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I mean, I guess you probably would? Epstein was explicitly targeting people with wealth and power to bring into his gross "parties", so if you had "tankies" with wealth and power, he'd have been targeting them and it's not unbelievable that some of them might have gone for it - if you gain the kind of wealth and power the people Epstein was courting have, you probably don't have any real moral principles.
I wonder why tankies never seem to have that wealth and power. Could it be that in order to become the kind of wealthy socialite Epstein was doing, you would have to abandon your communist principles entirely? No, it's the children that are wrong...
You don't have to go that far. There are "tankies" with wealth and power and the only one who was ever anywhere near Epstein was Castro. Epstein never got near the governments of the other AES countries even when it would've been quite advantageous to him to do so, and when he had no issue getting close to government officials of other countries.
Can you name any that aren't one of the Castros? And then narrow down the list if you can name any to those who would be ignorant enough to fall for a Kompromat operation?
The PSL, along with a number of other Marxist-Leninist and progressive groups, is backed by an American multi-hundred-millionaire left-winger, Singham. I haven't found him in any of the Epstein files at all, and he's a quite wealthy and powerful guy. He's also a very literal tankie.
He does live in China now, but for most of Epsteins socializing and being terrible he was here in America.
Like FunkyStuff said, most of the powerful and wealthy tankies are outside of the global north. There just aren't that many communists in America, at all.