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Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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This is the kind of stuff that causes people to believe Qanon.
In this post, I'm not blaming Q or the people who believed it. I'm blaming the actual cabal of pedophiles because their existence is enough to make conspiracy theories like Q seem credible.
It turns out the hippies were right; people really are being herded like animals.
I’m blaming Q fuckheads for completely disappearing as soon as it became irrefutable that Trump is a child rapist. It was clearly never about protecting children.
Q was manufactured by Epstein's goons
Epstein met Moot(4chan owner) and drove him home, he created the /pol/ board on 4 chan the same day. A couple years later Q anon would be created on that board.
It's the strategy the UFO guys use of mixing ridiculous bullshit with the truth so if anything leaks it sounds like that half ridiculous load of shit you proved was fak to the public.
Hmmmm... 🤔
I'll take the opposite tack from the other guy, Bob Lazar comes off as a skilled liar, and aliens and time travelers require actual evidence.
The US government did fake 90% of the UFO movement.
Most of the fucked up story is told here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8F1HnpeQTo
That's a Behind the Bastards episode, Part One: How The U.S. Government Used Aliens To Destroy a Man's Mind.
The actual truth is more fucked up than the made up conspiracies, but also more boring. Weapons and Weapon Systems. That's it. Bad ideas and worse coverups.
Now that sounds way more plausible than Obamas secret Alien Bob Lazers or whatever that other guys was saying.
Yeah, the story is wild, but also it's always tied back to nukes.
An example is cattle mutilation. See, there was a project called "Plowshare" where some people, wanting to have more nukes, tried to find "peaceful" uses for nukes. So, the detonated a nuke, deep underground in the South West, in an effort to fracture the rock and release natural gas.
This worked, except for the little fact that all the gas was contaminated with radioactive isotopes and was rendered unusable.
But this gas was leaky, because the ground was nuked, so in order to track the cancers caused, government agents secretly vivisected cattle, mostly to remove lymph nodes to track a common radiation linked cancer. As always, they didn't tell anyone local that they were doing this, which prompted local authorities and farmers to investigate.
With some careful prodding, a few hints, and a placed agent or two, the guy investigating was convinced that it was aliens doing experiments.
Aliens(or time travelers) are probably real. Obama even said so in an interview just the other day. There's a DEFCON talk on commonalities and national security implications of UFOs from a few years ago for more information. Also Bob Lazar who's life makes no sense unless he's real or the most complex and well done psyop in history.
Probably doesn't change your day to day life any in the face of fascism 🫤
He said it's a big universe so there's probably something out there. But there's nothing hidden away in an area 51 basement or anything.
Rrrrright. You're in the realm of flat earth run by lizard people now.
Thank you for illustrating my point
Exactly. I'm not the person you were speaking with, but I agree he's illustrating your point: even though I don't directly believe any of that stuff, I've been around long enough to know that it's all blatantly untrue and patently ridiculous until it's not, and that when it comes right down to it I cannot possibly know what I don't know.
So I leave space for what I don't know even while marking it as unreliable in my own mental index, and in the meantime I try to look for whatever can be physically proven. There is actually quite a lot of documented whatthefuckery in our natural world, and the way you get to proving it one way or another is by throwing hypotheses at the group of facts until one starts to fit.
In everything you've mentioned there's nothing that has been definitively disproven. And what the security people are doing by looking for commonalities is exactly what they should be doing, not hiding their heads in the sand and pretending nothing strange has ever happened while they call other people easy names for noting that it exists.
Imagine if all Epsteins accusers so easily "deemed not credible" were actually heard the first time. There was a reason he went after the most vulnerable, the least protected, many of them with problems of their own: they are easy to disregard, easy to write off, even easy to blame for their own abuse. And that asshole was right.
Yeah. There are caves in India I cannot for the life of me make fit into any narative that doesn't conjure scifi or magic. They and 3d scans of Egyptian granite vases have me looking at the ancient aliens series with dread. That shit is so goofy and yet here I am looking at stone machined with compound symmetric curves to tollerances of ±0.02mm I think some of the vases were like ±0.003mm. Nuts and I have no idea what to with the information but adjust my tables of what is possible
It's funny, I think you're very wrong about aliens, but you've actually picked a perfect example. The US government encouraged alien beliefs to ensure that anyone who saw secret tests would assume aliens and not experimental aircraft or radio experiments. And then even if someone didn't say such things they'd be lumped in with those beliefs. It created a lot of noise and created an environment where they could deny something completely different from what they were doing.
The elites harvesting adrenochrome from children in a massive shadow world government as a part of pagan rituals is ridiculous and easy to dismiss in a way that "a wealthy power broker connected a lot of the worst and most powerful people in the world by acting as a drug hookup and pimp specializing in children and the ability to engage in violence. And even better they couod mske it partisan, and claim that one of the most involved people was the solution if given the power of a fascist dictator.
Look dude, math says there are aliens out there, you are smart enough to conceed that point. I was not sold by witness reports it was the military interactions, the videos, the pattern of interacting with nuclear sites, bob lazar specifically and the law enforcement responses he generated.
The Franklin scandal really gave it's self away having the FBI do a large scale raid on the investigator's office the day after he died with his son in a plane crash. Same day he met an informant and got the photos needed to prosecute. It's that kind of thing that i find telling.
Now you could say it's all a psyop to make Russia think the US has captured tech they don't really have but that gets wildly complex and more and more nonsensical the further back you go in history. Like we have foo fighters from WWI and II, the bell, etc...
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I think looking at it as a cabal of pedophiles is incorrect. It's more a cabal of blackmailers funded by multiple intelligence agencies that set up a pedophile ring in order to create said blackmail. Sure some of the pedophiles are on both sides of that line. But many of the pedophiles were committing crimes of opportunity. That opportunity was just engineered by the blackmailers.