• degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      433·
      8 days ago

      I really don’t understand these comments. There is no distraction; both are symptoms of the same disease, and everyone in power is past worrying about diverting attention.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        They’re starting to remind me of “it’s been X days since Sean Hannity agreed to be waterboarded for charity” that used to be on Reddit all the time. At a certain point, you just have to realize it’s not gonna happen.

        My one exception here is that Hannity being waterboarded would ultimately be a stunt with a meager charity benefit. The Epstein Files would actually cause a whole lot of damage to power structures.

      • kingofras@lemmy.world
        61·
        8 days ago

        The Files are important for a number of reasons:

        • this is about the president being a multiple accused pedophile
        • it show the people are not backing down no matter what other rabbits he pulls out if his hat
        • there is rare consensus across party lines that this issue matters, so it is potentially unifying the citizens of the US
        • the files are bigger than just him, it implicates a lot of powerful people
        • I agree he would be doing these things whether there were files or not, but it is our responsibility to nail him to the cross for a single issue that is so damning it would collapse his support with his own base and party and encourage whistleblowers to cone forward and expose the extent of his corruption

        I don’t think we need to stop talking about his endless firehouse of flooding the zone, but we need to keep our focus on the one thing that can bring him down and by now the longest standing scandal around his neck he hasn’t yet been able to shake.

    • 野麦さん@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      274·
      8 days ago

      Fuck the Epstein files, eroding rights isn’t the distraction. The Epstein files ARE the distraction. You’re a fool.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      22·
      8 days ago

      The Epstein Files are absolutely important and still relevant, but let’s be real… he’d be doing this whether or not the Files were hanging over him. And although I would argue that the US government has never stopped repressing antifascists, this is at least a signal that it’s gonna get worse for us or anyone the government can paint as an antifascist…i.e. anyone with a conscience. I.e., I don’t think this meme applies.

      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        8 days ago

        As far as I’m concerned, that was our last chance to change the minds of the cult. That being dropped as quickly as it was plus all the Charlie Kirk shit cemented it imo

        • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          Who’s to say (nice username) it’s been really dropped? I think a lot of MAGA people are still very upset about Epstein even if they are momentarily distracted by Kirk dropping a new public toilet. Which is why for almost any other mainstream news story I would absolutely agree with the meme, but I do think that openly repressing antifascist groups is more than just a distraction from Epstein.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          4·
          8 days ago

          There was never a chance to change the minds of the cult. Late stage capitalism will collapse into fascism as sure as gasoline will burn when exposed to fire. The absolute best case scenario would be that a new (likely more competent) fascist demagogue would get into power. Epstein is and has always been a bust.

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      8 days ago

      they could murder your whole family in front of you and you’d say “why would you distract me from the epstein files like this?”