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KingOfCoders · 7 hours ago
"his townhouse in Manhattan" and didn't find the pictures and the massage tables strange.
randycupertino · 7 hours ago
I watched some of the videos and you could see DNA paternity tests sitting around on the tables in front of the dancing girls his Manhattan townhouse ( example- 24 seconds in - https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01648...) .

Interestingly if you change the last couple of digits in the video links to just any random number combo it unlocks a ton more (many awful, disgusting) videos. Changing the file names from .mp4 to .mov also opens up more, and changing file names in the links from .pdf to .mp4

The most interesting thing I've found is the word "don't" is often randomly redacted in emails which makes me think they ran a script to auto-redact "Don T" among other things. Example: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02440...

Edit- also, to add, the craziest part of the entire files to me was how much awful stuff I could find just merely poking around. If you put in the name of any of his multiple girlfriends/victim recruiters - for example natalie malyshev you can find them sending him photos of underage girls with him replying ranking them - too old, too asian (many were rejected for being too asian), too fat. There is one being evaluated who is only 10!

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01743...

https://jmail.world/thread/87deba98c8c69cd51dfe905889862ce2?...

Also this one from a Silicon Valley VC Masha Drokova who says Jews are much smarter than other races and they should DNA test everyone to find the smartest people will have the highest % Jew: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA009355...

i-blis · 21 minutes ago
I was already horrified by what I heard in the Netflix documentary (some five years back, I guess). One frightening aspect was that some victims, despite having terribly suffered themselves, introduced him 10, 20 of their friends and acquaintances. One young lady among the victims even confessed with deep remorse to have sent, among others, her own under-aged sister.
JKCalhoun · 5 hours ago
> Changing the file names from .mp4 to .mov also opens up more, and changing file names in the links from .pdf to .mp4

Are you suggesting there are accessible files at justice.gov for which the URLs were not part of the "dump"? That simply swizzling the URL you can access additional files that were not part of the released tranche?

spwa4 · 7 hours ago
They seem to be having trouble holding on to enough personnel to make these changes reliably. Probably also internally have trouble getting people to do it.
belter · 5 hours ago
Howard...Howard is the boy: https://youtu.be/rpdTnPWFjDo?t=478
cthalupa · 7 hours ago
It's very easy to believe that Epstein cultivated a massive quantity of relationships with any sort of rich, famous, influential, or powerful person he could. It's very easy to believe that many of them, for much of his existence, had no idea what was really going on. It's very easy to believe that plenty of "normal" (for relative values of normal here) people had no idea how to act when this all came to light and just shut up and avoided it and hoped none of this ever surfaced.

But we also know a whole fucking lot of them did know exactly what was going on and partook in some manner.

And as an everyday person who can realistically make zero impact on any of these people? Fuck if I've got the time to try and sort out which person falls into which group. The courts can figure that out if they actually start doing anything about all of this.

For me? I'm writing 'em all off.

KingOfCoders · 7 hours ago
The question never is: Did you know? But: Should you have known? Willfully ignoring things is not a defense.
cthalupa · 7 hours ago
I don't have enough information to answer that or the time to research it, and indeed, this is part of my point.

And thus why I'm writing the whole lot of them off it looks like they had real interaction with Epstein.

dogma1138 · 5 hours ago
We went to prison in the mid 2000’s for soliciting under aged girls for prostitution so any relationship since then cannot really claim ignorance.
kyleblarson · 7 hours ago
At least we can rest knowing that all of these rich, famous, powerful people will face consequences for their disgusting actions....
tzs · an hour ago
What many people overlook is that, in Marvel terms, Epstein was not the kind of villain that Magneto or the Red Skull or Thanos are/were.

Epstein was the kind of villain that Wilson Fisk or Norman Osborn or Alexander Pierce are/were.

The former don't make any attempt to hide their evil.

The latter go to great effort to have public personas that do good.

Wilson Fisk for example was known to the public and most authorities as a philanthropic New York City businessman known for his major donations that the city and its institutions. Behind the scenes he was know as the Kingpin of Crime running a large organized crime, human trafficking, drug, and assassination operation. But only a few heroes (Daredevil and Spider-Man) and some officials knew or suspected.

To succeed in the latter kind of villainy it is essential that you cultivate relationships with a lot of respectable people who you make sure do not get involved in the evil side so you can keep the public persona's reputation clean.

KingOfCoders · 7 hours ago
We didn't know anything.

"Noam’s email to Epstein, in which Epstein sought advice about the press, should be read in context. Epstein had claimed to Noam that he [Epstein] was being unfairly persecuted".

and

"2019 did we learn the full extent"

Full extent? So what did you know before? All of this does not make any sense.

pinnochio · 7 hours ago
This is your third top-level comment on this thread, when you're still in the edit window for the first. These are also pretty poor comments.

Did you have some prior beef with Chomsky?

KingOfCoders · 7 hours ago
You're always hit hardest when it's your idols. Also: Nothing better to do.

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alecco · 19 minutes ago
Oh, f** off.

> The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal

> The letter recounted how Epstein had arranged for Chomsky – a political activist, too – to meet with someone he had “studied carefully and written about”: the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/noam-chomsky...

> There additionally was an exchange in which Chomsky wrote to Steve Bannon, the rightwing chief White House strategist during Donald Trump’s first presidency, requesting an introductory meeting. “Lots to talk about,” Chomsky wrote, adding that he had been provided Bannon’s contact information by Epstein, a former friend of Trump.

> Undated photo of Jeffrey Epstein, right, speaking to academic and linguist Noam Chomsky. [in Epsteins private jet!]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-file...

> A photograph of Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky released from Epstein files. [Having a laugh!]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/jeffre...

I used to idolize Chomsky when I was young. People went to war for much less.

tgv · 7 hours ago
Although I'm not a fan of Chomsky, neither of his political-philosophical, nor his linguistic work, he's never come across as dishonest, and I won't believe implications until corroborated by hard evidence.
cmrdporcupine · 7 hours ago
The last 10ish years of his intellectual life were unfortunately not great.

He took the wrong positioning on the war in Ukraine. Along with others.

And it looks here like he made a series of personal relationship mistakes.

The man can't speak for himself anymore, but it's not a good look and I don't think his partner has done him any favours here by deflecting responsibility.

Clearly awful mistakes were made.

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jcranmer · 7 hours ago
Chomsky is very well known for the fact that his anti-US imperialism stance is strong enough that he becomes a standard bearer for any malodorous regime the US is against, starting from his denial of the Cambodian genocide and attempted habilitation of the Pol Pot regime through to, most recently, his denial of any Russian atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine (his last major public commentary before his stroke).

It is entirely in line with Chomsky's historical pattern that Epstein could walk up to him, say "the US government hates me and claims I'm a pedophile" and for Chomsky to then treat him like his best friend. It is also worth noting that when he eventually recanted his Cambodian genocide denial, he basically said something along the lines of "how could anyone have possibly known just how bad the regime was?" which is... essentially what this response is attempting to be, "how could we have possibly known that Epstein was actually a pedophile?"

tgv · 6 hours ago
I always got the feeling Chomsky went for "the big picture" so to speak, and ignored the details. At least, that would be consistent between his political and his linguistic work. In the latter, he built systems that were simply too complex to be representative of the human mind. I can imagine that he saw himself as a kind of continuation of Marx and Hegel, where the system matters, and human life is just a detail.
u1hcw9nx · 7 hours ago
He has been intellectually dishonest in his political writings for a long time.
47282847 · 7 hours ago
How so?
drukenemo · 7 hours ago
The guy is literally photographed inside a plane with Epstein. And supported him after accusations had been made.
brabel · 7 hours ago
Did this letter change anything for you? Being on his plane is by itself a crime?
krupan · 7 hours ago
Amazing when it comes to Epstein (and other controversial actions/decisions) how detailed and open minded we are when it comes to someone we liked and supported, and how cut and dry we want things to be when it's someone we don't like.
sheikhnbake · 7 hours ago
Nah, anyone associating with Epstein can get flushed down the toilet. Maybe it's a generational thing.
dexterdog · 6 hours ago
Let's hope you never wind up in the massive email history of a terrible person because people like you will wish you dead.
_wire_ · 6 hours ago
Epstein has successfully polluted many powerful people and it looks like he was built for the task of compromising others, where everything in Epstein's sphere seems designed, arranged and executed for such purpose. Epstein's immense wealth appears to come from nowhere. He operated with a bold posture of impunity.

Maxwell's family is highest-level states intelligence, media control, and arms trade. Robert Maxwell, died in an unfortunate boating accident on yacht named for his daughter!

Epstein's sexploitation crimes seems relatively innocuous compared to the costs of war and value of the kompromat, which reaches into the highest state offices of U.S. and UK (I choose the word kompromat for its literal meaning not for its national connotations, although Epstein's network is said to include Israeli, UK, and Russian intelligence services).

The way the Epstein files are being managed seems designed to generate maximum confusion, distress and distraction, which is a helpful modality for burying the hatchet once the conflict has served its purpose; make a big mess so there will be no getting to the bottom of it.