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The Trump-Epstein Files™

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 97 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

@VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online

I’m genuinely curious what you’re trying to accomplish by continuing to circumvent the rules, ignoring mod requests?

Now you’re resorting to posting a screenshot of a Der Spiegel article without the source or an excerpt. Again.

Perhaps you don’t understand why we do this: it is so people without ad blockers or using accessibility tools can read the article even if it is paywalled or was taken down after publication.

This is your 5th or 6th violation of our rules, resulting in a 7 day ban. The next one will be a permanent ban to this community.

People like you are why many mods on here permanently ban people upon the first violation.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 25 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Have they responded at all?

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven’t received any DM from OP.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Thanks, just curious.

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[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are we sure it's not a bot account?

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

It’s behaving too intelligently for a bot. After its last ban it started posting only memes, which is fine and then crossposts for articles.

They occasionally comment too, but the post pattern reminds me of a reddit karma farmer.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 88 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Epstein and the island being shut down does not in any way mean any of this has stopped. Zero other rich pedophiles went to prison about it, so they literally know they can get away with it.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One even got elected president.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And his friends know he's got their backs

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

The president doesn't have friends, there are people that have information and power that can hurt him, that is why he is protecting them, either they have dirt on him, the ability to harm his interests, or are paying him off.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Epstein had a bigger island, and ships never stopped coming and going from it. They literally just moved the whole operation next door and put someone else in charge of it that no one's heard of.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Really? You got sources for that? I haven’t heard that but I do not doubt it.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago

Wikipedia covers the island itself well enough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Saint_James

Who is Stephen Decker and what's he doing with both islands now? No one knows. He says he's turning it into a world class resort and that he never met or knew Epstein. His big public renovations so far seem to be adding a new fire pit and repainting a building.

https://www.primetimer.com/news/who-is-stephen-deckoff-networth-and-more-about-epstein-island-s-new-owner-as-he-renovates-notorious-estate

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Given how buddy buddy he was with tech, a lot simply moved online. They were using modeling to find victims, but now they probably just stalk IG and tiktok.

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[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 62 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-mystery-of-michele-a-missing-woman-from-germany-reappears-in-the-epstein-files-a-835c0c91-620c-4fd0-ac49-9870fe160108

The article from the screen cap. It seems to be paywalled partway through, and no remove paywall option is working for me.

Edit: Okay, take these with a grain of salt, but I did find a few articles which summarize this article for those who can't read the whole thing. It's the best I've got thus far.

https://www.rawstory.com/epstein-missing-model/

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/german-model-missing-for-11-years-named-in-epstein-files-report

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/missing-german-model-named-in-epstein-files/ar-AA25ofMg (This one has some of the most info, but is also an aggregate feed repost of the Daily Mail, so be extra sparing with your salt on this one.)

EDIT 2: As I was fetching these, u/OldBoy found a working paywall bypass link for this article: https://archive.md/20260612114906/https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-mystery-of-michele-a-missing-woman-from-germany-reappears-in-the-epstein-files-a-835c0c91-620c-4fd0-ac49-9870fe160108

[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Thanks. I don’t know why images alone are accepted when it comes to news.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because people get a dopamine hit off of reading things that confirm their world view.

hey! don't attack me like this!

It's the worst part of Lemmy, and I constantly report it, and comment that OP "accidentally" posted an image instead of the link. It's such a useless post format.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Probably why this isn't posted in !news. And then when it is posted there, people complain that the mods are pro Epstein because they removed the anti-Epstein image.

[–] ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So it is with great pleasure that I present you with the first of many revamps the “Revolution WOW” campaign will unveil over the next year. I give you the Buddy Mangione. Now that’s not the sanctioned term we’re using for the symbol, just something we’ve been kicking around the office, but look at it. Doesn’t it pop? Buddy Mangione!

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Sweet Jesus do you have to use the whole can?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

Who soiled your screenshot?

Here's the original gif if you don't have it

I only have the original link saved on my blahaj account (which is down rn) so I reuploaded it

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I kind of want a print of this.

[–] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

A shop in my neighborhood has this as those tall Jesus candles.

[–] OldBoy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bless you for this.

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

WHY would we go AFTER the Epstein Class when we could ELECT them and use TAXPAYER Money to CONTINUE Kidnapping Children INSTEAD?

-Republican Voters LITERALLY!

[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember the very moment I realized that republicans were disingenuous, and far too numerous.

Shortly after the Iraq invasion, and the "support the troops" ribbons started showing up.

Me, being logical, thought it meant people wanted the troops out, like, support bringing them home from a pointless war in the desert.

It did not.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I ran a small leather shop that sold hat/lapel pins. One pin said “stay the course” a slogan for continuing the Iraq war in 2006.

I started working in that shop in 2011. I left 15 years later. Never sold a single pin except to myself. I have it on my bag ironically. I’m Nearly 40 years old and we have been In perpetual war my entire life.

[–] karashta@piefed.social 36 points 4 days ago

Not dozens. Hundreds or thousands.

[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Jesus. The grief I feel for that poor girl and her family too, discovering her name here. Maxwell, Trump & the rest shouldn’t be going anywhere until all these kids are located.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 13 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately almost all of them are in places of control and they make rules with loopholes so they can protect themselves if they are ever discovered and now there is only one way to deal with them now.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

A few years ago, I mentioned that the prostitutes here in Seattle along Aurora Ave, seem about the right age as if they were trafficked during trump's first term. They were about 16 to 19 years old. It used to be that the prostitutes weren't that young seeming, maybe in their 20s and 30s? The trolling was swift. Not as heavy as if I mention how evil Roundup/Bayer/Monsanto is, but still it was quick.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

No justice will be seen so long as Donald Trump and his supporters continue to cover it all up.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Serious question: Why is it often said "this or that appears on the Epstein files" and not in what context or what specifically is said about "this or that" in the files? Is it that everything else is censored where these names are mentioned?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Was this "young woman" under 18 when she was taken?

[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Actually, not this time. I can only read the first part of the article due to paywalls, but she was 22 when she disappeared (probably she was still either abducted or brought into Epstein's network and then someone disappeared her, but I can't read far enough in the article to see the details about the mentions of her. Anyone here have a Spiegel subscription who's willing to share the relevant excerpts? Article here)

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[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well let's not forget the real problem for them is finding another way to do this and better.

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Trump knows

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