Newly released files have revealed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent considerable time with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, according to emails from convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
That’s not what “being in the Epstein files” means.
Conspiracists peddle the idea that “being in the Epstein files” means you rape kids, except they mean it literally. So between it being far from the literal meaning of the phrase, and it being how some people seriously misunderstand the situation, it makes it better to use some other phrase.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 4 months ago
That’s not what “being in the Epstein files” means.
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FishFace@piefed.social 4 months ago
It kinda is.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 4 months ago
No, “being in the Epstein files”, as a turn of phrase, means you rape kids.
FishFace@piefed.social 4 months ago
Well using it that way is fucking dumb.
Conspiracists peddle the idea that “being in the Epstein files” means you rape kids, except they mean it literally. So between it being far from the literal meaning of the phrase, and it being how some people seriously misunderstand the situation, it makes it better to use some other phrase.