Tired trope of villifying everyone and everything that came to contact with Epstein will get old.
The reality of Epstein is not something people are emotionally ready to handle. What if he’s not this massively evil person eating babies? What if he’s a somewhat flawed person used as political mileage?
The article strictly talks about people who were pals with him _after_ his Pedophilia conviction. And please don't do this strawman "evil person eating babies", nobody sane is claiming that.
Okay so Epstein seems to have been a bad person right. But after he was convicted and did his time shouldn't people be able to do business with him again? Like yeah maybe keep him away from children etc, but investment is a different matter?
If founders (or VC's) feel comfortable working with someone who pled guilty to procuring a child for prostitution, they should go ahead. But they shouldn't then be surprised when people consider them a piece of shit.
I find it great that we now get to see what kind of men pick winners and loosers and how they operate. The fact that we now see the hypocrisy and moral rot of supposed meritocracy is not a bug.
And no, Epstein did not stopped his abuses after his network got him incredibly sweet deal and prevented further investigation. He did not even operated in secrecy after that.
https://archive.is/TJCdB
Tired trope of villifying everyone and everything that came to contact with Epstein will get old.
The reality of Epstein is not something people are emotionally ready to handle. What if he’s not this massively evil person eating babies? What if he’s a somewhat flawed person used as political mileage?
The article strictly talks about people who were pals with him _after_ his Pedophilia conviction. And please don't do this strawman "evil person eating babies", nobody sane is claiming that.
When was he convicted of “pedophilia?”
What if he was both? His villainous nature made him a willing accomplice and aligned him with political monsters.
The "oh this is just repetitive/tiresome/old" energy is an emotional trope that is itself repetitive, tiresome, and old.
Dopamine addicted brain demands the circus bring out a new act! Otherwise it might calm down enough to notice all it's given to eat is bread!
Amazing how the adults are just like kids watching Saturday morning cartoons; aww news interruption! How dare reality intrude on my disassociation!
The Wire's eternal wisdom "You start to follow the money, you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you"
Okay so Epstein seems to have been a bad person right. But after he was convicted and did his time shouldn't people be able to do business with him again? Like yeah maybe keep him away from children etc, but investment is a different matter?
If founders (or VC's) feel comfortable working with someone who pled guilty to procuring a child for prostitution, they should go ahead. But they shouldn't then be surprised when people consider them a piece of shit.
wild to try to begin a social relationship with the hn community by trying to argue this position.
I find it great that we now get to see what kind of men pick winners and loosers and how they operate. The fact that we now see the hypocrisy and moral rot of supposed meritocracy is not a bug.
And no, Epstein did not stopped his abuses after his network got him incredibly sweet deal and prevented further investigation. He did not even operated in secrecy after that.
"Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892509