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Can't think of why one wouldn't, for how shitty as that is. Same principal as why people with authoritarian parents make for paranoid adults.

I'm not going to give some asshat teenager the same level of shit as Elon. It's a hell of a lot more likely in that context that he really was kidding, just distastefully.

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Were that guaranteed we'd be worshipping gods from before the Greeks.

You definitely end up changing the nature of today's religious environment.

I get the feeling he bragged about being a mossad agent the same way one of my buddies in elementary school bragged about his dad being in the CIA. It's a cheap thing to throw out and you get an excuse for when you get called out with it.

US cash is mostly cotton IIRC

Information on how he got caught getting in the hands of criminals could be problematic. 'National security' isn't how I would have phrased that and I forget how they phrase it normally, 'means and methods' maybe? Also if it was just a list of names then it'd inevitably become a list of people whoever's in charge wants to get rid of, considering people have for the most part been trying to use Epstein's legacy for wish fulfillment by saying their name's on some magical list that most likely doesn't exist. Dude ran a bunch of somewhat legitimate businesses too, would surprise me little if they're all in the same contact book and the only copy of the list of which one's are pedophiles was in his head.

I mean, the US and China have been known to manipulate other countries as well, along with smaller regional shit. Russia's definitely current top dog in that though, unless of course it just means they're the worst at hiding it.

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And even then that wasn't a great idea either. Chicken pox can happily have serious both short and long term effects.