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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 17 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

Oh look, we found the global pedophile cabal that’s been running the government. Unfortunately, the people who have been shouting about it for the last decade or so are going to be quiet because it’s their guys and they don’t hold their guys accountable.

[–] Lor@mander.xyz 3 points 12 minutes ago
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 48 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The age verification and protect the children act serve only to surveil any political opposition and to allow for making more children sexually available to billionaire pedophiles.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 hours ago

Hey hey hey lets not talk about that!

Ooooh look a queer highschooler is trying to play sports! Panic!!!!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 61 points 3 hours ago

The eating babies thing becomes much more believable once this mother fucker got implicated.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 139 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

And Peter Thiel is behind all the age verification shit…

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 31 minutes ago

The pedos need to know who's a child on the Internet

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 52 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Epstein was probably providing Blood Boys for Theil's age extension experiments. He believe the blood of young men can keep him young. Not kidding, these Sociopathic Oligarchs are serious weirdos.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago

They won't leave us alone! They won't let go of the reins, they refuse to die and are trying to find ways to greatly extend their lives so they can continue to terrorize the world forever. Make it stop!!!

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Peter Thiel is IMO the most monstrous human to ever gain power because of how explicitly his interests are to attain godhood. He’s literally anime evil, his ambitions are not dissimilar from the antagonist(s) of FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 79 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Tired: Age verification system.

Wired: Automated child finder with initial AI chat functions to assist billionaire pedophiles.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

There’s a conspiracy theory that there’s a gay tech cabal running shit now, Thiel being the big player in it

EDIT: Save the downvotes for those more in need, I don’t believe in this shit, just the messenger

Sauce: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-gay-tech-mafia/

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Cool that we are finally returning to some grass roots conspiracies.

The gays and the Jews are running it all. Conspiracies like grandma used to espouse.

The world is healing.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The good old times where conspiracies were simple 🥰

All the lizard cave people nazi pizza flat earth theories are just boring

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

Haven't you heard of Turing? We've been running shit since the dawn of time 💅

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 0 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

Save the downvotes for those more in need

🤣

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You mean Jeffrey Epstein's Friends, who TRAFFICKED and RAPED CHLDREN, want EVERYONE in the US to Verify their Age and Location online? Wow! How Secure! Let's PASS the SAVE Act so we can make it EASIER for the Epstein class to Track American ~~Children~~ Adults!

-Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries!

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Those two are about as effective as wet toilet paper.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

From AIPAC's perspective, they're very effective.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 50 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Business relationship.... Well Epstein business relationship. They weren't lovers as I first thought.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dumbass@piefed.social 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not saying they didn't fuck, they just weren't fuckin.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They were fuckin children, that's for sure.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

On the other hand, Thiel has given JD Vance so much preferential treatment that it is hard to make sense of it unless you assume they have a sexual relationship.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, it is a clickbait headline, because it does not make the context clear.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 8 points 3 hours ago

We all assume he was getting boys from Epstein and Maxwell but do we think he killed and ate them? That's the mystery in this fucked timeline.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

How is "Peter Thiel is a piece of shit" news?

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

TIL by RTFM:

Theil is on the Palantir Board of Directors specifically because Epstein suggested the idea

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

His links to a child trafficker put his sponsorship of all the age verification laws into perspective... He wants computers broadcasting who's a child to every website out there.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 50 minutes ago

Mostly because the majority of people still don't know his name or anything about him.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

He's like a walking, talking billboard for why billionaires are evil. Just like how Elon is a walking, talking billboard for why billionaires aren't actually smart.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Peter is evil, but he’s also not nearly as smart as he thinks he is

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is true, but most billionaires publicly pass for at least an average intellect. When Elon speaks, it's hard to ignore that he's clearly an idiot.

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 6 points 2 hours ago

This is news because it provides evidence of what a piece of shit he is.

Just one example: in Germany, even complete idiots can see why it is more than absurd for any state to use Palantir products. It is really sad that it is even necessary to refute this proposal by obviously corrupt politicians, but this connection to a child molester makes it at least a little easier.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

There are a lot of clues that point towards Peter Thiel continuing to run Epstein's businesses.

[–] TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

While very likely true, we can't forget that Don did it too.

[–] MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

This video focusing on Joe Rogan softballing known Epstein connected folks includes Thiel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_e1GA-gKI

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

Jacobin better use their words carefully lest they get gawker'd.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

The French were wrong. The romans had the right idea.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

yearslong

That a big slong.

I wish journalists remembered the 4th-grade and hyphenation. Then again, the nitwit pluralizes mass nouns like "e-mail" with an S, so...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The are no laws to language, this isn't physics, you understood what was being communicated and yet you chose to make an issue out of it.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 0 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)

There was a time when things like that mattered. It is long gone, but there was a time...

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 minutes ago

Language is a wave, not a set of laws. There is no static thing you can identify as a law within a language, only a summary of how a language tends to be expressed by its speakers at any given moment.

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