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Even just setting aside the criminal/salacious side... it is just so interesting to see the connections between the elite. Steve Bannon photographed chilling with Noam Chomsky, such a surprise. God, and Robert Trivers is in there too, eeh.

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Bannon for a while was deeply ingrained in Hollywood. He still earns residuals on episodes of Seinfeld [0], and owns the film rights to Michael Lewis' Liars Poker (even supposedly writing a screenplay for it himself) [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon#Media_and_investi...

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/steve-ba...

He was very close to Epstein. So far as I know, the only mention of Bannon at Turning Point USA was a call to release the 12-15 hours of taped media training he gave Epstein in 2019.

> it is just so interesting to see the connections between the elite.

Did you imagine rich and successful, high status people hang out with random wage workers they find in a bar somewhere in the midwest?

correct me please if i am missing something, but i read that Chomsky messages and looks like normal conversations, i mean, surely Epstein offered dark services for some guest, but not for all. Even that conversations looks very smart. Social media people moves in majority cases on morbid assumptions. Correct me please if i am missing something, but Chomsky is a great guy, an one of the greatest minds on earth.

Well you might like Chomsky's ideas but can you say that you really know him? If no, then how can you be so sure of his character? Even if he was not involved in any of Epstein's illegal activities, a leftist individual secretly hanging out with billionaires on a secluded island is not a good look to say the least

A lot of it feels like mundane "life-living" with some salacious stuff in there.

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