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No, The Epstein Files Are Not Proof That The Pizzagate/QAnon People Were Right All Along Please, do not let us become these people.

conspiratorial thinking and speculation without evidence has GOT to stop. please go read fiction to scratch the itch. conspiracy theory lovers have a deep seated need to feel special. please work on that in some other constructive way. www.wonkette.com/p/no-the-eps...

That's less believable than "squibs and fake blood to make Trump seem like a big man."

You have to take a more extreme conspiratorial position, that they both paid someone to shoot real bullets at the rally, and that they intentionally or negligently killed a man there.

I think people mostly just forget an audience member died when they start theorizing conspiratorially about that day. Once you include that fact, you can no longer argue "no one even shot at the stage."

These people are doing plenty of heinous crimes against humanity shit with evidence, we don't need to spend brain time on speculative fuckery, is what I'm saying.

Ok whatever let's not devolve into a semantic morass here. My point is I don't think even these ghouls would kill one of their own supporters at a rally for a photo op, and I don't think they'd risk something going wrong with a paid shooter firing bullets at their cult leader either.

A man in the crowd was shot and killed. I find it somewhat hard to believe that was faked.

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share.

Who's with me?

(I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

Dinosaurs with incoming comet. One dinosaur shouts, "Oh shit! The economy!!"

I want names. I want fucking NAMES of the miserable cruel people who picked him up, surely abused him in custody, and later abandoned him. May they never know peace for the things they have done.

This says it so much better than me, tbh www.instagram.com/p/DSdgT6ekiuc/

Genuine question for pro-AI people: what DO you want to do with your life? Because it sounds like you don't actually want to do anything that requires effort, ever, and I think you need to consider that you are clinically depressed.

If you're a man feeling pretty high and mighty that you're not as bad as Epstein or Trump I need you to take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if you objectify women. At all. And if you do, work on it, because it's not as dissimilar to what they did as you think it is.

Meme of an old Game of Thrones promo poster that says "All men must die" with the Kool-Aid man crashing in saying "not all men"

Still one of my favorites from the original run of Not All Men

A lot of the elite consensus around Epstein (which will likely be most legible in opinion essays) will of course boil down to the idea that no one should be held responsible for the systemic sexual abuse of women and girls. That was also the elite consensus around MeToo, enforced through pop culture

In the Epstein story, the rape and trafficking of girls has been made into a metaphor for the economic exploitation by the elites of the American people. But there’s also actual rape involved, and it’s not a metaphor.

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

They aren't sorry, but I am. I'm really sorry.

Does he still have eighty bazillion dollars? Why does he still have eighty bazillion dollars? Would he like to pay that money to the victims? Or a women's organization? Or his ex-wife? No? Then shut the fuck up, Bill Gates.

This is where I YET AGAIN encourage people, especially creators, to have, develop and actively maintain their own websites where people can find you, away from the social media sites you don't own and/or can't control and/or whose discoverability algorithms are at the whim of billionaire weirdos.

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

what's a surprisingly good movie by this metric? (what's a movie you don't remember has horses in it?)

We're changing the way that some first-class mail is handled to fix kinks in the logistics chain. USPS treats mail-in ballots the same way we treat a $30 express letter, it flies out same day on a plane.

If you're worried, a clerk at any USPS location can hand-cancel your ballot at time of receipt.

A political activist group hung a framed photo showing the UK’s former Prince Andrew on the day of his arrest on a wall in France's Louvre Museum.

it's prononounced an-TIH-poh-pee

every day i log onto this place and see something someone should have texted to their mom instead of the entire internet

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.