• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    24 days ago

    I kind of doubt this, actually.

    I don’t think Putin is the type to trust anybody else with his wealth. Not all of it, anyway, or even most of it.

    Maybe I’d believe Epstein was a wealth manager for Putin, not the wealth manager. Just one of the many pies Putin has his fingers in.

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      24 days ago

      Please don’t use straw man arguments.

      Nowhere in the article it says Epstein was the only one. So you are opposing something that is never said.

      The source claimed that Epstein served as a wealth manager for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe

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        24 days ago

        Nowhere in the article it says Epstein was the only one.

        You expect me to read articles?!?!? Preposterous!

        I’m just going off of the title, where it says:

        Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin’s Wealth Manager

        Not ‘one of Putin’s wealth managers’.

        So … yeah. I blame the poorly worded title. No ragrets.

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          24 days ago

          I’m my father’s daughter. I have two sisters who are also my father’s daughters. I am also one of my father’s daughters, but that doesn’t make my first sentence incorrect.

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            24 days ago

            During the Cold War, there was a race between the United States and the Soviet Union, where:

            • There are only two runners
            • The American finishes 1st
            • The Soviet finishes 2nd (last)

            The newspapers report it differently:

            U.S. newspaper: “American wins race; Soviet finishes last.”

            Soviet newspaper: “Soviet athlete finishes second; American is next to last.”

            It’s a classic illustration of media framing and propaganda showing how wording can shape perception without technically lying.

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        24 days ago

        This whole article is a plant to try and associate epstein with russia away from Israel.

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          24 days ago

          Those aren’t mutually exclusive. Russia and Israel aren’t adversaries and I don’t know why Communists online act as if they are (could it be? They define all geopolitical relations based on “for or against the USA?”) Relations deteriorated in 2022, but they improved when Netanyahu got back in office.