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      Nobody ever bothers to clarify if “tanks on the streets” is a prediction or a threat…

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    Epstein was a major fundraiser for the Democratic party. Trump is the head of the Republican party. And it’s a two party system.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Bill_Clinton_and_Jeffrey_Epstein

        Epstein’s interactions with Clinton can be traced to the early 1990s. After donating $1,000 to Bill Clinton’s presidential election campaign in 1991, Epstein donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association in 1993 and, accompanied by Maxwell, attended a donors’ reception hosted by President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.

        Clinton and Epstein appeared to be on friendly terms; a photo from 2002 shows them together during a stop in Brunei, and in an interview that year Clinton praised Epstein as a “highly successful financier” and “a committed philanthropist”.

        According to one of his lawyers, Epstein was “part of the original group” that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, a flagship program of Clinton’s philanthropic work. This relationship extended to Maxwell as well – she and Epstein were invited guests at events early in the Clinton Foundation era, and Maxwell was noted as the likely social “glue” connecting Epstein to Clinton’s world.

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    Am I the only person that doesn’t care about this? The age of consent in most other countries is 14/15 anyway. Even in the US there are states where what they did wouldn’t be a crime. I’d rather the government focus on real issues like student loan debt forgiveness and the unemployment crisis.

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      Is this just trolling or do you not really comprehend the horrors of sex trafficking anyone, let alone these minor victims?

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        They are just a shocking number of pedophile apologists on Lemmy. When they come out they come out strong. Unfortunately that comment is not a surprise to me in the least.

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      Gonna ignore your little pedophile red flags, but just wanted to say you DO know that those are different departments right? The FBI going after these people would have zero effect on unemployment or debt forgiveness.

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        Yeah but the media circus around this issue takes away from time we could be spent focusing on issues that I’m interested in talking about.

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          That YOU are interested in? Well fuck all the victims I guess, random Internet guy isn’t “interested”

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      Do you even know the meaning of consent? Age aside, trafficked people are not consenting. It’s called rape.

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      Age of consent in some places can be low, but then it carries a stipulation of the number of years older the other party can be. I.e. at 14 a person could consent to somebody 2 years older, but not 3 etc.

      Traffic children’s across state lines or countries for sex is also a crime.

      In the unredacted version of the redacted files, epstein was also being charged with threatening victims if they spoke of it.