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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 104 points 11 hours ago (5 children)
[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

"young, nubile, girls" jfc throw these creeps in a volcano

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 33 points 7 hours ago

Best we can do is keep making them President.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Volcanoes offer a very quick death. Your lungs calcificy rapidly during your descent, meaning if the drop doesn't kill you (heart attack/shock), youre still dying quickly and relatively painlessly (as this all happens in a matter of seconds). If you get past that point, the magma itself will basically disintegrate your ability to feel on contact.

So it's almost a reward compared to slower methods, you could say. Not making a point. Just sharing some info.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What about a Temple of Doom cage style rotisserie?

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[–] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It makes the volcano spirits super happy though

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Fair and valid

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 36 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Like I said yesterday: "once it's on the internet, it's there forever"

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 33 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

It's remarkable how quickly the pages that publish things like this or the 60 Minutes CECOT segment disappear. Putting it on the fediverse will hopefully protect it from being suppressed. Torrents are important too.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's all over the place, now. My lemmy feed is full of news stories about it.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Most of my coworkers have not even heard about it. Even less looked for it. It may be everywhere on lemmy but lemmy is very little known in the real world.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's on Reddit and other places too. Your coworkers haven't heard of it yet because it dropped in the middle of the night. Stop expecting everyone else to be as terminally online as yourself.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Not everyone is on reddit, but I do hope the news cycle will pick it up in time.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 7 hours ago

This letter came to light in 2023. They've managed to keep it quiet for 2 years.

Now it's time to blow this up. This should be the first story on every evening newscast to tonight.

But it won't be, especially CBS. I'd be surprised if it even gets mentioned anywhere on TV.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cecot torrent is seeded and I have it on soulseek.

[–] madjo@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

TIL that SoulSeek still exists.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Hell yeah it does

[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is a 'turncoat' in the DoJ 'accidentally' let this one, and other similar ones, slip through. Or they're all just fucking incompetent. Take your pick.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically being the only one who isn't an actual traitor to the United States.

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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 18 points 7 hours ago

So the same 'grab them by the pussy' that Trump was caught on tape bragging about, but more clear who is was talking about.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Does "short route" home here mean suicide or blackmail? God this shit never clarifies anything but it definitely incriminates Trump.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I took it to mean suicide. I can't imagine what else it would mean.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Why does it start on the right then move to the left? Is this manga? Lol

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

It looks like there's 3 separate scans on this page and they're just laid out wrong

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It looks like the back of a postcard. Maybe the prison only allows postcards so they can read everyone's mail? Seems like the kind of thing US prisons might do.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Are you supposed to write postcards backwards though? I would have filled it out left to right

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

On closer inspection the line down the middle is a bit wobbly and there are faint outlines around the pages. I think someone just scanned the envelope and pages and assembled them in the wrong order.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 66 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential

Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein"

[–] thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world 62 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

I will never understand how people could be this rich and do stupid shit like this.

With all that money, you could go find the love of your life, travel the world with them, pay for all the mental and healthcare you need, be fit and live the rest of your life happily with your soulmate AND still even have the capacity to help others if you so desire.

But instead they do this shit. I hate reality.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 73 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We live in a system where, to become that rich, you must be evil.

That's all.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 17 points 10 hours ago

Exactly. This life rewards evil tremendously... I'm so sick of it

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 9 hours ago

Money is just an enabler. They're already abusers, the money just helps them do it with planes and islands instead of trucks and sketchy motels.

[–] aesviation@lemmings.world 7 points 5 hours ago

They didn't get rich by being good people.

It's another reason why we should always criticize people for how they obtained their wealth. Most of them did it by nefarious means.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

The people with all that money are the people so narrowly obsessed with money and/or the power money brings that they have dedicated their whole lives to taking it from others. Effectively that means only sociopaths who enjoy abusing others become that wealthy. People with more meaningful purpose in their lives, or who genuinely care for others, don't become billionaires.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 7 hours ago

They have OCD, which manifests itself as financial hoarding. If they were hoarding rusty cars on their property, or hundreds of cars, the authorities would step in, and end it.

But if it's money, then they are loaded as successful businesspeople, and strongly encouraged to expand their hoarding behavior.

Confiscate their stolen hoard, and get them help for their mental illnesses.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This article implies he was writing incriminating letters from jail, prior to choosing to kill himself. And there's never a hint of self-awareness at the atrocious pain and harm he caused, just a constant entitlement to all women.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 31 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Assuming it's genuine, it also shows he considered himself a victim of unfair treatment right to the end. Unless it's also a hint that the suicide was not of his own choosing, but that's getting pretty speculative.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 28 points 10 hours ago

It definitely reads like "we did the same things, but I'm here in prison and that guy is president. Boo hoo pity me."

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Yeah theres already a lot of speculation and assumptions; I really don't want to add to the scuttlebutt, but those were my first thoughts on reading the letter and figuring out when it was sent and where from. Let's not mimic the QAnon approach though.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Maybe they made him so miserable that he welcomed it.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 22 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 7 hours ago

Trump, Epstein, and Nasser, the Three Pedo Amigos.

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

So far while poking around in certain places just to see what other reactions are floating around out there are, I've seen:

"Who created this AI slop?"

"Written by someone from MSM for clicks."

"Why didn't Biden release this, clearly fake."

"This is worse than the fake birthday card."

"Clearly not related to Trump, but instead Clinton."

Intense cope is how I see it. Could it be fake? Maybe. I try to draw upon the things that have been said in the past, actions clearly on record/tape, literal confessions that are public from years ago, real-time goal post moving, and delection attempts.

Innocent people don't usually jump through so many hoops.

[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Where's the story? All I see is a comment section?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah the page seems to be coming and going. I went to archive it and got warnings that my connections to the archive sites weren't secure. It's enough to make a person paranoid.

[–] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

Right, I tried again now and it showed up correctly.

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