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I imagine anyone who was innocent and an associate had the money to hire the right lawyers to remove themselves.

Epstein was incredibly well connected, so this statement is dubious at best.

I also imagine those who should be on it, also won’t be.

This is correct. 0% of people "associated" with Epstein have any evidence against them of his crimes, or they'd have been charged as co-conspirators.

The Panama Papers weren't swept under a rug, you just didn't follow news on them.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years-later-panama-papers-still-having-a-big-impact/

Also Epstein 100% killed himself, and unsealing this info won't tell you anything meaningful, because predators who hide among the rich don't fucking tell every person they meet that they're a predator.

Conspiracy theories are never a good look on anyone.

And some day you'll be out of college. Personal anecdotes are not meaningful data

The mechanics are the same. D or R is irrelevant.

Tell that to the Republican party, which has been turned inside-out by this process over 6 years, and has been reforming since 2010 solely because of primary threats

I guarantee you the Dems will do nothing about this issue because they lose more votes caving to that minority than they gain pursuing it.

Like what you see is "student groups in my college are protesting genocide" and what most people are is "these colleges are getting really antisemitic, and that's a problem."

Neither of those groups are correct, but one is significantly larger and more reliable as a voting bloc than the other

There are probably less than a dozen politicians in America that actually listen to their constituents

This is false, and is essentially just a long-running meme of Americans hating authority now being taken as fact.

All politicians overwhelmingly do what their constituents want them to do - moreso now than at any time before the modern era, because most politicians are extremely nervous about being primaried, and not worried about a challenger from another party

He’s currently being abandoned by young progressives

They don't vote

I don't see how Biden's handling of the Gaza situation is at all a negative for him.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought sentencing was supposed to reflect the severity of the crime and make fair restitution? I

These look like punitive damages designed to dissuade others from repeating what he did.

Human beings like sex. Any sufficiently large platform will naturally trend toward it if possible.

Anyone who would vote to limit immigration is so anti-American that I cannot believe they are listened to at all.

I recognize the reality of it, but it's just a bag full of insanity to me.

I'm a huge space nerd. I did also appreciate the visuals and realistic portrayal of time dilation, and should have noted that (though it may have diluted my opinion a bit?). I just didn't like the actual movie itself.

I don’t like to take it too seriously.

I am a massive Star Wars fan and cannot understand people who expect it to be high cinema. It's a series about space wizards and WW2-style air battles. Like all fantasy/SF, it is occasionally commentary on real-world stuff, but it isn't trying to be Star Trek. Things are allowed to just be fun

We all like/dislike things for different reasons, and that’s okay

Absolutely man. I gush about notorious flop Ninja Assassin elsewhere in this thread. We like what we like and I mean no disrespect.

Too easy.

Ninja Assassin is one of my favorite action movies, has a sub-30% score, and I've paid to see it 4 times.

Absolutely fucking love that movie and could not believe it was such a flop. It's balls-out fun from beginning to end

John Leguizamo is a hidden gem of cinema so the OG Mario punches way above its weight class.

Interstellar is a terrible movie that doesn't say or do anything special and I still don't understand why anyone thinks it's so amazing.

I did really like the robot guy though.

IMO The Dark Knight was hard-carried by Heath Ledger and without his performance that movie is about as good as DKR, which isn't great.

I'm not concerned. Facts are facts and there most assuredly will be Palestinians in 1, 5, and 20 years - ideally in their own country for the first time ever.