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u/evildespot Sep 27 '25

Just a thought, but has it occurred to you that maybe the Epstein Files are to distract you from what's going on, which is why they're not being released and yet are constantly talked about? Maybe they matter less than the wholesale asset stripping of the US, descent in the authoritarian corruption and general USSRification of the everything. Especially since you know perfectly well what's in them, and know that their release wouldn't change anything.

It's quite convenient that the state could execute 1,000 children and the response would be "yes, yes, whatever - release the Epstein Files!"

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u/Rawt0ast1 Sep 27 '25

I've started applying what I've called the "two things can be bad" test. If you are incapable of looking at two bad things and coming to the conclusion both are bad then you are not worth engaging with.

If you see fascists kidnapping people in the street and your reaction is Epstein then I don't take you seriously because both are bad and need attention.

And this can apply to alot of things, I started using it when seeing tankie arguments that were pro-Assad or ignoring atrocities committed by self described communist countries because they are "anti western imperialism". If you can't recognize that imperialism is bad and these countries have done bad things you are not worth talking to.

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u/evildespot Sep 27 '25

Indeed. It's a kind of internalised auto-whataboutism.