Several of the leaders of peak New Atheism reared their decrepit heads throughout The Files.
Virginia Giuffre. Her book is very sad.He wasn't a survivor (I hate that term). He is the brother of the victim who committed suicide.and at least one was male.
Several of the leaders of peak New Atheism reared their decrepit heads throughout The Files.
"She has dyed hair which means everything she says is wrong" -right wingers probably.
The release of an enormous cache of files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein might have been expected to quell conspiracy theories about his crimes and the government’s knowledge of them. Instead, it is spawning a generation of new ones.
Conspiracy theorists, foreign influence operatives and trolls armed with artificial intelligence are seizing on the millions of haphazardly redactedmaterials, released last month, to cobble together new, speculative stories.
One debunked claim, concocted using emails and receipts, suggested that Mr. Epstein was alive and playing video games in Israel. (He died by what the authorities said was suicide in 2019.)
A series of social media posts that emanated from China tried to connect the Dalai Lama with Mr. Epstein, based on emails in which Mr. Epstein discussed attempts to set up dinner with the exiled Buddhist leader. In a statement, the Dalai Lama’s office said it was “unequivocally” untrue that the two had ever met or agreed to interact.
Others are duping people with hoaxes on social media, where reality is easily masked or mimicked. While the files contain photos and videos of Mr. Epstein with children, fake ones that were altered or generated using A.I. are also spreading. So are spoof emails, made to look like those in the cache.
Usually, conspiracy theories feed on an absence of information, not a glut. But the Justice Department’s release of more than three million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images has done little to smother baseless speculation or fabrication.
The trove — and the ease of access to it — has made Mr. Epstein even more of a target for both the tinfoil hat contingent and the armchair true-crime aficionados. The files lay out evidence of real abuses, which only drives online sleuths to search for more.
“These disclosures are being taken to be evidence that something even larger remains concealed,” said Jenny Rice, a digital studies professor at the University of Kentucky. “It’s like proof that there’s more proof somewhere else. It means there’s a gap that remains for the narratives to grow bigger and escalate.”
On the right, high-profile accounts including former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Tucker Carlson’s shared a wide variety of unproven conspiracy theories, including speculation about code words for pedophilia and cannibalism, Mr. Epstein’s death and Mr. Trump’s purported role in “taking down” Mr. Epstein.
Left-leaning accounts circulated different theories, often accusing the Trump administration of having a hand in Mr. Epstein’s death or of covering up his misdeeds to protect the president. The left-leaning users who amplified conspiracy theories were generally less prominent than the right-leaning accounts that did the same. Ms. Greene and Mr. Carlson did not respond to requests for comment.
The cache itself is unreliable; the Justice Department noted that it “may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos.”
Several of the leaders of peak New Atheism reared their decrepit heads throughout The Files.
You don’t trust Kash Patel, who already said under oath that there was no evidence that any girls were trafficked to anyone other than Epstein?
No--I think most of them consider it liberal lies. Hearing the facts doesn't make them believe the facts.I find it so difficult to think that anyone on the MAGA side who has heard these facts is anything but a predator themselves.I'm pretty sure they did to scare and intimidate these women. Fucking assholes who released this data. We all know by now that Trump was involved in what went on on Epstein's island. It's as obvious as the ugly nose on his ugly face. It needs to be investigated to the point where even the stupidest MAGA wises up and realized that voted for a sexual predator, as if it wasn't obvious already when over 20 adult women claimed he had sexually assaulted them. Fuck.Holy crap!! They revealed the names and addresses of many of the victims (one who have never revealed herself publicly) which they were barred from doing but redacted the names of Epstein's co-conspirators to be indicted.![]()
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That's the thing... The evidence is just so damning that the only patterns by which the human mind can really reject that it is in the presence of the same apologetics that spew endlessly from the mouths of predators.No--I think most of them consider it liberal lies. Hearing the facts doesn't make them believe the facts.I find it so difficult to think that anyone on the MAGA side who has heard these facts is anything but a predator themselves.I'm pretty sure they did to scare and intimidate these women. Fucking assholes who released this data. We all know by now that Trump was involved in what went on on Epstein's island. It's as obvious as the ugly nose on his ugly face. It needs to be investigated to the point where even the stupidest MAGA wises up and realized that voted for a sexual predator, as if it wasn't obvious already when over 20 adult women claimed he had sexually assaulted them. Fuck.Holy crap!! They revealed the names and addresses of many of the victims (one who have never revealed herself publicly) which they were barred from doing but redacted the names of Epstein's co-conspirators to be indicted.![]()
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Makes perfectly good sense--they searched for names they wanted to remove, they didn't actually inspect the documents.For the life of me I cannot comprehend why you would leave in the names of women (victims or not) and redact the men's unless you are willing to multiply the pain and shame of victims.
I think all of that is reasonable sequitur to what we already know for sure. Dead girls tell no tales.Now there's rumors of snuff and torture videos. One of the Arab clients sent a message that he really like the torture video.
That is asking someone to sacrifice themselves to take out a bad guy. In general I would not expect that of people.Why is allowing a person guilty of trafficking little girls to be raped by the likes of Trump to survive meeting you a sign of your guilt, you ask?Why?To be fair, being in the same room as Epstein while knowing who he is and him exiting the room alive is, I think, "guilt".
Is that seriously even a question?
I'm just sad that whoever bit apparently didn't bite hard enough.
Need cadaver dogs at all of Epstein's properties.I think all of that is reasonable sequitur to what we already know for sure. Dead girls tell no tales.Now there's rumors of snuff and torture videos. One of the Arab clients sent a message that he really like the torture video.