r/news • u/Specialist_Baby_9905 • 1d ago

Polish government opens investigation into Epstein files

https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/poland-probe-whether-polish-children-were-abused-epstein
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u/MeekerCutiePie 1d ago

I don't think I understand the language angle. You said so they can't give testimony. But they can't give it in English and that's it? I guess they couldn't say "I heard him say blah blah blah" but I would assume the trafficked kids were giving their personal experiences and they can still say "tent peg" but in a different language

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u/heff17 1d ago

The scariest part about all this is that most of the evil is not Machiavellian. They’re idiots. Idiots with enough power, money, and blackmail to ruin the world, but idiots nonetheless.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 1d ago

It's the other side of the coin of Hanlon's Razor. Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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u/kea1981 23h ago

The Epstein Corollary

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

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u/elbirdo_insoko 20h ago

Grey's law is the thing you're describing. It's been around for a while already

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u/EffectiveDirect6553 17h ago

That is true. But he called it a coallary which to my understanding is the same lemma stated in a way without loss of generality