The founding fathers basically solved this issue through the electoral college, you’re not supposed to be voting for the president, you’re supposed to be voting for the people who will elect the president. But that’s all gone to shit, proving Hamilton’s warnings about populism extremely prescient.

If deflecting were an argument you would win every argument you ever find yourself in. Won’t continue to waste my time really.

Not defending anyone, I’m defending the concept of being able to associate with anyone without being accused of being complicit with their crimes should they commit any. Is that so hard to grasp? Think critically about this for 5 seconds.

Think of any figure you like, imagine they had a photo in a party with any of these people. Does that mean that person was complicit in the crimes if any of them? Of course not. Not even if they had committed similar crimes to theirs.

I’m serious. You’re saying that people, by merely being in the same circles as a criminal may be complicit in the crimes of that person. I’m telling you that is not a rational stance to take. I used Diddy as an example since he is a fixture of the hip hop world and pretty much has a photo in a party with every A and B lister in the game. Does that mean that all of them partook in his activities?

For all I know yes, multiple times maybe. I don’t ask for people’s criminal history when I meet them and not everyone I hang out with is an intimate friend even if I hang out with them in multiple occasions. But just as likely no.

I’m not defending him specifically, I repeat for the third time.

It’s like Diddy, is every other rapper a sexual predator like him then? Or what about that Weinstein? Is 90% of Hollywood also conspiring with him to abuse women? You gotta understand these are small circles, no shit they are photographed together and in parties together, it’s like if you belonged to a club and someone in your club was a criminal. Does that mean you must also necessarily be a criminal? Even if you have committed crimes yourself, separate from the crimes of that person. It’s easy to imagine that yes you might be, but it doesn’t mean it necessarily is true.

Whether someone would defend me or not does not factor in the equation. If I would defend the same principle im stating if this was Obama who had a picture with Epstein in the same party it would be extremely hypocritical of me to take the opposite stance simply because it’s some one I do not like. I’m never gonna lend myself to hypocrisy.

Ok you’re just kinda unhinged or something because I’m not really defending RFK, I’m just saying that you need actual evidence to accuse him or anyone of anything just for knowing or even having a friendship with Epstein. I’ve hung out with people who have been accused of crimes, does that mean I must necessarily be a conspirator with them?

Like I told the other guy I’m not defending RFK specifically, but Epstein knew pretty much everyone in the 1%. It’s a small club. You need a lot more proof than a photo or riding his jet. Like I don’t know if you know this but people with jets let other people use it all the time, including strangers. It’s pretty normal for them.

I’m just not one for throwing accusations without strong evidence only because I don’t like the person. But that’s just me.

I’m not defending RFK specifically fyi, I’m just saying the guy knew pretty much everyone in the 1%. So you need more evidence than a photo for it to mean anything.

Being pictured, associating, knowing, having partied or being in the general vicinity of Epstein doesn’t really mean anything. Wherever there was a concentration of net worths the guy was there.

Why not use the tailnet address? There’s an option that gives you random words instead of an iP address and it works very well, at least for me. i I mean you still need to know the port but it’s less to remember. As for dashboard I use Homarr.

I recently moved away from Gmail and when I was researching what my new email client would be I considered Proton seriously for a while. But what I realized is that the privacy aspect of it is pretty much useless unless everyone you are communicating with is also using Proton. I went with iCloud, it’s free and it’s good enough for my use case.

He was a piece of shit.

You can’t, thus you condition through coercion.

It is because I do not expect them to do better that I believe Plato is right. If people are not able to willingly make themselves better then we need to resort to coercion, the noble lie.

A lot of people can’t and won’t learn “virtue”. This is a fact you can observe with your own eyes by simply going outside and looking at how many people despite having all the tools to learn to be better refuse to do so. Plato was right.

Nah Plato was right. Not about the numbers though.

Very little chance of this being good, BioWare fucking blows. They should give this franchise to a new developer that’s competent and less focused on writing HR compliant dialogue.

I don’t know how it has taken people so long to realize something I realized around AssCreed3, that all Ubisoft does is release the same game with a different skin over and over again.