• fort_burp@feddit.nlOP
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      3 个月前

      Newly released files have revealed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent considerable time with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, according to emails from convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

      That’s not what “being in the Epstein files” means.

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          3 个月前

          No, “being in the Epstein files”, as a turn of phrase, means you rape kids.

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            3 个月前

            Well using it that way is fucking dumb.

            Conspiracists peddle the idea that “being in the Epstein files” means you rape kids, except they mean it literally. So between it being far from the literal meaning of the phrase, and it being how some people seriously misunderstand the situation, it makes it better to use some other phrase.

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              Ah, alright. I guess being in the Epstein files isn’t really all that bad then.

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                Not on its own. Thankfully we can read some of them now and see some of the incriminating stuff.