BestOfLemmy

stallman is a creep, but i found it weird how those comments in particular are what finally got rid of him considering how... tame they were compared to his earlier behavior. iirc he commented on an event where an elderly colleague of his had been propositioned by one of epsteins "girls" and turned it down, and stallman said something to the effect of the old guy couldn't have known she was being coerced so should not be seen as a guilty party (the age of the woman in question was not made clear).

like, compared to asking female colleagues to lay down with him on a filthy mattress in his office and eating his own toenails during lectures that's downright pedestrian.

edit: okay the age of the woman was pointed out to him later and he responded with his usual tact. of course.

we know the man is completely unable to read people or social signals, and bases everything he says entirely on statistics. the biggest controversy before the epstein thing was when he said he didn't think it would hurt minors if they were allowed sexual relations earlier, which was pretty damn creepy. but the fact that he then asked a psychologist about it and completely changed his tune instantly afterwards tells me that he is a man that has no human instinct. he runs on pure data.