• Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The neoliberals bitching and complaining about AI in these comments are also distracting from the Epstein files and the Genocide going on in the middle east. It is shameful that they are doing this in a leftist space.

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          Nope, Promoting Pro-IP sentiment and using bad faith arguments is antithetical to real leftism. Whether you like it or not. Liberals love to larp as leftists and maybe even consider themselves leftists until they are hit with the realization that leftists are against something they believe strongly in (like IP laws, or weird lies or generalizations that do not apply to all things).

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      The guy did a coup and suffered no consequences, and showed everyone that he is above the law over anv over, why do you think he fears consequences for the Epstein files?

      Not everything is a distraction.

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        His goal is to sow and spread chaos at all times. Distraction and fatigue is part of the design

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          There’s a long list of reasons why he attacked Iran and most of them are not distractions (although I do agree one of the reasons is to distract from domestic crises in general, Epstein being the least of his domestic worries atm, he’s above the law already).

          This is a textbook US imperialist move, coordinated with Israel, to address imperial issues that existed long before the Epstein files were a mainstream story: maintaining US hegemony and securing israeli military dominance in the region, preventing Iran from becoming a regional pole aligned with Cihna, trying to open iranian markets to western capital, and projecting military strength to make the military-industrial complex side of his political supporters happy. Those goals have been discussed in US policy circles for decades, and happened now not because of the Epstein files, but because of the timing: Iran is going through an internal political crisis that is ripe for imperial exploitation.

          If anything, seeing a distraction from the Epstein files in everything Trump does is the distraction from what he is actually doing.

          Flattening the analysis to “Epstein distraction” when the topic actually matters to leftist internationalism around the world is some lazy memerot-brained liberal shit straight out of Gavin Newsom’s twitter. He doesn’t need to bother with distractions thanks to you and others who are doing it for him by seeing Epstein in everything. The mountain hidden behind the Epstein files hill is that he seized so much power that he doesn’t need to fear justice anymore, and is now trying to mess with future elections to keep that power. People are in denial about how much control he has already seized. Epstein files won’t matter until he is removed from power.