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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 47 points 7 months ago

Others provided many explanations, but in Epstein island's case I think it was a sick rite of a passage for those feeling they are the new elite. By doing something so wrong together, like mafia, they enter a circle where everyone is silent about others' crime as they all share the same dirt and would all be discovered after one of them starts to speak. They are expected not to talk about that, or other morbid deals they discussed there in private, and it keeps them alert. Some of visitors could be into that being dangerous pervs and power addicts, and Epstein shared trafficked children like wine with premium guests, but the more important aspect is that child abuse was a glue that cemented that sect, shut their mouths for life and led to a perfectly timed murder of an organizer in a guarded cell.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Mr. Gates, in turn, praised Mr. Epstein’s charm and intelligence. Emailing colleagues the next day, he said: “A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Behind the Bastards Bill Gates.

Part 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFS9DFXtj1M

Part 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV5d2_o1Gl0

The NY Times article is paywalled, but BtB goes into more detail anyway. Gates was invited to and visited Epstein's island or at least one of this parties. Claimed they weren't really his thing, but left it at that. Gates was definitely in a position to have done more to expose Epstein if he wanted. Supposedly, Bill Gate's name being on the list was the catalyst Melinda Gates divorcing his ass.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The NY Times article is paywalled

https://archive.is/Lvbfj

[-] GenderNeutralBro 10 points 7 months ago

And surely whoever held the evidence also used it for leverage, whether by explicit blackmail or merely implicitly as a chilling effect. I wonder how many investigations got black-holed by passing through a compromised leader's desk, or got iced by a simple phone call.

I don't know why conspiracy theorists talk about subterranean lizard shapeshifters when the real shadow government is right here, just an inch below the surface of public knowledge.

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