for as long as i can remember it’s been like, “yeah this journalist spoke out against putin and then fell out of a 30th floor window”, and we don’t bat an eye because it’s just like, “yep, that’s how they do it in backwards ass, dictator led russia.” the epstein files, among many other heinous revelations, are showing us that the united states is zero percent different from russia, china, n korea, etc. we’re just better at keeping it under wraps. all of the “there’s a cabal of billionaire pedophiles sacrificing children and secretly running the world!!!” conspiracy talk is proving more and more to be reality than i think any of us ever truly imagined. evil people lust for and attain power, and there’s nothing they won’t do to stay in that life. fucking depressing and disillusioning.