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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 92 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you combine this with the theory that Ghislaine was the /r/worldnews moderator /u/MaxwellHill, this would mean both of them were impactful in the right wing nerd internet culture that has become so mainstream.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not sure how to feel right now.

On one hand, there’s a bit of relief that 4chan and the internet fascists aren’t an organic grassroots movement…

…But also it’s another reminder we have been ruled by absolute monsters for ages.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think overall we should regard it as a good thing because it gives us more hope for the potential of a better society if we can establish a real democracy and suppress capital.

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[–] HoiPolloi@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's making me lose my mind a bit, feels like losing sanity points in Call of Cthulhu IRL.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

My brain is refusing to engage with that notion. I can't do it jokerfied

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[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Epstein bought Steve Bannon a Hermes Apple Watch, and Bannon was instrumental in activating GamerGate as a fascist pipeline

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

And now Musk owns Twitter too! Conspiracy theorists wouldn't be so daring.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 73 points 1 month ago (6 children)

the moot-/pol/-epstein conspiracy finna make me disassociate

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yep I’m just gonna fade out right now this might actually be too much lmao holy fuck

Edit: okay so I’m fully on board with Epstein being a Mossad asset at the very minimum a patsy. So that’s square 1 I’m starting from.

4chan has had a role in like 90% of mass shootings and almost every single white terrorism shooting since it came about?

Fucking goddamnit does this fucking mean DOES THIS FUCKING MEAN capitalism created a weird bi-caste of child predators and incel predator-aspirants to be part of its defense system? Is this the white blood cell of capitalism? Is the screw that holds it all together threaded with pedos? What the fuck

[–] Arahnya@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ive come to this conclusion myself long ago

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

For so long I’ve been like pepe-silvia about the whole 4chan/gladio thing

My brain is fried rn

[–] leafperson@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

"its just rich pedophiles" "always was"

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the wapo article in question....

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[–] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

i genuinely have a dissociative disorder and this shit is making me think im right what the hell blob-no-thoughts

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[–] ComRed@hexbear.net 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I always thought 4chan was some kind of alphabet agency owned asset to turn vulnerable young men into frothing fascists.

This proves it.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

That and after the anti-woke/anti-sjw/anti-idpol slop as well thats even so prevalent on the left. They even stopped hiding mostly. Peter Thiel is a Red Scare megafan

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

the whole anti paedo shit was always projection

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I honestly was not expecting moot to be on the Epstein files.

[–] tane@lemy.lol 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He originally got banned from the SA forums (then went on to start 4chan) for being a pedo

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Something Awful banned all hentai, which is what Moot got in trouble for. Drawn CSAM was something he allowed after he built 4chan, which SA was trying to prevent in the first place.

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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it doesn't surprise me. I mean what could be a bigger honeypot than 4klan?

[–] stevatoo@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago
[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Im going insane lmao

At this point, what evil thing is NOT related to Epstein?

Is Andrew Wakefield on the list too?

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The linchpin of capitalism is a cabal of pedophiles.

[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

I have never been closer to adventure-time in my entire life

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago

man it seems like literally everyone we hate is on the list

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (4 children)

in my mind, the chronology was that 4chan had a board called /news/ which was shutdown because it was a community for racists. Then Poole publicly and in-person confronted the owner of Encyclopedia Dramatica, accusing her of censorship for deleting racism. He realized it looked hypocritical that he also shut down a board, so he says it wasn't the racism itself he opposed, but that the racism was off-topic to a news board, so he created a politics board where racism wouldn't be off-topic.

Please point out if any part of this is wrong.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure this is accurate. TBH I wouldn't be surprised if this had more to do with Nikolic, the other person in these emails. Used to be a tech advisor for Bill Gates and seems to have already known Moot. They meet up and he launches /pol/ a few days later.

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's also worth noting Epstein hotlinked the /gif/ board and shared FNAF SFM pornography.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

sfm is source filmmaker, 3D animation software from valve. naturally it was immediately used to make cgi porn

[–] Wisp@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

source filmmaker I assume

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago

Glad i hit 420chan by like 2007 and missed all that pol stuff anyway before not using chans at all

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 38 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Not surprising. Any platform with a significant number of users ultimately becomes a potential vector to steer public discourse at large scale. And I do think it's clear that Epstein was more than just a broker for a child abuse island; he was a middleman through which rich and influential people could connect and coordinate.

And it really shouldn't be underestimated just how influential 4chan was. In the latter half of the 2000s, it slowly but surely became the dominant force in creating internet meme culture, taking that crown from Something Awful, and largely influencing how people talked in those days. There was a reason the "f slur" was so common, and that was long before /pol/ even came into existence.

By 2010/2011, Ragefaces were the main "generic" meme format that people used on sites like 9gag, and they originated from 4chan. These would then be switched out for the Wojak/Pepe format that would become mainstream around 2013/2014, Pepe itself being largely perpetuated by /pol/. The frog has largely fallen out of favor for being associated with nazis, but the Wojak format persists, even within leftist communities, over 12 years later. A ton of internet expressions and mannerism originate from 4chan, so it's not surprising that it would become a target for rich people to influence public discourse.

This is the forest that people missed for the trees when Musk took over Twitter. For all the chants of how Musk was wasting a lot of money, how investors would leave, how the site might become unstable because of important people being fired, and how it would all turn into a disaster and collapse -- people seemed to barely consider the potential long-term gain for Musk in terms of narrative control by taking over such a huge social media site. Unsurprisingly, Musk then decided to get directly involved with the Trump administration, taking direct advantage of the media platform he now controlled. And the site persists, now considered a lawless trash dump with selective and sparse moderation, where far-right ideology can thrive, very much like 4chan.

And in the coming weeks and months, we will see such a takeover unfold with TikTok as well. There can be no major platform of public discourse online that rich and influential people will not attempt to take control of. It simply cannot be allowed to exist.

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[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Male cool guy (KID), aged only 23. Female underage woman, already 13.

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So it's all but known now that QAnon was an op then.

that shit was obvious

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Wait, is this real!?

Edit: Do you have the mail screen shots?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 1 month ago

OPs images are just about all that I've seen regarding this, but, yeah, the Epstein documents released today absolutely contain references to Moot and Epstein meeting, and that meeting happened around the time of /pol/'s reopening.

[–] thefunkycomitatus@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago

One of the most pathetic things is these are 60 and 70 year old men (including Bannon in this) who are treating tech wonderkin as their fountain of youth. This is exactly what Musk does too. The proletariat version of this is dirtbag hot couch guys who are in their 30s and hang out at high school parties. Except the poors are much better at policing that shit.

[–] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

I am completely unable to describe the kind of ick I'm feeling right now.

Holy shit.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Please include EFTA ID #s when you post screenshots of Epstein documents. EFTA stands for Epstein File Transparency Act. Each file in has an ID #. Why people are sharing the files without the ID # makes no sense.

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[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I am not one bit surprised

[–] Homme_Tanks@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

The typo "mmot" is crazy. Jeff really didn't give a fuck if people could barely read his correspondence

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

The elite pedophilia conspiracy according to Qanon-types: You see, when they write that they are out of "gorgonzola" for the "cheese pizza" then that means that the kids in the basement have been drained of their Orgon energy. If you look closely at the logo of the store across from Comet PingPong then-

The actual elite pedophilia scandal:
"Hello Jeffrey Epstein it's me Elon Musk, please plaease please please pleasssssse let me come to your island so I can do sexcrimes on children, it would be so epic!"
"Helo Elonn, sry but I am out of town :/ molesting kids with Bono in ireland .. some other time maybe we can have sex with minors together - Jeffrey Epstein"
"ps. here is a picture of me, Donald Trump, The King of Spain, Jamie Foxx and Bill Gates and we're all crouching over sleeping womin lol, have a good one"

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

wow that's surprising

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Statistically speaking, at least four of our mods must be related to Epstein and at least one was on the island

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