Replying to https://twitter.com/QuiteTheCurious/status/1348342086656004096:

@QuiteTheCurious Instead of killing you, it makes you wish it had killed you.

@EarlGrayTrekkie I really liked Better Off Ted too

https://t.co/Yterr3gRNY

...and provides them with competent decent accountable law enforcement and professional accountable moral and responsible prosecutors.

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So please, Dear Tweeps, take some of that gargantuan energy you have for condemning rapists and ostracizing pedos and use it constructively to realign American society so that it empowers adolescents and young adults...

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We must stop treating our soon-to-be adults like toddlers. We must be honest with them about sex and their bodies and the choices they will be asked to make. Keeping them in the dark disempowers them. The less they know the more vulnerable they are.

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I’m not blaming victims. I’m blaming their parents, their schools, their communities, their cops, the entire society that raised 14 year olds who are totally unprepared for the real world. No wonder they became victims.

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Everybody ran around repeating “stranger danger” for a decade but a guy who offers $200 for a massage doesn’t seem suspicious at all? WTF?

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Nobody in Florida teaches their kids to tell rich perverts to fuck off? Really? Nobody warns them that when they hit puberty they’ll be attractive to the opposite sex? Totally naive in every way? Is that what we want for our young people?

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No police force can escort every 14 year old everywhere 24/7. Young adults need autonomy. Doubling down on treating them like small children is the opposite of what we need to do. Basically they need to be granted stewardship over their own bodies.

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Part of the solution, a big step toward preventing future Epsteins is to empower young adults. Give them the right to consent to sex. With that automatically comes the responsibility to make the choice. They have the right and also the responsibility to say no.

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Did this happen, and I just don’t know about it? And nobody likes to question the choices of the victims, but it really didn’t strike them odd that a millionaire needs a massage from a totally untrained stranger? He can’t hire a professional to do it for that money?

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Did it never occur to the cops to go to the high schools and ask them to tell their students “If a guy offers you $200 for a massage don’t go. He wants much more than a massage”? Why didn’t anyone warn the young women of the danger?

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The police found out that Jeffrey was paying $200 per massage, but then raping the young women who showed up to do the job. Prosecuting him for rape was of course a no-brainer. But was there any prevention at all?

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Fairly early in the Epstein saga he recruited students from West Palm Beach high schools to give him massages. (after someone mentions this, the entire room usually breaks into several hours of expressing feelings “He’s a monster!” etc and discussion ends.)

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Citizen complaints must be investigated, the findings published, and prosecutors who have failed must be punished and/or fired. If they break the law they must be imprisoned.

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There are hundreds of well-documented cases of terrible, incompetent, and corrupt prosecutors making life hell for good Americans. Every state’s attorney needs an oversight board.

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(The same is true of elected sheriffs. If Americans want quality law enforcement to really do their jobs that entire system must be scrapped. As usual the USA is an outlier. No other country does it that way, and with good reason.)

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We will always have a few sociopaths. But corruption can be fought, or tolerated. Over the last several decades it has become glaringly obvious that our system of electing district attorneys doesn’t work. Cy Vance is accountable only on election day, and he runs unopposed.

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Epstein was a truly exceptional individual. He was a genius and a narcissist with zero scruples. He was a real live supervillain. People like that come around very rarely.

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Constructive solutions require that we be honest with ourselves. Epstein was not a pedophile. He was a sociopath. He was extremely good at manipulating people. He got what he wanted from them, if it was money, sex, or a get out of jail free card.

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