• plz1@lemmy.world
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    42 minutes ago

    The phrase “underage women” is the biggest lie mainstream media has pushed as part of all of this. These scumbags didn’t have sex with “underage women”. The raped children.

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    He’s trying to satisfy people by admitting to a smaller thing rather than the worse things he did. Classic PR.

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    For anyone that still needs to hear this: there are no good billionaires! ABAB. This dude right here was the poster child for "good billionaires’. I don’t know whether only evil fuckers can become billionaires (probably), but I do know that having access to functionally unlimited wealth and power will inevitably warp your soul.

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    Announcing “affairs” seems carefully chosen. “Affair” implies an ongoing extramarital relationship. Sampling each of Epstein’s new child sex slaves would be pedophilia and cheating, but not affairs. He wants to imply his only extramarital sex was with consenting adults.

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    I’m conflicted in these situations.

    Obviously apologizing is better than nothing but at the same time, it’s an empty gesture at this point given how there is no consequence.

    The only benefit is that it’s another domino that hopefully leads to actual justice.

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      “I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he said.

      Sounds like actual adults.

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        So he met both these accomplished adult Russian women just going about his billionaire day, nothing to do with his good buddy Jeff whatsoever. When he caught the nasty clap from one of these only two accomplished adult Russian women, he ran straight to his good buddy Jeff for help spiking his wife, even though his good buddy Jeff had nothing to do with trafficking procuring introducing him to these exactly two, definitely adult, women.

        I have no further questions, just glad we can finally put these “BILL GATES IS DEFINITELY A PEDOPHILE” rumours to bed. Phew.

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    Russian women or Russian girls? Even now, he’s trying to soft-pedal his abuses.

    Fuck that fucking fucking guy.

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    Cool. Give your billions to the bottom 90%, and we’ll decide whether to believe that’s all you did with Epstein.

    (We’ll definitely decide to not believe you)

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    “I am sorry (that I got caught) having relations with numerous russian women. Numerous delicious 11 year old russian ‘women’.
    I truly wish I had not been caught and I am sorry.
    I want everyone to know that it will never happen again…mainly because I’m now far more cautious about the children I rape!”

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    He’s sorry he got an STI from an underage Russian prostitute and he gave it to Melinda, then asked Epstein how to slip her antibiotics without her knowing.

    “affair”. fuck right off Bill.

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    Ahhh guys, he apologized. I mean, it’s only a bit of foreign blackmail targeting a man with unbearable weight on global tech. He said he was sorry!

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    No sympathy here. If he is admitting to that, no reason to believe him on the kid stuff, better do a very deep look.

    He can keep the cell warm for Trump as far as I’m concerned.

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      Yeah, this comes across as admitting to a small thing to try and avoid consequences for the big thing. If we’re already in a place where we’re talking about a man with a life of elicit affairs while spending time around a child sex trafficker, it is absurdly unbelievable that at no point did those wires get crossed or that he was unaware of what he was getting himself into.

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      It’s not the same severity, but it reminds me of when Kevin Spacey was having rape allegations or something. So he came out and said he was finally coming out of the closet.

      It was like, “yeah … okay … what about the other stuff … ?”