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Democrats release Epstein docs with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Prince Andrew mentions
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Oh look, more evidence that bill gates probably raped children.
In my experience people online are really reluctant to believe this of gates, despite the constant stream of evidence from epstein files, the workplace culture and business practices that reflect a psychopath in charge and the need for one of the most expensive PR excersizes in history since ashoka the terrible started promoting buddhism.
The thing with Bill Gates is, he was an absolute piece of shit while running Microsoft. Basically killing all the competitors and trying to kill open source projects.
The whole he's a good person look at what he is doing with his money, is just flawed. He shouldn't have that money in the first place. He definitely screwed over other people and companies to get that kind of money. If you think I don't care about companies, well the extra costs will just go to the consumer, so us.
Other companies are literally the requirement for breaking monopolies. Screwing them will kill off the smallest ones – that is, the ones most likely to not yet be exploitative behemoths – until only the biggest bullies remain.
I seriously doubt everyone who traveled to that island was in on the rapes. But you about couldn't convince me any given visitor was ignorant of the crimes.
Yeah I'm just not sure.
Are you granted entry to the child rape island to just look around and talk to people without incriminating yourself? Seems unlikely.
Was there a single attendee who managed to avoid sexually assaulting a minor? Maybe. Would I believe anyone who says that was them? Absolutely not.
Epstein was loaning and moving millions, maybe billions, of dollars. I can hardly pretend to understand what the game is like on that level.
But first and foremost, Epstein was a financier. The money was top, girls second. And the girls were a source of pleasure and blackmail. Rinse and repeat. C-C-C-COMBO! Once you set foot in that tar pit, for whatever reason, you're stuck.
Gates, for all his flaws, never struck me as a kiddy fucker. Horny wasn't his game. Ruthless domination of the IT world was his goal, and he got it. Does that make sense? And yes, I am well aware of his evil past. I started learning computers when he was a kid building Microsoft in the 80s. Read his unauthorized biography, tracked him on the news, worked his ecosystems, seen where he's been, mostly. I get it.
Guess I'm only saying, because he met Epstein, flew to his island, not automatically putting rape on his record. But again, I'd have a hard fucking time believing he didn't know.
If you believe Epstein was an asset of an intelligence agency (perhaps more than one), then why would they waste the money and time on him flying people out that he wasn't going to blackmail? Like he is the sex blackmail guy, that's his role for intelligence, there's no need for him to be around people if he isn't doing his job and getting sex blackmail from them.
Similarly, Ray J (who is now claiming to work with the FBI as an informant to take down the Kardashians/Jenners that he says are worse than Diddy and indeed both groups associated a lot with Justin Bieber and others), Ray J has long been said to be a celebrity drug dealer. He was the one who supposedly sold Whitney Houston her drugs, including the night she died. If someone is hanging out with Ray J or partying with Ray J, you'd assume they are doing drugs because that's his literal job and he just won't be wasting time not dealing.
Also, remember that Ray J was who filmed Kim K's porno, rumored to be released by her mom Kris. Kim used to work for Ray J's sister Brandi (largely innocent of all this afaik) and stole from her, substantial amounts. And ofc, Kim was married to Kanye, who parades his now partners around like sex slaves and is an open Nazi and hangs out with Candace Owens, a probable Russian asset.
Who knew that shitty celeb gossip would become so relevant?
Wild! But to your first point, and kinda related to the rest, association is quite enough for blackmail, especially at that level of criminality. :)
Yeah that's something I wasn't sure about. Is going there incriminating enough on its own? I can't tell.
I don't know how "blooded in" someone would need to be, to be accepted in a space like that. Plenty of epstein associates do seem to have avoided public tarring, so maybe just going there is not incriminating enough. But would people have known then that it might be live-down-able?
I certainly don't know.
No, it isn't.
Absolutely off topic: Ashoka the terrible? I only know the Mauryan emperor who famously converted after having caused such bloodshed and destruction that he then became a pacifist. Considering other emperors, he sounds like a pretty based guy after his redemption. Am I missing something?
That's probably just a lie, the sudden change of personality part. Or there's an academic theory that his conversion and pacificism were just PR.
In the province where his last brutal massacring happened, which supposedly precipitated his change of heart, the version of the steles that he commissioned leaves out the change of heart part and just details what a brutal massacre he committed.
So if he's still selling himself just as a brutal conqueror in the province where that image is beneficial for suppressing revolt, how sincere was his conversion?
Modern understandings of the brain also suggest that someone who took his meals in the custom built torture dungeon he called "ashoka's hell", is probably neurologically incapable of empathy. The sudden appearance of empathy doesn't really fit with how psychopathy works.
It's not universally accepted, but I find it convincing. The lies of the powerful are often written in stone.
Yeah people still run forward to lick his boots when he gets criticised so I figure it worked quite well.
Any links to that PR exercise? I love reading about those things. People should be aware that rich people DO have PR companies managing their names. A famous case is when musk bought into the PR about himself and fired the PR team because why have one when you're that fantastic, right?
I was referring to his foundation as a PR excersize.
Yeah the Bill & Melinda Foundation. "I gave away billions"! To yourself, to avoid taxes. Smart and evil.
That foundation has done a lot of wonderful things, I've known people that have worked there. I think the credit goes to Melinda, not Bill.
They have done a lot of horrible things like buying up and locking IP for the medical research too. There is a reason research people stay away from Bill and Melinda and their strings attached.
But you just have to come to their rescue. Interesting. Are you American?
Yep, and I live in Seattle.
You got a weird love for your billionaires and bosses IMO.
Love from France.