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Vancouver social-media company Hootsuite looking to work with ICE to ‘build trust’
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This is a strange venue in which to litigate this, but I’m grateful for the opportunity to clarify my views to an interested party.
I know that the Trump administration is fighting tooth and nail to hold the release of the Epstein files, in which he is almost certainly and heavily implicated, ostensibly because they deeply fear the evidence contained within beyond the 1% that has already been made public. Clearly, this is a bipartisan topic in an age of hyper-partisanship that matters to most of the electorate and creates responses from our representatives. If it ends up being the one that brings down Trump, and hopefully Trumpism along with it, then that would be a fantastic outcome. If it brings even a smattering of justice to the victims of sexual abuse named in the evidence, even better.
However, I’m extremely skeptical that it will. Beyond Trump, the implicated are an obscenely rich and horrifically powerful class with global reach that has long since been rendered almost immune to real prosecution. Furthermore, Trump has been proven to be more slippery than a mob boss when it comes to real legal consequences. Instead, I think his removal will come as a result of his death or extreme ill-health and dementia.
In the end, it is my belief that screaming about pedophiles on the Internet and alienating allies in the fight against fascism by accusing everyone who doesn’t agree of being a pedophile (as it was in my case) is at best ineffective and at worst, trivializes and dilutes the concept and stops progress and discussion cold. It’s on the level of Internet meme at this point.
Personally, I’m much more worried about the threat of nuclear fucking war from a potential full scale invasion of NATO allies and the destabilization of the international order. So, you’ll just have to excuse me when I say I think identifying Trump as a pedophile can take a back seat to that. We all have our pet peeves I suppose; you hate pedophiles, and I don’t want to be incinerated in nuclear holocaust. In the end, I think we can agree that removing Trump and his administration is a good way to make progress on both, whatever the method.
Sorry for denying you a Yes or No answer, but my views on the issue are more complex than that.