The recent release of more Epstein files only provide more evidence about just how close former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were to each other, despite Barak’s protestations to the contrary.
    • kek@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      Hopefully this page doesn’t remove this comment for “antisemitism” again.

      lemmy.world loves censorship in general, would advise moving to a more relaxed instance.

      No surprises on him being an agent too

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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        3 days ago

        The lemmy.world mods were totally happily stomping on the narrative that Biden was directly enabling the Palestinian Genocide. It took until Trump was elected for them to start quietly backing off from an enforced naivete they were previously happy to maintain a “blue maga” response to where any criticism of Biden meant you were a Russian bot or something.

        If Biden was elected again we would still be fighting this battle against empty neoliberal centrists dismissing evidence of the genocide as a distraction/character assassination done to benefit Republicans.

          • jeffw@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            As a mod of a huge community, I cannot tell you how often someone said “Jews did x,” then called it censorship when we deleted it. If you criticize Israel, you’re fine. If you says “Jews,” but mean “Israel,” you’re probably not.

            Meanwhile, we have lively discussions behind the scenes to prevent censorship. Users don’t really care though, they just want to complain and assume every mod action is an attack on users.

            • kek@discuss.tchncs.de
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              3 days ago

              Users do care, but it’s obviously judged from actions alone - we don’t know what discussions happen behind the scenes. When I noticed mods behaving as if it was /r/worldnews, that’s when I switched.

      • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, but if the post is on lemmy.world, even by someone from another instance, they will just ban that user from that community.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Epstein is now widely acknowledged, even by one of his own friends and a current Trump official, as having used blackmail against powerful people — or, in the words of the New York Times, “keeping notes on some of his contacts” and “revel[ing] in claiming to know his friends’ secrets” and how they “might empower him.”

    😂 God the NYT is such trash.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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      3 days ago

      The NYT is a honeytrap for liberals who can’t admit they are conservatives that feeds its victims whatever narrative the 1% desire, which in this case is sweeping the Epstein files underneath the rug and desperately ignoring the massive role of Israel in this.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        I think the NYT has always just been a mouthpiece for the elite. It has a class position much more than it has a political position.

        As the US ruling class gives itself over to it’s own unhinged stupidity, so goes the NYT.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        liberals? I was being pressured to read it at a conservative college. i never viewed it as a “liberal” newspaper (just a murdoch one) but i see things through a skewed lens

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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      3 days ago

      So, they might try to cover it up by saying he was “spying” on them. This might or might not be true. Did he force them to do all these things they did? No? Then this just makes it look like “yeah, I did some things that are illegal/perverted/I don’t like to be public/…, but it wasn’t my fault but the fault of the guy who uncovered it!”

    • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      The NYT is just reporting what’s ‘fit to print’. Unless there’s verified proof of actual blackmail this description seems apt. Saying you have information on people and you may use it is not blackmail, as that would require a direct request.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        They’re describing blackmail, they’re just too cowardly to name what they’ve described.

        If someone has notes on the secrets of powerful people and claims to use those secrets to empower themself, that person is engaging in blackmail.

        • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 days ago

          If I say I have notes on powerful people and say that empowers me, that’s bragging. Not blackmail, because those people might not even know. If I were to say it to those powerful people, it could be perceived as threatening. But it’s not blackmail, as I don’t demand anything. If I were to use those notes to get something done: that’s blackmail.

    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 days ago

      No shit Ehud Barak is a child rapist. He’s in the files, with Jeffrey angry with him for beating the girls so badly.