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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

baseless

They're from police and FBI reports and witness statements, so "baseless" is not accurate.

I'm not saying everything in the reports is 100% true and real, but the fact that they've been covered up so hard for so long says that there's something in there that's true, which means anything in there could be true.

A lot of the more horrendous things mentioned, people like you are saying are too extreme and "ludicrous" to be true.

But I bet you would agree people did such things in the past, right? Why is it implausible that people are still doing the same horrific things people have been doing for thousands of years? Because you can't relate?

That's good, celebrate that. But don't be naive to just how horrible human beings can be, we get in a LOT of trouble in society when we say "That can't be true, people can't be that bad."

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net -4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

We also get in a lot of trouble when we just accept anything bad we hear about people we don't like as true.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

I just don't get dismissing any one report or story out of hand just because it sounds "implausible" by your own moral standards. That's deeply biased.

Treat the whole thing as unverified or unsubstantiated, but don't single out individual reported acts and crimes and say "That's too much." That's just your brain trying to protect you. I don't think we're ever going to see investigations proving or disproving anything in those files, but it's naive to think that people who rape and murder children are going to draw the line somewhere. Let's face the dark reality and use that as our motivation to get involved and work towards dismantling the cult of the wealthy elite, not bury our heads because some things (things that that again, people have done for thousands of years as demonstrations of power) are too horrific to imagine.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago

We found the pedo