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For anyone else who'd like to speculate why Mr. Gaetz seems to be being treated with kid's gloves over these allegations, I'd like to remind people who his brother-in-law is.
TIL one of the Oculus founders is a right wing military industrial complex bro.
VR headsets are how you steer suicide drones to their target. Turns out to be the real killer app for VR in a way that games and entertainment were not.
I wonder if the drone pilots look like this while they're doing their thing?
It’s “kid gloves.” It refers to gloves made of kid leather, the skin of a young goat. Not a child’s glove.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-phrase-with-kid-gloves
Thanks. Apparently I've been saying that phrase wrong my whole life...
I'm going to leave the comment as-is tho for the unintentional pun it created.
it's a joke, Matt Gaetz rapes kids and sells kids to be raped
It’s always the goddamn fortunate sons.
So gloves made from kids?
And his dad was a Florida State Senator.
I see what you did there.
"ranked number 22 on Forbes' 2016 List of America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40.[4]" from Wikipedia. Started with Oculus VR, and moved into defense technology, autonomous drones and sensors for military applications. Sounds lovely. /s
Ah, I did not know that. Fascinating. And quite telling.