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Side note: The Expanse novels (as well as being excellent on social media) are really interesting on UBI. Or “basic” on Earth in an interestingly dystopian way.
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I'm not suggesting for a moment that the child prositution conviction doesn't matter. It matters hugely, and says a lot about all the people who remained close to Epstein after.

I'm just saying that even without that, this is a scandal of historic proportions for completely unrelated reasons

You can mentally remove the sex trafficking and child rape and imagine for a moment that Mandelson is pals with a normal foreign investor who is not a convicted criminal... and it is still virtually impossible to process the idea of him forwarding on sensitive government emails while in cabinet

It's a bit like if they got Capone for tax evasion and only later learned about all the gangster stuff.