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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous 4Chan user posted...

It beat ABC News journalist Aaron Katersky's post about Epstein's death on Twitter, now known as X, by 38 minutes

Is that in any way surprising? Someone with insider knowledge posted about it before a journalist was informed?

In the Wikipedia article about his death they said that he was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 6:39 AM. More than 90 minutes before even this post on 4Chan, he'd already been taken out of his cell, rushed to an ambulance, driven across NY, taken to a hospital, rushed into the emergency room, and pronounced dead. There were so many opportunities for someone to notice that and post it somewhere.

In a sense, this means you pretty much clear the jail guards, ambulance drivers and emergency room doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. of suspicion. Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?

What's surprising here isn't that it was posted first to some forum used by random Internet chuds. That's what you'd expect. What's surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?

If they were involved in emergency response, they might have been too busy doing their jobs to post immediately.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Maybe... but not being able to find 30 seconds to post this major news for over 90 minutes? It seems more likely to me that whoever posted it found out about it closer to 8:30.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Not really. If you're the ambulance driver, for example, as soon as he's out of your vehicle but before he's pronounced dead, you're not really involved anymore and you can post about it. Same for the prison guards and everyone else along the way.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not to mention the fact that people at ABC news knew about it sometime before the reporter posted about it.

That’s what you’d expect. What’s surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.

Most people in NYC are probably in traffic or on the train at that time in the morning. Aaron Katersky probably got the scoop simply by being at work before 9am.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Trump obviously killed this dude, right?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It could have been any number of people. He had dirt on half the politicians and business leaders in the country. Lots of people wanted him dead.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah but there's the classic elements to solving a murder mystery: means, motive, and opportunity.

Trump had all three.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Jeffrey Epstein is singlehandedly responsible for the extreme polarization of this country, and it's time that we experience a Great Cultural Reset this year.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Look, the man is an awful person, but don't give him THAT much credit. Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Lee Atwater and anyone involved in the southern strategy was major parts of it. McConnell, "The Freedom Caucus", and "Tea Party" were major parts of it. The Koch Brothers with the heritage foundation is a major part.

And this is the short list. I didn't go into the evengelicals, AM conservative pundits, Rupert Murdoch and so much more.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wish that William McKinley wasn't shot so that that would inadvertently lead to the US becoming a socialist country, a lot similar to the alternate history story "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline" (wiki is here). Seriously!

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or Garfield. He at least wanted every confederate leader hanged.

The US is just not allowed to have good leaders

[–] Azal@pawb.social 1 points 3 days ago

That's what I keep saying is the greatest failure is the traitor leaders got to skip off.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

It makes me wonder, Jepstein set a lot of gears to turn independently, but without the spider at the center of the right-wing web I wonder how completely the propaganda will deteriorate as there's now one less cohesive force at the center pushing it forward.

[–] graycloud@leminal.space 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Obviously, it's because the FBI is on 4chan.

and the Bureau of Prisons.

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