cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/46761307

"The institution that should win the Nobel Peace Prize every year is the United States military."

Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, seriously asserted that the genocidal US military should win the Nobel Peace Prize every year.

Since 1945, the US military has killed more than 30 million people in its wars around the world... yet this bar-closing fellow wants it recognized as a bastion of peace.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2047660874156945408/vid/avc1/1320x726/92PPUNYFX_PvIbTt.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2047821995950080384#m

"To tell you I'm not sad for every child in the world who cries? I'm sad. But I also understand that this child, if we don't act, will grow up to be a terrorist"

This is what Sarai Givaty, the Zionist actress whom "Israel" used in a propaganda video, said about the children of Gaza a few months ago.

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2047135596917711131#m

OG source of the video -> https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2046346490059035020#m

The demented criminal Milei returned today to pray at the Western Wall of apartheid in Israel, attempting to whitewash the Zionist genocidal regime. Meanwhile, in Argentina, even centers for the disabled lack food to feed their patients due to widespread poverty.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2047157647250489344/vid/avc1/1920x1080/o_19CIzU8tLdPEFf.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2047158004043125074#m

"We have sarin chemical weapons in Maryland. These nerve agents, if sprayed on people, cause their lungs to stop, their hearts to stop, nothing works... and we have them here."

Andrew Hugg, a leading US nuclear scientist, reveals that the US military still possesses chemical weapons and that they are stored in a Maryland laboratory.

The US joined the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 and supposedly destroyed them all by 2023... but it seems they lied again. Epstein's empire respects neither laws nor conventions; it is governed only by barbarity.

He also acknowledges U.S. airstrikes have killed children in Iran, calling it “collateral damage,” and revealed to the journalist how nuclear launch decisions are made in real time.

Hugg described how the United States could assassinate Iran’s next leader if he “doesn’t change,” while admitting the U.S. has no plans to use nuclear weapons: “We’re not going to nuke anybody.”

All of this was casually revealed to an undercover journalist in a restaurant. This raises serious questions about this official's judgment, security, and what’s really happening behind closed doors.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046820915531419648/vid/avc1/1920x1080/-SIsfZzUx1gj4yod.mp4

More complete interview here -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046615306387521536/vid/avc1/1920x1080/BK3sBl0L_ndgbLa_.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2046821073086226742#m

and https://xcancel.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2046642621632872461

"We create digital assets that serve Israel. We have 60,000 social media accounts dedicated to making our posts go viral and reporting enemy accounts for removal, all to contribute to Israel's narrative."

Ella Keinan, a former intelligence captain in the Israeli army, admits that they have a network of 60,000 social media accounts to spread the Zionist narrative and report any accounts that denounce their crimes.

This is how they manipulate social media algorithms; they have giant bot farms (human and non-human) to make what they want go viral and shut down accounts that refute their lies.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046810980533813248/vid/avc1/1920x1080/49cW0oO3LN0ygYD5.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2046811482982126051#m

Private Equity companies have rolled up manufacturers of ambulances, fire trucks, and other first responder equipment tools in the United States and Canada.

As a result, a small handful of companies control supply and pricing, and have aggressively raised costs and increased order backlogs.

Equipment in the North American market are ten times more expensive than for comparable tools from China, and wait times are three years or longer.

Closing scene, Shantang Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu

Kevin sounds frustrated here! Looks like he is slowly radicalizing people into anti capitalism! 👀

It's called Orania, a village occupied by descendants of white Dutch Boer settlers who invaded the land because they believed they were God's chosen people and therefore had the right to seize the territory (does that sound familiar?).

For these colonizers, the native Black people were savages who deserved to be domesticated and subjected to slavery under apartheid.

This town, colonized in the 17th century, is exclusively for whites, and its inhabitants (more than 2,000) TODAY claim they don't allow Black people in to "preserve their culture."

These colonialist parasites even play the victim and say that their Black neighbors want to kill them (does that sound familiar again?), while they have been invading their lands for centuries and are proud of their criminal apartheid.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046556474931843072/vid/avc1/1080x1862/AVqdd3hvNCGMGjU1.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2046556650379612559#m

Listen to the mental gymnastics of this Racist Dutch settler in South Africa.

The delicate process that Ecuador is currently experiencing, which involves, among other things, the privatization of security, involves the reconfiguration of the State under neoliberal principles and also the projection of the strategic interests of the United States in the region.

Under the guise of security, which has become the sole national theme, within the framework of the “internal armed conflict” that Noboa himself declared in 2024, using the fight against narcoterrorism and organized crime as a pretext , the country faces not only increased violence but also the erosion of state power and increased dependence on private foreign (mercenary) forces to address the crisis; and not without significant consequences.

As is well known, one of the fundamental pillars of the modern state is the legitimate monopoly on the use of armed force. However, the increasing privatization of security has fragmented this monopoly, since what once seemed to be an exclusive function of the state is now shared with private actors, who often have more power and influence than a country and who operate according to the logic of capital and the market, rather than the public interest.

In fact, the increased participation of private actors in conflicts and wars is closely linked to the privatization process driven by neoliberalism; that is, their prominence as actors in security dynamics responds to strategies and policies specific to this new stage of capitalism.

Although the use of private entities and the displacement of state functions in matters relating to security has a long history, it was in the nineties of the last century, a decade that evidenced the negative effects of the implementation of the first neoliberal policies, that their participation increased hand in hand with the reconfiguration of the post-Cold War international order.

In other words, the increase in corporations, troops, or resources from private capital was accompanied by the rearticulation and global expansion of the capitalist accumulation system—in the face of the implosion of the Soviet Union and socialism with it; by the (relative) change in the traditional security paradigm—which moved from a unidirectional (state-centric) and unidimensional (military) archetype to one that incorporated other actors and other issues in its dynamics and definition; and by the decrease in military budgets, armaments, and armies—and the consequent surplus of troops, military equipment, and arsenals—produced massively within the framework of the capitalism vs. socialism confrontation.

Among the tasks performed by private military or police actors are the protection of strategic infrastructure, military training and advising of the armed forces, logistical support, intelligence functions, surveillance tasks, personnel protection, maintenance of weapons systems and even direct participation in combat .

In contexts where the state appears “incapable” of protecting its population, as in the case of Ecuador, the involvement of private actors can lead not only to a lack of accountability, the weakening of military and police institutions, and human rights violations (especially in armed conflict scenarios), but also to the use of privatized violence as an inherent symptom of the supposed “weakening of the state,” allowing powerful groups to consolidate their control. In other words, the state's perceived lack of capacity (or will) can be intentionally fostered to benefit those who profit from violence, such as criminal groups, corrupt political elites, or, as in this case, private security corporations.

As private actors take over tasks that are under the authority of states, the latter lose their exclusivity in the exercise of coercive functions ; and when coercive power no longer emanates solely from the state apparatus, there is a risk that it will be subordinated to military, economic, or business interests (which of course also happens with the power of the state, since, in fact, it often becomes a threat to the security of those it governs).

On the other hand, the privatization of state functions related to security, defense, and the use of armed force almost naturally leads to the militarization of security processes. This, in turn, requires the adoption of logics, language, and structures typical of the military sphere in the management of social or economic problems, for example. Thus, while the state loses sovereignty to private actors to whom it has ceded control of strategic capabilities, it also adopts mechanisms characteristic of militarization (such as states of emergency or war) that will inevitably have negative repercussions for the population, especially for groups that are often the target of security policies that perpetuate violence.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there are more than 16,000 private military and security companies employing approximately 2.4 million people . Some of these corporations carry out training or equipment tasks, but others, especially those from the United States, are contracted in the region to assist public security forces, combat organized crime, and even “terrorist groups.”

In the specific case of Ecuador, one of the countries with the highest homicide rates in the region, the security crisis associated with drug trafficking, gangs, and the (lack of) control of cocaine trafficking routes to Europe and the United States has led the country to adopt a security strategy based on the militarization of public security. This includes the deployment of armed forces to combat threats and the use of private security forces. In 2015, for example, the average homicide rate in Latin America was 17.6 per 100,000 inhabitants, a 5% decrease compared to the previous year. However, Ecuador's homicide rate increased by 31% compared to 2014, reaching a record high of 50.9 per 100,000 inhabitants last year . This meant going from being the second safest country on the continent in 2017 to the most unsafe and violent in 2014.

While the above has been used as part of a state narrative to justify Daniel Noboa's militarized security strategy, which includes an alliance between the Ecuadorian government and private armed forces under the command of Erik Prince, a former U.S. military officer and founder and owner of the private company Blackwater (now Academi), it is true that violence in Ecuador is on the rise. It goes without saying that this powerful military corporation has been involved in various armed conflicts around the world and in controversies involving the killing of civilians, such as the Nisour Massacre in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2007, when Blackwater forces contracted by the United States opened fire on Iraqi civilians, resulting in 17 deaths and 20 injuries.

The strategy between Noboa and Prince, announced in 2025 (which remains unclear but aims to strengthen counter-terrorism capabilities, train law enforcement, and protect Ecuador's maritime space ), has not only proven insufficient to eradicate drug trafficking and gang violence, but also reveals a significant shift in the security policy of this Latin American country. This is especially true considering that the strategy between the state and forces associated with Blackwater is accompanied by a constitutional reform that eliminates the prohibition on establishing foreign military bases and armed or security forces within its territory. This reflects, on the one hand, the deepening of neoliberal policies that promote the weakening of the state in strategic areas and, on the other hand, Ecuador's important position in guaranteeing the extraterritorial interests of the United States.

Its location, situated between Colombia and Peru, the world's first and second largest producers of cocaine, respectively, makes Ecuador a key territory within the global drug trafficking system. The Port of Guayaquil on the Pacific coast, the country's most important port because it handles 85% of its various imports and oil, makes the territory a major logistical hub for cocaine destined for Europe and the United States; in turn, making it a strategic point for organized crime groups.

Control of traffic routes through "cooperation" with an "ally" country, which does not have permanent military bases on its territory but whose government, led by a businessman of American nationality, does intend to reinstate the base in Manta, a former US base, and the installation of another in the Galapagos Islands, becomes a fundamental part of the power's security interests.

What we are witnessing in Ecuador is thus part of a significant restructuring of hemispheric power in which the U.S. wields considerable influence, with dangerous repercussions for this Andean nation. The transfer of the strategic task of security to someone like Prince, who is part of political-military networks linked to the U.S. military-industrial complex, undoubtedly implies the projection of U.S. geopolitical interests in Latin America, but it also entails a significant domestic realignment.

To begin with, the involvement of private military companies in public affairs leads to the erosion of sovereignty. When the State, which is by definition the guarantor of security, delegates strategic functions involving intelligence gathering, training, military operations, and so on, to private contractors, a fragmentation of the institutional power structure becomes evident, which can lead to the privatization of conflicts or war and the inability to guarantee order.

At the same time, the commodification of security transforms what has traditionally been seen as a right into a commodity dependent on monetary capacity to acquire it, leading to neoliberal securitization where the corporate management of risks and threats is prioritized over guaranteeing rights and fulfilling the State's obligations. Reducing the social functions inherent to the state apparatus can lead, for example, to the strengthening of control and surveillance mechanisms.

On the other hand, when the State becomes less social and more police-oriented, regimes of exception and their inherent mechanisms such as repression, surveillance, discipline, systematic violation of rights, counterinsurgency or lack of accountability become normalized because, unlike state armed forces, which go through a process of legal regulation, private ones operate without any transparency.

As an example of the above, it suffices to say that since Noboa assumed the presidency (late 2023), he has signed 17 decrees that effectively normalize the state of emergency. The curfew recently imposed in Guayas, Los Ríos, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, and El Oro—provinces with 6.5 million inhabitants (35% of the population) and where more than half of the nation's homicides occur —is a prime example. The operation, which involved the deployment of 75,000 military personnel in a joint maneuver between the government and U.S. forces, resulted in the arbitrary detention of 253 people, and to this day, it remains unknown how many are actually linked to organized crime.

While Milei embraces Netanyahu and kisses the walls of Zionist homes in Israel, in Argentina, grandmothers and young people are scavenging in the garbage to find something to eat all day.

For these traitorous Zionist Nazis, Israel comes first, then the US, then the oligarchy, and lastly their own personal gain... they couldn't care less if the people eat garbage.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046118159510597632/vid/avc1/1080x1920/Jlg1nZOfVmMJawOp.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2046118235095830844#m

This is Amy Eskridge; she is one of 11 scientists who have been found dead and who were involved in high-level, classified research... research that undermines private aerospace corporations and their economic interests with government authorities.

Amy was researching antigravity technology and its use for free energy; in this video, she reveals that she is receiving death threats because of her antigravity energy project... after this interview, she was found “suicided” by a gunshot.

The scientists who have disappeared and been murdered under strange circumstances are:

• Monica Jacinto Reza, an aerospace engineer linked to NASA, who disappeared in June 2025 while hiking in California; despite being accompanied, she simply vanished along the trail without a trace.

• Carl Grillmair, a renowned astrophysicist at Caltech, was shot and killed outside his home in February 2026.

• Michael David Hicks (February 2023) and Frank Maiwald (February 2024), both scientists involved in planetary defense and space instrumentation, died under circumstances that were never publicly clarified.

• Nuno Loureiro, a prominent nuclear fusion scientist at MIT, was shot and killed in 2025.

• Jason Thomas, a pharmaceutical research director whose body was found months after his disappearance.

• William “Neil” McCasland, a former head of research for the U.S. Air Force

• Melissa Casias and Anthony Chavez, both affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

• Steven Garcia, a contractor with access to nuclear weapons systems.

Is the U.S. and its capitalist oligarchy killing people who possess sensitive information that runs counter to its interests? All of these individuals are involved in high-security research, including nuclear, aerospace, and open-source technologies.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046140009112301568/vid/avc1/1280x720/daE5J2YcdIDTp4Lc.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2046140235482898584#m

News of the topic -> https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202604/1359252.shtml

In the image above, Karoline Preisler, granddaughter of Nazis and a Zionist fanatic, is protected by German police while she supports the genocide perpetrated by "Israel" in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran.

In the image below, German police are seen assaulting a young woman protesting against the Zionist genocide.

This is the West and its democratic spearhead, Germany.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2046236199417696256/vid/avc1/1080x1920/LtIafk8IkQ2eXcxF.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2046236437738107093#m

Link: https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2044545856129360356

“I voted for Milei and now I can’t pay my rent. I know absolutely nothing about politics… but nobody in this country wants to work, so I’ll either vote for Milei again or I’ll leave the country.”

A young Argentinian woman says that even with a good job she can’t afford rent… but she’ll still vote for Milei and defend capitalist misery because she heard some sicko say that people who are poor are poor by choice.

This is why the media fosters ignorance and spreads ideological garbage, so you end up like this girl: a dinosaur longing for a meteor.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045382580535439360/vid/avc1/1280x720/wpuCc651FLaw452M.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045386208453214433#m

This is Alana Rosa, a 20-year-old Brazilian woman who was brutally attacked and stabbed 40 times for refusing to go out with the sexist criminal Luis Felipe Sampaio, whom she met at the gym.

After emerging from an induced coma, misogynists in Brazil are making TikTok videos of themselves stabbing mannequins with titles like "What to do when she says no."

This is the patriarchal and misogynistic society that capitalism fosters; this sexist terrorism is fueled by the system itself, just like racism and xenophobia.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045392279150460928/vid/avc1/1280x720/gYYwNjDYEz3t-1c_.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045398894423544006#m

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

techrepublicbook.com

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045155329340510208/vid/avc1/720x720/VnrIlDRdkW5Ymiw6.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/Antunes1/status/2045155909702238604#m

Context on China banning this type of cults:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9155093

China’s National Religious Affairs Administration issued a set of rules on the management of online behaviors for clerical personnel, which included activities such as online preaching scriptures and providing religious education or training on the internet, according to a release on the official website of National Religious Affairs Administration on Tuesday.

The 18-article document details provisions for religious personnel’s online conduct, requiring clerical personnel to comply with national laws and relevant regulations.

The regulation stipulates that religious personnel’s online scripture preaching and religious education or training can only be conducted through legally established websites, apps, forums, or other online platforms operated by religious groups, religious institutions, temples, or churches that have obtained the license to provide online religious information services issued by official departments.

The regulation prohibits clerical personnel from engaging in online self-promotion, supporting or participating in overseas religious infiltration activities, spreading religious extremist ideologies, promoting cults or heresies, or profiting from religion.

The new rules are intended to implement existing laws on religious affairs, standardize the online behavior of religious personnel, and maintain order in online religious activities.

Previously, the Buddhist Association of China announced in July that it has agreed to revoke the ordination certificate of Shi Yongxin, former abbot of the renowned Shaolin Temple, over suspected criminal offenses, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Shi Yongxin is suspected of criminal offences, including embezzling and misappropriating project funds and temple assets. He has also been accused of serious violations of Buddhist precepts, maintaining long-term inappropriate relationships with multiple women and having at least one illegitimate child, Xinhua reported, citing the Shaolin Temple management office.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, soldiers from the genocidal “Israeli” army—their hands stained with the blood of 65,000 children bombed in Gaza—marched amid applause through the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045022621067055104/vid/avc1/1080x1350/PeVYNpFXBdaTQ6uV.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045022763790848332#m

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8250022

Douyin account of the altruist: 小唐在美国

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/1slili1/a_young_man_from_sichuan_china_goes_to_skid_row/

Zionists flooded the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz with flags of the genocidal apartheid regime of "Israel" on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Last night, Zionist soldiers under that flag shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in Gaza City.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045104667345166336/vid/avc1/720x1280/oEXBbWFSfM9QpZi_.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045104793681531045#m

By Fabio Vighi

When governments release politically explosive information, the explanation is almost always procedural: a law is passed, a deadline arrives, documents are reviewed, redactions are applied, publication follows. Officially, such choreography signals institutional health, transparency as proof of vitality. The release of the Epstein files has been presented in precisely these terms: Congress mandated disclosure; the Department of Justice complied; a statutory clock was observed. Yet what occurred in practice was not a single act of disclosure but a staggered unveiling. By the 19 December 2025 deadline, barely one percent of the files had been made public, with further batches released in waves thereafter. The effect was less cathartic revelation than serialized exposure – a drip-feed of scandal that kept outrage alive while deferring any real confrontation or resolution.

This teasing temporality inevitably provoked suspicion: critics pointed to political timing, media management, and strategic calibration of attention. But beyond questions of motive lies something more symptomatic. The carefully calibrated procedure resembles the cultural logic it purports to expose. What we witness is not bureaucratic caution but a system that sustains itself also through managed scandal, prolonging the spectacle of corruption as a substitute for structural renewal. In this sense, the staggered release matters much less as an administrative failure than as an index of a civilisation that has learned how to decline while simulating a long-expired vitality.

We live in a time of severe socio-economic contraction and corresponding spiritual anomie, where the system’s reproductive fatigue generates a plethora of what Antonio Gramsci called “morbid symptoms”: phenomena that do not herald transformation but function to mask societal decay. Libidinal investment in such phenomena tends to deepen subjugation, as moral outrage becomes emotional attachment while collective misery is reproduced through the very spectacles that appear to expose it. The Epstein files belong to this morbid landscape, not because they are unimportant, but because they dramatize and conceal systemic decline in one fell swoop.

The first point to stress is that these are not just “Epstein files,” but the archival trace of a civilisation that has systematically reproduced itself through organised forms of violence. Capitalism and sexual abuse are driven by the same predatory logic: the capacity to dehumanize others and exploit vulnerability for profit. Within such a system, the traits that make someone a successful billionaire are disturbingly adjacent to those that enable rape, paedophilia, and genocidal violence. To be clear, then, capitalism does not simply tolerate predatory personalities; it breeds them. In this sense, Epstein’s network functions as a metonymy for the human relations that a greed-driven civilisation promotes – a laboratory exposing the inevitable convergence of economic and sexual predation. What appears as aberration is, in fact, a magnified image of the “rules of the game”. The fundamental reason why the Epstein scandal should shock us is that it reveals, in concentrated form, the rotten core of the system itself.

There is, at first glance, some truth in comparing the millions of pages of Epstein-related documents to the encyclopaedic excess of the Marquis de Sade’s catalogues of transgression – a resonance reinforced by the widely reported detail that Jeffrey Epstein kept a copy of Sade’s Justine (the story of a twelve-year old ingénue exploited and abused by everyone she meets) on the desk of his Manhattan residence. The private jet routes, the infamous “Lolita Express,” the island compound, the transnational circulation of underage victims, Epstein and Maxwell’s methods for identifying and tormenting their prey – all of this undoubtedly carries a Sadean aura of ritualised elite libertinism.

But the Epstein files unveil something more specific. They reveal the technocratic and transactional form of what Jacques Lacan discerned in Sade: sadistic enjoyment organised as duty, libidinally charged exploitation routinised as procedure. As Adorno and Horkheimer argued before Lacan, Sade does not stand outside the Enlightenment (‘the philosophy which equates the truth with scientific systematization’)[i] but exposes its dark underside: reason reduced to calculation, and calculation hardened into organised brutality. Adorno and Horkheimer diagnosed the collapse of modern reason into domination, while Lacan added that this domination is sustained by jouissance.

If, then, Sade revealed the superego injunction of modernity (“you must enjoy!”), Epstein stands as its late-capitalist mutation. This is not merely a repetition of aristocratic decadence at the dawn of industrial modernity. It is something historically newer and more disturbing: the seamless integration of economic accumulation and sexual exploitation into the ordinary operating procedures of elite systems. Epstein represents a financialised degeneration of Sade’s universe: the merging of libidinal coercion and economic leverage in seedy networks where bodies, secrets, and capital circulate through the same closed circuits of power. His documented fascination with eugenics, transhumanism, and social engineering extends this exploitative logic toward a dystopia of technofascism in which life itself is reconceived as an asset to be strategically conditioned. Within this dark but dominant configuration, bodies function as collateral, secrets as instruments of control, and capital as the ultimate arbiter of visibility and disposability.

And yet, the very scandals that seem to expose systemic violence often function to redirect public anger toward individual monsters, leaving the underlying structures untouched – and in doing so, stabilising them. The spectacle of a few bad apples functions as a moral alibi, allowing the system that cultivates them to appear fundamentally sound. In the current phase of intra-civilisational breakdown, elite institutions no longer even attempt to improve collective conditions but instead specialise in managing exorbitant debt levels, stagnation, instability, and slow erosion. They are indeed highly competent at this task, having inherited decades of well-honed crisis-management practices. Meanwhile, productivity has turned into an abstract signifier, while wealth increasingly accumulates in high-risk and highly manipulated financial instruments that are completely detached from material production and everyday social life. Work, for growing numbers of people, is not only more precarious and structurally marginal to the functioning of hyper-financialised capitalist accumulation, but also increasingly emptied of social meaning.

So what is truly disturbing about the Epstein files is how perfectly they fit the depressed historical condition we inhabit. If crisis has been normalised as the basic grammar of governance, then scandal has become our primary mode of libidinal expression – a displaced theatre for intensities that no longer circulate in our lived social space. Emotionally and libidinally, the figure of the hypersexualised predator is the ideal symbolic object for a radically desexualised age where desire, seduction, and the intimacy of sex itself have been evacuated from life and outsourced to screens in the forms of pornography – whether explicit or metaphorical. The smartphone, in this sense, functions as the ultimate libido-killer. What it evacuates returns as compulsive outrage directed at curated images of elite obscenity. Sex is everywhere around us – we are literally bombarded by sexualised signifiers – except, of course, where it belongs. Under conditions of screen addiction, what disappears is the very space of secrecy, fantasy, symbolic distance, and chance encounters through which desire once operated. Far from rupturing the system, then, the Epstein scandal completes it, offering a hyperreal image of excess in a world where the joy of lived intensity has long been hollowed out.

Paradoxically, the Epstein files allow senile capitalism to fake vitality, a libidinal energy vanished from its mode of production. Obscenity here is not accidental but elevated to a simulated and ubiquitous infrastructural role. In the past, political systems resorted to spectacles of excess only sporadically; today, such displays are orchestrated continually, demonstrating an unbroken capacity for affective control. Culture wars, elite scandals, threats of geopolitical escalations, moral panics, and bouts of hysterical self-victimisation now compose an unbroken “stream of systemic consciousness” demanding total emotional investment. Each event is sold as the defining crisis of the moment, thus temporarily reorganising collective attention while deferring recognition of long-term structural decay. Why confront the collapse of political economy when millions of pages of Epstein files await immediate consumption? Proliferating wiki-style archives convert court documents into consumable outrage: by indexing names, flights, photos, and degenerate acts, they transform systemic depravity into endlessly scrollable scandal.

In Jean Baudrillard’s terms, these files circulate as pure simulation, effectively divorced from most people’s struggle of everyday experience and any practical capacity to transform it. As such, they sustain the numbing illusion of moral engagement while the system’s decay remains invisible and out of reach. What is more, they are perfectly bipartisan. The Epstein files produce industrial quantities of scandals for everyone, left and right alike – Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Peter Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Donald Trump, liberal and conservative elites across the spectrum – making outrage politically unbiased. This is a spectacle that transcends divisions while being perfectly irrelevant to the decay it theatrically mimics. Bread and circuses never disappeared – they became an industry.

Under emergency capitalism, spectacle performs three essential stabilizing functions.

First, it manages attention. Economic stagnation is slow and abstract. Financialization is technical. Debt refinancing, productivity and labour market decline need to remain concealed. Elite criminal scandal, by contrast, is narratively perfect: it provides identifiable villains, moral clarity, and endless symbolic detail. Public discourse gravitates toward what is emotionally legible, not what is structurally critical.

Second, it manages legitimacy. When systems cannot deliver shared prosperity but work only for a narrow elite, they must deliver some kind of accountability. Even if structural dynamics remain untouched, the performance of exposure signals that the system is capable of self-correction. The spectacle of punishment substitutes for structural change.

Third, it manages fear. Spectacle transforms diffuse systemic anxiety into targeted moral panic. Instead of asking why the system itself is imploding, populations are encouraged to focus on individual corruption, cultural enemies, or shocking criminal networks. The system appears threatened by outsiders, not by its own internal exhaustion.

What emerges is something darker than simple distraction: a creeping form of social amnesia. The obscenity lies in the symmetry: a system that increasingly relies on financial manipulation, asset inflation, and debt engineering to simulate economic vitality produces spectacles that are equally excessive, equally detached from social reality, and profoundly numbing. While capitalism insists it is still productive, the obscene spectacle it unleashes insists that something meaningful is still happening. Meanwhile, the material foundations of the “work society” continue to erode. Automation displaces labour faster than ever. White-collar work is increasingly fragmented or algorithmically managed. Entire generations struggle to enter the labour markets through insecurity and anxiety. Productivity gains concentrate into capital ownership rather than wage growth. While, predictably, Trump’s tariffs do nothing against an out-of-control US trade deficit.

In this context, scandal cycles begin to resemble a kind of assisted social death. They do not name catastrophic collapse, but progressive anaemia. Institutions remain operative, elections continue to take place, markets appear to function. But the underlying social organism loses resilience; it loses its shared purpose, the expectation that the future will be better than the present.

This results in a feedback loop in which increasingly obscene spectacle becomes necessary to stabilize an increasingly bankrupt “new normal”. The deepest obscenity is not the scandal itself. It is the insistence, repeated endlessly through institutional language and media ritual, that everything is fundamentally still working. If this is the phase we have entered, the defining political question will be whether societies can learn to recognize these spectacles as symptoms of systemic exhaustion. Because the ideological endurance of declining systems lies in its ability to convert decline itself into an endless series of emotionally absorbing events. And if that is true, then the real danger is not sudden collapse. The real danger is a civilization that learns how to fade while believing it is still doing fine.

Notes

[i] Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (London: Verso, 1997 [1944]), p. 82.

More than six homeless people die every day in Los Angeles, lying in the streets. This is the capitalist "American Dream."

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"Yes, it's good to kill children, even babies. We kill children in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Iran... it's okay to do it, I've already killed some."

A Zionist soldier proudly displays his crimes against children in an online chat video, where he admits to killing children with a smile.

This is the infanticidal army of "Israel," cowardly child killers who then play the victim as soon as someone responds to them.

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They no longer care to shout their crimes because the Western gov't support them and keep them from being prosecuted.