Of course he is associated with Epstein. He would have been brought to Epstein's parties as a celebrity to entertain the other guests
Probably true of several people.
Lol all the time travelers go to when hawking was on Epstien Island
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What the fuck is he in the files for? What did he allegedly do? He’s bound to the chair!
It's a little ableist to suggest that his being wheelchair-bound would necessarily prevent him from being a pedophile.
wheelchair-bound
Dude was fully paralyzed. Come one. Are you really that desperate to attack someone? Guy is asking a valid question.
Then how did he have an affair?
Is power itself not enough to coerce someone, you're saying it has to be physical coercion? That would undo a lot of what we know about sexual assault.
I'm certainly not saying he did it, but "he's paralyzed" is not a good enough defense.
Its not a defense its a line of inquiry. Why do you think people asking what he's accused of are defending him? That doesn't make sense.
Why are you suggesting that paralyzed people are somehow incapable?
Are you implying he fucked?
ALS does not interfere with the ability to have erections or orgasms. If he became aroused he could get an erection, he'd just need to be on the recieving end due to his condition.
Even full on paraplegics have sex, they just use a special injection of Alprostadil beforehand.
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Oh FFS, cut it out already with the "ablist!!" screeching
The guy literally can only move his eyes, he literally can barely do anything without a support staff. He can breathe on his own, he can think on his own, that's about it
He cannot be a pedophile is not being ablisi, it's being realistic.
He was there for a scientific conference that was organized there.
He absolutely could have been a pedophile, it just would have been impossible to act on the urges without enablers.
Lol, way to demonstrate your ignorance.
He cheated on his wife with his nurse, that's why they separated.
Needing support for it doesn't mean you won't be able to hurt people.
Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.
He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone "I can connect you with Stephen Hawking" is currency.
The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing -- just a way to appeal to certain people.
I think it's more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.
It's not like Hawking and Epstein traded a few emails talking about science, or had a one off meeting. It appears they had a fair amount of exchanges over a long period of time.
Epstein was a vile human in the worst kind of way and I see no evidence that Hawking was blind to this fact. Half the people on this app wouldn't willingly associate with someone of a different political party than them, but to defend a man who willingly spent time with a convicted sex trafficker? The fact that Hawking was paralyzed doesn't absolve him from willingly enabling (and potentially partaking in) child abuse and sex trafficking.
I know one person IRL who was a frequenter of Little St John Island, aka Epstein Island. Wealthy man who made that trip regularly. He was not particularly attractive but he was wealthy. This is the place old wealthy men would go to get sexual satisfaction when nobody else will give it to them.
What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel? I'd much rather go look at dinosaurs, or visit the construction of the pyramids, or go listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.
Even if my goal was to meet a single scientist, I think I'd personally pick any other. Pliny the Elder, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein...
Not to be rude to Mr. Hawking (well, maybe he deserves it, I don't know what got him in to the Epstein files...), but a thorougly average party is simply not likely to attract very many time travellers.
What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel? I’d much rather go look at dinosaurs, or visit the construction of the pyramids, or go listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.
I would counter that if you have a time machine then you literally have all the time in the world and you can do all of those things, and more.
What are the chances that visiting Steven Hawking is the most interesting/fun thing you can do, if you could freely time travel?
Not only that, apparently the machine he used to speak was rather difficult to use quickly, and drafting responses could take hours or days depending on how much needed said. Pretty much all of his appearances after he was unable to use his voice were heavily scripted ahead of time.
So unless you're visiting Steven Hawking when he still could talk, it'd be pretty boring as you couldn't have a proper back-and-forth conversation
People have been getting taller over time. Hawking didn't book a big enough venue.
It's because if it were actually possible and they did it, then all of space and time would have collapsed into something akin to a giant black hole, obliterating everything, bringing a violent and inescapable end to it all.
Just more reason to build a time machine, I guess.
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