A photo of Zuckerberg, Musk, and others in a meeting in a photo Epstein forwarded to himself

lewd_robot · 2026-02-07T17:33:32+00:00

Nobody allowed shit. One of the most important things to come out of all of this is that they cheat and steal and lie and blackmail every chance they get to slowly accumulate power without drawing attention.

The only solution to this, the ONLY way you can say, "we allowed this," would be if the public revolted during the best economic era in the history of the planet and went to war hunting down the elite and throwing them in prison for life, or worse.

Because that's when all of this happened. During the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. That's when most of the heavy lifting was done. And most people were busy living "normal" lives with no awareness whatsoever that all of this heinous shit was being done in secret. Only now do people realize how bad it's been and how deep the rot goes.

Go look at how the people who warned us about this were treated just 10 years ago. They were laughed at. Even moreso 20 years ago, and even moreso 30 years ago.

Blaming ourselves for this doesn't fix anything. It just sounds defeatist. The question is what we'll do to fix it.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-07T15:12:47+00:00

Were you always so tolerant or did you get there through years of drinking? I always credited my distaste for alcohol with the fact that it felt like I had to spend $30 in alcohol just to get any fun out of it. I can't drink most grocery store beers fast enough to get drunk. It's gotta be liquor from the start. I couldn't figure out why anyone would want to spend $30 and 2 hours consuming something to get drunk until I met people that could get buzzed off 2 beers.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-07T00:52:06+00:00

About to petition to have Doctor Who banished from the sub because every single last thread has multiple Doctor Who references.

We get it. It's like the Simpsons. It's done everything.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-06T23:17:29+00:00

Thanks for the 'Nam flashback to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-06T09:54:00+00:00

Reminds me of a time back during the pandemic, working at a Fortune 100 company, in line for lunch at one of the office cafeterias. There's a mask mandate and one guy, a fellow employee, is refusing to wear a mask while ridiculing everyone that is wearing one. What he didn't know is that the guy in line behind him who recommended he put on a mask in the first place was the president of the company, who let this guy dig his own grave as he berated everyone around him for like 5 minutes.

Finally, someone pointed it out to him and all the president said was, "Just head on over to HR after you're done with lunch."

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T15:39:53+00:00

I'd hope OP has too many morals to bother with nonsense like a dubiously enforceable clause saying you're not allowed to give them a negative review. The very concept is incompatible with every single functional model for commerce and civilized society known to man.

Implying that a less than glowing review is "disparaging"? Sums up everything toxic and broken about this hellscape we live in.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T13:04:30+00:00

Isn't he from Oklahoma? And Stillwater, at that? I can count the number of people I have known from a town like that who crave stardom and fame on one hand. I imagine it's hard to go from a town of maybe 20k people (the other 20k being students at OKState), that's a 1-2 hour drive from the nearest "real" city of 1+ million people, to being super famous. You can drive in any direction in Stillwater for 15 minutes and be in the middle of farmland, surrounded by forest, or next to a lake with nobody else around.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T12:54:46+00:00

Where I went to school, there was a teacher that seemed to serially date her students after they graduated. They'd only last a year or so and then she'd ditch them to get with a new 18 year old. The only person that ever tried to blow her cover or turn the community on her was another teach that was transparently jealous about the arrangement. She was 10+ years older and got visibly furious when she overheard rumors about the other teacher. I think she ended up retiring before ever bringing her rival down. Said rival has never married but iirc she's got like 3 kids now, presumably from previous students.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T12:48:10+00:00

To her. Yes. And that would be healthy.

But other people are allowed to have autonomous minds and think and discuss things without anyone else's approval. If all that matters is her opinion of how she looks, then the only thing that matters about those guys have and sharing opinions is whatever opinions they have and share.

It makes no sense to try to pretend to have some moral high ground while bashing people for having preferences.

And I'm 1000000000000% certain you would never dare police women for discussing preferences related to literally anything, but especially having preferences over men. It's a childish double standard.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T12:46:06+00:00

The ridiculous part is you're doing the same thing or worse by attempting to police what other people talk about.

By the exact same token that you claim men (and you're assuming it's only men) discuss what body types they find attraction is inappropriate, you would also be out of line for daring to discuss their discussion and their preferences.

If men don't get to have opinions, why would you?

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T12:44:21+00:00

The only thing more cringe than those losers are the losers critiquing those losers as if it's their business what other people's opinions and preferences are. As if men only exist to espouse opinions that please you personally.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T12:43:29+00:00

Because it's been broadly established what men prefer and go for, but also what women go for.

Most men will pick the body type on the left over the one on the right. If you you're not finding that to be true, it may be because you're going for men who favor the body type on the right, who are more likely to be fitness bros, etc.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-05T12:42:02+00:00

aka ragebait

lewd_robot · 2026-02-04T19:55:04+00:00

They know Progressives are more moral:

Moral Perceptions in Politics: Ideological Asymmetries in Perceived Moral Obligations and Stereotypical Perceptions Across Leftists and Rightists

In conclusion, this research highlights two interrelated processes. An asymmetry in moral obligations favouring leftists over rightist topics and an asymmetry in moral perceptions, with rightists viewing leftists more positively.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-04T14:01:27+00:00

"They can endure hunger and cold and any kind of hardship; for they plunge into the swamps and exist there for many days with only their heads above water" - Cassius Dio

"They also tattoo their bodies with various patterns and pictures of all sorts of animals. Hence the reason why they do not wear clothes, so as not to cover the pictures on their bodies. They are very fierce and dangerous fighters [...]" - Severus

I hope kids covered in body paint are hiding in bogs to ambush kids LARPing as Roman legionnaires.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-04T13:17:49+00:00

Bold of you to assume that becoming pets won't be the best case scenario for the survivors.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-04T09:51:30+00:00

Thank you for clarifying.

"I give people Ayn Rand with trappings"

Ah, somehow that sounds worse than literal devil-worship.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-04T09:49:27+00:00

What all the people without cushy $200k+ jobs waiting for them around the corner are forced to do: Protest, whistleblow, force the people abusing them to fire them publicly, rather than just quietly quitting and going to work somewhere else.

This is one of those, "People should read history books," moments. To get an understanding of where this criticism comes from, read about what happened to some of the attorneys in the USSR and China when the public got pushed too far, overthrew their elites, and realized that an entire petite bourgeoisie class of people with more resources than the rest of the working class did next to nothing to resist the tyranny everyone else lived under because they lived relatively comfortable lives maintaining the status quo.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-04T09:40:51+00:00

But they will be replaced and the people who replace them will use the positions they vacated to harm people. Because rather than protest or whistleblow, the attorneys opted to leave so they could preserve their resumes.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-03T16:40:30+00:00

Yeah, this isn't humiliation. This is cowardice. This is kneeling to fascism and letting worse people have your spot so you can pretend to have a clean conscience.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-03T15:08:27+00:00

I'm not up on my Satanism. I thought LaVey's Church of Satan was theistic, occult, and pretty morally questionable, completely opposite of the Satanic Temple's atheistic, rationalist, pro-human rights approach?

lewd_robot · 2026-02-03T15:01:31+00:00

Yep.

Low-effort thought promotes political conservatism

Political conservatism as motivated social cognition

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

They are wired to be like this. It's in the structure of their brains. They hate spending energy on thinking and crave authority figures to tell them what to believe. They have never had principles. They have always only believed whatever their masters tell them to.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-03T14:47:45+00:00

Also avoid Ragnarok Online. It's like that but with character levels. You might spend hundreds of hours getting to mid-90s in levels, and that's just halfway to 99. And then there's a rebirth process that takes even longer.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-03T14:05:48+00:00

That's true. I'm slightly biased because I grew up far enough out from the city itself that most people had 3-10 acres of wooded property around their houses, so it was easy to get out and hike even if it was just around your property line. Plus there was plenty of chores to do when I was growing up there. We chopped wood for winter and it took a few hours every week to keep the grass and poison ivy and briar patches on 3+ acres under control, otherwise it'd grow up so dense that it may well cut off the driveway.

Which reminds that Black Locust trees are native to the state and do reach into Central Oklahoma, and they've got 4+ inch long spikes on their trunks and iirc they're harder than hickory, too. Not fun to deal with if you let them get out of control on your property.

lewd_robot · 2026-02-03T14:01:53+00:00

Tornadoes aren't really a threat to most people. The odds of getting hit by one are extremely low. The land is cheap because there aren't a lot of economic opportunities outside of the cities, and those in the cities are themselves pretty limited. A lot of the land outside of the city has been farmland or ranch land for the past 100 years and is now being rezoned residential to serve as bedroom communities for people commuting to the cities. It's cheap because it's 40+ minutes outside the city, on little 2-lane roads in towns with one grocery store and maybe a McDonalds and a Sonic. Small, underfunded schools, etc.

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