• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The difference between MAGA nuts and sane people is that sane people will see stories about people they previously liked being involved with Epstein and still be glad more of the Epstein files are being released while the moment MAGAts sense the Epstein files will be bad for their orange leader, they try to sweep them under the rug.

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      to be fair, per the article Chomsky do not seems to be implicated in anything with Epstein… so the article is pretty suspicious. Remind me who own theguardian?

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        Yeah, but Chomsky is someone who has spent decades studying and writing about power structures and media’s involvement in those power structures.

        I spent a bunch of my years in college reading and watching his Noam’s shit. The fact that he was chilling with this dude, especially after he pled guilty, is a serious WTF moment.

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        prepare for the wave of leftists and democrats connected to epstein and everything about the gop being scrubbed.
        ….
        and, hot take here: how reasonable is it to expect everyone that knew epstein to have known the circumstances of him soliciting an underage child, or to know that it happened at all?
        I’m sure he had a plausible story about it being dark, she was wearing makeup or some bullshit… his very short jail sentence would support any claims of “honest mistake”.
        and while i know there was some press about his conviction, did everyone know this?
        i’ve never run a background check on anyone i’ve hung out with, nor have i googled their names. Any one of my friends could have an old pedophile conviction i never heard of… i’d like to think i could just tell, but im not actually psychic.
        i sure wouldn’t hang around after i knew.

        originally that was the problem with the epstein files being released. He tried to connect himself to as many famous people and intellectuals as possible.
        now they will all be guilty in the court of public opinion.

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          The Scott Trust Limited, which is effectively still The Guardian, and was created to guarantee its financial and editorial independence. There’s a reason why Snowden went to them specifically to leak his leaks etc.