BarneyPiccolo

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I understand that they all knew what he was doing, and almost certainly were paying him a retainer, but I still believe he was mostly independent, working for whomever would pay for his information, sometimes running operations he was paid to do.

I'm just saying that he doesn't seem to have been an employee or agent of one specific nation or agency. But what do any of us really know? They have leaked out some information, but it only seems to further muddy the water in regards to his employment. They surely know exactly who he was, and what he was up to, and they are choosing to not tell us, probably because citizens would go nuts if the CIA admitted that they knew he was raping and murdering children, but covered for him.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

CIA, Mossad, Russia, etc., they were all tied to Epstein, and many claim one or the other was operating him. I don't think it was that simple.

I believe Epstein was more of a independent operator of an extremely high-end specialty concierge service, and he had two types of clients - those who engaged his services, and those who purchased information about those paying clients. Why get paid by one employer, when you can sell the same info to multiple parties?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Trump is going to be remembered for a lot more than his impeachments, like it or not. Over the next hundred years, he will be the most studied of any president. Countless Masters and PhD theses will be written about him.

The good news is that it will almost all be negative. There will be a few lame apologists, but nobody will take them seriously. The vast majority will be exposing his many crimes, uncovering and gathering evidence of his guilt. Most of his crimes will never go to court, but they will be established, proven, and recorded for all history. Trump's legacy will be strongly cemented as the worst president in history, and THAT'S what he will be remembered for.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That will never happen. If some criminal politician gets caught and hauled to The Hague, that means he probably deserves it, and there will NOT be the political support to go to war with our NATO allies to rescue some PedoCon War Criminal Maniac.

The reaction from the American people is likely to be the opposite - fry the dipshit.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Is there another Epstein? I'm sure someone is trying recreate his special "Concierge" service, but it would be difficult to do that today. It took him many years, and potential clients today would be far warier.

It's more likely those services will be decentralized, like the Fediverse. There will be multiple concierges around the world, not just one big service that handles everybody.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

That took me by surprise. In his first term, Russia was holding the leash. Are these guys passing around the Trump Kompromat?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago

Our allies. This is the side we're on.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible

Unfortunately, this 100% true, and most people don't truly realize it. In 1919, Dodge sued Ford, claiming that Henry Ford was operating his company under policies that benefitted him and his workers more than they benefitted the shareholders. The court found for Dodge, and ever since, corporations have been enslaved by their Stock Price, and all company policies have to increase the stock price, no matter what. If they don't put the shareholders first, the shareholders can sue the company.

That forces companies to abuse and under-pay employees, and make immoral corporate decisions because serving the Stock Price is literally the ultimate objective of every corporation. More than a good product, more than quality control, more than utility to the consumer, more than being a moral company who cares about their employees, the Stock Price is literally the only thing that matters, because that's the law. Ultimately, the only product that any public corporation cares about, is its Stock.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

How about go swimming off the beautiful Cuban coast, and get eaten by a school of sharks?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 month ago

“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”

People have to understand that this is what's behind all the giddiness and wild investing in AI - they are out of their minds at the prospect firing 90% of their human workforce, more if they possibly can. Nobody wants those disgusting humans hanging around, lazy, slow, eating, farting, gossipping, complaining, losers, no self-respecting Sociopathic Oligarch wants them around.

If they're so enthusiastic to go to work every day, send them to the work camps, where they can be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment Work Slaves. They'll be called 13s. In 10 years, if MAGA is still running the show, 13s will be the primary human workforce, for any jobs that can't be done by AI or robotic. There will be a small contingent of privileged humans who will work supervisory positions, bossing around the 13s.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

It's common to work fairly far from your home. I have had many jobs in my life with a daily commute of 50 miles or more, sometimes for years. Add to that side trips to the grocery store, or restaurants, or anything else, and it starts to add up.

I live at the southern tip of my population area. It's 30 miles or bumper to bumper traffic to get downtown, and I did that commute every day for a while. I even had a job for short time in one of the northern suburbs, and my daily commute was 90 minutes, ONE WAY.

If you own a home, and you get a new job that's in the same region, but even farther away, you don't buy a new home near your job, you just suck it up, and leave earlier for work.

Going through a 400 miles tank of gas is a normal weekly thing in America, that's why there are gas stations EVERYWHERE. Many people drive 10,000 miles a year or more. I always average more like 15-20,000 per year, because I drive a LOT for work, enough that I consider myself a professional driver for at least part of my job.

And then there is cargo shipping by truck. Again, America is a big place, and lots of stuff is shipped by truck, which travel a LOT of miles, and use very expensive diesel fuel. When the price of shipping goes up, EVERYTHING goes up.

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