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    You do realise a number of these Arab family monarchial figures are criminally indicted in the Epstein case

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      Yes, and they, not the enslaved migrant workers, should be subject to the drone boomers.

      And by boomers I mean the flying things that go ka-boom on impact.

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    Ever since I learned about the Dubai porta-potty I lost what little respect I had for influencers traveling to Dubai.

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      Dubai porta-potty

      I looked this up and between this and the Epstein Island stuff … like is regular sex just not enough for people?

      Also, why can’t filthy rich people use their money to help others …

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        I think part of the problem is that the brain is never content with what it has. It becomes the new normal instead of luxuries.

        Think about the a rich man, sleeping with beautiful women all the time - either escorts or gold diggers.

        It becomes the new normal. He wants more. In what direction this want will go probably differs from person to person. There will be excess, perversion, cruelty, until that is the new normal. Getting more and more depraved. Limited only by that persons conscience and what he can get away with.

        And for a sociopath and billionaire? There are are no limits, no crime he can’t commit, no foul act he won’t try. Torture. Children. Murder. Cannibalism. These people have been above the law for too long.

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        Because the kind of brain that thinks “I deserve all this money” is broken, and not even close to resembling the brain that thinks “I should use the extra money I have to help others”

        The two things are incompatible. Shit, I wouldn’t even feel comfortable showing my face to employees who don’t earn close to what I take. I’d be too ashamed that I’m essentially stealing from them since I’m not doing to work of 20 people (let alone 150,000) by myself.

        The brain that doesn’t have that shame doesn’t even think about others, unless it’s in the context of “how can I exploit this”

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          By divine right it’s theirs. That’s just how it is. They’re winners, there has to be losers, sucks to be you.

          They really don’t invest much thought into it. They can’t.

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        Because they are sociopaths. You and I would never get to the status of filthy rich because we would start giving money away before that.

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      I’m still unclear if this is a real thing or an urban legend. Sure prostitution is one of the main economic activities in Dubai, and I’m sure many cater to very specific fetishes. But is it like a real thing that happens regularly?

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      In case someone does not know what does the word mean.

      Schadenfreude: The experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. The closest word in English would be gloat. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing “inequity aversion”.

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          God I love Dutch.

          You look at it, and you think, if I stare at this long enough, I can make it out. Most of the words are about the same size, and there has to be some Latin bases here and there…

          nope…

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            Hehe, I’m married to a Dutch woman. I’m am American of non-European descent, for context.

            I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.

            When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her “We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like trying speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth.”

            She answered back, and I’m paraphrasing, “Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat “Dutch Directness” het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter.”

            “Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders.”

            “Touché!”

            “Jazeker!”

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          Leedvermaak: the experience of joy or satisfaction at someone else’s pain or displeasure, but whilst standing on/near a dike/dam/floodgate.

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      I don’t think you will. It’s possible she’s not even a woman. Or it’s very possible that she looks nowhere near how she proclaims to look. Either way it’s a fun account to watch.

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        Personally I choose to believe violet08 is a robotic cat, and simply pretending to be a woman in hornyposting mode because they enjoy trolling.

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          nah i say violet08 is a hyperintelligent octopus at an aquarium sneaking out of her tank to hornypost at us when the aquarium wardens aren’t looking

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      That’s not a picture.

      This is a GIF.

      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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        The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF…) is a bitmap image format…

        Hmmm… I guess its an image, but not a picture 🤔

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        This is several pictures. I saw them all. A guy came up to me, big guy, strong guy, tears in his eyes, and says “Sir, I’ve never seen all the pictures in the GIF. I’m glad you saw them for me.” I’m a super picture-seer, the likes of which have never been seen before. I refer to every frame of the GIF as a picture because I’m also a four-dimensional time god.