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pnwmom

(110,217 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:09 PM 2 hrs ago

"We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's World"

It’s not just Epstein. That’s what these files reveal. Epstein is communicating with hundreds of men in these millions of pages. Men from every country and power structure: US finance, petrodollar royalty, Russian oligarchy, Hollywood, Palo Alto, Washington, Westminster. We know that more than 1,000 women and girls were trafficked and there are hundreds of Epstein survivors. As well as those who tragically didn’t survive, such as Virginia Guiffre. We must keep them front and centre, always.

Epstein was a criminal. Whether any of the men named in these files are too is not something we can know: no charges or prosecutions have been brought. But it’s not just Epstein. That’s what we now have to realise. Obsessive, pervasive sexual interest in teenage girls - and to some degree, boys - is threaded insistently through our culture.

We just choose to ignore it. We redact it. It’s a darkness that we cover with more darkness.

Are we going to reckon with that? Can we?
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"We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's World" (Original Post) pnwmom 2 hrs ago OP
The wealthy and privileged have always owned the world. DJ Synikus Makisimus 1 hr ago #1
True. And it's way past time to unleash the Kraken on the SOBs. Kid Berwyn 1 hr ago #2
And what an ugly world it is. CanonRay 1 hr ago #3
We've been living in this world for ages. ananda 1 hr ago #4
Yep. Look at all of the church pervs of the johnnyfins 1 hr ago #5

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,261 posts)
1. The wealthy and privileged have always owned the world.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 06:25 PM
1 hr ago

They've always gotten pretty much whatever they wanted, legal or not. Laws are for the lowborn. Take a look at prisons, for example. About 92% of medium to maximum security prisons are people of color. 99% are poor. The myth of "democracy" is that everyone is equal and everyone has rights. No one is equal in our society, unless you say something Orwellian like "some people are more equal than others." Same holds true for any rights you think you have. Their guarantee is via pieces of paper, mostly written 250 years ago for a different world, and a bunch of folks in black robes. The former is subject to wide interpretation, the latter are increasingly Federalist Society lackeys appointed with bipartisan support.

It's important to remember that it's taken lots of time and too many lives to get to this rather miserable point. What's worse, it appears that this is as far as most of our elected politicians are willing to go.

Kid Berwyn

(23,641 posts)
2. True. And it's way past time to unleash the Kraken on the SOBs.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 06:27 PM
1 hr ago

That used to the US Government, so the Broligarchs bought the US Government.

ananda

(34,598 posts)
4. We've been living in this world for ages.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 06:32 PM
1 hr ago

Misogyny, pedophilia, and child abuse are
this indicators of a very sick, dysfunctional
society... and this country has been this way
ever since it was founded.

johnnyfins

(3,570 posts)
5. Yep. Look at all of the church pervs of the
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 06:37 PM
1 hr ago

20th century for a start. It makes me wonder how much was covered up that we DON'T know about.

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