Epstein reportedly collected a lot of documents. Not everything he kept is related to his criminal activities. Investigators often seize entire collections, even if only part is relevant. The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the DOJ to release the files, and they did. To say the White House has been caught is ridiculous and is extremely ignorant and naive.
Also, the Epstein Files Transparency Act is very poorly written. To put a 30 days hard deadline is unreasonable. What if DOJ doesn’t have enough manpower to go through all the files? Are they supposed to release the unredacted files anyway and expose the victims, minors and US intelligence?
For references:
The Getty image:
The BBC article of the image showing in the Epstein files: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r38ne1x2mo
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They will just say they’re canary files that were already in there. Epstein was running some sort of spy related pedophile ring, so media will buy it.
It’s all shocking, but in reality we are just peasant it seems like, since we really aren’t revolting like France does. Shit even Brazil is better at this than us the “beacon” of the free world.
Almost fuck all happened after the Snowden leaks
Almost fuck all happened after the Panama Papers
Almost fuck all will happen with this clown show
America is sad
Yes but this time it’s different, not that fuck all will happen, but it’s about something that almost everyone disagrees with.
The first two are bad to an educated person, but if you were to do some polling, you would see a good chunk of the population supporting surveillance or being fully anti tax.
Pedos are something else, it’s almost comically evil and honestly, it reduces political polarization.
I don’t think there will be justice, I just hope we get class solidarity as regular people realize it’s an elite club and they aren’t in it.
I get people that won’t put any effort in…
But why are you spending your free time online lying about politics and what actions others are taking?
Or if you’re going to claim ignorance, why not spend your free time learning about what’s happening instead of making random uninformed guesses on social media and trying to sound confident?
Like, why are you doing any of what you’re doing right now?
Is this one of those “discussion is important” devils advocate things where you just say random shit to drive engagement? You know that’s just trolling, right?
No one knows how, I think. There’s a quality here similar to the Fight Club scene about the homework to start a fight. He sprays the guy with the hose. The guy eventually attacks but is that what would really happen? Or would the real reaction be fast walking or running away?
Also. Inertia is a force that drives human behavior. Most people have a hard time saying no or offering a contradictory opinion when face to face with someone. That’s who you expect to protest and take initiative?
People did do some of this in response to George Floyd. But let’s be realistic here. Would any of that happened if people weren’t already off work indefinitely, a little stir crazy, and filled with a need to go where other people are? Remember, even the storming of the Bastille only happened on a first sunny day after weeks of horrid weather that kept people inside.
You can’t picture yourself doing anything
You haven’t done anything
So you assume everyone else is the same as you, it’s the same low empathy that we used to only see from Republicans.
Oh, don’t worry about Brazil. Our great congress passed a law that would reduce Bolsonaro’s prison time to just 3 years.
At least you got prison time though. Our cheeto is going full musselini.
Would you prefer scallopini?
If only he’d see the same end as Mussolini, but the american people won’t do it. Trump could personally execute people in the streets, and the american people would still be like “I’m going to write a VERY strongly worded comment about this on Twitter! I’ll even add a funny gif so people know I’m really serious!”
Trump famously said he could shoot someone in public in broad daylight without losing any supporters
If only he’d see the same end as Mussolini, but the american people won’t do it.
Where you from cowboy?
Denmark
So, you have a pretty great life, yeah? No worries about money, job security, healthcare, etc. You haven’t even had need to protest? It’s real easy to encourage violence from a country that treats their people right.
Um, they need us to do our jobs and stop this bullshit cause it’s fucking with the whole world
Because people in countries that have had revolutions were cashed up, gainfully employed, and at peak physical and mental health before they decided to change their country?
I’m not saying these aren’t factors in mobilising the people, but America has crossed line after line; shown time and time again that the ruling class wanted them dead, and yet they sit on their hands because ‘things could be worse’.
And it’s even easier encouraging violence when Europe is the next victim of your fascists. Everything you do in USA rubs off on Europe, because that is the cultural impact y’all have been dying to establish through the past 80-ish years, but for some reason I’m just supposed to not give a shit and let your lunatic politicians try to influence our way of life? Fuck that. Take care of your fascists, we’ll have to soon enough too, when we don’t just have to deal with russian influence, but american too.
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What boggles the mind is how obvious and blatant this is, yet that 42% or whatever the number is of the population of the US will either deny it, or directly support the corruption.
All this feels like we’re leading to some societal “correction”. An economic depression, societal collapse or partial collapse, civil war, something? Who knows what an actual modern civil war would look like, probably unrecognizable to the historical civil war.
I dunno what I’m talking about honestly, just feels uneasy like this can’t be normal obviously. Maybe we just get fascism and end up like Russia? Idk.
either deny it, or directly support the corruption.
They’ll support it because it “feels” true. Even if that one is fake, it “feels” true and so it probably is true. Just because we can’t find truth doesn’t mean that it isn’t the truth.
Truthiness. Colbert didn’t just promise to tells us the truth. He promised to feel the truth at us.
The 42% will never ever hear anything about this from anywhere they see as more than a tabloid. Some of their children will show them articles from places they’ve never heard of and wouldn’t read and that’s as far as it will get.
Maybe we just get fascism and end up like Russia? Idk.
Stop speaking as if it’s a hypothetical. It’s here, now, currently happening as we speak. Present tense.
I don’t know how many more ways it has to be said to get folks to finally understand…
People still have the misaprehension everything will go back to normal after the next election.
The international community needs to wake the fuck up and fully acknowledge that the Untied States is currently a fascist dictatorship and decide what to do about it. Treat Trump as the criminal he is. Sanction him any way we can. Discourage travel there, maybe even outlaw travel there. Prepare for possible war. Build international trade to be less dependent on the Untied States.
People in the Untied States need to wake the fuck up and acknowledge they’re in a fascist dictatorship and decide what to do about it. Make arrangements to leave if possible. Or band together and fight. Or figure out how you’re going to survive it.
30% support it, and 30% generally oppose it (theoretically), and the rest can’t be bothered. Can’t decide if that group’s worse or just equally bad to the supporters.
Those who ignore evil are complicit with evil.
Shouldn’t the 58% against it be enough to stop it?
In a working democracy, sure.
The demographics on the 58% aren’t exactly known for being great at… Nearly anything that would be required here. The right is organized and almost a family whereas we all barely tolerate even each other.
Those are two different photos. Why is no one noticing it?
Because clearly they were taken within seconds of each other
Doesn’t change the fact. It is NOT a publicly available fund raiser photo, as it is claimed.
Additionally, how should someone know those are the kids of them? Those are different photos, one was used as a fund raiser photo, the other one stayed private. The person having to go through all the documents to censor them had a simple assignment: censor current active politicians and everybody who looks younger than 18.
So literally everything in this tweet is just blatantly wrong.
And no one notices.
Gotta love watching misinformation spread.
And based on the downvotes, misinformation is really valued on lemmy. Oh well, too much lead in pipes. It shows.
Being a dick like that probably warrants the downvotes though.
They’re different angles dumbass. Almost like there was the news there.
Ohh so when only the angles are different, it counts as the same photo. Gotcha. US education I guess?
What are the consequences?
don’t you know that that word disappears from your lexicon once you get your first billion
What should the consequences be?
You need to be very loud about your answer to that question, that’s how the world works
Consequences? That’s a very 2010s type mentality bruh.
busted, lol
I had an honest question.
Is it possible this is part of the Epstein files because this picture was sent in an email?
Or is that not how this whole things works?
I genuinely do not know.
So they didn’t release all the files, they removed released files related to Trump and they added fake files into the release? That’s some next level incompetence.
So when are Americans finally going to start protesting? If you’re not going to protest having a child rapist in the office at least protest about the incompetence of the government. The government should do a better job at giving you a believable story to stick your head in the sand.
There have been almost daily protests since he took office. Not hearing about them just means they’re being suppressed in the press.
Oh yes how clumsy of them, dropping a fake photo in with the real evidence. Can’t trust the public sector to do the simplest of
scamsjobs.protests are fucking useless, they are great as a show of force. America needs at least a general strike at minimum.
Protests only work because there’s an implication that if things don’t change, the citizens will take matters into their own hands. When it becomes obvious that protests will cause nothing more than minor disruption, then they lose a great deal of their effectiveness.
Protests don’t solve the problem, but they’re a step in the process of people moving to greater action. Encourage it and build the momentum
The problem is that in the US, the protest is as far as libs will go. they treat it as a parade, and sing “THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE” while doing fuck all.
there was a no kings protests, one of the largest protests in US history, and after it did nothing it escalated into… another identical no kings protests.
great as a first step, but useless if it’s the only step they have.
It’s not the only step, it’s just that half the country has lost its mind and that half seems to have itchy trigger fingers. Meanwhile a huge part lives paycheck to paycheck where they’re not able to just leave and strike to starve themselves and their dependents. Capitalism has the country by the balls.
bullshit. most Americans are so atomised and simply don’t care. other countries they would set the streets in fire for much less.
That’s not incompetence
It’s not incompetence, it’s advanced incompetence.
No, it’s not. Why are you so insistent on giving them a pass when they’re deliberately lying to get away with this shit?
Because they literally let photos of Trump with Epstein go through when they removed all other mentions? What is that if not incompetence?
Relax guys, people can be incompetent and evil, no need to argue.
Yea, these guys are evil and malicious, but also quite incompetent. It comes with the territory; loyalty is rewarded more than competence. Germany famously had a similar problem of being led by incompetent fuckwits, and that doesn’t mean they were any less evil or that anyone is giving them a pass for anything
It’s malice.
Incompetent malice.
Or malicious morons if you want an alliterative one.
