• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    I had a look at his Wikipedia page. These fuckers…

    [He] identified himself as being a “libertarian hawk”. […] Epstein has defended Israel’s policies vis-à-vis Palestinians, calling allegations of apartheid a canard. In January 2025, Epstein argued against birthright citizenship in the United States, a right enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

    And the fuckers are super-wrong but it never matters because capital loves them. Emphasis mine. 500!

    In March and April 2020, Epstein wrote several essays published by the Hoover Institution giving a contrarian account of the COVID-19 pandemic and warning against extensive containment and mitigative United States responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, which he called an “overreaction”. In a piece published on March 16, he argued that the word “pandemic” is not to be used lightly and that the virus should be allowed to run its course, predicting there would be 500 U.S. deaths