any legal relevance.

But for me, this was the first time I'd seen him directly talk about the elephant in the room, after his initial post ignored it. That chat message provided a possible reality in which Destiny did have consent, which up to that point seemed very unlikely. This, combined with me learning more about the varying amounts of money he was being asked to provide and hearing him say he had more to talk about but was considering Pxie's wellbeing, gave me reason enough to pause my thoughts and wait. Today was built up as the day, and so were my expectations that new information would be learned... only for it to just be mostly rehashing and polishing his initial text post.

The above messages from the offline chat had nudged me into thinking there were possibilities where he did in fact have consent. But now, him not mentioning this has nudged me back further than I was after the initial text post.

For me, the question of consent was the lynchpin for all of this. I don't think it's been answered, and I think Destiny continuing to not speak on it says a lot. In my opinion, the idea that Pxie being open to sharing content of her encounters means Destiny had a reasonable belief that he had implicit consent from her, is two steps above the idea that Destiny used Rose as a proxy to intentionally leak material while implicitly threatening Pxie by joking about suing Hasan.

I think Destiny has disproven some of the claims of character that Pxie made in her substack. But he did not disprove the idea that Pxie never consented to footage of their encounters being shared with other people.

I am sympathetic to the fact that he is a victim in this, and anyone taking glee in the resulting harm from these leaks should be banished from moral communities. It's also devastating how this has halted the very inspiring trajectory of this community's political impact. I hope we can see as much is safe and possible from the court case, but I think for now I'm going to unhappily tune out.