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Marjorie Taylor Greene explained just how much demands to release the Epstein files have increased.

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[–] PidgeonHanging@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am all for it... but I wish people would get this passionate about healthcare, the environment, education, housing, and all the other things that are suffering in our society.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally anything that actually matters.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A pedophile ring for the 1% in which everyone knows they're doing it and no one does anything to stop it doesn't matter?

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd argue a pedophile ring isn't as important as stopping an environmental collapse or making sure the entire population has access to Healthcare. The irony being the 1% a responsible for all of them

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know we can do more than one thing, right? Like, it’s not one guy who has to go around arresting the pedophiles, fixing climate change, and establishing wealth equality. In fact, no one person is expert enough in all three to really be the person for the job!

We can do this all at the same time. Take a breath and stop getting in the way of something that is finally starting to see results.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You say that but how well does governments handle multiple problems at once? In a perfect world we could but this world is far from perfect

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Really well? Most governments might show off one at a time but have you ever heard of a thing called a “department” and that there are several of them of them doing different things?

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

Yeah funny how those with an excess of wealth and a lack of morals seem to be behind so many terrible things in the world...

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter what your cause of choice is, someone is always going to say something else is more important. However, saying human trafficking doesn't matter at all? That's a pretty dickish statement.

I agree, it would be nice if Republicans cared about more of these things, but human trafficking is also a major issue.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No humans to traffic if the ecosystem collapses. There is a scale of what problems are most important. I'd agrue preventing the destruction of our species is more important than any crime committed by a group of individuals. That being said you don't just ignore all the other problems. You just prioritize one over the other

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It doesn't if the Kingpin of that ring is a king above the law. Literally a waste of time.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Kings are for courts and guillotines.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

So addressing this problem can also help address another problem?