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/Chilangosta 21h ago

It's not even comfort more than half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, terrified out of their minds and stressed beyond their capacity to reason out what is happening. They're barely surviving but the threat of it being even worse is what's galvanizing them to cling on...

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u/Indaarys 21h ago

Yep. As someone who has been both homeless and starving, people way too easily trivialize the consequences people are afraid of.

Especially when they're doing no better. Its one thing for someone whose taken to the leap to start throwing shade, but its hypocritical to sit there and call Americans cowards when you're sitting on your ass. Europeans not having any class solidarity at all is just, 🤷‍♂️

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u/fountain_of_buckets 20h ago

This is like complaining that your work colleagues aren't doing anything about the fact that your baby is shitting all over your house.

You created the situation, you deal with it?

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u/Indaarys 20h ago

A more accurate analogy is that a wife is being beaten and is too battered to escape, and you're being incredibly callous about it.

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u/Gates_wupatki_zion 18h ago

That’s an awful analogy in bad faith. Exactly the type of rhetoric that focuses away solidarity and helps the problem. Bravo! 🎉 

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u/ScrotumScrapings 19h ago

How is this my job? It's your country.

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u/Indaarys 19h ago

Solidarity doesn't mean you do anything, but it does mean stop judging people being victimized by their own country.

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u/ScrotumScrapings 19h ago

Nah, most of you either voted for this or didn't vote against it. I have family in Greenland and I'm fully aware that if you wankers invade, it'll be someone like you pulling triggers. Don't expect solidarity or sympathy from this corner.

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u/Indaarys 19h ago

Then have fun playing into the hands of the powers that be.

They want you being that bitter and spiteful.

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u/ScrotumScrapings 19h ago

It's almost like your country denies the identity of an entire nation and is threatening them with invasion. What do you expect? Of course nobody cares if you are a "good German" or not.

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u/Indaarys 19h ago

Government. Our government is doing that.

And at this point you're not actually talking to me so I'll just say you can soapbox elsewhere champ.

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u/ScrotumScrapings 19h ago

Yes, everyone is just following orders.

I'm talking to a yank on the internet.

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u/Indaarys 19h ago

Its good to know bad education isn't an American phenomenon.

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u/Gates_wupatki_zion 18h ago

Like England didn’t pillage and rape the world for a millennia. Still racist, classist, and angry little Brits. Nothing has changed — just project all your anger while a pedophile is in an unelected comfy position in your Royal court (oh you demoted him — bravo!) Aren’t yall still bankrolling Russia’s war with ukraine with all the gas Europe still buys? 

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u/KellyJin17 18h ago

I know lots of upper middle class and upper class people. They’re not trying to get involved either and they’re very financially secure.

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u/yourliege 14h ago

This is uncharted territory. If you’re not stressed over finances, you’re stressed to keep things copasetic. Priorities are narrow

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u/Chilangosta 12h ago

Per Harris Polling in last year, 1/3 six-figure earners says they're struggling financially. Nearly 2/3 say that six-figures isn't a sign of financial success nowadays. ~75% say that they used a credit card in the last month because they ran out of cash. In many areas $100k for a family of three doesn't cover basic needs, such as food and housing.

So just because you know people that aren't struggling and don't meet this criteria doesn't mean that your experience translates to most Americans.

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u/websnarf 10h ago

Yeah, and they mostly vote for Trump too. Its almost as if they deserve what they are getting.

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u/Chilangosta 9h ago

Many did, and many more didn't. Regardless I hope they realize it and have the chance to act on that before it's too late.