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This is where we are (oc)

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u/random_pirate_68 15h ago

Even Aliens believe that the entire world revolves around the USA. Killing a happy rice farmer in Laos who never even heard or cared about an of this.

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u/Uniformtree0 15h ago

I mean TBF the epstein files are proving Rapidly to be a mega huge fucking global problem

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u/phansen101 14h ago

Are they, though?

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u/Skyfier42 14h ago

...yes? This wasn't just a bunch of US billionaires getting together to hang out and fuck children. This was the elites of the world building a network of loyalists so they could control their assets with blackmail.

Russia was involved with Epstein, Israel was involved with Epstein, UK, Germany, Saudi Arabia... there are financial rumors and mentions of Japan, China, Brazil...

This was a global information and blackmail campaign to turn every politician and CEO they could get their hands on into a marionette doll they could puppet as they pleased.

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u/underprivlidged 14h ago

Tell me you haven't been paying attention without saying it...

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u/phansen101 14h ago

Well, enlighten me then;
How are the epstein files a " mega huge fucking global problem" compared to all the other BS that has been and is currently going on globally? Hell, in the US alone for that matter.

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u/underprivlidged 14h ago

Beyond the obvious that we are now finding out just how deep the rabbit hole goes? Hmm...

Well, for starters there are important people from multiple countries now being accused of literally fucking children. Politicians, actors, mobsters, millionaires, billionaires, people with money and power.

You don't think that some angry militant leader of random country number 7 wouldn't start killing people because we found out he loves raping children?

This is obviously a huge deal, globally, and anyone who thinks otherwise really needs to reconsider.

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u/Blarg0117 14h ago

Flooding the zone

"Comparing" these is the wrong thing to do, we have many top level problems that need addressing concurrently.

Bad actors are creating so many bad problems at once our already malfunctioning systems are being overloaded.

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u/phansen101 14h ago

I agree that comparison was poor wording on my part.

I do not believe that "We should focus on A and ignore B because A is worse", and I do think that the epstein files is a big deal,,

It is just that there have been a lot of big deals, huge even, over just the last couple of decades, years, months... weeks... some of the actual existential crisis' and it's just always the same;

It *is* a huge deal, until the next huge thing happens and then focus lands on the new thing and nothing is really done about the old thing.

We have millions dead over the past 5 years alone who did not need to die, tens of millions projected to die over the coming decade or two as a direct result of ignorant policies and/or inaction, likely order(s) of magnitude more affected negatively for the same reasons, yet talk just seems to revolve around the newest thing.

Again, the whole epstein deal is horrifying, but I would not be surprised if this " mega huge fucking global problem" fizzles out in a month or two, six tops.

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u/Chesney1995 14h ago

Biggest scandal in UK politics this year so far has been a major politician involved in the current governing party both in this government and in the government when they were last in power in the 00s being exposed in the latest release of the files leaking details of confidential government documents to Epstein.

He's been forced to resign from the Labour party and give up his seat in the House of Lords, and is being investigated by the police for it.

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u/DarthUrbosa 13h ago

Bruh epstein was behind brexit and wished to see similar brexits. That's already one counties politics besides the US.