Those are crimes of the past. We have to look to the future.
Comment on The news is sugarcoating how revolting the Epstein files are
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days agoI don’t want to be a “this is a distraction” guy, but debating the particulars of language used by a news source when the folks on record as being pedophiles still aren’t being prosecuted feels like a fucking distraction to me.
Like, they aren’t even going to Lock Up the Clintons. The one thing that almost everyone in America can agree on is Bill Clinton being a pedophile. He’s not someone Trump needs to protect. He’s not someone the DNC wants to carry water for anymore. He’s practically on death’s door anyway, I don’t know if even he would mind. And Trump’s DOJ still won’t lift a fucking finger.
It’s embarrassing to see a country this obsessed with “War on Crime” bullshit refuse to touch ex-Presidents caught absolutely dead to rights doing crimes.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 2 days ago
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Only so far as the Epstein files themselves were a distraction that gave false hope that people would change their beliefs. It’s only a language for frustration; a way for people to justify themselves turning away from ideologies that no longer serve them. Some Trumpians might turn from him, some neoliberals might rethink their support of our old system, but they’ll only care about Epstein because their personal wallets and rights were jeopardized.
120 Days of Sodom was written in 1785 on the eve of the French revolution. It was adapted into the film Salò, which set the story in German occupied Italy. None of this depravity by untouchable elites is new. People with so much institutional power will always do shit like this. The only solution is to resist the power no matter if it’s unpopular, no matter if they send goons to kill you for calling the system what it is. They are replaceable villains, thus the only thing to fight is anyone’s ability to be above us mortals.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Most of us can actually both call out the reporting for proper terminology and locking the perpetrators. It’s not one or the other…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Right. You can call for things.