alt Hacker NewsThere's a very strange problem with this whole thing where, of course, whatever these powerful people have done behind closed doors that is illegal and exploitative and harmful is terrible and they should be put to justice.
However, if the direction of the country is being seriously altered via blackmail, IMO that is many orders of magnitude worse than anything they could have done. Like we are currently bombing yet another middle eastern country for no clear reason.
I would personally be open to some kind of Epstein jubilee where we absolve everyone involved in order to nullify the blackmail.
Like it's not great, it's terrible for the victims and for justice, but at the moment we are getting terrible from both ends, could we at least reduce it to one end?
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If their actions have made this level of blackmail possible, then said actions are the worse thing because that's what made this scale of blackmail possible.
Their actions are the foundation for everything that came after.
You don’t need a jubilee. At this point Trump could release a video of himself eating a crying baby and his supporters simply will ignore it.
We always talk about what these powerful people "have done", as if it's all over. Surely Epstein's death did not bring about the end of billionaire sex trafficking? Someone stepped in. These guys are still raping people on private planes and private islands
That creates a far worse problem down the line because they will just do it again, more publicly.
Really the rot set in with the pardons of Nixon and Oliver North.