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It could still be the old one? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Billionaires own multiple properties across the globe, and have enough money to circumvent laws everywhere. Surely there was never just one Epstein Island, even when he was alive. P Diddy's house was a sort of Epstein Island. No billionaire would put all their eggs (ie, trafficked children) in one basket. That's like the first rule of investing.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

this has never been about just epstein. the phrase "epstein class" has been neutered of its original impact of "this is a way of life for a gertain group of uber wealthy people" and instead turning to focus on epstein and his gaggle of golf pedophile buddies.

there's three prevalent ways to think of epstein's death:

to keep him from talking
he wasn't killed but was removed quiety from prison during the lost tapes
someone was eliminating the competition

i tend to fall more into the first and third options, and also do give some credence to the possibility that accountability and consequences aren't something monsters like him opt into, or that just someone really fucking hated him and killed him.

but the point is, it was NEVER just epstein running this business. he was one guy the uberwealthy used to launder their money and sex crimes. any languages he didn't speak that an oligarch only spoke? there's an epstein of that language, too