Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.
The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel "Lolita" written on a person's body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.
The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein's crimes.
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rozodru@pie.andmc.ca · 86 pts · 274d
oh look David Blaine does magic for rapist pedophiles.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 34 pts · 273d
What is it with magicians and Epstein, there's also David Copperfield
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 273d
It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn't evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn't damning by itself.
Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.
Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.
Context is important, and that's why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 273d
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 273d
And because people like those in the pictures will block any real investigation, to me, it's guilty until proven innocent
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 273d
Yeah well that's not how our justice system works, fortunately.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 272d
Yeah I know your justice system works by who has the most money/better lawyer wins and then you can always run for president and avoid the system entirely.
justaman123@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 273d
If you lie with dogs then you will get fleas
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 273d
So you assume that every dog in existence has fleas? Can't be around any dogs whatsoever at any point for fear of getting fleas? Shitty analogy for the situation.
Better hope none of your old friends from say high school or college that you haven't seen for years end up being sexual predators at any point in time. Might have photos taken with them that others will see and assume you knew what was going on because you were with them. Especially if they were doing that at the time.
ameancow@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 273d
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 273d
You mean people who believe in a justice system that doesn't randomly imprison you until you prove your innocence?
Nah, that's most sensible people.
Wren@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 273d
James Randi is still clean. Still my hero.
yoyoyopo5@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 274d
Bill Gates is so cooked.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 273d
Yeah, they said that in the antitrust trial in the 90s. It was horseshit then and it's horseshit now.
Billionaires never see justice for the same reason no one has ever seen the easter bunny. Justice doesn't exist. Just a legal system designed to punish the poor and minorities.
4grams@awful.systems · 11 pts · 273d
It’s because they have successfully convinced the majority of this country that having money makes you a better person.
crawancon@piefed.social · 1 pts · 273d
or that at that level, they can influence local, state and some national politics in a way the common man just can't touch; purchasing the people in the roles for "law enforcement" there's just no one that can do it.
it feels incompatible with democracy.
4grams@awful.systems · 1 pts · 273d
Current events seem to support that hypothesis.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 273d
Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes. It's rare but it does happen.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 273d
And all you have to do is defraud the billionaire pedo class.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 273d
That's not what Madoff did, but ok. We'll lie so you can be pretend like exceptions don't exist.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d
It's part of what he did, and it's the sole reason that he's the only rich person who saw any consequences from the subprime mortgage catastrophe.
Now is there any other rich criminal you want to make excuses for because you're unwilling to admit that capitalism is less than absolutely perfect in every conceivable way?
So far you've gone to bat for Madoff and Gates.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 273d
How could anyone possible equate these things? All that happens in antitrust is your business is split up. This is a whole other thing.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 273d
His guilt was just as obvious and his money shielded him.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d
Guilty of what? The government can break up monopolies, there was no crime committed. He has never been on criminal trial.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 272d
As far as you're concerned, nothing ever because he has money.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 273d
The girl in that pic is not at all, in any way, comfortable.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 273d
For reference,
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 30 pts · 273d
Yeah even my autistic ass can tell this is close to a hostage situation.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 273d
melinda found out years ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 33 pts · 273d
Imagine if Trump, Clinton, Gates and all the other high profile people implicated in this actually got arrested. It wouldn't just change the nation, probably change the world given who all had dealings with Epstein.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 273d
The girl's hands in the picture with Bill Gates gives me the worst feeling, they look anxious, I don't know why, they just do.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 273d
it's the tense closed body language, it looks very much like an "i do not fucking want to be here or near this person, i am trying to cover my private areas inconspicuously, do not fucking touch me"
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 273d
As a male, I don't understand how can you fuck a person who doesn't want it, who feels uncomfortable around you, let alone is underage.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 273d
Rape is rearly about sexual gratification. We know the pm from Israel gets off on rape. This is another reason why I oppose un-needed wealth. After a point they almost without fail become monsters.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 273d
it explains why he switched to reinventing his image with "philantrophy" decades ago, and how some of it has been disengenious.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 273d
Tax breaks as well
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 273d
oh yea, his vaccine, and charity initiatives are probably money laundering/tax breaks.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 273d
Definitely not lol. Why would he be in trouble? He is rich...
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 60 pts · 273d
What does the foot say?
Edit:
Great.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 273d
Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book..:
Which in the book continues with..;
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 273d
That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don't feel dirty while reading it.
English wasn't even Nabokov's first language! That's insane!
The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 273d
I appreciate others ability to remain impartial on any given topic.
That being said, the context of pedophilia definitely makes this disgusting.
Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 273d
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 273d
Which suggests Epstein never actually read the novel to completion.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 273d
Lol
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 273d
...ita
Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 273d
Apparently the POS even had an annotated version and still didn't understand the book!
Edit: The annotated version, the one that he had, is very informative.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 272d
I've read the novel. Humbert is a pathetic old man who destroys Lolita's life for a fling on the road. The girl goes from a charmed upper middle class life before the family meets Humbert to the death of her mother, debasement and abuse at the hands of Humbert, and finally poverty, poor education, and bearing children out of wedlock. Lolita's life is ruined in the aftermath, much like Epstein's real victims. Nabokov did not write a sympathetic treatment of child abuse in Lolita, nor is Humbert a hero in the story.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 273d
That’s really weird… straight up abuser stuff
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 273d
I don't know what that means. Shed some light?
kopasu22@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 273d
Lolita is an (in)famous novel about a man's obsessive sexual attraction to a prepubescent girl. It's supposedly well written, but the content is abhorrent.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 273d
The author, Nabokov, wanted the reader to be abhorred by the narrator character.
Unsurprisingly, pedophiles loved it and related to him.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 273d
Yikes....
muxika@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 274d
Noam Chomsky? Wow...
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 42 pts · 273d
that kinda says all it needs to right there
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 273d
Ha. Try getting a job with a felony on your record, asshole.
He's pretending to not know anything because he doesn't want to "commit suicide" in prison if the billionaire pedos think he's gonna testify against them.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 273d
You can get a job as president with 37 of them
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 273d
Yeah, "his sentence". If you can even call it that.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 272d
Right? *He plead guilty to prostituting minors. *
He was a convicted sex offender. The literal opposite of a clean slate. They put everyone who does it on a dirty slate, permanently.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 273d
Bummer, but into the trash heap with all the rest.
Wren@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 273d
I feel vindicated. I'm a little antifa leftist slut and Chompsky still triggered my creep detector.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 273d
I've never been a fan. He strikes me as being more liberal than he wants people to believe.
Wren@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 272d
squints. Ah, okay. ML. Yes, fuck the liberals.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 273d
He was recently asked about it and did not respond. His wife in his place said he has no comments to add.
frunch@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 273d
Some really creepy pics in there 👀
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 273d
Weird I just skimmed them all and didn't see this one. I only saw 68?
L7HM77@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 273d
Think this one was another drop, pretty sure I've seen it floating around already.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 273d
Anyone have any idea what all those formulas on the blackboard are all about?
gnutrino@programming.dev · 29 pts · 273d
Top one looks like it's from an intermediate level quantum mechanics lecture. Less sure about the bottom one as it's generally less legible but it looks like it's dealing with probability density functions of some kind to me.
hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 273d
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 273d
Making apple sauce.
rooster_butt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 273d
How do you like them apples?
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 273d
The top looks like an explanation of the Higgs mechanism, the bottom has very low quality.
Should probably run the faces via pimeyes and find the papers by these clowns.
Edit: Mikhail Gromov is his name
SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 273d
Upscaled the second pic:
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 273d
Looks like a Hall effect explanation
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 273d
Looks like I don't know what the fuck it looks like.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 272d
IDK how to react to this. Was my best guess
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 273d
The name of the person delivering the lecture is Mikhail Gromov
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 273d
Oh those are very bad
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 272d
What we'll never see are the mountains of covert surveillance that was seized as evidence.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 273d
No not these pictures. Where is the one with selections from Art of the Deal written on a baby's ass?
Great work democrats!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 273d
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 273d
But I thought there was only bad people in the files.
At least fascism is finally comer to an end. This is it ridge? The files that tend Trump or whatever. The definitely not a distraction files.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 273d
… why are we still fixated on this? We know what happened. There will continue to be no accountability on the ruling class. How about we focus on the present problems?
Lightfire228@pawb.social · 16 pts · 273d
Because the alternative is nihilism and chronic apathy and depression.
Because doing something is better than rolling over and crying "woe is me"
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 272d
I think it’s important to discern where the focus is/where time and energy is best suited for. Just doing “something” lacks direction and therefore lacks foresight. Throwing stuff at the wall hoping that it’ll stick isn’t a great approach.
What has come of it? The files were “released” yesterday that were 90% blacked out, some photos are labeled incorrectly (ie: Michael Jackson and Clinton). I was expecting this outcome and the d’s reaction is to threaten impeachment, I was also expecting this outcome. This all is theater. So what is the point?
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 273d
Imagine wanting to IGNORE this. The fuck is wrong with you?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 273d
Is this called whataboutism?