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While I am skeptical about these kind of allegations due to the satanic panic in the US in the 80s and 90s, with epstein it looks like it was all projection. It's always projection, all of it.
But what bears repeating, and acknowledging, is: 'Social media platforms and search engines appeared to remove or downrank posts, leading to speculation about deliberate censorship' as some people will take an article not being findable on search engines for it's lack of existence or lack of credibility.
What fucking world do they live in that google is the arbiter of knowledge and truth?
I’m skeptical about the ritual part, but not the sexual abuse part.
And yeah, the fact that it looks like Google and other internet companies are hiding the story is quite disturbing.
Have you seen her mother?
If this was anyone else, I would share your skepticism of the allegations of ritualized abuse.
But given who her parents are, I do not.
Deboonkers aren't even human beings to me at this point. Can you even explain why you think this?
Because this is her mother.
Take note to read about her son, who was convicted of torturing a 7 year old Palestinian boy, and read about how he tortured him.
Yeah I will be writing extensively about that scandal on here in the coming weeks.
No I mean why would you implicitly doubt anyone else claiming this? Since this is the site for people who get mad about links without clicking them I can only assume that means limiting your investigation, not maintaining cautious skepticism while exploring their claims (since people literally have psychotic breaks and trauma damages memory).
also brb bad time to be posting lol. subject makes me shake with anger so probably good lmao
Because inventing satanic or other forms of ritualized sexual abuse to scare readers is a favorite pastime of mass media, politicians, and law enforcement.
Colloquially known satanic panics, the premier example of why you should be skeptical would be the McMartin preschool case.
But again, I think what we know about this person's family, should rightfully override that healthy skepticism.
Lol I called it. Pathetic. Imagine thinking someone who reads about this hasn't heard of that case. You haven't read shit about it yet buddy. Welcome to the mailing list
You know literally zip about the media response to that case or the shitty books written about it. Fuck this site im coming back with nukes
I hope you go far with your uncritical belief in everything you read, in fact, you've inspired me to change.
Thanks to your valuable insight on the dangers of skepticism, I am no longer skeptical of the claims that Hamas used systemic rape and sexual violence on October 7th.
After all, I read that it occurred from multiple sources, and we all know how much many other Arab countries love there systemic sexual abuses and slavery, so thank you for opening my eyes to what my skepticism had prevented me from seeing clearly.
Because that is ultimately what your advocating for, whether you realize it or not.
How are you skeptical of the ritual component? Did you actually see the pictures from the Epstein island? Are you just trying to make yourself feel better by reassuring yourself that Those Pesky Victims Keep Lying They Just Want Attention™? They have a ritual ground, a ritual hut, ritual masks, one of them modeled after Howard Lutnick. They were strapping people down in that dental chair and torturing them. But no, there can't be ritual abuse intended to drive children insane and make people hearing their testimony incredulous.
How could pro-Holocaust "Jews" not be Satanists? They love being in a position of leadership within their ethnostate death cult and using their false beliefs to manipulate people. What do you think is the deal with the Vatican? This isn't something new people have been doing it a long, long time. It binds them together.
I think a lot of people on this site assume it’s just capitalist psychopathy without a religious component but I genuinely would not be surprised at all if they also literally worship demons and sacrifice children to them
????????????? people? can you formulate a response while keeping your self-respect? go for it. just try
I don't think it makes sense to think of the Satanic Panic as projection. It was a feedback loop between middle-class, stay-at-home moms and the profit-seeking media. No one in that loop was practicing Satanism.
The epstein thing did start after that, that is true, in the 90s, just when these cases were unravelling.
Highly religious people are ordained by God, donchaknow?
They can do no wrong, because its not wrong if it's furthering God's plan.
A sane world would see psychology broadly recognize this as a persistent delusion and classify them as some kind of insane, grandiose, religiously-informed malignant narcissism.
This makes me febrile with exasperation. Bookmarking this for the JFK + 9/11 + serial killer posting.
Febrile huh? I have no idea wtf you are talking about. But the Satanic Panic started in CA in the 80s, along with a push to disempower judges for prosecutors, as prosecutors for both parties were seized by the aristocracy. They, along with a psychiatrist quack, took allegations of child rape from a crazy person, grabbed these little kids, like 6 years old or something, and browbeat them for days, weeks telling them they know they were abused, you are suprressing it, until they could get them to accuse their parents (some refused.)
It's a long story, but the practice was exported nationwide, and hundreds of false convictions for baby rape were had, which they expanded to include devil worship. All bad faith. They would do a raid and bring news cameras and props with them. Set up dildos and bdsm gear, satanic and torture stuff, then bring the news cameras in like they found it that way. Prosecutors' allegations would also just not be possible, claiming big satanic abuse parties in little houses that couldn't fit them, etc.
The cases fell apart in the 90s, with the kids denouncing the police and their false allegations. Even then prosecutors fought to keep them in prison. Some in the original places they started, bakersfield, the heart of darkness in the central valley, misfiling cases so do gooder lawyers couldn't challenge their convictions. Bakersfield is notorious for framing people for murder too by the way.
Source: "Mean Justice" a book by a pullitzer prize winning author.