• Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I really don’t understand this pivot from him. What is he trying to do? Just ride the outrage for attention or something? Seems like a bizarre move to suddenly start stanning for Epstein as a open neonazi with a large neonazi audience, especially right as the floodgates are opening as to some of the details of the beyond horrifying crimes his network was involved in.

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      The bosses have decided to do damage control. He got the check so he is ironically rehabilitating the epstine name as a joke to own the libs. The more you joke about a thing the more positively your brain feels about it. Thus he is slowly shifting the Overton window from the farthest right. Pretty soon liberals will be making harmless jokes about it.

      Which like, will be wild to see the same liberals who are against kink at pride become passivly accepting of sex trafficking. Like, it will be like Nascar. Something they don’t approve of that conservatives do, but something they just sneer at and forget.

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      the only explanation is that he’s a pedophile. many nazis are, the core belief of fascist ideology is that the powerful have a right to abuse the powerless

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        A lot of his fanbase are pedophiles, including fairly high-up “lieutenants”, and he’s acknowledged it a number of times. They barely conceal it, that ice snowflake symbol and the term 'p are just dead givaways. He doesn’t appear to really be a pedophile himself though.

        I think there’s a much simpler explanation than him being a pedophile, it’s just meta post irony. It’s exactly the kind of thing that would appeal to the young disaffected right-wing males that make up his base, he can say and do wild things and it only makes his charisma with them stronger. It appeals to the pedophiles in his base, but everyone that already likes him isn’t going to be put off by this. Making light of the situation like this might even gain him anti-pedophile followers, oddly enough.

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      The best theory that I’ve seen is that it’s because he wants support from the Trump administration, so he has basically taken the line “The problem with Epstein is that he was a Jew. Doing all of this as a white Christian would have been based.” There’s no denying Trump’s involvement unless you are genuinely senile or something, so he’s forced into a position that lets him at least implicitly whitewash the participation of people like Trump if he wants to maximize the support he gets, by his estimation. Just a theory, though.