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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 152 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Powerful men have decided he wasn't doing things for powerful men. Nothing to see here folks, everyone should just go home.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He was just running it for himself, and powerful men happened to benefit and use it. But it was FOR himself. Problem solved right? Great job FBI!

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

The billionaires just fell into Jeffrey's consenting adult time machine, and they tripped over the levers on the way in, it was an accident all along

[–] hector@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

Nothing inspires trust like fbi boss crazyeyes. Once he got done with raiding fulton county election offices on completely not false election rigging allegations at the behest of the person that was not himself the one trying to rig it. Trust.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 141 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So who was he running a sex trafficking ring for?

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

What do those two things have in common

[–] socsa@piefed.social 52 points 1 month ago

Apparently just Donald Trump.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com -1 points 1 month ago

It's America with three K for the American one. What's the trick for that one?

[–] BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org 5 points 1 month ago

Js intelligence..

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 92 points 1 month ago
[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 month ago

Case closed, finally. Seems like a legit apolitical finding. /s

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FBI continually doing more than any foreign power to undermine the credibility of the FBI.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Just a normal US thing. Nothing to see here.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s because technically there were powerful women involved too.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Other than all of the obvious horrible takeaways from the Epstein files, it's really incredible to see how overwhelmingly stupid all of these powerful rich shits are. This dude's out here acting all philosophical about trans people while fundamentally misunderstanding multiple aspects of how hormones actually affect people. Also, there is plenty of trans men porn, you just aren't seeing it because you have a fetish for trans women, not because it doesn't exist. Idiot freaks.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-trivers-b46b722a

If you'd like to join me in sending hate filled messages...

His and my mutual contact is a manosphere anti woman victim

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I didn't know the source I would think this was taken from some seedy porn forum.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 17 points 1 month ago

This is the shit you would read on /b/ at 2am on a Thursday in 2007 while two users have what they think is a "deep" conversation in the middle of one-handed browsing.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Other than the overwhelming preponderance of evidence, there's little reason to suspect him.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
H.L. Mencken

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So if Epstein hadn't killed himself, would they have even had enough evidence to convict Epstein himself?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

He would probably be living with his pedo-pal Ghislaine in the cozy prison she's in.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

FBI Sees No Clear Link to Russia

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Fuck the FBI

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

"We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing"

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 18 points 1 month ago

"Nothing to see here! Move along, move along! Nothing to see here!"

[–] hector@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago

Right, good one guys! I had to double check this wasn't the onion. It's stuff like this that makes satire hard to sell nowadays.

Nothing inspires faith like the conspiracy podcaster crazy eyes fbi boss. Totally legit conclusion they came to right after they raided the election office in Fulton County Georgia to rehash the president's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that he failed at stealing.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

Strictly speaking he was running a blackmail ring to gather Kompromat

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i pretty sure kash patel cant look straight ahead since the evidence is in front of him, just look at his eyes.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

That dude is so walleyed that when he cries it runs down his back.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also, mid 2019, colourised:

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

So they’re shitty at investigations, but we already knew that.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Why is it that all the referenced interviews and investigations occurred in 2019 or 2025 but nowhere in between?

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Does this just mean that he wasn't doing it on behalf of anyone? But everything else is still the same?

He it was still sex trafficking and powerful men bought them. But Epstein didn't have a boss or anything?

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Federal Bureau of Ingratiation

These people have no choice now, they'll do anything to protect him because they know it's all over when he goes down.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah well, then it's okay he was running a sex trafficking ring.....?