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dpibel

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14. You've got a mighty leap of logic there
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 06:56 PM
Friday

Or maybe it's projection. Or generalizing from your particular.

You say:

We already know a hell of a lot of rich/powerful people associated with Epstein. It is NOT right, however, for de facto investigators (like congresspeople) to post pictures of people in such a way that the public will assume, without evidence, that because Epstein "associated with" them they are therefore a participant in his crimes, nor even aware the he was abusing minors. This would be esp. true if it's an old picture.


What is this "such a way that the public will assume..."?

For starters, I'm not sure how you know so certainly what the public will assume.

Then there's the fact that there's been a vast amount of discussion, sans pictures, of the many people who associated with Epstein. Did you miss the birthday book? Have you not been keeping up with the various lists of people who hung out with Epstein?

Why is it so terrible, and terribly different, in your mind to show pictures of people associating with Epstein? The pictures show what they show, and that is that Steve Bannon and Woody Allen and Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz did some hanging around with Epstein. Anything beyond that is a flight of your imagination.

As is your belief that these pictures somehow represent bearing false witness.

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