Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
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@cstross I assumed that someone who was Islamophobic was in general an asshole, but I hadn't realized those people would devote so much time to transphobia.
Generic misogyny, yes; I seem to remember reading one of these people refer to a strawwoman as "Muslima", and I wanted to throw up.
@dnkboston If someone is a bigot on one social issue, the way to bet is that they're a bigot on *all* of them (just, more quiet about it).
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@StephanieMoore I met him once. Did not get a great impression of him, to put it mildly.
@cstross @StephanieMoore The man has quite a reputation in linguist circles.
Another circle I am curious to see discussed in the context of billionaire-adjacent agenda setting and their entanglement beyond Pinker and Gates is the whole "New Optimism" lot and OWID. Just how deep into liberal or purportedly progressive territory does the network spread?
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
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@cstross I have been following the #Epstein case since 2019. Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, wrote about how Alex Acosta's 2008 plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein hid 10 others.
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/its-not-about-cover-its-about-child-rapeToday I read
"Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell’s court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein."
FINE THESE PEOPLE!
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelpopok/p/ghislaine-maxwells-bombshell-filing -
@cstross for some reason Steven Pinker was a a mutual on Twitter for some years, he blocked me as soon as I asked about his association with Epstein. He almost certainly had something to hide, in my opinion
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@George_Kimberly Kompromat. The only question is, which state-level actor was he doing it on behalf of?
@cstross @George_Kimberly Himself i suppose....
I don't think he actually was a russian or chinese puppet....
But, he surely offered his "services" to _all_ of them.....
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@dnkboston If someone is a bigot on one social issue, the way to bet is that they're a bigot on *all* of them (just, more quiet about it).
@cstross Agree! But there's a difference between an off-handed, "yeah, fuck 'em" and devoting hours of your life to it. I guess these people just have a lot of time on their hands.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross we need to rip these people new assholes
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross I was going to post about this the other day
it'll be harder for that dingbat David Pakman to have Richard Dawkins on his show and launder his reputation now
he was like "turns out he doesn't HATE trans people"
as if any transphobe is gonna take that position, especially on liberal media
the problem is he's a biological essentialist, like a lot of fascists
wants to deem certain genetics as natural and others as mutations we must never acknowledge the legitimacy of
he doesn't believe trans & nonbinary people exist, we are mentally ill cisgenders, and thinks intersex people are freaks
ergo we can't have rights like bodily autonomy or gender affirming healthcare
ergo 'keeping the numbers down' is a healthy practice
Dawkins will say he believed Epstein innocent
probably can't imagine Trump raping a teen either
but that doesn't mean it didn't happen, it just speaks to the limited imagination of these "thinkers"
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
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J Jürgen Hubert shared this topic
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross Richard Dawkins. There's a surprise.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross
The Epstein Class -
@Olson The brain eater got him a couple of decades ago.
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@Olson The brain eater got him a couple of decades ago.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross How are you, my friend? You have many followers. Could you please share my latest post? Sharing is my source of income in Gaza.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross Fucking Dawkins and Pinker. Before Epstein happened/was revealed I realized that who I had thought were modern intellectuals were, in fact, massive and amoral shit-bags. It made the Epstein thing burn less (ouch) but finding out that people you'd once admired were even bigger shit-bags than the shit-bags you found out they were doesn't lessen the original self-questioning: it my judgement *that* flawed?!
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross Richard Dwakin ist ein Evolutionsbiologe und Atheist. Er wurde in den US Südstaaten von religiösen Fanatikern die die Darwin ablehnen gehasst . Hetze gegen Opfer religiösen Wahn ist nicht angebracht.
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@cstross Fucking Dawkins and Pinker. Before Epstein happened/was revealed I realized that who I had thought were modern intellectuals were, in fact, massive and amoral shit-bags. It made the Epstein thing burn less (ouch) but finding out that people you'd once admired were even bigger shit-bags than the shit-bags you found out they were doesn't lessen the original self-questioning: it my judgement *that* flawed?!
@sstrader No, we were ALL taken in.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross maybe we should treat being a billionaire as a disease.
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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:
(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, sometimes meeting at his island.
Trans News Network (transnews.network)
@cstross crazy that 7 years later and we are still talking about the same news. It should never be this long for anyone to be caught after doing shit like this. Trump stain promised when he gained power, he would release it but failed like all president fail to keep any promise. Its crazy that a chunk of life passed yet the same new. All them rich guys had a lot to do with it but when you have money, its easy to buy your way out of wrongdoings. DONT BE WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE!
