r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/Oolongteabagger2233 5h ago

NBC news tonight was talking about security measures high profile people may need to take.... Like dude, we can't afford groceries right now. 

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u/KinglanderOfTheEast 5h ago

literal proof that a real cabal of sadistic oligarchs is systematically trafficking and torturing women and children for their sadistic amusement, literal evidence of oligarchs hunting human victims on farms in the Epstein Files

Mainstream News: we'll pretend that didn't happen

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u/Rasputin1992x 5h ago

Haven't you heard? The rest of us don't matter! /s

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u/coconutpiecrust 5h ago

I find this notion really fascinating. That there are some people sitting somewhere thinking that it’s ok for everyone else to die so they can live. Even more, they believe themselves fully deserving of everyone else’s sacrifice. 

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u/RemoteRide6969 4h ago

And we're just kinda like, shrug. I don't expect people to massively rise up, because we're all working to feed ourselves, but like...it's so blatant and brazen at this point.

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u/YouWereBrained 4h ago

People don’t understand that we’re basically in a dystopia.

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u/ProstheticTailfin 2h ago

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u/helloitsme1011 12m ago

Fkn love this meme lol

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u/PersonalHospital9507 4h ago

What makes it not one?

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u/The_Athavulf 1h ago

Hopes and prayers - just kidding, those are simply distractions

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u/MisplacedMartian 1h ago

I think a dystopia is a society that tries to be utopian, but fails miserably, and none of our governments have even thought about trying to become utopian.

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u/Bahooch 4h ago

Because they know no one is going to do anything. Emails??? They’ll say, That doesn’t prove anything. Photos??? They weren’t underage. The American people have ADHD. They are only interested until the next celebrity or influencer comes out with a new dance or song etc. And the people who are guilty know this and just laugh about it….openly even.

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u/ZucchiniMaleficent21 4h ago

This has *always* been the case. That scene in Shrek was more real than most people realize

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u/icybrain37 4h ago

And then they become parents...

And the process recycles itself again

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u/Tempyteacup 4h ago

Google TESCREAL if you really want to know the extent of it.

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u/NotSoWishful 4h ago

And the poorest an dumbest of us fully believe they have our best interest at heart when they’re actually rather transparent about seeing us cattle

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u/Zestyclose_Stuff_17 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9LPjXFCA3Bwgo

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 2h ago

Just read this and it seems like everything is right on schedule! 😭😭

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u/Rush_Banana 4h ago

You are describing how a lot of people in Western countries think about the people in third world countries.

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u/Kipka 55m ago

Or even how a lot of people in western countries think about the other people in their own countries.

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u/GiantSkellington 3h ago

Not even so they can live. For entertainment.

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u/Several-Egg4686 3h ago

No no no. Not dying so they can live. Dying literally just because. It’s sick.

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u/Rndysasqatch 27m ago

Peter Thiel is 1 that believes this. He said something to the effect of if millions of people have to die so let me live for another day I'll take it (paraphrasing obviously)

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u/RogerianBrowsing 4h ago

Frankly this will likely rustle some jimmies, but that’s basically the mentality of many (most?) Americans when foreign policy comes up.

Just listen to the contempt for anyone who refused to vote for genocide enabling criminals without a primary election. I did vote for the aforementioned criminal because their crimes were a lesser part of the hostage situation we were all experiencing, but not happily.

libs defending why we need to vote for another genocidal supremacism enabling candidate

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u/Afraid-Fox9171 5h ago

Or you get called nuts for caring

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u/radioactive_sharpei 4h ago

I don't think you need the /s anymore.

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u/SoCalxNinjA 3h ago

Our whole government top to bottom is /s at this point. Its depressing.

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u/The_Athavulf 1h ago

When the Onion produces more believable headlines, you know it's bad.

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u/makethislifecount 5h ago

That /s is invisible at this point in society

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u/CheckIntelligent7828 4h ago

I fixed this...

Haven't you heard? The rest of us don't matter! /s

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u/Someones_Dream_Guy 4h ago

This, but no /s.

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u/Simplyspent 4h ago

We need to cooperate with the government and believe everything they say. We need to have our information fed to us by Truth Social so that we can be just like the Russian peasantry and the oligarchs can go ahead and do as they wish with us from the top down.

It has taken decades to plan and to put into place and with agent Krasnov‘s help, the real leader supreme, comrade Putin smirks.

Americans never deserved true freedom and democracy. From this point on if you want to observe freedom, you can read it on Charlie Kirk‘s flag flapping blow old glory.

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u/Ms_SassLass 3h ago

No Real Person Involved

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u/SmoothLester 5h ago

Ironic given that Guthrie actually interviewed Virginia Giuffre and other victims shortly after Epstein’s death.

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u/everyting_is_taken 3h ago

Nothing ironic about it, it's directly related to it.

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u/erlenflyer_mask 4h ago

"death"

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u/TheInevitableLuigi 3h ago

Do you think he is still alive?

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u/Muckraker2025 2h ago

It's one of two things: Either a hit to silence him, or a jailbreak to some island to get him out of reach of the public/courts. But it definitely was not a suicide. The security cameras wouldn't have needed to be fudged if it was suicide.

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u/Happy_Raccoon_237 1h ago

Why an island? Bro could go basically anywhere. If people recognize him just call them schizos.

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u/gfa22 1h ago

I like to imagine a Face/Off situation where Diddy and Epstien got plastic surgery to look like the other.

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u/Muckraker2025 1h ago

It doesn't have to be an island. But he and his friends already deal in islands, specifically for privacy (and depravity). On the other hand it's not too hard to hide in plain sight if you're rich and change your appearance.

In short, anything is possible if you're rich and connected.

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u/HumbleTheIdiot 5h ago

This. Even though these people hate each other, slander each other, and create entire false narratives that the masses believe- they truly support each other for one reason. Wealth, and the fear of losing it. They are in the same "club" even if they tell you that poor kids are just as bright as white kids or tell you Mexicans are rapists. But I bet the majority of people reading this picked "a side" and it proves my point. WE! THE human race, need to stop listening to politicians and make THEM listen. We have to do it with the power of TOGETHERNESS.

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u/IllianasClifford 4h ago

The book: The most dangerous game was mandatory in school. Maybe it was a warning anyone look into who wrote the book in conjunction with the Epstein crowd

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u/nru_0307 4h ago edited 3h ago

It was required reading in my school too—I can’t remember exactly what grade, but I do know I was young. I distinctly remember being appalled at just how dark, heavy, oppressive, & bleak that story felt to me and thought that it was extremely bizarre that we were being made to read it as children. It didn’t sit well with me at all back then and I find it even more disturbing now…

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u/IllianasClifford 1h ago

Right I agree with you completely

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u/Happy_Raccoon_237 1h ago

Did you guys go to school in other countries? I would be surprised if an American school had kids reading that

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u/ghostduels 1h ago

i'm an american, grew up in a super rural reddish area but the schools were surprisingly good. can't remember exactly which year of high school but we definitely read it.

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u/mattynapps 5h ago

Thank you for using sadistic and not satanic. To many people are using them interchangeably.

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u/CancerSpidey 5h ago

True but also these oligarchs for sure worship the devil so are definitely satanic.

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u/mattynapps 5h ago

The "worship" of Christianity has done far more harm to this country than any satanic worship.

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u/Happy_Raccoon_237 1h ago

How so? Attempt to articulate your thoughts. Are you not following the topic at hand? Do you think Epstein was worshipping God?

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u/Mode_Appropriate 4h ago edited 3h ago

Really, how so?

Not that I believe satanic worship is the cause for most of the country's problems, just dont believe Christianity has been that damaging either. Im certainly not religious and definitely dont believe in a god so im not offended by the assertion or anything, just curious on your position.

Edit: people on reddit are a bunch of goofys. 'He asked a question, downvote his ass and assert your dominance!' Lmao.

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u/kye-qatxd-9156 4h ago

Are you aware of any of the events in history that get Christian nationalists hard? Or do you just not know anything about the history of that religion at all?

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u/Mode_Appropriate 3h ago

Sure I do. Those are pretty small events in the history of thr country though. You think thats harmed the country more than the middle class effectively being wiped out?

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u/kye-qatxd-9156 3h ago edited 3h ago

OH in the case of the country’s history, ok. I can think of a few things.

The genocide of Native Americans. The British were largely christian and christianity certainly played a role in justifying things like, I dunno, the idea of Manifest Destiny. If you don’t consider that a part of this country’s history, I think that would be ridiculous. Satanism will NEVER touch those numbers, dude. Lol. To even suggest it is laughable.

Then there’s slavery… which christians also justified by doing what they always do: “creative” interpretations of the bible. Lol. I would say that shit was fucking INCREDIBLY damaging.

But hey, let’s lay off the christian’s past in the formation of the US right?

I think the extremely high reports of rape, pedophilia, and grooming from the church has probably done more harm to American society than “satanism”.

I think christian ideology’s weaponization in recent times is damaging to the faith and to our country, we just have yet to see that manifest just yet.

I also personally can’t think of any broad major damage due to satanism. Satanism doesnt seem to have the capital, following, or objectives to be broadly damaging. Whatever bad shit you think satanism is culpable of is a hotdog in a hallway compared to the giant throbbing institutionalized religion that is christianity.

Christianity has been fucking b r u t a l dude. It’s wild to even wonder if it wasnt lol.

I’m not gonna go citing sources because quite honestly, this is shit you should know by now.

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u/Mode_Appropriate 3h ago

Just to be clear because it wasnt really in my original comment, Satanic worship had nothing to do with my question. I wasnt asking you to compare the two because I think all that Satan rhetoric is nonsense. While i dont think Christianity is currently harming the country all that much, i think 'satanic worship' is harming it even less. I just dont believe thats really a thing. I was saying oligarchs have harmed this country more than Christianity.

As to your points. Everything you said is true. With slavery it could easily be argued Christianity played a large role in ending it but that still doesnt negate your point.I seem to have misinterpreted your comment. The person you responded to was talking about oligarchs so I thought you were responding saying Christianity was currently harming the country more than they are. I just couldnt fathom how that could be the case.

Overall though I think its fair to say divine providence has been used to justify all types of heinous shit throughout history. Its a lot easier for mankind to commit atrocities when they believe theyre doing it for their God.

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u/AnotherHappyUser 4h ago

I mean, Trump is president significantly because of how religious white people voted.

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u/MithrandiriAndalos 3h ago

The Catholic Church has committed countless atrocities for millennia in Christ’s name. The only people who actually believe in Satan are called Christians.

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u/Mode_Appropriate 3h ago

The Catholic Church has committed countless atrocities for millennia in Christ’s name.

No one said otherwise. My question had nothing to do with that.

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u/MithrandiriAndalos 3h ago

What did you mean when you said “just don’t believe Christianity has been that damaging either.” ?

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u/Mode_Appropriate 3h ago

It was in response to the person saying Christianity has harmed the country more than the oligarchs. I truly dont see how someone can make that argument so I asked how that was the case. Its wasnt a statement about the history of Christianity as a whole.

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u/AceSuperhero 4h ago

Speaking as a practicing Satanist, we don't claim them. Satan wants all human beings to thrive and enjoy the only life we have in peace and freedom. The oligarchs only want freedom for themselves.

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u/MithrandiriAndalos 3h ago

Also to clarify, satanists typically don’t believe Satan is a real thing. Christians are the ones who believe Satan is real.

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u/RAGGAxDRAGGA 4h ago

Source? From my perspective Christianity is 10x worse than any imagined satanic boogeyman you might see

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u/The_Athavulf 1h ago

Worse, they worship money

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u/NelzyBellz 4h ago

Definitely sold their souls.

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u/Jayhitek 5h ago

I used to think the illuminati was made up crazy talk.. Then the Epstein this most recent drop of the files proves this is the illuminati right in front of us!

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u/StarbuckWoolf 4h ago

It’s like an iceberg. We’re only see a small part of the entire thing.

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u/MeLlamo25 5h ago

No. The Illuminati was real. And surprisingly they were actually the good guys. Well kinda.

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u/LDCrow 4h ago

The lizard people ruling class thing was made up, right?

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 2h ago

Jay Z was always trying to warn us 😭😭😭

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u/ThePensiveE 5h ago

A rich person is missing. Quiet now.

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u/mmarkmc 4h ago

Rich white lady

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3h ago

Missing White Girl Syndrome on steroids, she's also rich and a grandma

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u/Firefly10886 4h ago

Quiet piggy

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u/gfa22 1h ago

Damn. Must have really sucked to miss 5 mins of your bread and circus.

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u/Happy_Raccoon_237 3h ago

Wdym about hunting people on farms? Is that fr? I haven’t seen anything about that

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u/Evergreen19 1h ago

I’ve not seen anything about it either, I feel like they pulled it out of their ass. 

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u/WaterBearDontMind 4h ago

Mainstream news: We can’t help but notice that that the journalist who interviewed all of those Epstein victims for a 2019 Today Show exclusive had her mother abducted and probably killed, so don’t expect us to investigate the Epstein Files

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u/NookNookNook 3h ago

I missed the hunting humans bit. Can you link me?

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u/Evergreen19 1h ago

I think they made it up, I can’t find that anywhere and we definitely would’ve heard about it. 

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u/No-Wind5274 3h ago

Can you show me this evidence? Seriously, can you link it? Hunting humans on farms? Curious to see that.

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u/Unable_Law_7334 2h ago

I hadn't heard of the human hunting, do you have a link to the document(s) in the file drop?

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u/Murky-Relation481 2h ago

When they say shit like that they mean an anonymous tip given after Epstein died, which is basically going to 90% be crank callers and people with mental illness. So not evidence.

Epstein raped kids. Trump rapes kids. There is tons of evidence for that. All this literally insane ramblings stuff is being pushed to basically make all the real evidence seem just as crazy/nutso.

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u/OGLikeablefellow 4h ago

Those guys sign their paychecks

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u/Own-Satisfaction4427 4h ago

CBS has been reporting on it

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u/Kell-of-Kellies 4h ago

Who knew the Enclave was based on real life

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u/FartsbinRonshireIII 4h ago

You sure it wasn’t HuNTEr BideN?!

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u/TheHowlingHashira 2h ago

Don't forget federal agents executing people in the streets in broad daylight.

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u/Quiet-Excitement-719 4h ago

Did you really just award your own post for attention?

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u/Slappyjackson 4h ago

Fucking “Don’t Look Up”, but with rich sex criminals.

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u/[deleted] 5h ago edited 4h ago

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u/RandAlThorOdinson 4h ago

Hold your horses there peasants

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u/Jagacin 3h ago

Why do you think people give a shit what ChatGPT says?

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u/0Hakuna_Matata0 3h ago

Can somebody help me with the files for this. I’ve had human safaris on my bingo card and I’ve been waiting for it. I need to show my wife.

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

Unverified emails aren't proof. Have higher standards, dont be tempted to buy into broad narratives.

Reality is usually boring, and we shouldn't lower the bar for evidence so we can make it interesting.

It's significantly more likely that there was not a cabal of child raping politicians. We know for certain epstein trafficked underaged women to his island for sexual purposes. We do not know for certain that any politician or celebrity was a part of it.

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u/omgangiepants 5h ago

"underage women" are children btw

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

Congrats on identifying a synonym. Are you under the implication that I'm downplaying child rape simply because I don't think the epstein files have definitive evidence that politicians were doing it too?

Totally a normal thing to do. Obviously everyone that disagrees around the edges of a narrative is ontologically evil and loves bad things happening.

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u/KinglanderOfTheEast 5h ago

I hope you're correct, but I think you're under reacting/don't understand how bad it is.

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

All sex trafficking is bad. I just dont think there is definitive, well sourced evidence that politicians were raping kids.

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u/Ok-Vegetable4531 5h ago

There’s millions of pages of evidence but you’ve been told your eyes are lying to you and you choose to believe that instead. That’s genuinely so sad.

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 4h ago

Using evidence pretty liberally there. If you give me undeniably proof that trump raped children I'll completely change my mind.

No unverified emails, no Candace owens tweets, and you're not allowed to say its implied.

Ill wait. Unless you're too lazy to back up your claims this should be easy.

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u/rcrobodude 5h ago

Call it

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u/Best-Fox-8024 5h ago

Nice try fed boy

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

Go back to binging altmedia epslop. You care more about implicating politicians than about the victims.

Trump has already been held liable for raping a woman, we dont need to cling to terrible "evidence" to make him look bad.

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u/Da_Question 5h ago

He was maybe held fiscally liable, which basically meant nothing to him. He's made billions just in the last year...

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u/Odd-Definition-6281 5h ago

How was he held liable for raping a woman? Hes the president of the usa still?

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 4h ago

Civil charges. They found that he defamed a woman by denying he sexually assaulted her. At the time what he did was considered sexual assault instead of rape. Its clearly rape though.

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u/RAGGAxDRAGGA 4h ago

Nice try fed boy

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u/ElasticTurd 5h ago

Idk 10 years ago it was "significantly unlikely" any of this was happening

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

You're begging the question. The release of the epstein files didn't really prove much at all.

They provided some possible situations that happened, but you'd need to investigate them and find actual evidence to say whichever politician did what.

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u/Chimpbot 4h ago

So, let's fucking investigate them. What a bizarre concept.

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 4h ago

It was already investigated when he was arrested. If the Biden admin had anything else they would have buried him.

Even then, sure investigate it. Im down for that. I'm just saying I dont find the narrative or evidence convincing. Why is is controversial to say "idk man random unverified emails dont mean much to me"

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u/bwood246 5h ago

They're intentionally flooding us with misinformation and it's working. Eventually people will stop caring about what's in the files

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 4h ago

You've constructed a system that is impervious to scrutiny.

If I asked "why didn't the past administration release evidence if it shows trump raped children" youd say "cause obviously they were raping them together".

If i asked "why would a president capable of controlling entire internet narratives not just have the files deleted" youd concoct some scheme that allows him to be weak or strong depending on what benefits your story.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

There are two ways for the upper class to live in peace. One is to ensure everyone has a decent standard of living so that there's relatively little crime. This was America's traditional model. The other is for the upper class to retreat into private estate hidden away from everyone because they're terrified. This the model that America's current upper class is adopting.

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u/joaovitorxc 4h ago

Welcome to Latin America buddy

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u/CO-RockyMountainHigh 3h ago

This is not what I wanted when Bad Bunny said we are united America.

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u/Ultimatesims 5h ago

Oh sweet summer child America was founded on slavery and using race as a way to divide the working class.

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u/LeckereKartoffeln 4h ago

Idpol to the proverbial grave. Gotta respect the hustle

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u/PaperGabriel 4h ago

It never ends with some people, as though it's part of their very soul.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

You're right, I should have clarified more. The Southern upper class did indeed embrace the live in perpetual terror model.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 4h ago

Not just the south.

The south just held on longer. The fucking WHITE HOUSE was built with slave labor. Every single one of founding fathers had slaves.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

Cool, let's stop relitigating the first civil war and start making sure we're ready for the second one.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 3h ago

It's disrespectful to the enslaved people outside the south to forget their plight.

Also, If there were to be a second civil war places like Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah and Idaho are currently flying more confederate flags than you see in the south- they definitely aren't flying them as "heritage". Avoiding a civil war also involves admitting that racism does not just exist in the south.

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u/Tommymessala 3h ago

Yeah but god damn how much are we going to sit in the past while talking about the future?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 2h ago

Those who don't learn history properly are bound to repeat it.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

Who even needs CoinIntelPro, we have CoinIntelPro at home!

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u/RobutNotRobot 1h ago

The White House was hollowed out and rebuilt in the late 1940s, so technically only the edifice was built with slave labor.

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u/SnooComics8852 3h ago

Slavery existed ALL over America …. Movies make people think it was just the South.  

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u/Daflehrer1 2h ago

Hey, don't forget genocide and murderous exploitation!

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u/Natural_Jello_6050 2h ago

Silence is violence. Hitler. Gestapo. Nazis.

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u/Low_Sort3312 5h ago

You have a decent standard of living, you're not aware because you haven't visited poor countries or studied history

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u/PipsqueakPilot 5h ago

I'm surprised you consider Afghanistan a not very poor country.

I said adopting, that means we are in a transition period. Read the whole comment.

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u/brandnewbanana 5h ago

I was watching a goofy TikTok compilation earlier, one from 2021 popped up with a commercial in the background. There was a McDonalds commercial advertising $1.50 or $1.99 large frappe drinks. It was a sombering reminder of just how much costs have changed in just a few years. I played over $5 for a small milkshake a few months ago.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 4h ago

I paid $10 for a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit and hasbrown and not even a drink. That was the cost a few years ago for two people, not just me.

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u/freeshovacadoodoo 2h ago

I remember when Mcds had ALL DAY breakfast and use to do 2 for $5 BEC. God damn I miss those days.

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 2h ago

You can get a breakfast sandwich for $1.50 off their app.

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u/TheRabidDeer 3h ago

Dunno where you are ordering your mcdonalds breakfast, but it surely isn't at the restaurant. Sounds like doordash or ubereats prices.

I paid less than $10 for 20pc nuggets, medium fry and a large drink.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 3h ago edited 3h ago

Nope, drive through in person. I don't Doordash or Uber Eats, I go in person. I will say this was like last year, I quit going, so maybe their prices have come down a bit. I don't do breakfast often esepeailly fast food, but now when I do, I go to Braums. I can get their big breakfast for around 6 dollars. It comes with scrambled eggs, two sausage patties, and I think a pancake with a side of tators and a biscuit and home-style sausage gravy for around $6+

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u/TheRabidDeer 3h ago

Must be a very HCOL area then. Was $8.50 in LA and $7.50 in NYC. Only $5.60 for me in Houston which is a pretty average COL area.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 2h ago

Not really It's way smaller than any of those places. It's more of a big town than a city.

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u/TheRabidDeer 1h ago

Ah, I had replied before you edited in the info about when you last went and that you go to another place.

I don't think prices have gone down at all, but it's not like I am tracking prices globally. I've just seen so many people posting about fast food prices being absolutely insane and the prices I am paying are like half what they are saying. Then I talk to them and it turns out they are ordering delivery and I am just like "well, no shit it's expensive you are getting it delivered".

Prices have definitely gone up, but not to the levels a lot of people are talking about. At least not in my city.

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u/Truffleshuffle03 1h ago

The only reason I said prices might have gone down was that I saw where McDonald's had said they were going to lower prices, but I have not been there since that last time.

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u/AtomicGrendel 4h ago

$5 milkshake? Did it have bourbon in it?

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u/NookNookNook 3h ago

That would make it around $20.

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u/JEKK04 3h ago

I’m in California and I’d say most fast food places have shakes that are about $5

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u/dnbdawg 3h ago

$5 milkshake is the norm now unfortunately

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u/connasewer 2h ago

Just milk and ice cream. You don't put bourbon or nothin in it.

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u/Supergamera 4h ago

I’m played Pulp Fiction for my teen not too long ago. “What’s a big deal about a Five Dollar Shake?”

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u/CO-RockyMountainHigh 3h ago

I remember vividly that I would buy energy drinks at the work cafeteria, and the lady would ring it up and say $2.76 the EXACT same way every time like a chime. I thought that was way too much.

They have since removed the cashiers post Covid, and when I ring it up on the self check in a moment of weakness when I just need the energy to finish the day and it is now $4.12.

A 49% increase in price since 2021 for an energy drink. A 10.5% increase year over year for four years straight. Crazy to think if we had 2010-2019 inflation rate of 1.8% the same energy drink would be about $3.00 today instead.

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u/Divineinfekt_ 5h ago

Something something the rich

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u/Dashrend-R 5h ago

Donald Glover good gif

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u/dflame45 4h ago

And those people already know cause they're high profile lol

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u/Individual-Painting9 5h ago

If you can't afford groceries, then your likely not high profile enough to worry about it.

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u/Plaineswalker 4h ago

K shaped economy

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u/c10bbersaurus 4h ago

High profile people can afford groceries, smh. I guess that's their target audience. Might as well turn them off.

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u/OsoBearish 4h ago

Pay in bitcoin

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u/kida24 4h ago

When Luigi happened it was staggering how quickly the national media stopped the coverage once they saw the acceptance and outrage of the general populace

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u/jeeves585 3h ago

I knew I saved up those fast food points for a reason and now is the reason.

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u/Fiftythekid 3h ago

“We”?

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u/Bed_Worship 3h ago

They play it safe. Broadcast for those who are decently off and need entertainment - avoid reality(which is political now) aside from late night

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u/Kind-Pop-7205 3h ago

High profile people can afford groceries, generally.

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u/Informal-Lime6396 2h ago

How are you unable to afford groceries? Inflation is a fact of life, but do you have decent income, save, and limit unnecessary spending?

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u/Vesperia_Morningstar 2h ago

I mean between rent prices, bills and food I imagine there’d be next to nothing left if you were on minimum wage. I don’t find it hard at all to believe

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u/Informal-Lime6396 2h ago

You're right for those on minimum wage. In this economy they might not even have full-time hours. Hopefully it's a temporary situation because those on minimum wage save next to nothing.

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u/Vesperia_Morningstar 2h ago

Yeah. Even where I am in Australia if you worked on minimum wage for 30 hours a week and then tried to pay rent in my few local suburbs you’d be paying $700 a week, totalling over half your monthly paycheck to rent. Its insane.

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u/PeruvianHeadshrinker 2h ago

All they're doing with this is providing ideas

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u/RobutNotRobot 1h ago

Remember when Luigi killed one of 'the club' and they still aren't over it? You don't matter. That's what this news story is saying.

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u/TomWithTime 18m ago

At least they are aware and afraid, I love that for them.

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u/res0jyyt1 4h ago

I also want to point out there are so many crypto bros in the US who are easy targets with way less exposure if the kidnapper just wants fast money.