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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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Snakebite61 · 08/02/2026 09:14

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? 😢

Farage is in them but only mandelson is getting jumped on. People are being played about this.

dottiehens · 08/02/2026 09:17

Snakebite61 · 08/02/2026 09:14

Farage is in them but only mandelson is getting jumped on. People are being played about this.

Proof? Where?

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 09:46

A volunteer run social media account for the Wrexham branch of the Labour Party posted an AI generated photo of Farage with his arm around Epstein. It has been deleted and discredited.

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 09:58

In fairness, Farage is only in 38 documents and none of them appear to be correspondence with the man himself, they’re all news articles. Apart from one email between 2 people who are clearly from the US pondering if they can ask Farage to start a public enquiry.

I mean the man’s odious but if he’s not in the files in the same way Mandelson is (5,600 documents) it’s really not fair to compare the two as if they are

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 10:02

Snakebite61 · 08/02/2026 09:14

Farage is in them but only mandelson is getting jumped on. People are being played about this.

They really aren’t. I intensely dislike Farage but he’s mentioned in a fraction of the articles (38 times) compared to Mandelson (5,600+ times) and it’s almost all news article, no correspondence from or to him.

Lets not political point score and focus on the actual bad guys (and yes even liberal Labour lefties can do wrong, clearly)

Laurmolonlabe · 08/02/2026 10:20

Get a grip- evil existed in the world before this, and we all knew it, it still exists and we all know it. The only difference with this situation is that lots of evidence for that evil has come to light and because it is in the USA it has been published- any other country would have kept it with the court system.
When evil is exposed prosecutions are always thin on the ground- think of Jimmy Savile, the Horizon scandal or one of a hundred other cases, being particularly affected by this one is unbalanced, it happens quite often, it's just that the evidence is not usually made public.

TulipLavender · 08/02/2026 10:45

I think everyone should watch this.

Yes Jimmy Saville was disgusting but not used to control global events and gain power.

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ForQuirkyFawn · 08/02/2026 12:36

Wow, I thought this thread about eastern would be unpleasant to read, but it's branched off into Q Anon, conspiracy theories about child murder, david icke, eek, I don't know where it's going next aliens and reptiles in buck house....

ForQuirkyFawn · 08/02/2026 12:36

Epstein....

aliceinawonderland · 08/02/2026 14:17

Does anyone know if women were guests at the wild parties ( ie invited guests as opposed to sex workers)?
If 9 year olds were involved, I cannot imagine that many women would condone that. It could be that the 9 mentioned above is a typo and means 19

If women and 9 year olds WERE at these parties, then I am sick to my stomach.

My interpretation of a wild party would be that there was free sex between consenting adults

Labelledelune · 08/02/2026 14:43

It will never fully come out there will only be patsies covering up the main ones. I mean why would they out these people and lose their power to blackmail them.

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 14:55

Annabelle Neilson, London socialite, close friends with Kate Moss, Alexander McQueen and Naomi Campbell procured girls for Epstein. She died in 2018.

user3398721 · 08/02/2026 14:57

peanutbuttertoasty · 06/02/2026 21:04

There is an invoice for same in the Epstein files.

This is not true. You can look it up. It's been debunked.

user3398721 · 08/02/2026 15:05

MrsFrumble · 06/02/2026 21:33

… and it’s not “partisan politics” to talk about Elon Musk because Elon Musk is not a fucking politician. And if you don’t know the extent to which grok has been used to create sexual images of underaged girls you’ve been living under a rock.

Yes, exactly this. People need to get a grip and actually read the files. Not get their news on TikTok, Insta, Facebook and X.

It's important to differentiate between the very real abuse and exploitation and the increasingly wealthy and powerful men who desire to exploit and control the political systems for their own ends and conspiracy theories about people drinking children's blood in basements.

Elon Musk, who could disable the ability to use Grok to create sexualised images but chooses not to, owns one of the largest means of information distribution in the world. It's a fact that he wrote an email asking to know what night the wildest party on the island would be. He does not get a pass because he gives people a platform to shit on trans people.

Look at what's real, not ridiculous conspiracy theories about Wayfair cabinets. They are designed to divide distract from holding the real people to account.

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 17:09

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 14:55

Annabelle Neilson, London socialite, close friends with Kate Moss, Alexander McQueen and Naomi Campbell procured girls for Epstein. She died in 2018.

Yes, that’s another odd one…dying so young at 48 I think?

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 17:12

Watching YouTube videos of JE, there is just something so odd, gives me the heebie jeebies
There was a video of E running around a kitchen island trying to catch a female (blacked out, no idea what age etc) this woman was breathing really heavily, slightly panicked in an odd way. Whoever was filming (female) was laughing. He was trying to climb over the kitchen island to get to the blacked out female
I cannot explain it, but watching it just made me feel a certain way, there is something v v odd

Puppylucky · 08/02/2026 17:32

Really? I've watched the video and seen a lot of the photos and what strikes me is the banality of the whole thing. Middle aged men in polo shirts and leisure wear in naff looking kitchens and on pvc bar stools isn't really what I expected

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 17:34

In all walks of life there is sexual abuse of children. In all group sexual abuse there are women involved, i know some people believe that they are always there through coercion, however from listening to the stories from survivors, they are often enthusiastic participants. They are considerably fewer in number than the men, but they certainly exist.

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 17:45

aliceinawonderland · 08/02/2026 14:17

Does anyone know if women were guests at the wild parties ( ie invited guests as opposed to sex workers)?
If 9 year olds were involved, I cannot imagine that many women would condone that. It could be that the 9 mentioned above is a typo and means 19

If women and 9 year olds WERE at these parties, then I am sick to my stomach.

My interpretation of a wild party would be that there was free sex between consenting adults

Because you live in the normal world - billionaires, high power pedohiles and traffickers occupy another sinister, sleazy world by which even the darkest corners of our imaginations can’t even comprehend the evil that goes on.

But yes it’s highly likely that a sex trafficking ring serving billionaires and pedophiles “provided” pre-pubescent girls. Trafficked teenagers will be just the tip of the iceberg

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 17:45

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 17:34

In all walks of life there is sexual abuse of children. In all group sexual abuse there are women involved, i know some people believe that they are always there through coercion, however from listening to the stories from survivors, they are often enthusiastic participants. They are considerably fewer in number than the men, but they certainly exist.

Can you name which survivor of child sex abuse was an enthusiastic participant please?

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 17:52

Puppylucky · 08/02/2026 17:32

Really? I've watched the video and seen a lot of the photos and what strikes me is the banality of the whole thing. Middle aged men in polo shirts and leisure wear in naff looking kitchens and on pvc bar stools isn't really what I expected

You’ve watched the chasing video?

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 17:54

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 17:45

Can you name which survivor of child sex abuse was an enthusiastic participant please?

Exactly! What a disgraceful comment!

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:03

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 17:45

Can you name which survivor of child sex abuse was an enthusiastic participant please?

I meant the women were enthusiastic participants, which i thought was clear. Not the children

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 18:04

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:03

I meant the women were enthusiastic participants, which i thought was clear. Not the children

Which women? What ages were they at Epstein Island?

Puppylucky · 08/02/2026 18:07

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 17:52

You’ve watched the chasing video?

Yes. He's not chasing he's wombling around a massive kitchen island .

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