Post #910208
2026-04-03 17:26 UTC
the epstein files shows in plain back-and-white print that the system is captured by a ruling class of people who exist above the law to such a degree that they can flaunt their activities to the world in unencrypted messages; calling it merely imperfect is an dramatic understatement.
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@Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 17:53
But it’s not always the case. Furthermore, Epstein is not a signifier that all judicial systems are corrupt or all trials are show trials. It us a symptom of top down authoritarianism interfering with an otherwise mostly just judicial system. The solution to corruption is not to accept corruption as the norm. It is to fight that corruption. Your position is nihilist. It gives up on the ideal of justice by demanding a false dichotomy of either total perfection for rules based systems that strive to protect individual rights versus acceptance of no liberty at the behest of total state power.