• ICBM@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 day ago

      Dude was borderline illiterate Epstein was a super-genius who made major innovations to the English language, particularly regarding punctuation.

      Some of the formatting weirdness is probably from HTML->plain text conversion. I suspect that the random “=” that frequently appear might be from sloppy GPG decryption on the FBI’s part?

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          18 hours ago

          I’m curious about that myself. Seems like insanely bad opsec for someone associated with Mossad (to say the least) to just put all this out there on gmail servers in plaintext.

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        8 hours ago

        I thought about that in another thread. When you know you’re truly above the law, does it really matter? Anything nasty comes out you can blame drugs?

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        21 hours ago

        That is kind of one theory of CSAs, that that is the age they were themselves abused. It seems to fit with certain cases, idk about all.

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          The counterargument is that because they were abused with little recourse at that age, they might see young victims as easy prey with minimal chance of being caught.

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            Some, certainly. After all, at the end of the day, abuse of any sort is a power play. But it takes far more power to control our own inner beasts, and sheer willpower ain’t it.

            At any rate, that theory can not be applied wholesale across the board, not any other, imo. What can be is that the abused either grow up to become abusers or victims or both, without deep reckoning and usually some sort of professional intervention. I suppose there are exceptions, but I’ve never met any, in 3D, despite much protestation to the contrary.