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.
The elites are so fucked up. They really think they are something better than the people.
From my pov the parallels to the kings and Queens of feudalism are just to strong. We need powerful rules to cut down power of individuals not just politicians. We need to trim billionaires, trim their money and their influence.
Well it would help if you stopped calling them “elites”.
Yeah
The elites rot just like poor people. They just forgot that.
The elites isn’t the main problem. It is that we put narcissistic sociopath in power because of our tendencies to follow the group and vote because of the party we usually vote for instead of looking at the program.
Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?
Except that they’re not putting anywhere near the amount of effort I’d hope they would need to influence people. Look at how awful Trump is, how openly disgusting he is, and yet them just saying “no that’s fake actually” is enough.
People like these awful things and they want to be “influenced” so they can pretend, amongst themselves mostly, that they were fooled.
Yeah, because they’ve been doing so for decades. Most of what’s happening today would likely not have been accepted 30-40 years ago, but people have been desensitized by constant, subtle and not so subtle influencing.
Surprise: another narcissistic sociopath. Themself in power because if other narcissistic asshole. You can go quite far like that, but will always end up with masses that vote for parties as if they were the local baseball team.
Turns out billionaires are mostly also narcissistic sociopaths. And they control the media where people get there information from. So there is a high probability for people’s actions to be manipulated by those billionaire-censored information. You can not expect everyone to spend there intellect, energy and time to comprehend these systems. The people are not the problem. The problem is the billionaire controlled system. People will change if the system changes.
There are still reliable medias that are free from billionaires. But that suppose to pay for them, because without a billionaire with an agenda to keep them afloat, who will?
Personally, I support multiple of them (after looking into them, of course), even when not aligned with my own world views.
You know what, let’s start a community to list them all. I think this is the best way to work against the billionaire press monopoly.