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What happened to the Snowden archive

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  1. pluc · · focus · HN ↗
    Eh, the outrage never really materialized into anything worth continuing the leaks. Look at the Epstein files. "They" can just wait it out.
    1. harry8 · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. joe_the_user · · focus · HN ↗
        This more than some cia/mossad front of blackmailing the powerful with horrific acts done to children.

        IDK, the CIA/mossad pedophile part seems significant.

        I don't think ordinary people upset at young girls being exploited for the purpose of blackmailing people are being 'naive' or something. Sure, it all pales in comparison to genocide X foreign land but people getting riled by that stuff too.

        1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
          Quite a large amount of people have little empathy. Someone getting blown up somewhere else is a them problem. "I've never been blown up, they must have done something wrong to deserve it (I have heard things like this come out of peoples mouths)". Now, quite often those same people with little empathy have their own children therefore have an empathetic connection to the theoretical victim allowing them to contemplate the terror those children experienced. This allows the situation to be much more viceral to them. Also, pedophila is an act that is highly stimtized in most places in the world so the social shame and disgust phenomenon also applies.
        2. harry8 · · focus · HN ↗
          Everyone should be incandescent with rage about that as soon as there's some evidence of it. And 100% it should be fully investigated.

          Is it real? Are you being played with a lie? The further out we get the more it looks like the latter. But hey, I'll take evidence of a cover up. Not seeing anything much there either.

          Maybe some real evidence will come soon? Thet can't keep dark forever, it's too big, too many people have touched it.

          1. colordrops · · focus · HN ↗
            He served a jail sentence for this, wtf are you talking about? Are you that ignorant, or do you have an agenda?
            1. harry8 · · focus · HN ↗
              Epstein served a jail sentence for running a pedo blackmail ring with the cia and mossad??

              Got a plausible link to back that?

        3. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
          Moderately wild speculation: the genocide is directly related to the Epstein stuff. We know he had close ties to Mossad, and material that can blackmail the current president. All Mossad has to do is say: do this or we release the surveillance video. And they have been trying to get the USA to invade Iran for decades.
          1. colordrops · · focus · HN ↗
            It's not that wild. It's pretty obvious he was collecting blackmail, and trump was his closest confidant, so it doesn't take "wild speculation" to come to this conclusion.
          2. gosub100 · · focus · HN ↗
            The blackmail theory explains:

            - why congress itself voted to cover it up

            - why there are these bizarre humiliation rituals like the FBI saying beastiality will not DQ you from working for the agency (some top FBI person likely screwed up something related to mossad and were forced to humiliate their agency).

            - why the UFC thing happened on the Whitehouse. That's a caricature of our culture, like if we wanted to humiliate mexico by making them have a Mariachi festival or something.

            1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
              The bestiality thing is obviously because the FBI is really trying to hire a specific person, and bestiality came up on their background check.
            2. harry8 · · focus · HN ↗
              Asserted without evidence and dismissed without evidence.

              Not even evidence at the standard of proof, just anything at all other than a cool sounding story.

              edit: clarity

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