• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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      More reason why they’ll work together to prevent disclosure, or concoct a cover-up.

      Hopefully there’s enough on both sides with a spine to do the right thing. Tall order though. As anyone with a functioning brain knows, this means bringing down the executive branch, and probably a lot more powerful, wealthy, and well connected people.

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      Jail them all. Yes, I say ALL. Did I stutter?

      I suppose if being against genocide makes me antisemitic, wanting to release the Epstein files probably makes me a child predator!

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        Anti-pedophilia is antisemitism

        /s, but also Rabbi Kaye subbed at my congregation shortly before appearing on To Catch a Predator, so it’s a soft “/s,” but only anecdotally.

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          Anti-pedophilia is antisemitism

          This kind of reminds me of how every several years it seems like a group of pedo’s tries to portray themselves as an oppressed minority, and try to “join” LGBT+ spaces. Hard to say how much was genuine vs anti-lgbt astroturfing. I wonder if they will pop up again in all this.

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            They’ve done all sorts of stuff. Like there was the whole ebinopholoa or whatever where they argued, until you just couldn’t stomach it anymore, that post-pubescent children are ok

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            I feel like I remember a college dorm mate telling me about NAMBLA and Butterfly Kisses? The fact that people were so nonchalant to have public meetings like that was horrifying. And he was so matter-of-fact about all of it. I should have caught on sooner just how fucked up he was…

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              I know about NAMBLA from South Park, (National American Marlin Brando Lookalike Association) but do I want to know what Butterfly Kisses is?

              On one hand I feel like I should, on the other, ignorance may be blissful and I have no desire to search it.

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          That guy was a family friend of my college gf. I remember the family freaking out when the show aired

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            I only knew him for maybe a couple of months? He was SUPER aggressive with the children at the synagogue, so we all kinda avoided him.

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            The trial is important. Being on a list isn’t a crime. Being photographed with or knowing someone isn’t a crime. Trafficking and sexual abusing children is. I would assume there are people who knew Epstein and are on the list but were/are not traffickers/abusers. It’s up to the justice department to prove who was a criminal. I suspect the files weren’t released before because there is insufficient evidence. Now they’re not released because certain people are worried they might be on the list.

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              I would assume there are people who knew Epstein and are on the list but were/are not traffickers/abusers.

              Epstein’s book with contact info for friends and acquaintances was released years ago. We already have that. That sparked a bunch of stuff when it came out.

              All the hubbub now has nothing to do with innocent people, it is specifically about his client list. AKA the guilty ones he helped. Not just the people he knew.

              Shroedinger’s Epstein List. It simultaneously was on the AG’s desk for review a little while back and also never existed.