There’s plenty of solid arguments we could make against him, especially about his predatory behavior, but I don’t think this should be one of them.

The claim is muddy at best.

And if a fence-sitter actually follows up on it, this is the kind of thing that could be used as an excuse for them to go full-MAGA.

Recent claims that new documents prove the validity of the Johnson claims are false, because these documents are from 2016 and have nothing to do with what have become known as the “Epstein docs.”

Viral claims that Trump has a history of sexually assaulting children first emerged with the Johnson lawsuits in 2016. Pictures of court documents related to the case have lent perceived credibility to additional unsourced claims of child abuse that followed, and memes frequently combine the two claims.

Such claims are not new, come with several red flags and originated with an aggressive push by a serial fabulist.

Is this literally true?

I know he’s been a creep forever (and a felon, and a racist, and…), but I don’t remember literal statutory rape.

I browsed the global feed for a few minutes every day and, if I saw something I like, I followed.

After a few weeks, I had a feed.

Now, most of my discovery is when someone I follow reposts.

If I ever get bored of my feed, I can always trawl global again.

How normal are we talking?

Like: “Happy New Year, dear. I cheated on you on Christmas with Sarah from Finance. How is your affair with Fyodor in Marketing going?”

“Oh, Fyodor is so last year. They fired him because he was too loyal to his husband. I went with Peter in Accounting. Here, he bought us cupcakes for our anniversary.”

I saw a college student walking with an umbrella in plain daylight.

My first thought was, “That’s a bit dorky. Is this guy cosplaying a Victorian lady?”

My second thought was, “You know what, it’s hot as hell outside. You do you, my guy.”

Faut-il davantage taxer les milliardaires?

Oui.

And my axe!

Anyway, Omarchy and Ladybird are both run by fascists. Omarchy makes this pretty obvious from the outset – on the home page the big YouTube poster image prominently features SuperGrok, which is a pathetically transparent dog-whistle to signal alliance with Elon Musk’s fascist politics. Omarchy is the pet project of David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, who is well known as a rich fascist weirdo.2 One need only consult his blog to browse his weird, racist views on immigration, fat-shaming objections to diverse representation, vaguely anti-feminist/homophobic/rapey rants on consent, and, recently, tone-policing antifascists who celebrate the death of notable fascist Charlie Kirk.

Speaking of tributes to Charlie Kirk, that brings us to Andreas Kling, the project lead for Ladybird, who tweeted on the occasion of his assassination:

RIP Charlie Kirk

I hope many more debate nerds carry on his quest to engage young people with words, not fists.

– @awesomekling

I was not prepared to learn these things today.

Me for months when the oven clock is off by an hour because of daylight savings time.

Newpipe works fine for me 90% of the time. What do the forks add to the experience?

Thank you for your sacrifice, kind stranger!

Screencap looks like duck hunt with a wizard gun.

Is that an accurate description of the game?

That is objectively dumb.

Oh, that CK. I had completely moved on from him existing.

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Who/what is CK?

Send the billionaires up and leave them there.

I think there’s at least two layers to horror.

There’s the universal something-in-the-dark-scary-noises layer of scary. And there’s the culturally specific that-something-is-definitely-a-vampire layer of scary.

The Ring was scary to me without me knowing anything about Japan.

Everyone can enjoy them, but the home team gets bonus content.