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[–] [S] 159 points 10 months ago (36 children)
  • [–] 99 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    "young, nubile, girls" jfc throw these creeps in a volcano

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  • [+] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I propose Blót. Hanged speared then we feast, but not on the corpse that's for Odin.

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  • [+] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's a pretty old term so it technically has three different pronunciations bloot like blood, blot like to to blot out the sun, and blut like blunt without the n. Though you'd have to ask someone who is a bit more familiar with medieval Germanic languages.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    Like I said yesterday: "once it's on the internet, it's there forever"

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  • [–] [S] 46 points 10 months ago* (11 children)

    It's remarkable how quickly the pages that publish things like this or the 60 Minutes CECOT segment disappear. Putting it on the fediverse will hopefully protect it from being suppressed. Torrents are important too.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It's all over the place, now. My lemmy feed is full of news stories about it.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Most of my coworkers have not even heard about it. Even less looked for it. It may be everywhere on lemmy but lemmy is very little known in the real world.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    This letter came to light in 2023. They've managed to keep it quiet for 2 years.

    Now it's time to blow this up. This should be the first story on every evening newscast to tonight.

    But it won't be, especially CBS. I'd be surprised if it even gets mentioned anywhere on TV.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    My guess is a 'turncoat' in the DoJ 'accidentally' let this one, and other similar ones, slip through. Or they're all just fucking incompetent. Take your pick.

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    So the same 'grab them by the pussy' that Trump was caught on tape bragging about, but more clear who is was talking about.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, this only reinforces Trump's own admission. The "grab'em by the pussy" comment seemed like immature hyperbole, but with this letter, now it seems like grabbing a woman's crotch is his signature move.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Does "short route" home here mean suicide or blackmail? God this shit never clarifies anything but it definitely incriminates Trump.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    The use of the word "home" throws me off. If he said "out" I'd figure it was suicide but home is like "does epstein believe in some kind of afterlife?" Idk its weird. I almost wonder if there was a scheme to bust him out of prison but it turned into murdering him.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    He's speaking in metaphor, which he seems to like doing often because, like his dumb pedophile cohort, he thinks he's the Riddler or something.

    He doesn't need to actually believe in an afterlife to reference one.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    like his dumb pedophile cohort, he thinks he’s the Riddler or something

    No, Trump is just too stupid to utter coherent sentences.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Why does it start on the right then move to the left? Is this manga? Lol

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    It looks like the back of a postcard. Maybe the prison only allows postcards so they can read everyone's mail? Seems like the kind of thing US prisons might do.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Are you supposed to write postcards backwards though? I would have filled it out left to right

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 10 months ago*

    On closer inspection the line down the middle is a bit wobbly and there are faint outlines around the pages. I think someone just scanned the envelope and pages and assembled them in the wrong order.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago

    As much as they have done horrendous shit, I don't believe for one second that this letter is real / authored by said monster. No one will spend their last words focusing one some narcissistic fuckwit. Especially not another narcissist / psychopath.

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  • [–] 103 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    "As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential

    Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein"

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  • [–] 94 points 10 months ago (17 children)

    I will never understand how people could be this rich and do stupid shit like this.

    With all that money, you could go find the love of your life, travel the world with them, pay for all the mental and healthcare you need, be fit and live the rest of your life happily with your soulmate AND still even have the capacity to help others if you so desire.

    But instead they do this shit. I hate reality.

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  • [–] 97 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    We live in a system where, to become that rich, you must be evil.

    That's all.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    You can become a multi-millionaire through honest hard work and responsibility. There are plenty of multi-millionaires who live the lifestyle you describe.

    You can't really become a billionaire that way. You become a billionaire by being a greedy, manipulative narcissist, obsessed with wealth and power. That's who you see doing this shit.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    The people with all that money are the people so narrowly obsessed with money and/or the power money brings that they have dedicated their whole lives to taking it from others. Effectively that means only sociopaths who enjoy abusing others become that wealthy. People with more meaningful purpose in their lives, or who genuinely care for others, don't become billionaires.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    They have OCD, which manifests itself as financial hoarding. If they were hoarding rusty cars on their property, or hundreds of cars, the authorities would step in, and end it.

    But if it's money, then they are loaded as successful businesspeople, and strongly encouraged to expand their hoarding behavior.

    Confiscate their stolen hoard, and get them help for their mental illnesses.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    Did you just make that up? Has a nice ring to it!

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Hahaha no I cannot take credit for that one, that's from an old British historian from the late 1800s

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Lord Acton. He was a Liberal Party bigwig (the Liberals were the pro-capitalist party, opposing the pro-aristocracy Conservatives-- the modern US definition of liberalism has little to do with their policies). The quote is from 1887.

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  • [–] 58 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    This article implies he was writing incriminating letters from jail, prior to choosing to kill himself. And there's never a hint of self-awareness at the atrocious pain and harm he caused, just a constant entitlement to all women.

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Assuming it's genuine, it also shows he considered himself a victim of unfair treatment right to the end. Unless it's also a hint that the suicide was not of his own choosing, but that's getting pretty speculative.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Yeah theres already a lot of speculation and assumptions; I really don't want to add to the scuttlebutt, but those were my first thoughts on reading the letter and figuring out when it was sent and where from. Let's not mimic the QAnon approach though.

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  • [–] 56 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    So far while poking around in certain places just to see what other reactions are floating around out there are, I've seen:

    "Who created this AI slop?"

    "Written by someone from MSM for clicks."

    "Why didn't Biden release this, clearly fake."

    "This is worse than the fake birthday card."

    "Clearly not related to Trump, but instead Clinton."

    Intense cope is how I see it. Could it be fake? Maybe. I try to draw upon the things that have been said in the past, actions clearly on record/tape, literal confessions that are public from years ago, real-time goal post moving, and delection attempts.

    Innocent people don't usually jump through so many hoops.

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago

    "Why didn't Biden release this, clearly fake."

    Apparently, this was first released in 2023, during the Biden administration, and just sat there. Perhaps the media deserves some blame for not doing their jobs, as usual.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    “Who created this AI slop?”

    Ah, yes, clearly AI handwriting

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    They constantly repeat shit without really understanding it, a lot like parrots. They obviously don't know how to actually identify AI slop.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Correct, but we are seeing that they will use it as a convenient go-to excuse for EVERYTHING.

    It also means that since they are so sure that Libz are producing AI slop to tar & feather them, they'll rationalize that they have the right to use it in return, except their AI really will be slop, because they're collectively too virtuosically stupid and incompetent to do anything correctly.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    None of us will know the difference between "AI Slop" and the truth within a year.

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  • [–] 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    This is what bothered me the most about the "just a distraction from the Epstein files" thing. I mean more proof is never bad, but do you really need more than the "grab her by the pussy" quote to know he is a rapist?

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    This letter was written immediately before his suicide, and acknowledges his plan to do it. That makes this a deathbed confession, and they should hang Trump with it.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Where's the story? All I see is a comment section?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    “It might be the beginning of the end for the big man honestly,”

    I'd rather skip to the end of him personally. I can't wait to say "remember when Trump was alive?".

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    They've been around for a while now...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Interesting. But don't hope for anything to come of it and you won't be disappointed. I've given up hoping for that asshole to get his.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago

    It’s from RawStory, so I wouldn’t give it much credit.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    It has been said in other comments better but it is unlikely to be really from Epstein for several reasons.

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    Is that based on anything? The journalism I read said it was postmarked after he died and didn't look like it came from the jail at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, mail routes through screening centers when it is sent in prison, the postage indicates it was intercepted by the FBI.

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