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A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's because the unredacted European names are distractions from the redacted mentions of the orange lardsack.

[–] Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder why they redacted the word "don't" 🤔. Almost like someone called don with a last name beginning with t appeared so many times they needed to automate the redaction of his name.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh surely not. It would literally be illegal to teach a name like that. I’m sure they wouldn’t…

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 day ago

Or instead of waiting we can all look at the Luigi inside of us

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

toppled top figures

Who? I know of one guy from the UK - Peter Mandelson, as named in the article and summary. Who else?

edit: Have the Norwegian Royals been kicked yet?

edit: Oh, I forgot about Prince Andrew!

edit: Was that it?

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Now do the US.

Far less changes in the same unreasonably short amount of time since these files dropped.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I’ve seen political pundits saying how bad the feeling in the Labour Party is and how no prime minister has ever managed to survive anything even remotely similar

But it hasn’t happened yet, Starmer has historically low polling numbers anyway, and i don’t think that many political wonks believed he would still be leader come the next election anyway

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Muted" is one word for it.

Nonexistent is another.

The only person who seems to have suffered any real blowback is the "pussy is low carb" guy, who probably wasn't raping kids, based on his presence in the files. Larry Summers had to give up his teaching job, but he'll be fine. He's got generational wealth.

Also, this is why Donald wants you all posting about him being a racist. Stay focused on Epstein.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Remember those quaint times when public shame was enough to take down a political figure's career? While that's still alive in some parts of the world, Trump killed it in the US. Shamelessness is next to invincibility there.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

muted = nothing.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, censure is also biased...

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

We didn't need to release the files to know a lot of the people in them, so of course there would be no cultural shift when we confirm it. The physical evidence may matter in court, but not for public opinion.

[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't wait until they extradite the paedo prince and stick him in that shit hole jail Epstein and Diddy went to

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That pedo prince (Andrew) isn't a Prince anymore. There is also the Norwegian creep, he's being reinvistigated again. But that won't take care of the real problem, will it?

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

LoL! STUPID Europeans! Who CARES if someone Rapes a Little Girl?

-Americans!

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