Michael Tracey's attempts a while back to fact check narratives of WW2 were pointless and pedantic but he's certainly the big winner in the "Epstein files" fiasco. People looking for a boomlet in their career from Epstein hysteria will lose a lot of credit.
@slooperbia50068 Scroll back maybe a year and a half and you might find it--but maybe the search engine will help.
@slooperbia50068 He's making all the Epstein obsessives look ridiculous so I assume that is likely to pay off for him in the long run. Even now, it must be satisfying.
@slooperbia50068 To me and anyone who sees things along similar lines.
@slooperbia50068 Ultimately the Epstein thing won't really yield anything--a few die hards will stick with it, others will get bored.
@slooperbia50068 Yes, Americans will continue to be in favor of age of consent laws and their enforcement.
@slooperbia50068 We've been through this. I have no objection to categorizations like "human trafficking," "sexual abuse," etc., nor to the ways they are mostly defined. It can only be a question of whether accusations are true or false, and what the purpose of false accusations might be.
@slooperbia50068 Kidnapping, false imprisonment, rape and assault are defined, are they not?
@slooperbia50068 These questions can be raised within the framework of the law, and they are precisely the kinds of questions Tracey foregrounded. But if we're talking about minors, it's a different situation.
@slooperbia50068 There will always be resentment but there will also always be some threshold from “minority” to adulthood.
@slooperbia50068 I don't share your diagnosis.
@slooperbia50068 "Immaturity" is not the same as "innocence"