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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 41 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (3 children)

To add onto this, the Epstein case wasn't even a conspiracy theory. He got a plea deal in 2008 under the Bush Admin and a case was built against him under Bush and Obama culminating in an arrest of Epstein and Maxwell, and Maxwell's trial then sentencing from 2016 to 2018.

We also knew Trump was involved because Trump told us so on Television in 2002, and we had seen televised footage of the two attending parties together in 1992, and Epstein even mentioned it in his deposition in 2010.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There was conspiring, so it was a conspiracy.

It wasn't a conspiracy theory, because it was a confirmed conspiracy. But too many people don't know the difference between a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah I figured the context made it clear that we were speaking of theories.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

You said it "wasn't even a conspiracy" when what you meant was "it wasn't even a theory."

No, the context doesn't make it so clear that you can say the opposite of what you mean and expect no one to correct you.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 28 minutes ago

I'll make the edit if it makes you feel better

[–] hector@lemmy.today 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Miami Herald had published a lot of stories by the time Q came around. So all Q was was projection. Every accusation is a confession, there are no exceptions.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago

As someone who entered adulthood around the mid-10s, it was hard to keep track of what was real and what was bullshit between things like Anonymous, WikiLeaks, QAnon, and the Epstein files.

It was really hard to sort the nonsense from reality. Or more accurately by volume, the reality from the nonsense.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

they were clearly going to try and just limit punishment to maxwell/epstein though

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 51 minutes ago

Technically there are still open cases, hampered by the multiple Trump admins no doubt, but yeah the files have a lot of people saying tbey could have done much more.