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No the fuck it has not
The Iran War, [what would famously be known as the Epstein War,] began at the most convenient time possible for the PedophileOTUS. The name fits, arguably better than Microslop.
it "began" lol they fuckin started it right when we were hearing all about the darkest shit
The coverage has dropped off from anyone but Indy sources.
Among the first things I saw on local news this morning was the story about the released files. It sat right above the post about the US preparing for a "surge" in Iran and I can't help but think that some editor knew what they were doing.
Yes the fuck it has, and really it was the inevitable result. This is not just a spontaneous development, this is the result of decades of moral and financial corruption. We would like to absolve ourselves of complicity but the reality is that each American, in their own small way, has contributed to the systemic corruption we all suffer from. It’s a difficult thing. Many of us, most of us suffer disproportionately to the aristocracy, yet we carry on, and we let them continue with their schemes. We could easily topple them, wrestle the levers of power from their wretched, traitorous hands, but we don’t.
There are people who have been fighting against all this for decades. Don't lump them together.
It's honestly kinda gross to see people blink past the bombing of schools, hospitals, and water treatment plants - the outright massacre of thousands of people - as though it's a distraction from your domestic pedo politics.
Americans can't even prosecute Woody Allen for this shit. It's an absolute joke to think "Release The Epstein Files" is going to come to anything. Much less that it would preclude anyone from talking about the carpet bombing of Tehran.
Prosecute Woody Allen? He's gross by he hasn't broken any laws. You're deluded if you think everyone is "blinking past" the atrocities being committed in Gaza and Iran
It's that kind of defeatist attitude that's part of the problem
It’s just the normal course of empire. Rise and fall, Solve et coagula. Parasites and infections take over their host if not treated. Superficially changing political parties every few years does nothing, because it’s treating the symptoms and not the disease.