With all that's going on, this is having some profound effects on my mental health. I rarely suffer from imposter syndrome now because I can compare my competency with them. If that shit show can be in charge of a country then my worries of discovery are nonexistent.

I thought myself a generally bad person from just not volunteering or anything, I mostly provide monetary assistance to friends who have a hard period. Now, I'm a veritable saint in comparison.

Your average person would think I reprehensible for wanting to just dispose and depose all the wealthy as well as powerful. Now, I can point that one person has literally been a puppeteer all along in all the horrible things that have happened.

I think the slow release also serves as a distraction.

The more time news keep focused on Epstein, the less reporting on the more critical and long lasting damage the current USA administration is inflicting on its people and the whole world.

When the Epstein case is resolved (if), best case scenario is a bunch of pedos getting house arrest until their very near death.

When this administration crimes are resolved, we will still suffer its impact for decades.

So, sigh, operant conditioning, for all of those who know it as Skinner conditioning, carry on, for those of you who don't, also carry on, it's not the be all and end all, it's just an old psychological technique

It’s all designed to be spectacle without consequence so that power can protect itself.

That's pretty much the main problem with American politics in general. That and the inherent corruption, of course.

Not sure it's that simple. A slow release can make the whole thing better known. Just look at Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Assange dumped everything he had at once. It was in the news for a bit (including that some of the stuff he put in there had the potential for putting people's lives at risk), then it was out of the headlines. Snowden, on the other hand, worked with journalists to release things bit by bit, focusing on the important documents and spacing out the releases. Result: it stayed in the news a lot, lot longer than the things Assange released, and as a result people on average know a lot better about what he revealed.

So if anything, this is helping more people know about it. Think about it, the files were supposed to all be released last year. It's still in the news, because of all this.

We can have our two minute hate against Epstein & Co., but:

once again it’s not about Trump, though I’m sure he’s in it with no less disgusting communications, pictures, maybe even moving pictures.

We already know that Jeffrey was a horrible human being.

Not sure about that. It is a side effect perhaps. 

But the empire is crumbling. 

Right now the files are still being used as a political weapon by the fascist regime to target people who didn’t pay enough loyalty to the emperor, like Gates, Clinton, Musk, Royal families in Europe. 

There is a vast body, possibly much more than the DOJ is admitting (as there is literally no oversight), of documents that is being held back. This is the emperor showing and warning: pay fealty to me, and I can protect you, see what happens when you don’t.

That is the real game that is playing out before our eyes, and they are doing it with the hearts and souls of the victims foremost. So let’s not let up on the pressure and make sure their suffering is not in vain and we get accountability.

However you split this: this is the beginning of the rich eating the rich. This is what is to be expected at this point in the timeline of the fall of an empire.

Not so sure about whether this will normalise it, but it will be a permanent blemish on any rich fucker who’s trying to convince us their company has the best intentions for humanity.

It is exposing an insanely depraved and disgusting power structure that has been going on for far too long. I’ve been exposed to this myself for decades of my life and I’ve never gotten used to it — it’s only motivated me to go after them harder.

The people in the Trump cult (GOP) will never be convinced with any amount of evidence. Their worldview is emotional and primal. They don’t want the rule of law. They want the rule of their master’s boot.

Okay, so... any actionable advice? At least for people in the US? (Ideally some for those of us outside, but anything is better than nothing)

its to wet the appetite, they are avoiding or diluting the fact that trump and other billionaires/ world leaders have done far worst things that are on tape.

The public is being shown just enough to know the truth

That they know nothing?

Yawn. The BIG, no ok, then small… tactics Trump does it like textbook.

And half of Lemmy is in on it. Humorously, it’s not the ML. It’s the .world users who are ~2.6+ years old at this moment. Lots of alts in that range. Old accounts with only a few hundred comments? Suspicious.

Besides, how can a not-cop survive 2 years without being banned by Adolf Lund?

Suuuusss