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  • Don’t even say passive, it’s plausible deniability at best - meaning a constructed, technical wall to point to and say, “whaa happened?” when shit goes bad.

    Brian’s job was simple, walk into a room each day and be asked a single question, “how many hammers do we make today?” His answer, without exception, was, “as many hammers as we’re legally allowed to make”. Then Brian goes home, well, second home as he was estranged from his wife and family and he took that drive home while drunk. He then likely ate a big ol’ steak, had a massage and sex with an escort and continued drinking until he passed out, sleeping very well after a harmless day of deciding targets for hammer production.

    In the meantime, those hammers were used predominately to bludgeon sick people to death while already actively suffering through the most painful, lowest moments of their lives - and the victim’s families have to watch it slowly happen with nothing meaningful they can do.

    But Brian was just choosing the number of hammers to make each day, right?






  • Your comment is just boiling over with false premises. You’re not (and you won’t) make a compelling case that this specific person was “just a dude with a family”. Hitler was a dude with a family on some level in a bad faith argument like yours, but that’s not the context that matters while discussing him and the atrocities he willingly and repeatedly committed over the course of years.





  • They do, but then a trusted “insider” youtuber or podcaster who they have a years long parasocial relationship with “signs off” on the product and the person says to themselves, “X person has integrity and they are very smart, they wouldn’t put their name on Y unless they did a lot of homework, so I don’t have to.”

    And life is difficult, complicated and overwhelming, so you can’t really blame “normal” folks for putting the same faith they’d put into their tech saavy nephew into these personalities. The influencers should pause though and accept that if they can’t enthusiastically describe the reason a thing is actually legitimate, they should refrain from endorsing it or accept part of the blame for misleading people.

    Fuck PayPal and its related entities and all executives past, present and future. And I guess fuck you too now, Will Ferrell - you cosigned Mel Gibson in whatever the fuck that daddy movie series was and now you’re the face of these people? The “PayPal mafia” (cringe) literally just bought the US election. I know you need to bankroll a lot of family trips to Sweden, but you h ave too much obviously dirty money now, Will. Hard to chuckle at your comedies now, and that’s a bummer.