• Wolf@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    This isn’t surprising really, especially after the Neil Gaiman thing, but it is disappointing.

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    I’d like to remind this thread not to jump to conclusions. It’s not exactly unheard of for a notorious coke addict to be confidently wrong about something. I’ll believe he’s a sicko when I see his name on the list and not a second sooner.

    Edit: Am I really being downvoted for not immediately joining a mob and instead waiting for proof? “We did it reddit lemmy!”

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    Bro was realistic.

    Do you keep a client list of your parties? Do you keep a diary of your illegal activities? Would you allow someone else to have that?!

    And even if such a thing would exist, is there any reason to keep such a list after the party? After the planning? After the rich and famous left? No man, the only thing that remains are photos, memories and crazy stories.

    Sure, there are people who went there. Sure, there was crazy, scary stuff going on at those parties.

    Which is exactly the reason why such a list doesn’t exist.

    It was another maga bullshit conspiracy story which backfired spectaculary.

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      Except when you run a blackmail operation of course you will compile all the information of all the people, so you can blackmail them with it.

      If it was only about abusing children, Epstein could have done that with relatively little attention. Instead he made sure to have as many people involved as possible.

      There is credible reasons to believe that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have been instructed by Mossad, as they have extensive ties to Mossad and Israel, in particular through the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert, who Epstein apparently helped stow away stolen money. Also Robert “fell of his Yacht” when it became known that he was a Mossad asset.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Alleged_connections_to_intelligence_agencies

      Epstein was rumored to be associated with Intelligence agencies.[292] The U.S. journalists Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin and James Robertson linked Epstein to the Israeli Mossad in their book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales. They relied for the most part on the former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe.[293] According to him, Epstein’s activities as a spy served to gather compromising material on powerful people in order to blackmail them.[294] There is also a possible connection to the Mossad via Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father Robert Maxwell is said to have had contacts with the Mossad.[295] Epstein’s victim Virginia Giuffre also alleged Epstein to be an intelligence asset, linking on Twitter to a Reddit page, that alleged Epstein was a spy, running a blackmail operation.[296]

      As U.S. Attorney in Florida, the later U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta reached a settlement with Epstein’s lawyers (including Alan M. Dershowitz) in 2008, which allowed him to receive a very light prison sentence. Acosta later reportedly stated that he was told that Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and that the issue was above his “pay grade.” According to Acosta, he was pushed to give him a good deal.[297] Former CIA Director and diplomat William J. Burns met with Epstein three times. According to a CIA spokesperson, Burns hoped that Epstein would help him “transition to the private sector.”[298]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Mossad_allegations;_Vanunu_case

      The Foreign Office suspected Maxwell of being a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia”. He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[58]

      Shortly before Maxwell’s death, Ari Ben-Menashe, a former employee of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate, approached a number of news organisations in Britain and the US with the allegation that Maxwell and the Daily Mirror’s foreign editor, Nicholas Davies, were both long-time agents for Mossad. Ben-Menashe also claimed that, in 1986, Maxwell informed the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu revealed information about Israel’s nuclear capability to The Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror. Vanunu was subsequently kidnapped by Mossad and smuggled to Israel, convicted of treason and imprisoned for eighteen years.[59]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Death

      Murder was ruled out by the judge and, in effect, so was suicide.[65] His son discounted the possibility of suicide, saying, “I think it is highly unlikely that he would have taken his own life, it wasn’t in his makeup or his mentality.”[10] Maxwell was afforded a lavish funeral in Israel, attended by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli President Chaim Herzog, at least six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence[67] and many dignitaries and politicians, both government and opposition, and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.[68][69] Herzog delivered the eulogy, and the Kaddish was recited by his fellow Holocaust survivor, friend and longtime attorney Samuel Pisar.[70]

      Also note how the recent denials from Israel are extremely agressive https://time.com/7302177/epstein-mossad-israel-intelligence-naftali-bennett/:

      The Israeli politician on Monday said he had “100% certainty” that Epstein did not have any ties to the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, or the country itself.

      “The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett said in a post on X. “There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”

      EDIT: Also note that Israel is notorious for harboring fugitive child abusers. Israel is strategically building on child rapists to support them.

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-jewish-american-pedophiles-hide-from-justice-in-israel/

      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-07-25/ty-article/.premium/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-foreign-sex-offenders-find-refuge-in-israel/00000182-3532-d7e9-af96-3d73c52c0000

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      Epstein seems to have kept photos and videos of his clients to blackmail them. It would be easy to create a list of his “clients” and the government certainly has created such a list, to charge them or at least they should have it or be able to do so easily.

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    Wow, the replies on some of King’s tweets are really telling…

    No chance that chode isn’t a trump supporter.

    E: also, I didn’t realize just how many of King’s books involve child abuse… I knew about the obvious ones, but goddamn…

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      That’s interesting. I read most of his books and I really can’t recall anything in that regard. Between he’s famous for being a horror author although he wrote a few non-fiction books. The human psyche and inner monologues of the character along with descriptions of villains and why they became the monsters they are, are recurring topics in his books. Might it be that this is the reason why they involve child abuse? Remember Dutroix? He was abused as child.

      Anyways I can’t really recall any scenes in his books where he delved more into that topic than appropriate.

      Edit: I’m trying not to have idols or parasocial relations and it’s been years since I read the last SK book. So my memory may be clouded a bit. Other than the scene from “The Jaunt” (which I haven’t read), I haven’t found anything after a quick search. If it turns out he’s a pedo I won’t defend him. But regarding from what I know about him as person from the biographical texts, and stuff he wrote on social media and how meticulously he deconstructed evil personalities in his books, I can’t imagine this being anymore than a witchhunt.

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      9 hours ago

      is that Beta Male insulting Stephen King or actually clueless about having an orgy in a book involving kids? I’ve seen my fair share of stupidity but this might be satire aswell

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      “The list” isnt so much a “list” as it is a compiled comprehensive list of all the people epstein video tapped in his comprehensively bugged properties (even the bathrooms were bugged with mics and pinhole cameras) from the hard drives thumb drives and cd’s the fbi found when they cut into the safe at the manhattan town house mansion they raided and who knows what else they found at his other properties. Bondi even said when defending the choice not to release “the list”/ Epstein files that “it is all child 🌽 and it’s disgusting and will never see the light of day” but are we to believe Epstein was downloading random CSAM from the dark web like a pleb? Or more believable is that this is a blatant admission that the DOJ has evidence of politically prominent officials, judges, scj’s executives bankers intell agents etc engaging in career ending acts of child sexual abuse and other actions who knows how awful and disgusting? Probably definitely the latter. And trump is implicated in what they have which is why he is flailing like a wounded animal basically saying Epstein case Material makes him look guilty without outright saying it just by saying its a democrat smear job. Thats how dumb this mother fucker is

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    Tucker said it out already. They did not leave you to connect the dots; They literally left you with a complete line with only one missing dot to connect. Even the dumbest MAGAts could see through it.

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      You know, I’m really glad that Tucker seems slightly less batshit insane after leaving Faux, and I hope he continues in that vein. It doesn’t hurt to have a former Trump ball-licker publicly oppose him, but can we please not forget that Sucker is partially to blame for Trump being in office in the first place. He will say whatever he thinks will get him the most ratings, just like he always has.

      Let’s not start quoting him as some sort of trustworthy or reliable source.

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      You telling me there’s a chance that a writer, known for snorting enough cocaine to kill an elephant whilst writing a story where a group of boys run a train on a young girl, might have visited an island known for its drugs and sex trafficking young girls?

      🤔

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      I don’t think a lot of people read the book. Anyone who has knows that Stephen King shouldn’t be around children.

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    didn’t this dickhead also pose with an “I’m speaking” t-shirt after Harris used it to silence anti genocide protesters?

    anyway i hope people remember this next time they read It and reach the part that was very predictably left out from the movie

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      classic liberal.

      they are preferable to conservatives, just like a bowl of sawdust is preferable to a bowl of poisoned feces.