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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Conspiracy theorists were right.

Epstein met with 4chan’s founder just as the site’s infamous political thread began

Newly released Epstein emails offer clues to meetings with the founder of 4chan, the site known as a hub for far-right propaganda and QAnon conspiracy theories.

Despite Epstein’s Toxicity, Steve Bannon Stood by Him, Texts Indicate

Off and on for months, Mr. Bannon, a leader in the MAGA movement and a former top aide to President Trump, had been advising Mr. Epstein on how to handle resurrected allegations that he was a serial pedophile. Mr. Bannon recommended which lawyers to hire — his own — when to lie low and when he should jump on an opening to push his narrative. He scheduled what the two men called “media training.”

The fall of Mandelson and McSweeney proves Corbyn was right

By crushing the left, and abandoning popular Corbyn policies that Starmer had himself signed up to - such as nationalising utilities, abolishing student tuition fees, ending NHS outsourcing and opposing illegal wars - the clique around Starmer broke the promise of change that voters expected.

Backing Israel’s genocide was only the most extreme example.

Musk echoes rightwing conspiracy theories to defend social security cuts

The billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX and Donald Trump’s “first buddy” has been trying to justify cuts to programs like social security, arguing that the fraud has cost the government up to $200bn.

Time and again, conspiracy theories are used to undermine serious journalistic inquiries, distract from ongoing scandals, silence outsider critics, destroy progressive socio-economic reforms, and perpetuate crimes against humanity.

Not only were the conspiracy theorists - from QAnon and Bannon to Mandelson and McSweeney to Theil and Musk - instrumental in covering up the truth of the Epstein Scandal, they were routinely complicit in the actual sexual abuse.

Follow any one of these conspiracy rabbit holes and at the end of it you'll inevitably find some media savvy billionaire - a Rupert Murdoch or Ross Perot or Charlies Koch or Robert Mercer - propping the whole bag of bullshit up so they can hustle another Reagan or Bush or Trump over the line and loot your back pockets while you're not looking.

That's assuming the conspiracy isn't straight up manufactured by the IDF to help justify another round of drone strikes in Gaza.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world -4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just think... Why did he want to infiltrate 4chan? Was it to invent conspiracies against him, or to manipulate the conspiracies so they could be dismissed...? Actually think rather than trying to come up with reasons to not take responsibility for not believing survivors sooner. You know that big ass group of women we see on stage these days have been saying what they have been saying for years right? Why haven't you heard of them before all this? THINK!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Why did he want to infiltrate 4chan?

Cause it's a website full of pedophiles.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world -2 points 12 hours ago

Well you are the expert I'll have to take your word for it.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world -3 points 12 hours ago

You are doing exactly what I said... 4chan is just a place for loud idiots you are the one choosing to give them merit so you can dismiss me. Fuck off and feel bad for dismissing the victims for all these years take some responsibility and stop blaming others.