• FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Who we’re looking for who:

    • Is rich (at least $100 mil)
    • Is implausibly rich considering his skills and career history
    • Is very well connected among the rich
    • Nobody wants to be publicly photographed with (Re: The mistakes they made with Epstein)
    • Definitely has a private jet
    • Lives close to were rich people tend to gather (New Zealand?)
    • Keeps a low profile

    If we’re going to find this guy, the first thing we need to do is figure out where all the world’s billionaires are hanging out.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Epstein didn’t keep a low profile. He was everywhere, taking pictures and glad-handing other plutocrats and showing up at events.

      Like, if anyone is on your short list, I would think it would be Elon Musk. Musk’s initial gambit was throwing a bunch of keggers at Stanford to make friends with the prior generation’s Silicon Valley failkids. That’s how he met Thiel and got into Paypal, made his first billion, and became an ahem Angel Investor for all sorts of glamour projects.

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    13 days ago

    Is there a systematic way to identify other Epsteins, based on what we know so far. In hindsight it was pretty obvious what he was doing.

    For example go over the n richest people in the world, create a social graph, and look for suspiciously central nodes, where it is unclear how they got their money (or that have suspicious connections to certain agencies).

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    Exactly, he was just a manager for one rape island that we know of. He was a product of a system that’s still humming along right now.

  • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    This is what happens in a culture where every success/failure is attributed to the individual and the systems in which individuals live go completely ignored.

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    Well yeah you can tell because we only saw a tiny sliver of his operation. We didn’t even get Wexner. Netanyahu was celebrating like he thought Ehud Barak got burned worse than him. Diddy wasn’t even in it so you know there are dozens of Epsteins. Clearly capital needs a way to bind together the self-interests of ruling class cliques and coordinate these ill-conceived illegal human research projects across different universities, even continents.

  • Azrael@reddthat.com
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    12 days ago

    I once heard an analogy which is applicable in this situation.

    “If people buy drugs from one dealer, and that dealer gets arrested and sent to prison, do all of their former customers just stop buying drugs?”

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    If anyone thinks Epstein was the first or the only guy doing what he was doing they’re a nitwit

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    12 days ago

    My theory was that this was a CIA operation that got out of hand … the rich pedophiles really REALLY started liking the setup.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      this was a CIA Mossad operation that got out of hand stupid and sloppy

      Pretty much the history of intelligence services in a nutshell.

      the rich pedophiles really REALLY started liking the setup

      I do kinda wonder what the final shoe to drop was. But my money is more on Epstein extorting more money/freedom than his handlers believed he was entitled to.

      The fact that Trump took over in 2017 and Epstein was arrested/murdered a few years later suggests - to me, at least - that he maybe called up his old friend and started making a few too many insistent demands. And it occurred to Trump (or someone in his immediate vicinity) that it would be easier to just arrest this guy and wack him than keep paying him off forever.

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        12 days ago

        Yea, two things are certain; Trump is a rapist or murderer Trump got caught by someone and is/was being blackmailed