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actually I think reducing it to "Rich guy abuses teen girls" is part of the problem, since this is a story about transnational geopolitics not some lone predator
The thing is, the big conspiracies are false. Oswald shot JFK. We landed on the moon. Trump lost in 2020. But conspiracies like "Rich guy abuses teen girls" are not so much conspiracies as reasonably likely events that should be taken seriously.
I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
actually I think reducing it to "Rich guy abuses teen girls" is part of the problem, since this is a story about transnational geopolitics not some lone predator
doesn't seem like an either/or by a long shot
January 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
doesn't seem like an either/or by a long shot