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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Jeffrey Epstein is singlehandedly responsible for the extreme polarization of this country, and it's time that we experience a Great Cultural Reset this year.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Look, the man is an awful person, but don't give him THAT much credit. Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Lee Atwater and anyone involved in the southern strategy was major parts of it. McConnell, "The Freedom Caucus", and "Tea Party" were major parts of it. The Koch Brothers with the heritage foundation is a major part.

And this is the short list. I didn't go into the evengelicals, AM conservative pundits, Rupert Murdoch and so much more.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wish that William McKinley wasn't shot so that that would inadvertently lead to the US becoming a socialist country, a lot similar to the alternate history story "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline" (wiki is here). Seriously!

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Or Garfield. He at least wanted every confederate leader hanged.

The US is just not allowed to have good leaders

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

It makes me wonder, Jepstein set a lot of gears to turn independently, but without the spider at the center of the right-wing web I wonder how completely the propaganda will deteriorate as there's now one less cohesive force at the center pushing it forward.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 89 points 1 day ago (2 children)

FBI is more interested in who leaked epstein's death on 4chan than who he raped children with

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 4 points 19 hours ago

The DOW is currently too high to investigate pedos

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 day ago

They know who he raped children with, that's their blackmail cache.

They don't know who the weak link in the chain is; that's going to end up being blackmail against them.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous 4Chan user posted...

It beat ABC News journalist Aaron Katersky's post about Epstein's death on Twitter, now known as X, by 38 minutes

Is that in any way surprising? Someone with insider knowledge posted about it before a journalist was informed?

In the Wikipedia article about his death they said that he was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 6:39 AM. More than 90 minutes before even this post on 4Chan, he'd already been taken out of his cell, rushed to an ambulance, driven across NY, taken to a hospital, rushed into the emergency room, and pronounced dead. There were so many opportunities for someone to notice that and post it somewhere.

In a sense, this means you pretty much clear the jail guards, ambulance drivers and emergency room doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. of suspicion. Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?

What's surprising here isn't that it was posted first to some forum used by random Internet chuds. That's what you'd expect. What's surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?

If they were involved in emergency response, they might have been too busy doing their jobs to post immediately.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Maybe... but not being able to find 30 seconds to post this major news for over 90 minutes? It seems more likely to me that whoever posted it found out about it closer to 8:30.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Not really. If you're the ambulance driver, for example, as soon as he's out of your vehicle but before he's pronounced dead, you're not really involved anymore and you can post about it. Same for the prison guards and everyone else along the way.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not to mention the fact that people at ABC news knew about it sometime before the reporter posted about it.

That’s what you’d expect. What’s surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.

Most people in NYC are probably in traffic or on the train at that time in the morning. Aaron Katersky probably got the scoop simply by being at work before 9am.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

Lucky guess

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Trump obviously killed this dude, right?

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[–] graycloud@leminal.space 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obviously, it's because the FBI is on 4chan.

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[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 243 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (26 children)

On one hand I'm happy this fuck is dead, and I hope he did suffer.

On the other hand, we all know he did not commit suicide and got killed by the Pedoresident following the playbook of his BFF putin to try to save his fat orange pedo ass

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 153 points 2 days ago (19 children)

There's still the option that it was a faked death. That much wealth and power, if it could be done, that's who and when it would be done. I'm not giving it much credence without more evidence, but I've got no reason to think that it's not possible given the series of absurd happenings that morning.

[–] pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Somebody in Israel logged into Epstein's Fortnight account a few years after his supposed death, FYI.

[–] ContactClosure@lemmus.org 1 points 17 hours ago

And his FedEx account, they were both used until 2024.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 52 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Is there any reason to believe it wasn’t hacked? If I’m murdered then my account being accessed doesn’t prove I’m secretly alive. Especially if I used insecure passwords like Epstein is reported to have done.

It’s not impossible, but if he was still alive I find it hard to believe he’d just access it once and never again. Stupid billionaires with bad passwords probably happens all the time and we just don’t know about it because they’re not at the center of an international child sex exploitation crime ring.

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[–] null@lemmy.org 139 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The newly released Epstein files show that the Justice Department tried to identify the 4Chan user behind the posts — but couldn't figure it out.

"Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies."

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

classic

Reminder that the Sarah Palin hacker was caught because they included the web proxy url in their screenshots they shared.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

I’ve been getting the impression lately that 4chan has been a platform where the rich, or someone paid by them, uses snippets of truthful information baked into outlandish stories to obfuscate their ongoings behind a narrative of easily dismissible conspiracy. Like feeding the pigs carrots, so their shit smells of shit and carrots, and now everyone avoids carrots as a byproduct of it’s association with shit.

What are the odds this is just more of that? They may speak on Epstein’s death before it’s reported for credibility, then misuse that credibility to obfuscate the truth further. The FBI could have been in the dark, hence their investigation, but they could have also been steered away from making any conclusions on the matter.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Ghislaine Maxwell was a /pol/ mod. That's all I need to know.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Q was probably Steve Bannon working through Ron Watkins who was a useful idiot proxy. The point was to make talking about what Epstein and the gang were actually doing sound like crazy talk.

Remember: A way to poison the truth is to package it with 9 lies, and a way to hide a lie is to package it with 9 truths.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 47 points 2 days ago

Lol the FBI is worried that people might leak shit they're doing, so they gotta scare off Anonymous.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Elon and his cohorts have been involved in 4chan since it was a cultural phenomenon back in the day. Not because he had some skin in the game, but because it probably felt good to know and disseminate information before the rest of the 4channers knew it. That boy is all about clout before anything else.

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[–] jmsy@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (12 children)

whenever there is breaking news, I always pop over to 4chan. They have videos, images, witnesses, and statements before any mainstream media.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 94 points 2 days ago (18 children)

The user also provided some of the earliest unproven conspiracy theories about Epstein's death. In one post, which was later deleted but provided to the FBI in response to the subpoena, the user said someone may have swapped out Epstein's body because of a mysterious van seen the previous night, DOJ records show. "You guys i am shaking right now but i think they switched him out," the anonymous poster said.

Damn

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Well 4chan had some deep ties with epstein. Epstein knew the founder and even got him to make a channel

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[–] DoomGuy_e66@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't think that he is ~~Dead~~

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