daily kira

people who are straight: yeah i’m straight

I’m just reporting the facts! 

and since this is actually the most important part of the TOS food document, I’ll reiterate the theory here for those who don’t wanna read the whole thing: 

There’s exactly one person in the universe that can make James T Kirk do something. There’s a lot of people who can convince him to do things, encourage him to do things, trick him into doing things, sure, but the only one who can make him do anything is Bones. 

If Kirk is eating salad, it’s because Bones is making him do it because the ultimate authority of the ship’s doctor is the only starfleet regulation that Kirk will not break. So when Bones puts him on a diet, he can’t say “no.” The Kirk/Spock/McCoy relationship is a rock/scissors/paper situation, essentially. 

So Kirk asks himself “What would Spock do in this situation?” and the answer is obviously “pretend you’ve never heard of the Earth-thing in question, play it 100% straight, and wait for McCoy’s head to explode.” He’s going to pretend he’s never heard of salad, and eat his lettuce like a cigar in front of McCoy’s face. 

this is not the case.

that doesn’t mean those people are necessarily innocent, but what they are guilty of (if anything) (a lot of people simply had business dealings with him unaware of his illegal activities and/or fell out with him after finding out he was a pedophile) in most cases is either enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of teenage girls by turning a blind eye to it (not necessarily actively engaging in it) or hiring him to fix unrelated financial and PR issues, a lot of which was just excessively bland unjuicy boring business stuff, but some of which crossed over into illegal or immoral territory.

but the imagined image of a massive pedophile conspiracy ring spanning every industry with Epstein at its center is not evidenced by the Epstein files. it is a fiction, and conspiracism. Epstein was a bad person, and did a lot of bad things for himself, as well as some shady things for other people, but he is not the puppet master pulling the strings of every industry in America that people want to imagine him to be.