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News & Current Events Mar 27, 2026 at 5:40 PM

'He liked the fear in our eyes,' Epstein survivors tell BBC

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'He liked the fear in our eyes,' Epstein survivors tell BBC
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'He liked the fear in our eyes,' Epstein survivors tell BBC
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, five women abused by the disgraced financier describe the impact of their shared ordeal.
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Historical_Bend_2629 Mar 27, 2026 +59
There is a genuine sadism. That is why Trump always describes people with tears in their eyes with such pride.
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emptytraincorner Mar 27, 2026 +26
He didn't operate in darkness alone. He operated in plain site with the right connections.
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iStayedAtaHolidayInn Mar 27, 2026 +12
isn't this literally the claim they made against Hillary when they claimed she and her cabal were extracting adrenochrome from kids by scaring them before they died? it was all f****** projection. it's always been projection with these sadist fucks
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SuccuInduction Mar 27, 2026 +13
it’s sickening how some people get off on power; it’s like a twisted horror movie that never ends.
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Hot_Tadpole_6481 Mar 27, 2026 +4
Who else was there? We don’t care abt Epstein, we care abt who he was with
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FlowofOd Mar 27, 2026 +14
Epstein is the inevitable and natural consequence of capitalism
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arschl_cher Mar 28, 2026 +3
I think Capitalism is one inevitable and natural consequence of men like Epstein. 
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TheLastCoagulant Mar 27, 2026 +7
[Lavrentiy Beria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria) > Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria[a] (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a **Soviet politician** and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945, during the country's involvement in the Second World War. **Beria was also a prolific sexual predator who serially raped scores of girls and young women, and murdered some of his victims.** > In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya, a well-known Soviet actress, under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead he took her to his dacha, where he offered to free her father and grandmother from prison if she submitted. He then raped her, telling her, "Scream or not, it doesn't matter". In fact, Beria knew that Okunevskaya's relatives had been executed months earlier. Okunevskaya was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag Just a normal Wednesday in the Soviet Union.
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FlowofOd Mar 27, 2026 +8
Yes, Beria was a monster - an individual monster, who was afraid of his closest allies in government figuring out what he was doing Epstein's island is a systemic and direct result of capitalism, full of capitalists protecting each other. I know you REALLY wanted to make a reactionary mic drop here, but... it falls flat under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.
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RepulsiveLoquat418 Mar 27, 2026 -8
jfc, go bang your drum someplace else. so there were no sexual predators in communist societies, in agrarian societies, in medieval societies? there have always been some men who are monsters. trying to move this to a conversation about capitalism is gross and disrespectful.
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Personal_Chair6134 Mar 27, 2026 +26
I think the point he's trying to make is that Epstein is the inevitable consequence of extreme wealth and power concentrated in a small group of people. When Reagan massively cut taxes for the rich we were all promised that their wealth would "trickle down to us". Instead what happened was that they kept all of their extreme wealth to themselves, and then used it to fulfill their most sick and depraved fantasies.
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FlowofOd Mar 27, 2026 +22
>so there were no sexual predators in communist societies, in agrarian societies, in medieval societies? Sure there were, they just didn't have their own private island and jets where they did this at the macro scale for decades while covering each others tracks. >there have always been some men who are monsters And only under capitalism do we put them on the cover of Forbes and see their sickness as a function of meritocracy >Trying to move this to a conversation about capitalism is gross and disrespectful Capitalism is gross. Epstein island, a direct result of capitalism - is one of the many reasons why.
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LSF604 Mar 27, 2026
Lavrentiyi beria was much worse than epstein
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Motosama Mar 27, 2026 +12
Show us on the doll where equal access to the means of production hurt you
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vendrediSamedi Mar 27, 2026 -4
There is so much emotional distance between this comment and the horror of what pedophiles do. But I don’t expect you to understand that.
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FlowofOd Mar 27, 2026 +13
Pedophilia is not a consequence of capitalism Epstein's island is a direct consequence of capitalism Hope this helps
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ElysiumSprouts Mar 27, 2026 -13
Seriously? You just going to ignore the totality of human history prior to capitalism?
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FlowofOd Mar 27, 2026 +9
no
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Motosama Mar 27, 2026 +8
It’s not about whether sexual predators existed or not It’s about how they are elevated and revered in capitalism like no other system 
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ElysiumSprouts Mar 27, 2026 +1
And kings, queens, royalty, tsars, emperors, Ceasars, nobility of all types, clergy, etc, etc. never existed? Please. It's an ignorant statement.
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FlowofOd Mar 27, 2026
I think you are grossly misrepresenting the scale of what Epstein's island is. People do the same thing when discussing billionaires, because the concept of a billion is so much grander than in your minds eye.
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AlcibiadesTheCat Mar 27, 2026 +2
I have a headache now because I tried to imagine a billion cupcakes. Thanks obama
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Motosama Mar 27, 2026
I’m sorry but your sense of scale is not appropriate here Kings were overthrown many times. When’s the last billionaire fall? And you must’ve misread my comment. I said they existed, they were not treated the way they are today: a goal to aspire to
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Leelagolucky Mar 27, 2026 +2
Kings/Emperors were the billionaires of their times
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Alex09464367 Mar 27, 2026 +2
There is no paywall 
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peccatum_miserabile Mar 27, 2026 +3
there is for me
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Alex09464367 Mar 27, 2026 +2
The more you know, I didn't know the BBC News had paywalls. I thought the value came from soft power.
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Efficient_Carrot_669 Mar 27, 2026 +1
Yeah I’ve got paywall
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Alex09464367 Mar 27, 2026 +3
In Switzerland there is not paywall. iPlayer doesn't work but I can get all the news without a paywall.
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