besides spend it on frivolous shit like yachts and planes and stuff, there's no way it's all liquid. do they just park all their billions in a bunch of investment vehicles and wait for it to propagate itself? don't they get bored of just waiting and watching line go up?

            • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              It's true. CIA/FBI and Mossad 100% knew and had to keep the info away from hostile intelligence. I'd imagine Putin would love that info too

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I generally assume that all Oligarchs are in the same club when it comes to sex crimes, and that there's some kind of tacit agreement not to use each other's sex crimes behavior against each other. Putin and Bill Clinton are only enemies in a very esoteric sense where the cliques of oligarchs they represent sometimes have competing business interests. Putting each other's sex crimes out in the open doesn't advance their interests.

                • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Eh, international oligarchs do have diverging interests though. The Russian Bourgeoisie has Imperial aspirations and those are being thwarted by the American Imperialist machine. In their home country they have near absolute power but on the international stage they are the underdog that hopes to someday become the big dog.

                  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    True, but i think there is some level of "Honor among thieves" regarding what weapons you wield and don't wield. The same way nation-states generally don't use assassination against other heads of state, because ultimately it'd be really easy for the all the presidents and premiers and whatever to just kill each other and once that djinni is out of the bottle it's hard to put back.

                    Though actually now that I say taht I have doubts because the US and it's allies are pretty cavalier about just assassinating whoever they can...

        • TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          So you are telling me someone recieved full agent training ready for the field and was told to jerk off a football team owner as an assignment?

        • summerbl1nd [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          so the means of production of epstein shit cost prohibitive amounts of capital due to normative values and safety overhead... does this mean the wealthy are running the world into the ground just so they can save money on their kiddie porn?

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Epstein was a psycho monster even by the standards of your average rich sex guy. Most rich dudes just have one mistress at a time, they're not industrializing the rape of teenage girls. Fuck, they might not even have a real mistress, they might just be banging the receptionist who draws a salary from their company, or someone who actually has their own income and gets a boost from their sugar daddy.

        • Vayeate [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Naw man, most rich guys have a few consistent women at once. It's honestly not that expensive, I looked it up once. Most "sugar daddy" arrangements average something like $3k a month which is fucking nothing to someone with a net worth of $50+ million.