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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Fair enough, everyone should be upset that the uber-rich can evade the law as they are now. Yes, they are horrible people. That I can understand.

What I don’t understand is why many people (not all people, but some certainly) bring it up in off-topic internet discussions.

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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Oh, the off-topic “release the Trump-Epstein files” memes (or tongue-in-cheek references to them)?

I guess it’s to remind those at the top that we still haven’t forgotten.

Like the whole post-9/11 thing, “we will never forget.” Except a bunch of similar things happened around the world, Hollywood started cashing in on 9/11, and bringing it up while worse shit was going on kinda faded, but the “pride” of remembering 9/11 stuck around for about a decade. These things have a long shelf life.

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DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
IMO it’s because they are pissed off. And the longer it takes for justice, the more pissed off they get.

Couple that with Congress ordering the release of all the documents, then the justice department dragging its feet. Everything the us government does that isn’t just releasing the docs is seen as a distraction. Delay until people forget or stop caring, so to counter that people refuse to stop talking about the files, to keep them in the conversation.

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