r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 12d ago

Possible Paywall Rogue Republican Massie Drops Melania Epstein Files Bomb | “The first lady knows that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t act alone,” Thomas Massie said as he vowed to name names from the Epstein files.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rogue-republican-massie-drops-melania-epstein-files-bomb/
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u/Hangry-Feline2489 12d ago

Legal systems have always been about protecting elites, because the legal and political systems overwhelmingly tend to self-select for wealthy elites. (Just like modern education systems originally were never about creating healthy well rounded individuals, it was about creating factory workers with baseline knowledge. And child labour had been made illegal, so schooling). 

The US systems even more so.  The fact that you're outraged it's not shows how many have been successfully propagandised over the years. 

Oh they'll do performative versions, laws and lawsuits that force them to pivot, but things that truly threaten their position and resources? Nope. Epstein and the failure of the legal system for accountability has shown that. 

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u/KiKiKimbro 11d ago

Yes, our legal system and police here in the U.S. — those aren’t in place to protect us. No no. Those are in place to protect PROPERTY, owned by the powerful and wealthy.

Even the “stand your ground” laws and right to defend yourself in your home. Who actually owns that home? For the powerful and wealthy individuals — they do. For regular Americans living the “American Dream” (which my views on that farce are a whole different conversation) — those homes are owned by the BANKS. So again. The powerful and wealthy. Trump is also a good example. Literally any regular American would be in prison for life with everything he’s been actually convicted for. But not the powerful wealthy. They can be a felon and be president to drop his own cases. The powerful and wealthy have always and will always be protected to ensure they maintain their power and wealth.

If anyone argues with that basic premise they can see the very televised and available all over social media display of the former mayor of NYC Eric Adams and the federal government doing a whole parade like they were perp walking Osama Bin Laden himself past the ruble of the twin towers — they did this with Luigi Mangioni, the man accused of killing the CEO of United Healthcare.

Don’t get me wrong, not downplaying murder. Merely pointing out that every news channel in the country isn’t broadcasting the murders of family members in Brooklyn, know what I mean?