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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 an0malous »

protocolture wrote: post #60
gowthamgts12 wrote: post #24

How low we have become to do nothing about it? No arrests no convictions?

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…

> How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction?

You do an investigation

> Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on?

Yes because that would be a part of these files. It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

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

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Post by aorloff »

siavosh wrote: post #4
OgsyedIE wrote: post #2

Jack Blanchard in the Politico podcast (almost as good as Odd Lots if you're fine with listening to stuff at 2x speed on commutes) remarked that one of the most important aspects of the response to the publicization of the first 2% of the Epstein Files is that it may be a watershed moment where the better parts of citizen journalism have become completely competitive with institutional journalism, due heavily to the…

There’s also a lot of self censorship happening in the mass media.

and a lot of actual censorship

jimmy kimmel didn't self censor himself off the air

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

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Post by ryandrake »

maybelsyrup wrote: post #70
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Institutional journalism has done everything in its power to kill this story for 7 years. You don't need a fast turnaround time when the fourth estate is also busy protecting the wealthy. Note how we have all the goods on Matt Gaetz and everyone just conveniently forgot about him because daddy knows who to buy off. DOJ has all the time to pursue rinky dink charges against Letitia James for what would be at best a los…

The degree to which this is true is I think still underestimated, and comments like these need more upvotes. You don’t need to appeal to shadowy cabals to explain why media professionals have been desperate for this stuff to not be true (and why, every day these days, you can still read examples of them absolutely writhing as they are obliged by public outrage to continue to report on it). All you really need is to r…

You'd think this would be the story of the century, and that every news outlet would be running it 24/7 and falling all over each other to scoop new information. Child sex trafficking to wealthy and/or well known celebrities and government officials, including the actual president of the US! What news agency in the world wouldn't be salivating for something like this?

Yet, here we are, no media wants to report on it, and they all wish that we all just forget about it and go back to buying khakis.

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

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Post by protocolture »

an0malous wrote: post #71
protocolture wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> How do you get from that to an arrest or conviction? You do an investigation > Do you know it hasn't already been followed up on? Yes because that would be a part of these files. It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

>It’s not disputed that at minimum any leads, including victim testimonies, were not followed up.

I would love a source that discusses this.

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

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Post by RajT88 »

nixosbestos wrote: post #49
RajT88 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What a fucking joke. This site is a joke. This discourse is a joke. The entire pretense of these bullshit conversations are a joke. Don't take it out on me. I am outraged. I can't be outraged every minute of every day, and certainly not at the very-unlikely-to-be-true worst theories from the files. I am so sorry my post did not live up to your expectations. You're right about something: > you know, than remarking o…

Sorry, I regretted this pretty much after I wrote it. I'm upset, didn't need to be at you. I'm having a bit of a hard time compartmentalizing? all of this, despite my default cynic attitude. Time for an extended break from things.

Thanks for your reply.

> Time for an extended break from things.

It's all a lot.

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

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Post by lnsru »

timcobb wrote: post #37

I can't even imagine being such a prolific emailer, even just one liners. Damn

Have about 20 emails daily, 6000 a year… obviously for 1.4 million emails more than one person is needed. And much more than one when I see all the other activities day and night going on in parallel.

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

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Post by dunslandsboo »

janalsncm wrote: post #48
nixosbestos wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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There is a book “Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible” which you might want to consider before deciding truth doesn’t matter anymore. It describes an explicit strategy by the Kremlin to poison the information landscape with lies, half truths, and conspiracies. And amplify conflicting narratives. Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore.

Except you and everyone you agree with I'm sure

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

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Post by lyu07282 »

siavosh wrote: post #4
OgsyedIE wrote: post #2

Jack Blanchard in the Politico podcast (almost as good as Odd Lots if you're fine with listening to stuff at 2x speed on commutes) remarked that one of the most important aspects of the response to the publicization of the first 2% of the Epstein Files is that it may be a watershed moment where the better parts of citizen journalism have become completely competitive with institutional journalism, due heavily to the…

There’s also a lot of self censorship happening in the mass media.

For example the Israel connection, for obvious reasons but you get censored/flagged here too if you mention that part ofc

https://www.dropsitenews.com/s/epstein-and-israel

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

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Post by [deleted] »

iterateoften wrote: post #18

Honestly I’ve been sick to my stomach these past few days. I wasn’t even looking for the files and saw some in my feed on Reddit. Basically take the most sad and disturbing Eastern European horror and put it in email form. I had to stop my Seinfeld rewatch because I saw one email were he just happened to be boating by and stopped by the island for lemonade. The richest people and political elite were openly trading p…

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