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Comment by ctack | Hacker News Reader

It’s interesting how silent the world seems to be on this. Like it’s it’s just a big nothing burger.

I believe there are two reasons.

First, there have been so many recent scandals, people are tired or unable to focus on yet another scandal, no matter how egregious.

Second, it appears as if almost all the rich and/or powerful are involved somehow, so it's nearly impossible to stop or fight it, so why bother?! Get rid of one paedophile only to help another gain power.

On top of that, I have the subjective perception that the world keeps getting more and more complex and difficult to fully understand. There are way too many loops of information to be deep into

I think you would get over that perception if you attempted to live in a primitive style for a while. Hunting and gathering food while avoiding predators, finding mates, and staying warm is as complex as anything we do routinely in the modern world.

And even if it were less complex under some rubric, the complexity of such primitive skills is still more than sufficient to saturate our capacity for it.

World leaders: there is little benefit to speaking out on this but a huge cost.

Everyone else: there isn't much to say. Everyone knew he did this. The US decided to elect him anyway. Additional confirmation is redundant.

I think I have resigned myself to the US falling into a dictatorship. Besides not much any of us can do about is there?

Not without a lot of violence that most likely won't end up doing anything in the age of remote drone assassinations and missiles.

The resignation is 100% by design. They do _everything_ in their power to make you resigned.

I think just about no one is remotely surprised by it.

So yes, in a way, it is a big nothing burger.

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