Leaked emails show Epstein’s attempts to dabble in security tech—across borders—in the last years of his life.
  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s circle.

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    Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and “efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you,” according to The New York Times.

    Whole new dimensions of creepiness from Trump’s best friend.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      including a ranch to breed women with his DNA

      wtf is with the gen-x broligarchy’s hyper-natalism? your genes aren’t special, dorks. you just happened to be in the right place at the right time and won the internet lottery. everything after that just came from having a scrooge mcduck pool of wealth, not because you’re a a special boy.

      https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11

      • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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        5 days ago

        It’s fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch. They’re really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they’ll never learn.

        Also, their whole sense of self-worth ties in with the story that they got where they are through merit, not luck. And the willingness of society to listen to success stories of the wealthy and ignore stories of the non-wealthy means they benefit from its myth-making and financial survivorship bias.

        Epstein clearly had other deeply messed up shit going on too though.