Post B1rJf5E6B93QLd8CY4 by Burn_this_@beige.party
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 (DIR) Post #B1qip8bglhi9QM637I by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-01T18:32:16Z
       
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       @georgetakei Everyone can relate to calling up the local country club and asking them to send over a girl to your house to give you a massage. (even though they don't normally provide that service) a very typical thing to do that ordinary Americans can understand. Nothing creepy or extravagant or hard to fathom about it at all. Why is everyone so upset?
       
 (DIR) Post #B1qmIpxix8L89IFybI by VoxOfGod@beige.party
       2026-01-01T19:11:14Z
       
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       @futurebird @georgetakei ⏫Well now it makes sense as to why he was fighting tooth and nail to keep the full records out I mean this is one detail and it's still not fully released yet if I'm not mistaken If these are the sorts of things that are being released now, dragging the feet is on purpose just to delay the inevitable
       
 (DIR) Post #B1qnGW9hisOk5uJmxk by stux@mstdn.social
       2026-01-01T19:22:01Z
       
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       @georgetakei So basically he is a facilitator? On top of everything else..
       
 (DIR) Post #B1qt3p9yLyDSzmm3hg by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-01T20:27:01Z
       
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       @VoxOfGod @georgetakei I don't understand why it's so hard for so many people to see what this was ... for what it really was. If your niece or daughter or the friend of your neighbor said they had a "summer job" working giving massages at a place like that would you not be concerned? If they had no training in massage and were clearly just hired because they are young?Do these people think everyone goes to Hooters for the hotwings?
       
 (DIR) Post #B1r6cICWBVVaJZjNiK by noodlemaz@mstdn.games
       2026-01-01T22:58:52Z
       
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       @futurebird @VoxOfGod @georgetakei that was always the joke and that's how it was laughed off and if you tried to make a serious point about exploitation and sexism, you became the bad guy instead of the punters/company.Classic trick.Make light, make excuses, laugh it off, turn the critics who are right into the villains instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1rD0VHVnob1YfzjTU by BuckRogers1965@techhub.social
       2026-01-02T00:10:30Z
       
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       @futurebird @VoxOfGod @georgetakei Exactly, and then sends them alone to perverts houses to "give massages." If I did not know better that sounds like an out calling prostitution ring.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1rFvikiacbBkj4CJ6 by VoxOfGod@beige.party
       2026-01-02T00:43:15Z
       
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       @futurebird @georgetakei I think that especially in the United States political/public life is very much about hero worship. Since both ends of the political spectrum are affected by this, and since so much time effort and resources were spent covering it up, it was a perfect storm for a long time... Well, a perfect tule fog, anyway.And now since everyone spent so much effort staying ignorant cognitive dissonance is going to kick in and people will retrench in the erroneous beliefs because they and so many others spent all that energy so it CAN'T be true
       
 (DIR) Post #B1rJf5E6B93QLd8CY4 by Burn_this_@beige.party
       2026-01-02T01:25:03Z
       
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       @futurebird @VoxOfGod @georgetakei People have been selling their children for millennia.