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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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FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 07/02/2026 14:32

Sidebeforeself · 07/02/2026 14:26

I was the poster who took the comment about all men “so personally”. I didnt take it personally though. I was just pointing out that sweeping statement as about men are unhelpful. I would bristle at sweeping statements about all or most women ( and I do) if I didn’t recognise the point being made, so its only right to push back when its against men.

There are decent fathers, brothers etc of girls and women who are equally horrified by what is emerging.

Men don’t get cookies for being horrified about VAWG

But to answer your question - yes I would actually bet money on at least one man in your family being a pervert. Thats how prevelant predatory men are. And the NAMALT crowd contribute to men getting away with being that way.

Imagine coming on a thread about pedophile men and moaning “not all men!” And “some men are horrified”. Like wow well done penis havers for not being on the side of pedophiles 👏🏼

Sidebeforeself · 07/02/2026 14:26

ItsARazzleDazzleDay · 07/02/2026 11:23

Because many women are conditioned to defend men.
Men tend to defend men anyway, having a proportion of women doing the same means it’s far easier for rancid patriarchal systems to persist, as we’re seeing right now with the release of these files and there still only being one person, a woman, in jail for it.

I was the poster who took the comment about all men “so personally”. I didnt take it personally though. I was just pointing out that sweeping statement as about men are unhelpful. I would bristle at sweeping statements about all or most women ( and I do) if I didn’t recognise the point being made, so its only right to push back when its against men.

There are decent fathers, brothers etc of girls and women who are equally horrified by what is emerging.

Beatriz85 · 07/02/2026 14:22

BrendaThePoodle · 07/02/2026 12:56

@MoonWoman69 I’ve had things reported and deleted on here so many times for trying to discuss “conspiracy” and been given abuse from posters, be careful what you post. And if ever discussing uk conspiracy never mention a singer who was known to frequent elm guest house on his summer holiday or they’ll all be out in force 🙃

Cliff? Ge does appear dodgy

FreeTheOakTree · 07/02/2026 14:21

IrisPallida · 07/02/2026 13:34

Some posters here think they are still on the David Icke forums happily swimming in their lizard shit sewers.

They really should fuck off back home to their lala land.

You have been particularly combative and unpleasant in your posts. All directed at posters/people who you have decided are beneath your own contemplations.

Perhaps direct this anger at the perpetrators of such unimaginable crimes against women and children.

Or, just fuck off back home to whatever issues you have.

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 07/02/2026 13:54

IrisPallida · 07/02/2026 13:34

Some posters here think they are still on the David Icke forums happily swimming in their lizard shit sewers.

They really should fuck off back home to their lala land.

Or maybe posters are actually reading the files and spotting some consistently unusual patterns?

The only people who should fuck off back to La la land are the ones who are SO AFRAID they may have to concede that a so-called ‘conspiracy theory’ had some truth to it, they’d rather name call and deny what’s happening to child sex abuse victims

FlyingApple · 07/02/2026 13:48

IrisPallida · 07/02/2026 13:34

Some posters here think they are still on the David Icke forums happily swimming in their lizard shit sewers.

They really should fuck off back home to their lala land.

What are you talking about? Who has mentioned anything about lizards?

IrisPallida · 07/02/2026 13:34

Some posters here think they are still on the David Icke forums happily swimming in their lizard shit sewers.

They really should fuck off back home to their lala land.

BrendaThePoodle · 07/02/2026 12:56

@MoonWoman69 I’ve had things reported and deleted on here so many times for trying to discuss “conspiracy” and been given abuse from posters, be careful what you post. And if ever discussing uk conspiracy never mention a singer who was known to frequent elm guest house on his summer holiday or they’ll all be out in force 🙃

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2026 12:36

Shhhhitsmagic · 07/02/2026 12:27

Many of us have been following these stories for years and piecing it together. Unfortunately I have been called a conspiracy theorist, and in the back of my mind I hoped that it was all a conspiracy theory. Unfortunately the truth is so much worse than I could ever imagine.

Apologies for assuming you had only just discovered all that. We're on the same page there. It's absolutely horrific to know all this goes on, yet when you try to tell people, like you say, they think you're some foil hat wearing lunatic.
I fell down a rabbit hole with all this years ago and had to stop researching it for my own sanity.
Anyone who thinks these things don't go on are both blinkered and deluded. Though having said that, from what I've seen and read over the years, I wish I'd been the same. 🌻

Shhhhitsmagic · 07/02/2026 12:27

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2026 10:31

It's worrying that you've only just caught on to what kind of depraved world we're living in!
It seems a lot of people keep their head in the sand until they can't any more.
Search Cathy O'brien and also Jeanette Archer if you can stomach it. Horrific.
This kind of depravity has been going on far longer than this Epstien drop would have you believe.
The elite in our world are sick and twisted. Seems if you have mega money, you can just about have and do exactly what you want, with virtual impunity.

Many of us have been following these stories for years and piecing it together. Unfortunately I have been called a conspiracy theorist, and in the back of my mind I hoped that it was all a conspiracy theory. Unfortunately the truth is so much worse than I could ever imagine.

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BrendaThePoodle · 07/02/2026 12:17

https://youtube.com/shorts/enHeWdOEDKM?si=B9ijTIDKVumTnW1N

this pathetic little orange gobshite really needs a slap with a shovel. And then burying with it.

Before you continue to YouTube

https://youtube.com/shorts/enHeWdOEDKM?si=B9ijTIDKVumTnW1N

Darlingx · 07/02/2026 11:37

Also the Magalene laundries unmarked graves, tunnels with child slaves, selling womens wombs and shaming through blackmail judgement confession and breaking families in poverty apart by promising to educate their children

Darlingx · 07/02/2026 11:34

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2026 10:31

It's worrying that you've only just caught on to what kind of depraved world we're living in!
It seems a lot of people keep their head in the sand until they can't any more.
Search Cathy O'brien and also Jeanette Archer if you can stomach it. Horrific.
This kind of depravity has been going on far longer than this Epstien drop would have you believe.
The elite in our world are sick and twisted. Seems if you have mega money, you can just about have and do exactly what you want, with virtual impunity.

Storyville Garenne trillions tax haven island off shore tax home to our treasury with childrens homes and abuse survivors where upon investigation they flooded the basement with gallons of raw sewage dimishing any DNA the fragment of skull written off as coconut shell maybe now people will believe the horrific survivor stories about the torture and children disappeared that was 2007

Crunchingleaf · 07/02/2026 11:25

Agreed with all the posters pointing out that the focus just can’t be one one or two individuals. The rot at the top is deep and widespread. As horrific as the rape and trafficking is there is which is absolutely is. There is stuff about trans, pandemics, too many poors etc. For many voters across the world it’s become abundantly clear that politicians are pushing agendas and absolutely not putting the wellbeing of their countries first. Time and time again we are told nothing to see here or that’s a conspiracy.

There absolutely will be people named in files who weren’t involved in some of the worst things and there are people who are very much guilty not in the files. Both the innocent and the guilty will deny deny deny unless they are the designated fall guy.

It appears many many women were in on it too by providing access to children and teens. Let’s not kid outside that women are morally superior to men. Both sexes have their share of depraved sickos.

ItsARazzleDazzleDay · 07/02/2026 11:23

VanityUnit66 · 06/02/2026 23:52

Why would you take that so personally?

Because many women are conditioned to defend men.
Men tend to defend men anyway, having a proportion of women doing the same means it’s far easier for rancid patriarchal systems to persist, as we’re seeing right now with the release of these files and there still only being one person, a woman, in jail for it.

StandFirm · 07/02/2026 11:18

It's so depressing to see that abuse and violence against young girls was not only a national sport, it was like a fucking world cup.

StandFirm · 07/02/2026 11:17

MrsFrumble · 06/02/2026 21:30

Viewing the whole mess as a politically polarised issue is what made the QAnon folks so easy to misdirect and then dismiss, because it’s clearly not a left wing/liberal or right wing/conservative/MAGA issue, it’s a money and power across the political spectrum issue.

I was guilty of thinking that myself, to the extent that I thought Noam Chomsky being involved must have been a joke. But it’s not just Hollywood; it’s tech, it’s media, it’s politicians, judges, aristocracy and royalty.

Completely agree with you that this is much bigger than partisan politics. The thing is that a couple of years ago, it was MAGA and Q'anon that were making it a partisan issue, with Trump seen as the knight in shining armour who was going to drain that awful swamp. And now they're waking up to see that there isn't a single shred of integrity anywhere.

BelleHathor · 07/02/2026 10:42

Jinglealltheway92 · 07/02/2026 09:21

Can someone advise how to find out what is in these files from a reputable source? Anyone can post on X and produce an AI image of an email and attribute it to the files.

I have been surprised at the BBC reporting, which seems tepid, and then reading this thread which alludes to much more going on within the files.

I believe everyone saying there’s a lot more to it, but would like to be signposted to a source. Or does that not exist? Are they all corrupt??

Official Department of Justice Government site:
https://www.justice.gov/epstein

 

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2026 10:31

It's worrying that you've only just caught on to what kind of depraved world we're living in!
It seems a lot of people keep their head in the sand until they can't any more.
Search Cathy O'brien and also Jeanette Archer if you can stomach it. Horrific.
This kind of depravity has been going on far longer than this Epstien drop would have you believe.
The elite in our world are sick and twisted. Seems if you have mega money, you can just about have and do exactly what you want, with virtual impunity.

peanutbuttertoasty · 07/02/2026 10:26

The emails are also here in gmail form - more browsable www.jmail.world

peanutbuttertoasty · 07/02/2026 10:24

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 07/02/2026 09:58

Yes you can read them, peanut has included the link above.

I went down a rabbit hole yesterday of reading them and it’s grim. Very grim, but in the context of reading lots of files, you get to piece together a bit of a picture of how people used code words, who was a real associate/client of JE and sadly how they treated people.

I read somewhere (no reference number sorry 😆) that the FBI have confirmed all the pizza related code words as real pedo code. 😩

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 07/02/2026 10:00

Jinglealltheway92 · 07/02/2026 09:21

Can someone advise how to find out what is in these files from a reputable source? Anyone can post on X and produce an AI image of an email and attribute it to the files.

I have been surprised at the BBC reporting, which seems tepid, and then reading this thread which alludes to much more going on within the files.

I believe everyone saying there’s a lot more to it, but would like to be signposted to a source. Or does that not exist? Are they all corrupt??

This guy is very good at doing a series of rundowns https://www.instagram.com/mrcodydahler?igsh=MW84cWI1NWY1YmM1Mg==

BTW Instagram “outs” you when you post links so I created a special account for copying and pasting into MN

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 07/02/2026 09:58

FlourSugarButter · 07/02/2026 09:37

I don't know where you can directly read them if that's what you mean, I haven't tried it. But you are not going to get the true picture if you stick to the mainstream media. Get on social media like X or Instagram.

Instagram has opened my eyes. Once you start seeing those emails, interview transcripts, photos and videos you will realise how the likes of BBC, Sky, Times and Telegraph etc. are sharing only the half truths and skewing the narrative to protect their paymasters. They are bypassing the main actors by focusing on Andrew and Mandelson. Even then they are not reporting everything that's available about these two.

Yes you can read them, peanut has included the link above.

I went down a rabbit hole yesterday of reading them and it’s grim. Very grim, but in the context of reading lots of files, you get to piece together a bit of a picture of how people used code words, who was a real associate/client of JE and sadly how they treated people.

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