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[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago

She is scum, but this seems a little flimsy to me

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 10 points 8 hours ago

What happened to protecting women you transphobic muppet? gulag

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Am I crazy or is the "agin appropriate" comment a pedophilia play on words?

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago

I imagine she drinks gin and tonics or martinis and the like, a gin.

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Animorphs chads stay winning

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't animorphs meant to be anticommonist propaganda? The yeerk are like dangerous commie propaganda taking over someones mental faculties or something?

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I don't see it that way, but it is up to interpretation of course. It is more of an anti imperialist, anti war story, and having teenagers going through horrors of wars and losing innocence. I can't speak fully for them because I'm not trans, but I know many trans influencers have claimed that a subplot of a character in Animorphs who enjoyed being in animal body moreso than his human body as a trans allegory.

The antiwar message especially rang true considering the series ended during the peak of US War on Terror in 2001. Some fans have argued that Applegate drove the ending into the ditch out of spite because she disagreed with the war (kinda based in hindsight lol). Here's a quote from the author

So, you don’t like the way our little fictional war came out? You don’t like SPOILERS You don’t like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you’ll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think JKR was friends with Epstein but not a paedophile, she was just in it for the love of the game (transphobia).

[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 27 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I don’t think she’s a pedophile but being friends with one really destroys her “protecting women” schtick

[–] context@hexbear.net 8 points 8 hours ago

the timestamps are consistent with "jx" being a few hours east of epstein for that conversation. in england, for instance.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 28 points 11 hours ago

some people deserve the slander regardless of the reality. jk rowling is one of those people. i don't care if this is real. i'm spreading it regardless.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 17 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised, but also I'm not sure if this is good enough evidence.

Jx is a really short string, it is probably used as a signature by dozens or hundreds of women.

The broadway thing could also have been arranged through some other channel, I'm sure epstein had plenty of connections there outside of rowling.

She's a PoS as it is, no need to drag near-conspiracy theories into it. Same reason why it's counterproductive to dig up wild stories about trump from the files, he's a pedo piece of shit but those stories are clearly and obviously made up and discredit everyone who brings them up.

[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 24 points 12 hours ago

Jx is a really short string, it is probably used as a signature by dozens or hundreds of women.

I've never seen it used before, but assuming dozens or hundreds of women have used it, how many of those women would be high profile enough to be invited to a meeting with Peter Mandelson and Ehud Barak, and turn the offer down because they are tired of flying and/or going to NYC? Yeah, it's not a smoking gun, but combined with the fact that her team seems to know Epstein enough to do favors for him, and that people have reached out to him to set up meetings with her, seems more than a little fishy to me.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 14 points 11 hours ago

Not sure about all of it, but she did send him an invite to the stage version of harry potter in 2018(10 years after his first child sex offense conviction)