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the average person is actually too stupid to legitimately understand the epstein files
everyone knows epstein was a bad guy, so they immediately assume that literally anything in those emails has to be related to something bad. people are making massive leaps in logic to come to conclusions that are likely far worse than what is actually being displayed.
epstein is bad, obviously, we all know that, but the thing about villains in real life is that they are still people. epstein didn't have a mountain with a massive skull carved into it that exuded dark energy that could only be dispelled by he-man or some shit.
take example 1, for instance. i'm seeing people say that "140 - coney island" in this email is code for a 14 year old boy that epstein and his brother are talking about. no, it's literally just them talking about the invention of hot dogs on coney island 140 years ago. who the fuck knows why, but that's what it is. the link isn't some weird sinister shit, it's just a local news website that is still running to this day. unfortunately that specific article isn't on the wayback machine, but i'm pretty sure it's talking about hot dogs and coney island.
then you have example 2, where people see =9 and see it as referring to a 9 year old. if they have seen the other files, they'll know that the = sign shows up a lot as a substitute for other letters and numbers at random, likely due to some weird formatting error. this exact email is present in another location in the files with the formatting intact to show it is a 19 year old being talked about: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00659212.pdf
i'm beginning to wonder if these files really SHOULDN'T have been released. there's so much slop that can be so easily misinterpreted while there are other problems in the US and in the world in general that are more immediate threats to a massive amount of people. it all seems like a distraction and a lot of political theater. it'd be better if the DOJ could actually hunt these people down, charge them, and release the relevant documents for those cases to the public instead of just uncovering literally everything epstein ever did online.
@beardalaxy I get what you mean I mean you know that legendary quote.
All you need is 5 minutes with the average voter to hate democracy.
But at least from my point of view I guess this is a somewhat accelerationist technically.
It's accelerating people's hatred and stress of the system which will cause even more instability causing for irreparable change.
Because no matter what. If you shake the box enough there will be something drastic.
Currently every single system is collapsing in on itself due to sheer incompetence or extreme corruption that this entire thing just needs to fall to allow something new to be built for at least reconstructed in the shadow of its former failure.
@beardalaxy I would prefer the Chinese method. Which is to have a dynasty or world power collapse and then have the new vacuum filled / reclaiming the mandate of heaven by fixing what the previous system lacked that caused this initial collapse.
But sadly I don't think we're going to get something that clean which is why this is even more painful because us and our kids are probably going to live through the most drawn out the collapse seen in the world.
@Mr_NutterButter in my opinion, the US (and probably a lot of Europe as well) will most likely die a slow death as it is consumed by other countries and cultures. i think the only way we truly get out of that is if we get a bunch of people with actual power who no longer give a fuck about the rules and just go scorched earth, martyr style, to push it back another 100 years. maybe not quite another hitler, or even a vlad the impaler, but someone like them relative to the current political climate. someone who will be widely hated for crazy actions but will ultimately end up making our lives better. i thought trump was going to be that guy back in 2016 but he's proven himself to be kind of a pussy.
@beardalaxy yeah we can hope I mean I knew that Trump would be the better choice but I knew he would never actually do what he needed to do because I knew he was bought out.
And sadly I think that we are coming to a point where the Overton window will radically shift between extreme right and far left until something eventually gives.
It seems like the left wing broke the right wing for almost a hundred years ideologically and it looks like the right wing has been gathering its strength to come back and hit with as much forces humanly possible to destroy the left for what it did but we don't really know for certain if the right has a conviction to do so.
The world has become so complicated and with so many enticed interests that it's unpredictable what will actually happen. Only thing I can say is enjoy the ride!
@Mr_NutterButter it definitely is acceleration. though, if everything is bound to crumble, i would prefer that the replacement for the system is not this dumb.