• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    I think a lot of people were pressured into participating at pedo Island because of existing blackmail, which generated more powerful blackmail. Using blackmail leverage to create more blackmail leverage is like blackmail 101.

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      15 hours ago

      Correct - but he should still be held accountable for things like fucking children even if he did so under the threat of some other embarrassing info going public.

      Blackmail only works when the one being blackmailed digs their own grave with a pattern of failing to do what they should do every step of the way.

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        13 hours ago

        Oh I never said he shouldn’t be held accountable. I’m just saying there was almost certainly a pipeline of small steps to being fully implicated. There were definitely people who got involved with Epstein because he was a power broker that had his fingers in a lot of pies, and by the time they were past the point of no return it was too late.

        Not saying that’s the case with Gates, but it’s important to recognize that part.