• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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    ““The evidence in this room is evidence of one of the most horrific crimes in American history,” Garrett says. “When people come through this room, I hope they realize that in America, we have the rule of law, and if they stand up they can take action and demand accountability for the crimes that were committed.””

    Is this “rule of law” in the room with us?

    Why are you printing shit out instead of going and getting that there accountability taken care of, bro? Hmmm almost like you know demanding accountability won’t do shit so the best you can do is just make sure people don’t forget about how we’re all getting fucked. But recognizing that I’m getting fucked isn’t the same as not getting fucked. It’s a good thing he’s done, but it’s ridiculous and annoying that he said this. Totally normalizing, system-preserving bullshit. We wouldn’t need to make cutesy libraries about this if there was ever going to be accountability.

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      21 hours ago

      What a bad take.

      Why are you printing shit out instead of going and getting that there accountability taken care of, bro

      What power do you think this non-profit has to do anything about it? Riling people up with a public exhibit that shows the physical scale of the files for the first time is more than 99.9% of people.

      Including people like you making an anonymous comment on a server in another country about how someone you surely just learned about isn’t doing enough.

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        15 hours ago

        Well like I said, I think he is doing a good thing. And I like the exhibit.

        “What power do you think this non-profit has to do anything about it?”

        Exactly, no power. That’s why him saying “if they stand up they can take action and demand accountability for the crimes that were committed” is a ridiculous thing to say.

        1. People already have been standing up, taking action, and demanding accountability. Absolutely nothing happens
        2. As you yourself admit, him and his exhibit cannot demand accountability either

        So in what sense is he saying something true here?

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          15 hours ago

          A single person is powerless but a collective is not.

          I think you vastly overestimate how much the average person knows about all this if you find no value in spreading the word. You might even overestimate how much the above-average person even remembers about the case. Epstein died 7 years ago and a whole lot of other bad things have happened since

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            15 hours ago

            Hmmm that’s a good point. I keep trying to teach myself the lesson to lower that bar. I mean, I still think that there have been enough people upset about Epstein even just this last year that we should have seen something happen.

            But it’s true that it might take more people than the amount that we would like…and you’re right that there’s probably a lot of people who know next to nothing about it.

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              There’s a whole generation of adults who were just kids when it was in the news. Trump’s approval is tanking and more people flipping every day, open to hearing this information that they deliberately avoided.

              I’ll be honest, I’ve been thinking way more about Iran than Epstein lately. So even for me it’s a good reminder not to lose sight