• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    I still remember conspiracy theory that we are ruled by pedophiles…

    In early 2000s…

    In 2020s this is a well know, properly documented fact.

    Casting couch jokes… Were not jokes either…

    Mass government surveillance without warrants… Also a know fact … Now

    All of these were “conspiracies”

    Lab leak theory was suppressed aggressively, now it is considered viable but we just don’t know

    Regime propganda appratus can’t even keep its narrative straight anymore but sadest part is that with polarization, they don’t have to. Normies will larp their team no matter what, like docile dogs

    It is disgusting seeing what should adult people behave in such a way. Caring more about politics than people around them

    So we really got the rulers we deserve as a body of people.

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      Nobody outside the NYC Metro North/PATH area who was alive at the time ever talks about this, but the wealthy men nightclub pedophilia (in terms of like 14yos) was an open secret. From 1984-1996-ish there was a whole “Klub Kids” scene where like, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, and Donald Trump would all be snorting lines of coke off a 15yo at Studio 54 in 1984 (Netflix did a documentary about a murder by an influencer of that scene several years ago). I literally knew kids who were part of that scene at the time (all the ones I knew became heroin addict homeless goth young adults by the late 90’s and I presume are dead by now). Donald Trump was regionally known as the most famous enjoyer of the Klub Kids scene at the time.

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        First time hearing of this. But how is this never really brought publicly. Same reason diddy only getting flushed now?

        Regime don’t want to open another can of worms?

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          No idea! It was public local knowledge at the time, and I especially wondered with that Klub Kids Netflix documentary about the murder, NO mention even in a defamation friendly way, like an interview “Oh, I used to hear Donald Trump was in that scene” or anything. Also the media is here, basically, and Margaret Brennan is FROM Fairfield, albeit younger, but you’d think she’d be aware at least…