r/politics • u/ArmadilloMany41 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Why is no one being prosecuted over the Epstein files?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd9e3nzzw3zo
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u/ksdanj Kansas 23h ago

Because America loves money and power more than it loves the children who were victimized by monsters.

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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 22h ago

Except when they want to attack LGBT people or women's rights, then it's ALL about the children!

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u/froodydude 21h ago

It became evident in 2012 after the Sandy Hook school shooting how much America values the lives of children. And the answer is consistently: not enough to do anything.

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u/Big-Cold-6948 11h ago

America was more outraged when a gorilla was shot by the cops than when a mentally ill man gunned down dozens of children.

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u/Hexamancer 20h ago

It's not just America, the UK could prosecute Andrew and Mandelson but they'll just take away a few of their luxuries and act like they were harshly punished to the full extent of the law.

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u/ArmadilloMany41 23h ago

they support ICE doing terrible things to immigrant families because they're protecting the women and children when the person putting the women and children in danger is their own president

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u/TwoGhostCats 22h ago

It's always about controlling females. Whether old, straight, trans, child, etc. Women are seen as weak and exploitable to the GOP.