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Yes. It is about holding people accountable and punishing them for their crimes. If they can get away crimes, then what is the point of courts of law or even a justice system? Might as well, throw those in the bin.

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Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh laws? Yeah, that’s just for us poors.

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- itkovian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  All too often that happens to be true.
  
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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I understand that these people should, of course, be held accountable and shouldn’t just run free after doing all that horrible stuff on his island. What I don’t really get is why it is so often brought up in off-topic discussion. I get that people want to spread awareness and all that, but screaming “release the files!” on internet posts doesn’t really help.

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- blueworld@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I empathize with your off-topic comments, but I think it has much to do with the context of information today. Trump himself is trying to drive any comments of Epstein away by distraction and events. This is one paper on the topic. So many people are throwing the references in as an eye to defiance, anger, frustration, and as part of a trend. If the idiocy in charge wants to distract us, then more than ever we need to stay focused on why he wants to distract us.
  
  That being said, it does have unintended consequences and is not necessarily the best way to handle this. However this new generation hasn’t really had a civil rights, suffrage, British tea party, or even just Arab Spring event to use as a baseline to make change in this entirely digital world now. People are still trying to figure out how to push, have a phone that causes attention distraction, live pay check to pay check, etc. Which is to say organization and protesting is still figuring itself out, so you get ‘release the files’ as a call to arms everywhere.
  
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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Because our current President was best friends with Epstein and a third of the population believes he has nothing to do with it, or would rather the files go away so they don’t have to deal the rest of us saying we told you so!
  
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- JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I understand that these people should, of course, be held accountable
  
  Right, so who? And with what evidence?
  
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  Oh yeah, that info is (probably) in the Epstein Files.
  
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