What did Richard say about shit like this? Something to the effect of accepting an unacceptable world as it is…
Andrew stated that fucking children has been somewhat standard forever. That’s definitely true if we consider childhood marriages. That’s an ongoing phenomenon around the world. It was pretty accepted up to about 50 years ago too. Elvis met Priscilla when she was 12 or something and married her as soon as she turned 18. Jimmy Page had a 13 year old gf. Stephen Tyler bragged about having an underage gf in his autobiography. But marriages and groupies had the façade of consent. I think with Epstein there may have been a façade of consent as well. Even though these men should have known that a girl can’t consent because they would never consent unless coerced in some subtle or overt way. For the most part, they probably ignored that because it was so self-validating to do so. But just the fact that they went so out of there way to pursue this is quite incriminating. It seems there was a great impulse to exploit underage women and zero impulse to help them. There’s even rumors circulating that some of these victims were barely post pubescent. As a voter and purveyor of current events, I suppose it’s reasonable to get fooled once in a while. Like Clinton was a known dog but I didn’t suspect him to be a criminally active ephebophile. I was wrong. Trump otoh, well that guy used to publicly brag about it and sexualize his own children. So he was an easy one to spot. I guess I can see how people would ignore basic creepiness. Even from a married middle age man running for office. They might shrug it off as not being real, as being overblown. But I did expect people to draw a line somewhere. That no one has is surprising. But it is what it is. When it comes to politics and nationalism, I guess there are no standards. To accept an unacceptable fact is our goal.