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Epstein files

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Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 12:54

I've had too much time on my hands this week due to illness and I've gone down a rabbit hole with the epstein files.
Is anyone else struggling after reading this vile stuff?
I'm absolutely reeling and feel physically sick to my core. The world I thought we lived in doesn't exist (and probably never did in my lifetime).
It appears that not one single man involved will be held accountable. They are all being protected and the whole thing is being brushed under the carpet.
Why is this barely being reported on? Where are the protests? Are we being desensitised to this evil?
Can anyone help me make sense of this? 😢

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Preppercorn · 06/02/2026 13:22

This has been an open secret for years but the people involved had so much power they managed to discredit it as ‘conspiracy theories’. More fool everyone else for buying into that narrative.

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Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 13:18

HoskinsChoice · 06/02/2026 13:09

Barely being reported on? It is literally headline news on every news outlet and has been for weeks!

That said, there is something very odd going on. Why is Andrew the only one anyone is going after - the family, the media, the lawyers, the public - why is it only him? Guiffre was trafficked to hundreds of men. Why are we only talking about AMW? There are many, many considerably easier targets than AMW (he is surrounded by legal and financial protection that most aren't). And also many who have done considerably worse than AMW (some of the girls were children - only women above the age of consent in the UK have named AMW). Why are we wasting so much time on AMW and not prosecuting and publicly shaming the literally hundreds of other men involved.

Sorry I didn't explain that very well.
Yes the artist formerly known as prince Andrew has been in the headlines constantly, but what about all the others?
And why are the media not reporting on all the details? All the disgusting, sick emails sent between these monsters?

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WildFlowerBees · 06/02/2026 13:14

So many up to their necks in this, utterly grotesque multi layered abuse, treated like objects in the most disgusting way. Why are these men being protected the way they are, oh that’ll be because they have money and that apparently affords them the right to do as they please.

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Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 13:10

@Isthateveryonethen I can't begin to comprehend the level of evil and how many people are part of. It feels like we're being primed to be accepting of this.
I feel so guilty for having children and bringing them into this world.

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Ohnonononotagain · 06/02/2026 13:10

It absolutely soul destroying.

What a crazy sick world we have created.
Where the rich, powerful and famous live in a world where money can buy anything and there is no moral code and anything goes.

HoskinsChoice · 06/02/2026 13:09

Barely being reported on? It is literally headline news on every news outlet and has been for weeks!

That said, there is something very odd going on. Why is Andrew the only one anyone is going after - the family, the media, the lawyers, the public - why is it only him? Guiffre was trafficked to hundreds of men. Why are we only talking about AMW? There are many, many considerably easier targets than AMW (he is surrounded by legal and financial protection that most aren't). And also many who have done considerably worse than AMW (some of the girls were children - only women above the age of consent in the UK have named AMW). Why are we wasting so much time on AMW and not prosecuting and publicly shaming the literally hundreds of other men involved.

Isthateveryonethen · 06/02/2026 12:57

This too has disturbed me in a very deep way. I don’t know what it is. Maybe that SO many people looked on and participated, people who had kids themselves, that everyone will get away with it, it’s so evil

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