I can't even imagine being such a prolific emailer, even just one liners. Damn
Right? Obviously didn’t have enough real work to do. Idle hands make… idk, you just chill out if you don’t like rape
Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
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#83Jack 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…
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…
All that stuff about rule of law and exceptionalism was just freedom theater.
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> 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…
We should be taking it out on ourselves though.
We're sitting around waiting for Luke Skywalker or Wonder Woman; someone else to improve the world.
It's not just you but it is you too.
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It’s a factual statement that email exists. If it is true or not is another thing. I don’t think it’s controversial to say someone with a history of pedophilia (yes a grown 38 yo man 17yo highschooler is pedophile) being mentioned a the island should at least step back and investigate it.
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She is more worried about her own exposure. She can picture the ship sinking but doesn't want to drown with the other rats she helped protect.
Don't be naive, do you really think Pam Bondi has a choice in the release of these files? She is just a figurehead, her or her family's life is almost certainly under threat
Spot on. Unclear why this is being down voted. Underneath everything related to this "administration" is the implied threat of violence.
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#87How 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…
> I honestly dont understand what people are expecting here.
An investigation...?
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The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well. I had to tell a friend of mine to take a break from it. The level of tinfoil hat theories (example: cannibalism) which people are now taking as the truth off of which to build more theories is really something. The unfortunate thing is - in our current environment, the crazy speculation and knowingly dealing in j…
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 first person to be involved in sex trafficking. Every big city in the world has it and it is even legal in some countries, not to mention that Pedophilia as the term is being used in the Epstein case is basically legal in most European countries with the age of consent at 15 and even 14 in some cases.
It's hard not to feel like a lot of people want to paint a picture that Jews are especially depraved and amoral.
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> 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.
There's an great photo of Pam Bondi avoiding looking at all the Epstein victims when they raise their hands to indicate that they have not been contacted by the Justice Department to follow up their complaints, it is only a day or two old.
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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.
> Eventually people stop caring about what is true anymore.
In the age of easy to fake video, photos, audio, etc, who wouldn't be?