• gnutrino@programming.dev
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    11 hours ago

    they spent a lot of time sidestepping action

    That’s sort of my point though, they spent years protecting him and then suddenly a few months ago something made them turn on a dime and strip him of his titles very rapidly. I suspect that “something” was being told the police had enough evidence to arrest him.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      Someone asked Ernest Hemingway how he lost all his money.

      “Gradually, then all at once.”

      Same situation. One person says something and it’s dismissed. Ten people say it and it becomes gossip fodder. A hundred people say it and it becomes an open secret. A million people say it and he gets arrested.

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      10 hours ago

      I wonder if the one that defected with his wife to california had something to do with all of this too, and not just snobbery to his new wife.