[ExI] Godwin's Law - Ammended (sic)

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 11/03/2026 15:36, spike wrote:
> It occurred to me why we can’t let go of Epstein: we needed a new universal bad guy.  If you ever have a chance to listen to a group of young people, teens, discussing Hitler, it is most disconcerting.  To those of us in our g-g-g-generation, Hitler was well-known for mass murder. 


The fact that it's Hitler that we always turn to for an example of a mass murderer has kind of depressed me for a while now. There are far far worse (better?) examples. Mao Tse-tung apparently outdid Hitler about thirty times over. Even Stalin doesn't come close to Mao. And Hitler didn't leave behind a long-lasting, equally murderous and vicious legacy.

I hardly think Epstein counts as a 'universal bad guy'. What he did would barely make the needle on any decent Evilometer quiver.

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Ben