At least half of all well regarded political writings serve the purpose of paper weights post-epstein.
Politics are the tools of governance. If you are into politics and not in power, you are at best a spectator but mostly likely a tool.
>>25167598QRD on Hofstadter and his thesis? I've wanted to read this for years because between him and Popper, they created the foundation that libtards preached conspiracy denialism for generations upon while actual national and international cliques of elites dominated politics behind closed doors. Post-epstein it really seems that all these conspiracy denying arguments did was launder cover and legitimacy for organized crime and the empires elites because without it they would have been exposed to the justice system and public accountability otherwise.
>>25167659that's how I mostly saw it, even if I appreciate a bit of Hofstadter's intellectual history stuff. however, he does come off as a guy who sits in a cushy office in Harvard who derides people who live in trailer parks. Just a hunch I guess. Even nowadays with that godawful Heartland Of The Real book, they can't stop yapping about how much better they are than Cletus who believes in alien-assisted end times prophecies. As someone who's background is slightly one economic class higher than those types, I mingle with them quite a lot and those lowly "redneck" types always seem more down to earth than your average academic circle jerk, even if philosophy and history are hobbies of mine (I decided to re-enter school last year so I could study the stuff in real time and prove a yokel can get a degree, too)
>>25167598I'm waiting for new books written in light of all the shit that has come out from those files
Venus worship
>>25167659>without it they would have been exposed to the justice system and public accountability otherwise.Ahahahahaha. American politics was always corrupt. The spoils system wasn't invented by Trump, he just revived it, and really the left unfortunately opened the door for that by striking down testing for positions as racist because whites passed more than blacks
>>25167598Epstein doesn't vindicate the millions of other outlandish and retarded conspiracy theories which you people conveniently forget about.
>>25167890such as?
>>25167890Alphabet agencies use conspiracy theories to discredit actual wrongdoing. It started in the 60s or 70s with them spreading shit about the existence of the Illuminati. Basically, someone will catch onto something, the media poison the well by amplifying nutjobs, and midwits like you will parrot "CONSPIRACY THEORY! CONSPIRACY THEORY" even if someone sensible is telling you of the wrongdoing.
>>25167906QAnonOr even the fact people are misinterpreting Epstein emails about drugs to be about satanic ritual cannibalism of children.
>>25167912That doesn't justify any conspiracy theory under the sun you retard. I never said that there are no conspiracies, but I'm arguing that you people should be selective about what you believe. Otherwise you do the CIA's job for them.
>>25167927You're a midwit, anon. Crying about schizos on the internet talking about conspiracy theories makes you a useful idiot.
>>25167942You can't even aspire to be a midwit because you're permanently stuck as a childish halfwit who refuses to take responsibility for the fact that your own gleeful desire to believe in anything bizarre and outlandish has worked in favor of those alphabet agencies you claim to fight against.
>>25167919but what if people were really doing that. you know people in uncontacted tribes do that too. but since they're not rich and powerful its of no consequence to you, is it?
>>25167658what if you write about it and go deep philosophically like I do?
>>25167890>A cabal of mostly jewish and entirely zionist elites are human traffickers to the side of rigging global trade, political, arms, and drug deals behind closed doors off the public recordThis is literally what every person who actually pays attention has been screaming from the rooftops about the US empire: its an imperial machine ran by a globalist plutocracy that rapes and plunders the world and operates as a giant organized crime syndicate. Its systemic and because its systemic includes just about every other inconvenient historical fact that conspiracy deniers like to pretend dont exist to the side of the mundane public institutions that help launder legitimacy for the mountain of skulls everything rests upon. All you're doing is doing the typical run of the mill "generalist" argument that goes back to Popper that tries to lump things like epstein and operation northwoods with fucking flat earth and Qanon, its retarded at best and bad faith at worse and all around is intellectually bankrupt now that its out in the open that western elites are intertwined with a global mafia network. >>25167912The CIA directly employed the term "conspiracy theorist" with the help of assets in the media to discredit critics of the Warren commission and the CIA over the JFK assassination.https://ia800207.us.archive.org/33/items/CIADOC1035960/CIA%20DOC%201035-960.pdfAgain, the notion that a constitutional republic is actually ran by an unaccountable network of mafioso elites runs completely against democratic popular sovereignty and justice. You must dress the mass murderer pig up with a wig and lipstick to trick your Ivy league fart smellers and CNN watchers. Nothing of legitimacy laundering.
>>25167598Have you read the book or are you simply judging by the title? It's relevance intensifies with every passing year.
>>25167950>REEEEEEEEEEELol
>>25168021>DA JOOOS!!!111 made me a lazy virginYeah there is a reason why you're regarded as a nutjob
This >>25167919 is an example of this >>25167912.
>>25167927Nobody is doing that but you. OP mentioned Epstein, not fucking Qanon or anything else. Epstein has established a new baseline to work from and now its up to fucktards like you to adjust instead of pushing this sophistry. Every institution should be suspected guilty until proven otherwise at this point.
>>25168021>The CIA directly employed the term "conspiracy theorist" with the help of assets in the media to discredit critics of the Warren commission and the CIA over the JFK assassination.I wouldn't doubt that in the least. I haven't read much about it but from what I recall seeding outlandish conspiracy theories to poison the well against actual governmental wrongdoings was systematized in the 60s with the Illuminati stuff. Some guy wrote a paper or something about how conspiracy theories could be used that way and did a test run with the most ridiculous one he could think of (i.e. illuminati) and was shocked that it actually caught on. I think he ran ads in the classified section of various men's magazines to seed it and it ended up spreading like wildfire.
>>25168045I'm married with a kid. Epstein told Peter Thiel himself that he represents the Rothchild's (who got raided just days ago over this), and Wexner and his foundation whom Epstein respectively had power of attorney over and ran the finances of were some of the biggest private benefactors of Israel. When John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released the Israel Lobby Alan Dershowitz's, the living demon, and Epstein tried to smear them, only demonstrating the Israeli lobby and ZOG's existence more.https://www.reuters.com/world/french-investigators-mounted-raids-probe-diplomat-with-epstein-ties-2026-03-24/https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbyThanks for providing a sound board to demonstrate how mentally handicapped people like you are and the overwhelming existence of this overarching problem, from conspiracy denial to ZOG.
>>25168067At its core power politics, especially in an age of perpetual global espionage, is deeply deeply conspiratorial. Take the very existence of the CIA for example. Their entire mandate is to conduct illegal espionage in target countries, which is illegal absolutely everywhere, clandestinely. And thats just espionage, much less covert paramilitary action, which they do literally all the time and even have applications for on their job website. And thats just one formal post-war institution, much less informal networks, which Epstein represents the best. All of this traffics in high criminality whether good or bad and conspiracy denialism launders legitimacy for these institutions and networks while providing cover for their very existence and actions. Well poisoning is just counter-espionage skullduggery meant to confuse the matter more. Frankly, the chasm between day to day life for uninformed normies and what global elites and institutions are doing and have been doing since 1945 is so massive its beyond comprehension, and utterly retarded bullshit like the libtard conspiracy denial gatekeeping is just systemic antibodies keeping morons from venturing off the green pasture too far.
>>25167659bro the essay is like six pageshttps://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
