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[–] 245 points 6 months ago (49 children)

I do like the idea of calling the current US government the "Epstein Network".

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I call them the Epstein Class. It's not just this administration, or even one party, or even just politicians in general. It is the global elite and their unjust system of exploitation called capitalism that has allowed Trump to do what he does with no consequences. As long as the Epstein Class exists, there will be more Epsteins.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    capitalism

    Think Epstein's network crossed economic ideological boundaries. Noam Chomsky considered Epstein a good friend while simultaneously being a staunch critic of capitalism. There are signs of being connected to the USSR, China, North Korea, .... If Epstein connected with fame or power, it didn't matter what 'system' was in play.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Yeah unfortunately some people who were ostensibly on the side of the working class were also caught up with Epstein. There are evil people on every side. I'm not surprised by connections between Epstein and USSR/China/DKP. Epstein was primarily an asset of Mossad and the CIA, who used him to generate kompromat. Would you not expect that entities that are aligned against the western hegemony of the Epstein Class to try to gain access to the blackmail factory? Or it could also just be that they were all pedophiles, too. I don't know.

    None of this changes the fact that the reason no one truly powerful ever faces consequences for things like Epstein or the Panama Papers is that the political-economic system is designed by the ruling class to benefit those few people lucky enough to own capital. Wealth = Power.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Chomsky only re-wrote theory available elsewhere. Wouldn't surprise me if he was a plant all along.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (39 children)

    I like the Iranian ministers, they just casually walk with their people in the middle of a war and have the balls to call these guys out in front of everyone.

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    We murder ours for not putting out, and our information about other parts of the world is largely curated by a fascist regime. Let's please not forget that

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago (33 children)

    There doesn't have to be a good guy in this story. It is perfectly plausible for this entire mess to be driven solely by villains while the innocents, who have no control over any of it, be its victims.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago (29 children)

    Yeah I don't get why people are choosing sides when the sides are a Pedo-fascist regime and a theocratic dictatorship. This war is stupid af, but I wouldn't shed a tear if the Iranian regime collapses due to it.

    R.I.P. to the innocent Civilians caught in the crossfire.

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    I too give all of my support to the innocents being bombed.

    The Iranian Regime is everything but innocent.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    The Iranian government should be dismantled and all it's executors put on trial for their crimes against humanity and their citizens.

    The same should happen to the current US administration.

    The fact you're trying to legitimise the Iranian government in any way is baffling to me.

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  • [+] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)
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    Where did I compare Iran and US?

    I agree with you about all the points you have raised about the US.

    Do you not agree, that a regime that has killed 36 thousand of it's citizens this year alone, should be dismantled?

    Edit: You edited your comment right as I was answering. I do not agree with your theory of the US funding/participating in all current genocides. I very much doubt they are involved in the genocide of the Uyghurs.

    Edit 2: And your estimates on how many people the US is supposed to have killed lol,

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

    So wikipedia is good enough for the massacres the US perpetrated but not enough for the ones from Iran?

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    LOL being called an imperial pig for pointing out that the Iranian theocratic Dictatorship aren't good guys is wild. You tankies are real special...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Repeating the same shit doesn't make it more true. Where did I compare them? Quote me

    You're more of a fascist than I am if you think a regime that suppresses the rights of women is good.

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    Nope still doesn't make it true. You know it's all in your head, right?

    I never compared the US and Iran.

    I never said Iran has done worse than what the US has done.

    I never said I think this war is justified. (It isn't)

    I have not argued for any of these things, yet you hallucinated these arguments in your head.

    I simply said that the Iranian Regime are not good guys and for some reason this triggers you, which is why I guessed that you think they are good. But if you truly don't:

    Do you agree that the current Iranian regime is a bad government that should eventually be put to trial for what it has done to it's own people?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    You don't have to like Iran to recognize that the only reason this war is happening is because of the US, Iran didn't start the war.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So you're saying the war helps that?

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    Okay, that doesn't change the fact that the war makes it worse for everyone, literally a global effect, and it's the United States and Israels fault.

    Iran didn't start the war, and the US and Israel trying to destabilize Iran will not make Iranian lives better.

    If Mexico or Canada invaded the US, it wouldn't make the US better, it would make it worse.

    You can't take away a countries right to self defense just because their government is bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    That is pretty much true throughout all of history. You almost never have "good guys"; it's usually "bad guys" versus "worse guys."

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