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Bill Gates is fucking irrelevant
We are being fed an edited/redacted/delayed version of the MILLIONS of documents that provide enough red meat and celebrity sacrifice to distract us.
And we are falling for it...
Yes, this may be a smoke screen, BUT I do think not letting go of the idea that Epstein and Trump had customers is also pretty important.
Sadly, oue focus is such that we as a culture are incapable of maintaining attention past a few news cycles. Why the distract/delay tactic they are employing is so effective.
Of the two Johns,
We can either focus our attention/outrage on the current POTUS who is doing everything in his considerable power to destroy the rule of law and our ability to hold the others accountable
Or
A guy who was last relevant when we frosted our tips, used 56K dial-up, and when the movie Office Space was having its initial theatrical run.
I think it's having the opposite effect. The trickling out of information is good to keep the public engaged with the Epstein documents for a long time. Will it ultimately get us any sort of justice? Not with this fucking joke of a federal administration, but it does shine a consistent spotlight on the evils all these billionaires are doing. Compared to the Panama Papers where everything came out at once, the outrage died down pretty quickly once the next news cycle revved up. This is a smoldering fire that keeps being fed the longer the little bombshells periodically come out.
Ya but these guys are still very very powerful and will doubtfully go down as a scapegoat.