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    Good god everything is connected to this guy. Like that tik tok skit that plays on these kind of groups where the guy is saying everyone is connected but he’s sick of thinking about it, that his idol winnie the poo isn’t going to be an epstein pal, then it flashes to a picture of them together smiling and he’s like “dammit.”

    I’m paraphrasing, but it’s true, seemingly nothing in the east coast power brokers and masters of the universe were unconnected to this guy. It’s also worth mentioning that even epstein, career pimp of underage girls, (and boys?,) to honeypot influential people for Israeli intelligence thought the president was a piece of shit with no endearing qualities. Although one of many other traits epstein and the president share, are their penchent for keeping troves of blackmail, and a hatred of dogs. Think about that last one. What kind of person hates dogs? A piece of fucking shit.

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    Motherfucker is really such a blight upon the world.

    In another time his fucking head would have been on a pike and shown to the world as is being consumed by ravenous crows.

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    next thing you know they’re going to reveal that Epstein was the one that suggested paying for horse armor in Oblivion.

    Hell he probably put a hit out on Harambe too.

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    I think the lesson here is that the billionaire club is pretty small and EXCLUSIVELY filled with human pieces of shit, which probably isn’t a surprise to anyone.

    Imagine waking up 10 million dollars and not being able to think of anything better to do than try to make 100 times more than that. Normal humans stopped making money LONG before they get to this point.

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    Kotick Appears In The Epstein Files Over 300 Times

    surprising no one. fucking bastard

    EDIT : OH FOR FUCKS SAKE THE GREASY PIG

    This isn’t the only appearance of Kotick in the files either. If you search for his surname on the DOJ website, there are over 300 results, and he appeared to be close enough to Epstein that he was even invited to his island in 2012.

    “Very nice of you to offer,” Kotick responded. “I don’t think it is going to work with the schedule. It was fun being with you and your team of experts.”

    You’d think we’d catch this fucking rat bastard literally with his pants down in the fucking epstein files, but he was LITERALLY only in it because he’s a grubby money hungry goblin?!

    EDIT2 : Gottem

    However, when Epstein mentioned in a 2013 email that he and “the girls” would be seeing Elon Musk at SpaceX, and that he would be “taking [the] girls after to Bel Air”, Kotick responded, “Let me know what time.”

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    Next we’ll hear that Jeffrey Epstein was personally responsible for the Fyre Festival

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      He’s going to be a byword for “an unfathomably evil guy” soon, if he isn’t already. I would’ve thought “Trump” would be the 21st Century’s version of “Hitler,” but it honestly might turn out to be “Epstein.”

      Ah, there’s room enough in the lexicon for both. All three, even.

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        The president is even more of a piece of shit than epstein measured by character and perhaps by the arithmetic of the sum of harm caused. Epstein himself said the president had no redeeming qualities talking to that virgin islands representative in the house (observer status, no vote, he had major properties and monies there.)

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          By volume of harm, yes. But by character? I’m not so sure. Trump does whatever he wants, and doesn’t realize that what he does is awful. He often has to be reminded to hide his crimes. But Epstein knew that what he was doing made him one of the worst people to have ever existed, and did it anyway; even hiding it all away on an island to keep it under wraps. His was a calculated evil. Trump is just a selfish agent of chaos by comparison.

          I guess what I’m saying is that Trump doesn’t seem smart enough to have character as bad as Epstein did.

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            Yeah that’s true maybe, also a lot of the harm from the now president is due to his being blackmailed by epstein, their wonderful secrets are rather widely known now.

            Yeah there are perhaps people worse if a true accounting was done, in volume of harm. Putin I think even with our knowlege deserves the lion’s share. It’s because of him the president got in. Now I know the establishment democrats, whom I hate, use that as an excuse for losing to the biggest asshole in the country, but Putin did really help get him over the finish line, and worked on all western countries with the best fascist option they have. And now the US is in on helping subvert western democracy.

            So I would put him at least above the president in total harm. In character there are those worse as well, netanyahu and his faction, all sorts of business and religious leaders. The president is about himself, and he’s off his rocker. He is being led around by the hand by the party now. But he still is, and always was, one of the worst people by character in the world.

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        He’s going to be a byword for “an unfathomably evil guy” soon, if he isn’t already. I would’ve thought “Trump” would be the 21st Century’s version of “Hitler,” but it honestly might turn out to be “Epstein.”

        there’s plenty of Nazis to pick for to draw parallels, Goebbels, Mengele, etc.

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    I’m quite convinced that everyone with nine digits of wealth to their name is in there. Probably a lot of people with eight and seven.

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      The word really got around in the world of the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and they all came running.

      They’ve got all this money, and they can’t figure out what to do with it, so paying for sex with little girls, and then blackmail payments, seems like a better use of their money than helping struggling citizens.

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        White slavery, we thought it went out of style generations passed. But the rich are into the classics I guess.

        Their companies of course practice all sorts of slavery in East and South Asia, from palm oil plantations, to arguably the massive factories producing everything from electronics to clothing. Not Chatelle slavery necessarily although with palm oil it is pretty close. But it amounts to the same thing, people worked to the bone with no protections, no safety, for starvation wages, while being abused every which way by the authorities.

        These people owning these corporations have maximized revenue to the point of ruining liberal democracy and shipped our technological advantages and advantages in being first in manufacturing to dictatorships overseas to make more profit on selling goods in the west with their highly valued currencies. Building their factories even, after signing 99 year leases in places like china, giving them a veritable veto on western leaders beholden to corporations.

        Exploiting their workers, poisoning their land, and selling out the middle class in the west and furthering a race to the bottom to bring our standards down to those dictatorships not those up to ours.

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      The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are not our enemies and many are a few months away from losing much of their wealth if they were to lose their career.

      Edit: I can’t count in my head apparently. I’m a moron

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        Millionaires think they’re as good as billionaires, even if the billionaires look down on them, and they act accordingly, and will take the side of the billionaires EVERY time, so Yes, millionaires are still the enemy.

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          It really depends on the person, and how that wealth is calculated. Property is so overvalued that a good share of homeowners are millionaires even without much income, so it throws off the accounting. But I agree most people making a couple hundred thousand a year are likely to identify with selfish interests and side with the billionaires.

          Not all even if perhaps most.

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        $2,000,000 : I can live a great life, and if I’m frugal don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to

        $1,000,000,000 : I literally could not spend all this money on physical possessions if I tried, so the only thing left I can spend it on is owning and controlling other people

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              They are sick in the head, and I’ve been talking about it a lot.

              These people have uncontrolled, unmedicated OCD that manifests as Financial Hoarding. They have more money than either they, or all of their descendants could ever spend, and yet they are driven to hoard more, even as it endangers the existence of the nation and economic system that made them so wealthy.

              If someone hoarded hundreds of cats, or rusty cars, or old newspapers, or empty bottles, etc., to the point where it is damaging the entire neighborhood, the authorities would step in, get them help, and clean up the mess.

              But with Financial Hoarders, society praises them as successful businesspeople, and encourages them to do more. Often, the government even gives them more money that they don’t need, even as it literally hurts every other citizen.

              We have to recalibrate how we view these people. They are not business leaders and role models, they are severely mentally ill people who are destroying America, and the World, with their narcissistic and wholly unrealistic demands. We do not have to indulge them, and in fact, we need to stop them immediately, and remove the wealth that is driving their mental illness.

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            Or you can spend it on corrupting society, which can help make you more money. Which brings us to the favorite use of money of billionaires, using the money to make more money!
            Because whomever has more wins.

            You can buy politicians, can buy (more of a complicated tiered leasing situation with politicians and their appointees and agency leaders,) agency heads, appoint a former lobbyist for your companies’ trade groups to lead the enforcement of regulations on your company. Buy studies saying something unsafe is safe, starting with cynical science outfits paid to start at safe and design the study to get there. Then pay to get it published and supported, then pay to lobby, pay to get politicians and their appointees to pretend to believe it. Pay the courts and their proxies, (I’m sure this is a lot worse than we think, not just Clarence Thomas style either,) and then rules are changed, or not enforced, and you make more money than you spent corrupting everything.

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        And this was almost 30 years ago! Oh god, I just realized that next year as much time will have passed between when Austin was frozen and the movie as between the movie and now.

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    JFC. I’m getting to the point that Epstein had his hands in so much I might join the god damned tankies here in a minute.

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      Ol’ Jeffy wanted to help Russia “leapfrog the global community by reinventing the financial system of the 21st century.” 🤔

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        Banks were developed way way before the 1600’s in venice this guy is off his rocker.

        I don’t even know all the details, but the ancient romans and greeks had extensive lending. The middle east had lending. Islam basically outlawed usury when it took off too. As did the catholic church. The knights templar were given an exemption on lending to fund the crusades, etc. To call those anything other than banks is semantics.

        But even just the term banks, existed from at least the genoese that predated the 1600s considerably. Not just moneylending they have actual banks called banks.

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        So Epstein re-created 4Chan’s /pol/ board, moderated a reddit sub, and now we can conclude he was Satoshi Nakamoto.

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      Epstein told [Larry] Summers in the alleged email, “Recall ive told you, – i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body… so yes- dangerous,” according to ABC News.

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    Not too take away any of epstein’s shittiness, but I’d bet bobby and the board would have already thought up mtx by 2012.