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Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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I have spent hours looking through the files and some of the stories are absolutely disgusting. I am having such a hard time because so many citizens don't even know how awful they get and they aren't all even fully released... I am close to feeling like we need pitchforks, torches and shovels if this justice system won't actually do anything... He had a ranch where a witness wrote in saying there are TWO bodies located on the property and they haven't even reported that in the media. I'll link that one below too. It's just so... Horrible. We can't just pretend this doesn't exist... but idk what happens next for the United States and the world. It's not something a country just moves on from.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00078198.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01249507.pdf

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[–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The pitchforks are a metaphor, obviously.

I'm not sure what point you're getting at. We shouldn't try to do anything, because the guilty are too powerful?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    We shouldn’t try to do anything, because the guilty are too powerful?

    No. I'm saying we've had far too many false hope protests that have wasted decades of time and uncountable resources, and the people in power are literally incapable of the empathy involved to produce results. In fact, the latest craze in right-wing doctrine is calling empathy a weakness, just to make sure any vestiges that still exist within their voters is excised out.

    If you want to do something, do something more forceful. These people only care about a few things: not losing their fortunes, not losing their freedom, and not dying. If you can make them afraid for one or more of those things, pursue that.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Your first post read as doomerism to me, but it sounds like quite the opposite actually. We need to organize hard and build something off the back of this horrible state of affairs, right? Maybe something like a general strike until those identified in the documents are behind bars?

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