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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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tobee · 06/02/2026 20:22

It's one of those occasions where I don't feel surprised at all. And I don't feel any kind of, I don't the right word, "momentum" I think is the closest, where you feel with the unveiling of a scandal, of a crime, that people will be charged, and convicted, and things will change. At the moment I suppose it's looking possible that Mandelson will be offered up for justice at most.

StandFirm · 06/02/2026 20:25

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.

Except Gibson has been MAGA for a while and it's pretty clear that the MAGA elite is firmly part of the swamp.

SomeEsotericJoke · 06/02/2026 20:26

This has been on my mind for days now, I am so horrified by what is coming out, but sadly not surprised. There is no trust in society, it is everywhere.

Apparently the Wayfair 'conspiracy' has truth to it, the one about very expensive items of furniture being sold, very expensive furniture with human names. All the conspiracies are proving to be true. It's insidious.

girlabouthome · 06/02/2026 20:28

Wheresrebeccabunch · 06/02/2026 20:00

I doubt it. With all the blood sacrifice mentions in the Abrahamic religions, the ongoing suppression of women, the fact there isn’t a single book in the Bible written by a woman, and the fact that most of the evil men in this Epstein scandal presented themselves as Christians I think organised religion would be the last place to turn.

Isnt there a story in the Old Testament about god asking Abraham to kill his son as a blood sacrifice, only to change his mind at the last minute?

And didn’t Lot sleep with his own daughters?

I don’t think organised religion is the answer here.

The free will of man has and will be his downfall.

Mary Magdalene’s gospel, and other gnostic texts offer a far more balanced view.

I for one, am glad I have my faith to turn to in a time like this.

CoffeePleaseBlack · 06/02/2026 20:30

How can we read them?

tarheelbaby · 06/02/2026 20:30

CanalLetty · 06/02/2026 14:37

"Only one person in prison and that's a woman doing a 20 year sentence, carrying the can."

This is an astonishing fact that says it all.

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This ^^ right here. Out of everything we do and don't know, out of all the 'information' that has been 'released' the only person actually in prison - not even in jail awaiting trial - but actually serving a sentence is ... a single, indivual woman...

StandFirm · 06/02/2026 20:30

girlabouthome · 06/02/2026 19:49

Same here.

Ive removed my social apps as I was suffering from reading it.

With the Satanic themes, I wonder how many will turn to faith in light of this…

But then genuine faith and hope, with love and empathy, not the extremist version that passes for faith in Christian nationalist circles (which by the way are rife with pervs)

Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 20:30

One of the worst things I've read is that he isn't dead. This is an account from a prison guard...

Epstein files
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Sellseashells · 06/02/2026 20:31

SomeEsotericJoke · 06/02/2026 20:26

This has been on my mind for days now, I am so horrified by what is coming out, but sadly not surprised. There is no trust in society, it is everywhere.

Apparently the Wayfair 'conspiracy' has truth to it, the one about very expensive items of furniture being sold, very expensive furniture with human names. All the conspiracies are proving to be true. It's insidious.

What was this theory? It rings a bell but can't recall.

Sidebeforeself · 06/02/2026 20:33

tarheelbaby · 06/02/2026 20:30

This ^^ right here. Out of everything we do and don't know, out of all the 'information' that has been 'released' the only person actually in prison - not even in jail awaiting trial - but actually serving a sentence is ... a single, indivual woman...

She still deserves it though

Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 20:33

Sellseashells · 06/02/2026 20:31

What was this theory? It rings a bell but can't recall.

Wayfair were selling cheap metal cabinets for around $12k, each with the name of a child who had gone missing a few weeks before. You could only complete the purchase with a promo code...

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Puppylucky · 06/02/2026 20:34

cobrapaw · 06/02/2026 17:45

I haven’t read it and I’m don’t think I want to. I keep seeing videos on Tik Tok, a woman screaming that they (Epstein and his friends) were eating children. And another audio of a terrified little girl screaming for help, are they real, is that the sort of stuff that’s in the files?

No they aren't real

CarbonArtist · 06/02/2026 20:34

I have noticed that in our culture, being concerned about CSA is coded as low-status. Too often people who are worried about this issue are presented as pitch-fork wielding, paediatrician-attacking scum, or as tin-foil hat wearing, right wing nut jobs. This is very convenient for paedophiles, as it shuts people up and stops them talking about what they have noticed. Thought-terminating terms like ‘conspiracy-theorist’ and the story about chavs attacking a paediatrician (which never actually happened btw) need to retired.

Appalonia · 06/02/2026 20:38

For those of you asking where you can read about it, I'd strongly suggest you dont. I'm not going to post any specific links on here, as I don't know the motivations of posters. However, its all on Twitter if pp are minded to look.

JemimaTiggywinkles · 06/02/2026 20:45

Wheresrebeccabunch · 06/02/2026 19:29

Yes this. People are missing the point if they’re just focusing on the (disgusting) individuals concerned. The evidence suggests this system was being run by a very powerful state for blackmail and power purposes, a state that basically owns the media, effectively controls the US and apparently can get away with genocide.

All the people who have tried to speak out have been silenced, branded unhinged, prejudiced and ironically accused of pedophilia. The ‘conspiracy’ theorists were right, unfortunately.

Which state are you talking about?

ItsARazzleDazzleDay · 06/02/2026 20:45

Marmalademorning · 06/02/2026 19:30

All the people up in arms over the Epstein files (which are horrific, I’m not denying that) - but do you feel the same outrage over the grooming gangs? Which affected many more children, up and down the country. Where is the outrage about that?

Yes I do, and the fact that rape is so unconvicted that it’s basically decriminalised.

This is a world brought to you by patriarchy, and the sooner all women wake up to this rather than upholding it the better.

I no longer trust many men. Even those who pose as good guys are often just finding new ways to have access to women or children. Very few men are truly decent.

Sidebeforeself · 06/02/2026 20:47

ItsARazzleDazzleDay · 06/02/2026 20:45

Yes I do, and the fact that rape is so unconvicted that it’s basically decriminalised.

This is a world brought to you by patriarchy, and the sooner all women wake up to this rather than upholding it the better.

I no longer trust many men. Even those who pose as good guys are often just finding new ways to have access to women or children. Very few men are truly decent.

You cannot know that. Have you met ALL the men? What about all the men in my family? Do you reckon at least one of them is a pervert?

ItsARazzleDazzleDay · 06/02/2026 20:48

I work with a man who is very dismissive of the EF and claims that most of it is lies, trafficked women and girls were prostitutes so therefore consented to whatever was done to them, and Donald Trump is a clever man who is not guilty of anything.
I cannot go down the rabbit hole of the EFs because it’s too much, but I’m sick of hearing men defend other men like this.
Is Trump innocent? Or is he using his power to cover his files up?

Sellseashells · 06/02/2026 20:49

Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 20:33

Wayfair were selling cheap metal cabinets for around $12k, each with the name of a child who had gone missing a few weeks before. You could only complete the purchase with a promo code...

🤢

Nezukokamado · 06/02/2026 20:50

CanalLetty · 06/02/2026 14:42

What keeps going around in my head from the Epstein files is the disgusting, derogatory and hateful way the men talked amongst themselves about women and girls. When Germaine Greer said “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them" I didn't want to believe her but it's true.

We now know that those who have power hate women, abuse women and get away with it.

We should be really angry.

We should know that anyway.

The only reason more men don't do this, is because they don't have the money and power.

Ihateboris · 06/02/2026 20:57

Nezukokamado · 06/02/2026 20:50

We should know that anyway.

The only reason more men don't do this, is because they don't have the money and power.

Spot on

peanutbuttertoasty · 06/02/2026 20:57

InterestedDad37 · 06/02/2026 18:37

Well I've been watching the news and listening to the radio all day, and it's been top billing, through the Mandelson story and other aspects.
You'd have to be blind, deaf or comatose to think it isn't being reported on 😂😂

You clearly haven’t read the files

peanutbuttertoasty · 06/02/2026 21:00

Ditto anyone who 1) thinks it was just men involved; it wasn’t 2) thinks the victims were women and girls. There were boys and babies too. Anyone who’s read the files knows it’s not being properly reported on, and the fixation on AMW and PM is a smokescreen. Even the PM stuff is only partially reported

Wheresrebeccabunch · 06/02/2026 21:01

girlabouthome · 06/02/2026 20:28

The free will of man has and will be his downfall.

Mary Magdalene’s gospel, and other gnostic texts offer a far more balanced view.

I for one, am glad I have my faith to turn to in a time like this.

I love the gospel of MM, anything that uplifts the Divine Feminine and I love historical Jesus.

I think people may become more spiritual as a result, but non dualistic spirituality ie faith in the good and life force within, rather than looking outside themselves for an external paternal god figure in organised religion to come and save them. Which incidentally is a bit like the way thst we have been pedestaling celebrities and rich people. Jesus and MM’s teachings are consistent with this. The Kingdom is within and all that. The rest of the Bible, not so much.

GoldenPearls · 06/02/2026 21:02

Literally these are all the men who were presidents and prime ministers and royal sons.....to whom the majority bowed at, voted for etc

as someone upthread said: the world we believed we live in, simply does not exist. And all this under your so called western democracy. Our communist leaders pale to these monsters

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