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There's plenty of women who don't behave the way she did, so I wouldn't attribute those negative qualities to women as a whole.
shrill, overly-defensive, whiney, combative, and unprofessional ...and unable to internalize and process criticism in a constructive way.”
I associated those negative qualities to Pam Bondi and my ex... at no point did a link those qualities to women as a whole.
Sounds very much like some terrified rich people are trying to convince us that we can't hold them accountable because something awful will happen to us.
If you're referring to the uber rich people in the Epstein files and the comments about how "if we prosecuted everyone in there, it would cripple the system" then I'd agree...we can do without Bill Gates, and the CEO of Victoria's Secret, etc...
I mean, to a degree, they're not wrong.
In the case of the billionaires that were involved with Epstein, none should be left off the hook, and none were irreplaceable (and even if they were irreplaceable, the particular crimes are past the red line per my previous post).
You're still talking about rocket scientists, not billionaires.In the case of the billionaires that were involved with Epstein, none should be left off the hook, and none were irreplaceable (and even if they were irreplaceable, the particular crimes are past the red line per my previous post).
By your earlier statement of
"Someone needs to explain to me how taking any number of billionaires out of the system will destroy it."
I assumed you were just speaking about the concept in the realm of generalities with regards to the government "looking the other way" if a person is providing a rare skillset or service that can't be easily found anywhere else.
There are examples of this happening in our past.
Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
...and the government made that type of calculation. On paper, those former Nazi scientists (many of whom were SS) should have been up against a wall with the rest of them for their involvement in the Holocaust. However, the government made the decision to give them jobs here and overlook past transgressions (some particularly egregious ones at that) in the interest of expediting our rocket programs in anticipation of the cold war.
If you're referring strictly to billionaires, then I'd suggest that our Tech billionaires are pretty integral.
They aren't billionaires because only they know the secret frozen banana recipe. They have that kind of money because the own/created/run large companies. Those companies have C-suite executives, etc. Would there be some short term disruption to the company? Of course, but I can't think of a single billionaire whose existence is worth anything like $1B.
I find your amorality disturbing.
I said we should lock them up (or the wood chipper), so it's not me who makes those kinds of decisions.
