It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn't evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn't damning by itself.

Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.

Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.

Context is important, and that's why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.

James Randi is still clean. Still my hero.

For reference,

Yeah even my autistic ass can tell this is close to a hostage situation.

Imagine if Trump, Clinton, Gates and all the other high profile people implicated in this actually got arrested. It wouldn't just change the nation, probably change the world given who all had dealings with Epstein.

billionaires never see justice

It’s because they have successfully convinced the majority of this country that having money makes you a better person.

Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes. It's rare but it does happen.

Yeah, they said that in the antitrust trial in the 90s.

How could anyone possible equate these things? All that happens in antitrust is your business is split up. This is a whole other thing.

it's the tense closed body language, it looks very much like an "i do not fucking want to be here or near this person, i am trying to cover my private areas inconspicuously, do not fucking touch me"

As a male, I don't understand how can you fuck a person who doesn't want it, who feels uncomfortable around you, let alone is underage.

it explains why he switched to reinventing his image with "philantrophy" decades ago, and how some of it has been disengenious.

Which suggests Epstein never actually read the novel to completion.

That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don't feel dirty while reading it.

English wasn't even Nabokov's first language! That's insane!

The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Lolita is an (in)famous novel about a man's obsessive sexual attraction to a prepubescent girl. It's supposedly well written, but the content is abhorrent.

Yeah, "his sentence". If you can even call it that.

According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”

Ha. Try getting a job with a felony on your record, asshole.

He's pretending to not know anything because he doesn't want to "commit suicide" in prison if the billionaire pedos think he's gonna testify against them.

Right? *He plead guilty to prostituting minors. *

He was a convicted sex offender. The literal opposite of a clean slate. They put everyone who does it on a dirty slate, permanently.

I've never been a fan. He strikes me as being more liberal than he wants people to believe.

Think this one was another drop, pretty sure I've seen it floating around already.

Looks like a Hall effect explanation

The name of the person delivering the lecture is Mikhail Gromov