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Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by XorNot »

xvector wrote: post #102
XorNot wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's based on no evidence, and framed to imply a government official openly breaking the law is somehow the victim here (The files are already meant to be released by law, many of the redactions are illegal). If Bondi doesn't want to execute the duties of the office she can resign.

> If Bondi doesn't want to execute the duties of the office she can resign. This is an incredibly naive view of a world in which people get blackmailed and murdered all the time at the whims of extremely powerful people. It is very strange that you can't imagine a situation where someone is forced to play a role.

She's the head of the Department of Justice: and you are arguing that it's okay to not do her job because the criminals might threaten her.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by xvector »

XorNot wrote: post #151
xvector wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If Bondi doesn't want to execute the duties of the office she can resign. This is an incredibly naive view of a world in which people get blackmailed and murdered all the time at the whims of extremely powerful people. It is very strange that you can't imagine a situation where someone is forced to play a role.

She's the head of the Department of Justice: and you are arguing that it's okay to not do her job because the criminals might threaten her.

I'm not arguing anything is okay, that is you in your political anger shoving words into my mouth. I am simply saying that it is easy to understand.

And again, you're being incredibly naive - there's no chance you'd be doing anything different in her position unless you are totally fine with sacrificing yourself, your parents, wife, children etc.

It seems that you think "criminal threats" from elites are something that only happen in TV shows, not real life. I'm not sure why this is your perspective because the Panama Papers murders were real, whistleblowers are killed all the time, etc.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by eMPee584 »

polotics wrote: post #130
polotics wrote: post #105

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Yes, and... the 330 gallons of sulphuric acid did come as a surprise to me. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15545409/330-gallon... Half of the files were released, and instead of the congress mandated removal of victim names, perpetrators were blanked out.

Also btw just in case: This volume could provide approximately 2,600 to 3,500 individual pH adjustments for a 15,000-gallon pool. The main pool-house on the island has about 20'000 gallons of certainly-clean water in it, as far as I can reckon. The hypothesis for the other option: a complete acid wash of the pools, implies approximately 22 to 33 average-sized residential pools were to be washed that day, a dangerous…

> can’t help with anything involving harming an animal or figuring out how to destroy a body.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by protocolture »

myvoiceismypass wrote: post #122
protocolture wrote: post #75

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>It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up. I would love a source that discusses this.

Watch the Pam Bondi video this week where she is getting grilled about the Epstein files, and her rebuttal is that we should thank Trump for the Dow Jones being over 50,000. Watch the interaction with the Epstein survivors in the room.

So is the issue that, the files were released and we now have 100000 people to lock up.

Or is the issue that, now we have some transparency, we can see the FBI is misallocating resources?

Because I keep hearing the former, but if the issue is that theres a bunch of crimes that have been reported that werent investigated, thats more of a process issue.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by Der_Einzige »

ChoGGi wrote: post #144
Der_Einzige wrote: post #67

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THERE ARE! BILL CLINTON! NOAM CHOMSKY (if they'd acted faster they could have nabbed him before he died!) Democrats WANT to see the pedos in our party getting justice! We have no loyalty to our party. We are the party of purity testing and infighting. Anthony Weiner went down quickly. Cuomo went down quickly. Even folks who didn't deserve it like Al Franken go down quickly!

> NOAM CHOMSKY (if they'd acted faster they could have nabbed him before he died!) He's still alive.

Mandela effect. He died in 2023. Look at him now, the guy is a walking skeleton.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by Hikikomori »

fromMars wrote: post #88
dash2 wrote: post #10

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This, and also a lot of antisemitism seems to have been enabled.

Not shocking that this is downvoted around here. On X and the amount of anti-semitic content this is fueling is scary. As a Jewish person, I can't help feel that the magnitude of the outrage is because Epstein and quite a few of his associates were rich Jews. Not to downplay what they did as it was horrible, but I don't recall similar levels of outrage about all the scandals in the Catholic Church. Epstein isn't the…

>Not to downplay

Yet you go on to victim card yourself.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by [deleted] »

tsoukase wrote: post #139

Well, I dare to say my belief. The whole setup of the last 15 years and publication frenzy after the (obvious) murder of JE, is pushed as agenda of the Secret Western World government to keep the leaders as hostages. Their is a legal gun pointing on their head and if they don't comply, it will fire. Else, they will never be touched.

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Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by protocolture »

stolen_biscuit wrote: post #87
protocolture wrote: post #60

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What do you mean? I understand the reporting is like "LOOK AT ALL THESE CRIMES" but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you". How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction? If you unredacted that person, identified them and called them would they tell you that the girls were all 18 or older? Or would they incriminate themselves? Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on? I…

> I honestly dont understand what people are expecting here. An investigation...?

The investigation should have been when those allegations were made, not when a bunch of "lets order pizza and play xbox live" emails were released to public 10 years later.

Re: Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal

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Post by protocolture »

anechouapechou wrote: post #114
protocolture wrote: post #60

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What do you mean? I understand the reporting is like "LOOK AT ALL THESE CRIMES" but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you". How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction? If you unredacted that person, identified them and called them would they tell you that the girls were all 18 or older? Or would they incriminate themselves? Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on? I…

>>but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you". Really? Like the multiple "thank you for the pizza" e-mails which the sender was censored, or the whole obsession they have around "jerky" and how to cook jerky, "walk the jerky", or when it was mentioned that Epstein would eat less jerky because he was having some intestinal issues? Even mentioning these things, it still is such a small p…

Still pushing the pizza shit?

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Post by JMiao »

dang wrote: post #150
JMiao wrote: post #92

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what about a new top nav category next to show? decency

It's a nice thought but I wouldn't want to embarrass people. p.s. Hi! has been a while...

I'd ask them to opt-in. I think most will appreciate their small, intentional effort being recognized.

Hello, back! I rsvp'd for March, you going?

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