My brother in christ, the Epstein files are distracting you from all the awful shit the US does at this point.
(The Epstein files are also gruesome. It’s just… At this point it seems like it’s just an excuse for a bunch of people to not confront US foreign policy."

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Exactly! This is essentially a continuation of the Eptstien files. Problem is libs don’t want to take down the ruling class any more than the fascists do, and they believe the exact same propaganda on foreign policy so they don’t actually oppose this

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    Also liberals: “look we all know Iran deserves to be bombed and their state overthrown because they are an ontological threat to the rightful state of Israel, but Trump needs to ask congress first”

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    this is something that really bothers me, I pretty much immediately write off anyone that responds to the atrocity of the day with some variant of “nice distraction from the Epstein files”

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    The crazier part about it is that they’re both being done/orchestrated by the same people! Like if we just do anything it’ll be a “two birds, one stone” situation. But no, we’ve decided that murdering the Murderous Rapist Genociding Pedophiles is a no-no because they wear suits and speak our language.

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    It’s tactical: they don’t care about imperialism, so they position it as a distraction, therefore caring about it is undignified and ignoring it is actually fighting trump. Why I don’t like people here plausibly cosigning it with “Epstein coalition” or stuff.

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    I also want people to know that flooding this site with poorly sourced and spurious propaganda about how great Iran is doing isn’t helping Iran. Please do that on reddit or someplace. I pretty much skim any post that’s not written by marmite

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      Agree on both, it’s literally been 3 or 4 days, and we are bottom of the rung on the information barrel

      As for the Epstein thing, I’m going insane, because it’s as you put it, those who argue it’s a distraction do it in a manner that tries to immediately devalue any support to Iran, even if they’re also not picking America in the fight, except they only trust western sources so they’re basically pro-west with even more cognitive dissonance in the baggage

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        If it so happens the Democrat is in the Epstein files more often, it will be a great way to piss off libs to tell them the Republican candidate is the lesser of two evils. You may not like it but you have to be practical and vote for the lesser evil since you can’t let perfect be the enemy of good.