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It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn't evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn't damning by itself.
Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.
Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.
Context is important, and that's why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.
I can think of very few names already connected, pictured with or involved with Epstein whom I will feel any loss if they happen to suffer in the court of public opinion.
The very worst people in the world are going to leverage the fact that not everyone named or implicated was actually doing anything with minors or hurting anyone, and I've lost whatever fuck I had to give a long time ago. Everyone who went there is a rich asshole in some way and this is consequence.
And yeah, I am including the fucking scientists as well. Fuck Kraus, fuck Hawking's memory. I am so done with the world being divided into classes of people who can get whatever they want, and people who die from preventable illnesses because they can't afford health insurance.
I wish my anger was as contagious as it is on the right, we would already be marching together to physically remove this fetid, evil administration.
And because people like those in the pictures will block any real investigation, to me, it's guilty until proven innocent
Yeah well that's not how our justice system works, fortunately.
Yeah I know your justice system works by who has the most money/better lawyer wins and then you can always run for president and avoid the system entirely.
If you lie with dogs then you will get fleas
So you assume that every dog in existence has fleas? Can't be around any dogs whatsoever at any point for fear of getting fleas? Shitty analogy for the situation.
Better hope none of your old friends from say high school or college that you haven't seen for years end up being sexual predators at any point in time. Might have photos taken with them that others will see and assume you knew what was going on because you were with them. Especially if they were doing that at the time.
Lemmy intellectuals will attack this take, and they will also be the people who listen to the arguments from the world's most evil people and their lawyers and say "We need to hear them out, we have a system with rules."
Towards a class of people who live above the rules and have no system other than wealth and power. Our "laws and rules" are designed to control the population, not the donor class, not the elite, not the ones who have never known hardship. People who can systematically abuse others for their own satisfaction are ruining whatever potential our species had, in my opinion this isn't just an ideological or legal issue, it's fucking existential.
You mean people who believe in a justice system that doesn't randomly imprison you until you prove your innocence?
Nah, that's most sensible people.