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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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Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 18:10

Puppylucky · 08/02/2026 18:07

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

Why is the blacked out female panting so much? It’s hardly lots of running and not a huge island, it’s weird

Wolverine23 · 08/02/2026 18:10

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....

Q are awful types I agree, but doesn’t dismiss conspiracy theories about these sickos and what they are capable of

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 18:11

@Dumbo12
Are you referring to abuse victims in general or Epstein’s victims in particular?

Wolverine23 · 08/02/2026 18:12

user3398721 · 08/02/2026 14:57

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

You’re not able to dubunk some stuff no matter how hard you now it’s sicker than imaginable

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:17

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 18:04

Which women? What ages were they at Epstein Island?

There are, sadly adult women who participate enthusiastically in sexual deviancy and the sexual abuse of children. I do not have direct evidence of this in relation to Epstein, I have however, over a long career, heard the evidence of many abuse survivors.

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:21

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 18:11

@Dumbo12
Are you referring to abuse victims in general or Epstein’s victims in particular?

I was referencing perpetrators, not victims, which I believe was clear in my post.
I know there are some people who find it impossible to believe that women abuse, but sadly they are wrong

user3398721 · 08/02/2026 18:24

Wolverine23 · 08/02/2026 18:12

You’re not able to dubunk some stuff no matter how hard you now it’s sicker than imaginable

Yeah, ok. Explain how it works.

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 18:32

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:17

There are, sadly adult women who participate enthusiastically in sexual deviancy and the sexual abuse of children. I do not have direct evidence of this in relation to Epstein, I have however, over a long career, heard the evidence of many abuse survivors.

You said survivors.

Which survivors “enthusiastically participated?”

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 18:37

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:17

There are, sadly adult women who participate enthusiastically in sexual deviancy and the sexual abuse of children. I do not have direct evidence of this in relation to Epstein, I have however, over a long career, heard the evidence of many abuse survivors.

There were many 14 year old and younger girls brought to his home for him to abuse, why are you trying to make light of it by talking about adult women who possibly (I don’t know about this) chose to participate

inamarina · 08/02/2026 18:38

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 18:32

You said survivors.

Which survivors “enthusiastically participated?”

She didn’t describe the survivors as enthusiastic participants, but women who were perpetrators.
She said: “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.”

So according to survivors, women who were involved in abuse (perpetrators, not the victims) were often enthusiastic participants, not there through coercion.

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 18:38

I’m just reading about the French owner of the model agency who ‘Killed himself’

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 18:39

Also reading about some poor poor girl who seems to have given birth and babies taken away? Is this all true??!

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 18:51

Also, a man, LB, so many allegations against him that were suddenly all dropped

Dumbo12 · 08/02/2026 18:52

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 18:37

There were many 14 year old and younger girls brought to his home for him to abuse, why are you trying to make light of it by talking about adult women who possibly (I don’t know about this) chose to participate

I am most certainly not "making light" of child sexual exploitation! I am saying that there would be adult women who would be abusing children. The more people deny that that happens the more difficult it is to safeguard those children.

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 19:12

@Ateawholeboursininonego
Who is LB?

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 19:14

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 19:12

@Ateawholeboursininonego
Who is LB?

Another billionaire guy apparently, lots of v dodgy allegations, all similar stories…then all of a sudden, they all seemed to drop their cases against him

Reading that there has been 20 something mysterious deaths or suicides associated with JE

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 19:44

So Leon Black or Leslie Wexnar.

Ateawholeboursininonego · 08/02/2026 20:39

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 19:44

So Leon Black or Leslie Wexnar.

Both i’d imagine

I’m now reading about GM learning to be a pilot and all sorts and submarine entry to the island and connections with The Clintons…this is all so utterly bizarre

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 08/02/2026 20:44

inamarina · 08/02/2026 18:38

She didn’t describe the survivors as enthusiastic participants, but women who were perpetrators.
She said: “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.”

So according to survivors, women who were involved in abuse (perpetrators, not the victims) were often enthusiastic participants, not there through coercion.

Ah fair enough, I think I just read it in the wrong tone. Please ancvept my Apologies @Dumbo12 - but yes it is VERY alarming that whenever there is a predatory man around, very often somewhere there’s a woman who’s enabled him. It’s quite extraordinary and as you say even with for regular (as in non famous) men it happens.

I used to live in a village where one of our neighbours was charged with child rape while he was a headteacher. The whole village didn’t believe it until the court case, and it’s totally undeniable, it’s some of the worst stuff I’ve ever read. One victim testified that he was groomed right into University, the headteacher neighbour used to visit him and bought him cars. The man then managed to free himself from him. 10 years later, this survivor got married and his abuser sent a telegram with words that were secret code words they used to use and signed off “Your loving headmaster, Tony Brunskill” . The man had a panic attack right at the top table, and spent the evening of his wedding telling his wife why, she she never knew. I remember thinking it was the most evils thing I’d ever heard.

Brunskill’s wife has stayed with him. I know that people would argue that she’s been coerced into it etc, but he was jailed about 15 years ago now maybe more and he will die in jail. I think she just must also be an awful person.

andIsaid · 09/02/2026 03:55

MidWayThruJanuary · 08/02/2026 19:12

@Ateawholeboursininonego
Who is LB?

LB is Leon Black.

Everything I read about him terrifies me.

Venture Capitalist.

He has one the most important collections of MichealAngelo drawings.

Gazillionaire

Seems like a very dark, very nasty soul.

bakebeans · 09/02/2026 06:54

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.

I’ve been saying this for ages! Why are they not going after any of the men in the USA

MidWayThruJanuary · 09/02/2026 07:47

@bakebeans
A poster who lives in America has said the American media is leading with the Epstein files every day. British media is obviously focused on British citizens. Norwegian citizens are outraged at the behaviour of their crown Princess and the Norwegian RF are also under the microscope.

Ilovecakey · 09/02/2026 08:15

xanthomelana · 06/02/2026 18:51

Seems people like Mel Gibson were right all along when they said Hollywood was just an institutionalised pedophile ring. Now’s the time to be looking at what other celebrities have said in the past but have been labelled as crazy by many. Time and time again the conspiracy theories are proven to be true.

Yes!
The world is run by paedos
Royals are in on it
Covid was a scam
Va**ines are gonna kill people
They're gonna get to roll out digital I.D all under the guise of safety

BrendaThePoodle · 09/02/2026 08:39

Digital ID of ID cards always gets people frothing at the mouth and I doubt will ever be really introduced. This is my most tin hat conspiracy, that they peddle that idea out to make people so angry that it’s a distraction.
I think the waters are purposely muddied, I think now AI is at its peak of brilliance (as of yet) and they knew releasing them would have the Beyoncé is a lizard people would be out in full force doctoring images of babies and chickens on a dinner plate or whatever would upset people who hadn’t been exposed to these theories before and that would lesser the crimes of raping children.
I’ve seen people convinced Madeline McCann is a Epstein victim, it’s a hill they’ll die on.
I don’t trust any of these fuckers in the files to not do despicable crimes on any level, we see daily in the news that ordinary men have the worst category of child images on their computers which include murder content. Do I think a group of multimillionaire men with deviant sexual predilections towards children aren't capable of all the stuff being thrown around? Not at all. Do I think that they probably didn’t eat babies and it’s all hysteria and the actual crimes against children they committed were mostly sexual and that those crimes should be shocking enough and require people to be disgusted and lead to punishment for the perpetrators? Yes. But if the really extreme stuff could be proven would it surprise me? Knowing how depraved just ordinary men are? No. It’s a headfuck and people are angry/upset and the worst thing is that the only person incarcerated is a woman. Men truly fucking hate women, they hate girls. This should open every woman’s eyes and unfortunately it isnt. I’ve seen a scary amount of victim blaming and excuses by other women for the men involved. It’s all … fucked.

Apologies if that’s written terribly, I’m getting ready for work and getting 3 kids out the door!

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 09/02/2026 13:21

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.

Because it's to make MAPS a 'normal sexuality'.
Minor Attracted Persons Syndrome.

It's not q fucking syndrome.
It's child abuse.

They want to make paedophilia 'okay'.