One of the other victims was Dr Charles Epstein, I've wondered for a while if he was some kind of relation.

A conservative Republican misogynist climate-denying creationist Jew was a client of Jeffery Epstein???

It boggles the mind.

What does being Jewish have to do with anything??

Don't celebrate that asshole just because a stopped clock happened to be right for one moment

I’m not the OC, but I definitely have a strong Christian bias when I hear that someone’s a creationist. I would almost certainly assume they were a baptist or Pentecostal if it wasn’t specified. It doesn’t matter, but it removes the potential excuse that it’s just the culture he grew up in.

Though now I have to look up Jewish creationism to see if I was very wrong.

Edit: it’s kind of what I suspected- there are Jewish creationists, but it’s not nearly as common, and there are a lot more options for reconciling two seemingly incompatible beliefs within the framework of Judaism.

He went crazy. The difference between his academic writing and the manifesto is worlds apart.

He said some aweful shit, but props to his treatment of the Epstein class

JE’s partner in crime Maxwell is theorized to have taken over the family business of extorting people for Israeli intelligence from her father.

You REALLY didn't need to include the "Jew" part as if that's as bad as the rest..

Or, to be more blunt; shut the fuck up with this anti-semitic bullshit.

If a person is active lobbying for Israel, or working as on behalf of that or any other terror state, that's legitimate points of criticism. Pointing towards someone being Jewish as some ground of suspicion in its own right is dangerous bullshit of historical proportions. There's no reason we should tolerate this shit.

Indeed

But

Israel and the IDF (shittiest band name ever, period) are making it really REALY hard not to do that.b

I'd say it would be extremely helpful for all Jews world wide if Israel would just stop murdering babies in the biggest genocide since WWII

Sometimes even a calculator can be a clock.

But even if they're lobbying for Israel the criticism would not be that they're a Jew but rather what they're lobbying for (and the same applies to lobbyist for most countries/companies too..)

Israel and the IDF (shittiest band name ever, period) are making it really REALY hard not to do tha

Only if you consider anything they say to be true, which you shouldn't.

Pretending that Israel is accurately representative of all Jews is itself an antisemitic trope, no matter how many Zionists in and outside of Israel subscribe to it, and we'd do well to not fall for the "some Jews think it's true, so it must be" trap of Zionist Hasbara.

I'd say it would be extremely helpful for all Jews world wide if Israel would just stop murdering babies in the biggest genocide since WWII

ABSOLUTELY. Until then, though, it behooves us to believe nothing Hasbarists say and remember that there's a lot of anti- or at least non-zionist Jews who don't deserve to be lumped in with the genocidal maniacs and their fan club.

Most Jewish people I know personally are also the biggest anti-zionists I know.

I mean, ISIS and the taliban were/are pretty horrific, but that's not an excuse to be shitty to Muslims. This really isn't different enough to matter. They aren't shit because they're Jewish, they're shit and happen to be Jewish.

I think, if you swapped the word "Jew" with "Zionist", your point might be clearer.

Saying Israel is evil isn't antisemitism.

Blaming Jews for Israel's sins is.

That's a WAY more concise version of my main point, yeah 😁

No, they aren’t. It’s extremely easy to separate the actions of the Israeli state from the beliefs and moral worth of the Jewish people. A great way to start is by actually talking to Jews, you will find that many are incredibly disenfranchised by Israel’s actions. Sure, some support the IDF, but so do many American Christians, so you can’t exactly draw conclusions from that.

its kinda wierd looking at his manifesto now. Seemed pretty crazy at the time but a lot less so now.

Oh, do you hate Luigi too?

Victim is such a strong word. Target is more accurate.

Sometimes it can be boobs.

In October 2020 he joined in signing a letter stating: "Given his astonishing success in his first term, we believe that Donald Trump is the candidate most likely to foster the promise and prosperity of America."

Alright then.

They just hate America

Child mutilator then?

Oh he's the one who recommended a grad student to Epstien because she was a "v[ery] small goodlooking blonde". Apparently he also opposes women in the workforce.

I feel little sympathy for him

Nope, why?

You're very welcome! I hate to see you guys lumped in with the crazies like that..

epstein was jewish and had tight connections with loads of influential jews. it's not bad, just fits the pattern.

Anyone else seeing an older, rounder Michael Cera?

He was a Zionist and had tight connections with other influential Zionists including members of the Israeli government.

That's NOT the same as Jewishness itself, no matter how much Zionists and antisemites (and combinations thereof) try to convince you otherwise.

He was also Jewish, sure, but that doesn't have a causal link to being an abuser. Being a Zionist does.

The more I learn about his victims, the more I sympathize with Ted Kaczynski. Terrorist, sure. He just happened to have a valid point

Or maybe getting blown up did something to his brain.

edit: strange, they upvote when someone says Fetterman turned repub because of stroke brain damage, but downvote when I speculate he likes trump/epstein because of bomb brain damage. What's the difference?

There's always that guy.

In the 1980s, Gelernter made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system he and Nicholas Carriero designed (which he named for Linda Lovelace, the lead actress in the porn movie Deep Throat, mocking the naming of the programming language Ada in tribute to the scientist and first attributed computer programmer, Ada Lovelace).

Imagining the smug little chortle he must make every time he delivers that punchline...

Yeah but it's not. I only see the polls where most Israelis don't support Netanyahu because they WANT MORE.

I don't think Jews are a problem or the problem here, I do think Israel as a state is such a problems that it has corrupted most of its citizens, which unfortunately mostly are Jews.

I mean.. we've gone out a few times. It's pretty casual still. I wouldn't say we are seeing each other.

Labels don't matter, be happy

Not necessarily mutually exclusive

Right when he could really make use of that right hand for stress relief, too.

This guy and Luigi are nothing alike. I like Luigi. I saw him in a pizza shop in Lubbock the day that CEO was killed.

I was around during the era of the bombings. I wasn't personally affected or anything, but it was kinda scary to be a kid and think you might open the mail and die. If you were around for the D.C. Sniper, it was kinda like that except A LOT slower.

He was an incel choad before they were things! A hipster incel choad, if you will.

I appreciate the Lubbock reference

That still wouldn’t justify including “Jew” in a list of otherwise entirely negative descriptors