• yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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    25 days ago

    If anybody in any position of power therr was innocent they’d do it themselves. Given what everybody “knows” I’d want my name as cleared as possible.

    I personally believe its simply a blackmail game where “we’re all in this together now” and theres only a handful of evil thats sticking to everyone even remotely involved, but the more this drags on the less I believe it.

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      24 days ago

      I genuinely think that there’s a point in every political career (probably at about the mid-to large city level) where you go to a networking event and they take you into a back room with a kid and tell you to rape them on camera or your career ends there. I don’t think it’s possible to reach any position of real power without letting the existing powers have some kind of blackmail material on you.

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        14 hours ago

        In that case it would be way too easy to refuse and take them to court if they did that - it’s on video, you have evidence of them telling you to do it and you refusing.

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          14 hours ago

          except they’re the ones holding the video and no cop who wants to continue being a cop is going to investigate anyone that could actually get them in real trouble. it’s been hard enough prosecuting anyone in the Epstein files despite TONS of evidence. how many people have fallen off balconies or just never came back from the yacht party that we don’t even know about?

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        24 days ago

        Pretty much. Showbiz is close, except you’re the one selling your body to some gross old white dude with jowls, and it’s no secret for instance there was a “blonde boom” back in the Weinstein days because that’s what he liked to fuck.

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      25 days ago

      They were always in there together but somewhere down the line they had some dispute amongst themselves and the whole Epstein thing happened and now the cat’s out of the bag and the situation has to be managed but everyone is trying not to lose face whilst doing it, or it was a miscalculation by Mossad (Epstein was Mossad, just in case you were not aware), or one by an American three letter agency. Regardless, they were always in there together, even American “leftist heroes” (if they’re not silenced and live freely in America when the empire kills innocents around the world for less, one should be wary), and there are enough publicly available pictures for anyone to understand that whatever colour your team is, they’re in cahoots, get paid by the same folk and touch the same kids.