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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 8, 2026

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Savile was exactly who I had in mind. The guy was a literal child molester, and yet the only person who spoke out when he was alive was, as @FtttG wrote, a punk rocker, someone who by definition should have zero respect for the establishment.

Imagine being invited to Epstein's island. Having lots of RHRGs around is the sign of a any good party. There are literally dozens of other very important people at the party with you, some of them more important than you. One of the girls looks a bit too young to be 18. Well, there are many possibilities there:

  • She's 18, she's just cynically exploiting her looks.
  • She's not 18 and she's cynically exploiting her looks.

Well, maybe she's not 18 and someone here on the island might be violating 18 U.S. Code § 2423. But you're not a cop nor a lawyer. Surely the arrangement, if of dubious legality, is mutually beneficial: the girl wants some pocket money, ol' Jeff brings her to the island with no explicit expectations of illicit sexual conduct. If she lies to someone about her age to play hide the sausage with a celebrity, then it's her problem. Surely you can't be the first one to blow the whistle, surely someone else would've done that already.

Exactly, plus whilst I don't want to be drawn into the eternal Ephebophilia debate I haven't seen any allegations personally that Epstein's tastes went towards pre-pubescent types and expecting everybody on prostitute orgy island to either be checking legal IDs or to have a perfectly calibrated legal agedar is a bit silly.