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I keep seeing memes about Epstein's island, the lists, and generally a claim that no one has gone to jail who were on the lists, etc. I dismissed that for a while as just the Internet, but now this in the Wall Street Journal does have me wondering: A rich guy trafficked young girls to a private island which were visited by a lot of rich and powerful people.

.. Why hasn't someone been arrested yet??

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> .. Why hasn't someone been arrested yet??

There's the mundane answer: Because the wealthy and powerful are above the law and exempt from the normal mechanisms of accountability. And the more introspective, deeper one: Because enough of the rest of society believes that it has no choice or has something to gain by remaining complicit with a system run by Epstein & Friends, enough that that system can even reveal parts of its own nature to us and continue to chug along unabated.

Because Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He did all of the normal rich guy stuff too, which involved meeting with a ton of people, and having a ton of people come to his island for the normal rich guy stuff that went on there.

The lists alone don't give enough information to tell which people on them were there for the normal rich guy stuff and which were there for the sex trafficking.

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