Chapotraphouse

nothing

Same thing the Panama Papers did

(Christ was that leak really a decade ago?)

Nothing.

liberals seem to think it will change trump supports minds or something. We're not gonna talk or vote our way out of this.

By itself, nothing; or even harmful to our movements.

But it is opening a lot of people up to class based critiques and radical demands. Practical application of criticism and demands is the foundation of Marxist political organizing.

The conspiracy theorist believes that once people know the truth, they will rise up. That sentence alone has three distinct idealist abstractions. But contemplation is half of praxis. If people are thinking about changing their conditions they can be motivated to take action. We can't build our movement on the basis of Marxist theory alone, Marxist theory is how we learn to take the nascent revolutionary potential of the working class and develop it on an actual political basis. The Epstein files provides that basis.

Revolutionary strategy is connecting the contents of the files to the rest of the struggle against racism, nationalism, queer and trans phobia; and help people understand these as fundamental class antagonisms created by capitalism.

Teaching people to think is teaching people to act. So the Epstein files alone could actually hurt consciousness. Therefore their release met with inaction from leftists could be disastrous for our movements.

probably cost a lot of ink (On a more serious note im sure its gonna radicalize some folks...silver linings and all that)

Literally nothing.

It's not a reason not to do it, they still should, but it won't do anything.

I think it's quite rhetorically convenient for radicalizing people, just like CIA admissions are. They generally don't produce spontaneous waves of socialists, but if you make the effort to consider how to leverage this information for a given audience, they can help.

nothing at all would change. there is no limit to the depravity and evil that americans will accept from their leaders

The whole Epstein files has been one hell of a blackpill, from the unofficial rulings from the law basically being “meh, who cares?” and the American people by and large all thinking Jeffery Epstein is the coolest person ever.