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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 hours ago

At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous 4Chan user posted...

It beat ABC News journalist Aaron Katersky's post about Epstein's death on Twitter, now known as X, by 38 minutes

Is that in any way surprising? Someone with insider knowledge posted about it before a journalist was informed?

In the Wikipedia article about his death they said that he was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 6:39 AM. More than 90 minutes before even this post on 4Chan, he'd already been taken out of his cell, rushed to an ambulance, driven across NY, taken to a hospital, rushed into the emergency room, and pronounced dead. There were so many opportunities for someone to notice that and post it somewhere.

In a sense, this means you pretty much clear the jail guards, ambulance drivers and emergency room doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. of suspicion. Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?

What's surprising here isn't that it was posted first to some forum used by random Internet chuds. That's what you'd expect. What's surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Trump obviously killed this dude, right?

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

It could have been any number of people. He had dirt on half the politicians and business leaders in the country. Lots of people wanted him dead.

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

No. There's talk about he's alive and living in israel. Which makes a lot of since. Epstein was too powerful to be killed.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

That is the most crackpot thing I've heard in a long time.

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

Tha that photo was AI

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

If he was too powerful to be killed then he would've been too powerful to even go to jail. If they possessed the ability to smuggle him out of prison then they possessed the ability to have him vanish before being arrested.

[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

The strings aren't pulled until they need to be, and when they are, they're paired with smoke and mirrors, so the media can sell a working system and avoid plebeian unrest and vigilantes. 

[–] graycloud@leminal.space 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Obviously, it's because the FBI is on 4chan.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

and the Bureau of Prisons.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 93 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

FBI is more interested in who leaked epstein's death on 4chan than who he raped children with

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 46 points 8 hours ago

They know who he raped children with, that's their blackmail cache.

They don't know who the weak link in the chain is; that's going to end up being blackmail against them.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is he wearing children's glasses?

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Grabbed the wrong ones getting out of bed.

[–] DoomGuy_e66@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think that he is ~~Dead~~

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

if he suddenly shows up with a fleet of gold ~~star destroyers~~ battleships i will forgive JJ and Disney but only then

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That would be some uncreative writing. What's next? We all wake up and Trumps re-election was just a dream?

[–] DoomGuy_e66@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

you know what, I'm the kind of person who likes to listen to conspiracy theories but doesn't believe in them.

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

An angels dream sounds like a perfectly satisfying ending to this nightmare

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