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briefcomment
Just want to say, this was flagged, but I appreciate the mods unflagging this so quickly. I don't think this is a poor quality article.
sudosysgen
I think articles about this subject have been flagged at least a dozen times.
monkeydreams
If the picture this article paints is true, there is an interesting number of threads yet to be followed/pulled in the Epstein saga. It seems that anyone with a $100 million+ and pretensions to techno/utopic thought is snared in this.
[dead] dwd
Every good lie has a basis of some truth.

Forget about the satanism and cannibalism and Donald Trump as savior* but QAnon might have been right about the global pedo ring of leftist elites.

The interesting thing appears to be Maxwell/Epstein's links to the CIA and that they were running some form of "compromat" service.

*Trump used to be a Democrat and was on friendly terms with the Clintons prior to 2016.

gccs
You really think trump stopped being on friendly terms with the Clinton's after 2016? I mean look what happened to "lock her up."
LorenPechtel
Why do you think *leftist* elites?

I see no reason they would have been selective.

dwd
QAnon's claims were targeted at the left, but I could be conflating that with Pizzagate which was a "Democrat" pedo ring.

Maxwell/Epstein would not have had any bias as far as who they targeted.

codefreakxff
You mean the ring that was held in the basement of a pizza parlor with no basement? I’m not sure what your point is here. Obviously there are pedophile rings in the world. But why are people making up weird lies? Not saying you made up the lie. But now you are repeating it. It really undermines serious conversation about the problem and, seemingly to me, only helps pedophiles because now we can’t have a serious conversation without bringing up pizzagate to shut it down
gccs
That's literally the purpose of q and pizza gate. Controlled opposition. Make you enemy look like fools and give the media something to talk about instead of the real pedo blackmail ring story.
bellyfullofbac
I haven't read the article, but the fact that it's published on some random website instead of "legitimate" media makes me skeptical. Looking up the author, https://www.wikispooks.com/wiki/Whitney_Webb it seems her interests are "the deep state", and "the VIP pedophile ring". She also got kicked off Patreon because they consider her posts contradictory to Covid wisdon. Well, maybe she knows the truth about the world, but when I get around to reading the article I'm going to ask (if just to myself) "You got proof for that?" for everything she claims.
chacha2
But there was a "VIP pedophile ring" ? You're not a crazed conspiracy theoriest when it turns out to be true.
kadoban
You still very well may be. "I was right that once." isn't hard or terribly meaningful.
aaomidi
Have you been following the NYTimes diff bot on Twitter?

"Reputable" journals are only reputable on momentum. They do some shady shit.

Minor49er
Saying "was" implies that it no longer exists
gccs
Whitney Webb is a great journalist. You should be asking "you go proof for that" to everything you read.
TechBro8615
Lol. This crazy lady probably said Covid leaked from a lab in Wuhan too, right? Can’t trust anything you don’t hear from the NYT.
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chacha2
> She chose to describe “herself as an ‘internet operator’” during this period

Interesting considering the theory she was the reddit power mod /u/maxwellhill who became inactive after her arrest

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_conf...

gccs
I'm sure its a useful position if you want to supress stories from spreading. Its like the famous Epstein hotmic incident.
jonny_eh
Didn’t /u/maxwellhill deny that after she was arrested?