I am sure if it was some 9-5s name in that file they would have been executed by now .

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    Fifty years ago, it would be because a trial takes time. A trial this big, with repercussions this big and a defendant list this large, will take months or even years to play out.

    Fifteen years ago, it would be because, with people this rich who have this much money to pay the best lawyers, the pre-trial work needed to get the prosecution started takes a huge amount of time to do right, because any attempt to speed it up in a way that isn’t very, very careful, with every i dotted and every t crossed, could end up in a mistrial and the person walking free.

    Five years ago, it would be because the DOJ was absolutely mortified by the fear of being “politically motivated.”

    But right now, it’s because the DOJ is explicitly no longer independent, and the guy in charge of it doesn’t want anyone listed in the files to be prosecuted because he’s in there, and if anyone gets prosecuted, he has to be.

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    Rich people basically own the police. The police main purpose in capitalism is to uphold class separation, not serve for what is lawful or right.

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      People prepend to care about children but violate them in every other way, I dont see what makes such people think its okay

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        Correction #1: rich assholes don’t care.

        Correction #2: rich assholes already diddle their own kids.

        As for the rest of us, we are decent human beings.

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          Are we? The rest of us I mean. I think the first comment was accurate, we as a society clearly don’t care. I’ve seen it personally. I’ve seen an entire church congregation close ranks and shun the families of children molested by a pastor. Countless people have similar experiences. Churches, schools, Family patriarchs, athletes, and so many more. This is not something only done by the rich.

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    Jail is for us little ant people, as a threat to keep us working at the Line Go Up factory so our overlords can keep hunting Malaysian 9 year olds for sport

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        it’s depressing to watch the smear campaign about being a russian spy take hold

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          Agreed, and furthermore, it shouldn’t matter at all. If the worst Russian Intelligence can do is use real evidence to prove a crime was committed, that’s an easily solvable problem both by not committing crimes and by prosecuting crimes committed with transparent, due process.

          It really is a very silly argument.

          “Your honor, in my defense, the guy who saw me shoot the victim, called the police, and submitted some of the damning evidence to them was a known mafia member, untrustworthy, and had committed crimes against me in the past.”

          “Okay, and what do you have to say about all of this other corroborated evidence from trustworthy sources?”

          “Well they wouldn’t have found it if he hadn’t pointed it out!”

          I don’t think he was a Russian spy, but I am also sure that it’s irrelevant.

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          It’s only believed by the same people that already that he was a traitor to the USA and should be in prison. The people that rightfully consider him a hero haven’t changed their beliefs

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      it goes beyond that.

      yes, it’s true that the rich got off free for doing the crimes that poor people get punished for in our legal system; but pedophilia carries a social stigma with it that other crimes don’t have and these people were so confidant that the our legal system was going to protect them that they were being open about their pedophilia … on gmail!!!

      they’re so mustache-twirly evil that they’re making comments about newborns tasting like cream cheese.

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        Remember the quote:

        “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

        Well, “If MAGAs become convinced their leaders are pedophiles, they won’t abandon their leaders, they’ll abandon being anti-pedophilia.”

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          It’s also so much worse that this too.

          The Epstein illuminati reveled in their ability to control maga and “lesser evil” liberals and they’re doing it again by convincing the world that Russia is somehow responsible for a mossad operation.

          Now we have it in writing that liberals are just as manipulateable as conservatives and both are doing what this illuminati wants them to do.

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      So aren’t you going to do anything about it? Do you have kids ? What if a Rich does something bad to your kid. Would you just say oh they are rich so can’t do anything about it.

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        I understand how you feel. I’m also extremely mad at all of this. And how these sick evil fucks have been completely manipulating the world and our lives and making us all miserable at the same time.

        There are simply no words to describe how fucked up this all is. I would love to see all these people get what they deserve: years of torture and pain and a slow agonizing death.

        This need a worldwide level revolution but we’re all so stuck in this capitalist system trying to survive it’s near impossible to do.

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        The average person doesn’t have power to put someone in jail. That’s what the courts are for, and lawmakers care far more about money than doing right for the American people.

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    Because laws are made by the rich for the rich?

    Think about all the laws which have monetary punishment. For someone with enough money it’s a license to not comply with these laws.

    In most places the monetary punishment goes equal to everyone not caring if they have no money or they are billionaires.

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      true, but they knew that the law would protect them since they did it out in the open

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          plans exist and we’re culturally conditioned to disregard the ones that have been proven to be effective in history.

          but, at a minimum, any other plan going forward must start with doing the opposite of what the epstein illuminati want us to do.

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              the epstein files suggests that there are multiple Illuminati rings so you would need a perpetual source of luigi’s to make permanent/lasting change to western society.

              the epstein illuminati reveled in their ability to manipulate maga through 4chan and we know that maxwell was a reddit mod who likely controlled the narrative for “lesser evil” liberals and these decades long mass social engineering efforts ended up creating at least 2 luigi’s so i’m not confident any mario party wouldn’t be able to make a dent on the human condition right now.

              you would need french revolution levels of unhappiness. that won’t happen anytime soon because the treats combined with the breach and circuses are effectively distracting the american people from realizing fucked up things are in our LITERALLY satan-worshipping pedo controlled world.

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    The simple answer is it’s because western liberal regimes are not democracies. A system where you have one set of laws for regular people, and another for the affluent is a plutocracy.

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    Is your liberalism no longer making sense? Lofty promises of justice for all, equality and all that turning out to be a big farce with those at the top openly doing the most horrendous crimes and just getting away with them in a way that leaves you seething and wondering ‘what about justice’?

    Try old time original Marxism (fortified with Leninism for clarity and taste) today!

    Turns out that stuff they were talking about a hundred years ago is still true today and the old brand promise still holds true!

    Not ready to check out just yet? Still nervous about Marxism? That’s alright. As economic conditions worsen, your buying power lessens, and you’re given the shaft in the work-place and an empty wallet at the grocery and/or electronics store you can always remember this fine product and revisit when you’re ready!

    When all other solutions have failed, when liberal and social democrat reform turns out to be a dud, remember there’s original strength Marxism (fortified with Leninism). We’ll be waiting for you.

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      i like mine with a dash of bolivarianism and a spoon full of indigenismo and it keeps me from doom scrolling all the time. lol

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    The level of “endogamy” within the rich and powerful is definitely slowing things up. We have strong evidence that these people are all at least acquaintance if not friends. It may not be great for your career to investigate/prosecute top level politicians and billionaires. Actually the positive of the documents release is that people see it.

    Then a big factor is that being invited to a party where children have been rape doesn’t prove you partake to the rapes or even have been aware of it.

    Finally, money means that you can afford a lawyer slowing things down by writing various requests to the court. Your lawyer will tell you to save your money and do the necessarà/efficient one. But for people with virtually infinite money, a team of lawyer can slow down the things

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        i’m financially illiterate; does this mean that the dollar is losing strength against the peso?

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          Yeah. If you want to go visit Mexico as an American, or to buy goods from Mexico, it now takes ~20% more dollars to get the same amount of stuff. Most Americans haven’t noticed because the numbers on their investment accounts keep going up (or they don’t have investment accounts), but we are significantly poorer now than we were a year ago because even if you have more dollars (and many people do not), the interest you’ve gotten on your portfolio is less than the larger amount of dollars required to obtain goods and services from abroad.

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            i plan on retiring there.

            i guess this means that i have to make alternate plans. lol