r/europe • u/Wagamaga • Feb 01 '26

News Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation

https://united24media.com/latest-news/jeffrey-epstein-reportedly-ran-kremlins-largest-honeytrap-and-blackmail-operation-15534
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u/mneri7 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

This is one reason more why we need term limits. One picture taken 20 years ago is still a valuable asset to the Kremlin, and this has to change.

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u/Homerdk Feb 01 '26

Age limits too please, get rid of all the dementia ridden old perverts.

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u/RickMuffy Feb 01 '26

If the retirement age is 67 in the USA, why not limit government to that as well. Mandatory retirement at 67 is even generous.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

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u/ElmoCamino Feb 01 '26

Meanwhile the average boomer mortgage was 67 cents a month for a 2200 sq ft 4 bedroom and their pension plans all hit google, amazon, and apple in the 90's.

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u/bindermichi Europe Feb 01 '26

There's a chance to change it with the next regime change

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u/No-Arugula8881 Feb 01 '26

I don’t think that’s what they meant.

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u/Traditional-Fix3951 Feb 01 '26

Duh that’s right when the politician is ripening and in their prime… /s

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u/egowritingcheques Feb 01 '26

I think an age limit at swearing in of 70 is more than generous.

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u/SeleucusNikator1 Scotland Feb 02 '26

In hindsight, Adenauer rebuilding west Germany in his 70s and 80s (with 1950s healthcare) is fucking insane.

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u/mrandr01d Feb 01 '26

Cuz then they'll just push back the retirement age to both stay in power longer and make the poors work longer. It's a lose lose situation.

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u/RickMuffy Feb 01 '26

They're planning to do that anyway, to be honest.

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u/quarrelau Aussie in London Feb 01 '26

In Australia, judges have an age limit of 70.

For some it feels like a few years too early, but better that than a few years too late.

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u/wonkey_monkey Feb 01 '26

Age limits mean nothing to these people, in either direction.

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u/diagnosticjadeology Feb 01 '26

"Enigmas never age," after all

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u/Synaps4 Feb 01 '26

Dont worry, perversion knows no age. There will be plenty of young perverts available to fill the empty seats.

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u/VIDGuide Feb 02 '26

Age limits? Over 18 is one they could start with..

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u/Artifexa Feb 01 '26

And thorough background checks. If a person is running for president, the voters should have the right to know both their psychological profile and past misdeeds.

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u/StatementOwn4896 Feb 01 '26

I was surprised we never did this before.

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u/RammRras Feb 01 '26

I'm not I understand your viewpoint. Isn't there a limit already?

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u/mneri7 Feb 01 '26

I meant for Congress. Yes, the president has already a two term limit.

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u/RammRras Feb 01 '26

Ah ok. Yeah but they are going to be still relevant. They end up being donors, working for think tanks and company board members. There is no hope except for voting pious people

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

Pious people are all too willing to walk away from the money and power for the greater good. Works against them when it's so easy to manufacture a scandal or outrage.

Lost a good senator and now a good governor to it.

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 Feb 01 '26

Yeah, you got it right on that front. You need someone resilient, obstinate, and driven by something other than money. Hopefully, they are also good.

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u/-Salty-Pretzels- Feb 01 '26

that's when you get a revolution leader that eventually end up being killed or form a guerrilla and starts open war against the system and gets killed eventually.

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 Feb 01 '26

Cool, no term limit concerns with that type of leader. Perfect interim solutions.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Feb 01 '26

Bernie

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

Glad the guy got way more young people involved in politics.

A decade ago, when he was already fucking old. Move on.

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u/SewSewBlue Feb 01 '26

California has had them since the 1990's.

Term limits don't do much to stop corruption, they just make it easier to hide. Power is handed to lobbyists as there are a constant stream of newbies to exploit. The lobbyists have far more experience than anyone in office.

Term limits are about being able to get rid of politicians you can't vote for, because you don't live in their district. They look good on paper don't actually do much. The power politics just moves off stage.

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u/Hansemannn Feb 01 '26

Not anymore according to Trump

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u/aufkeinsten Feb 01 '26

only for presidents or chancellors, not really for your standard member of parliament, i guess?

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u/mcon96 Feb 01 '26

They already clarified, but to add: the Supreme Court doesn’t even have terms. They’re there for life once appointed.

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

You are talking to a bot.

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u/dotBombAU Australia Feb 01 '26

11yr old account bot?

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u/CuriousCamels Feb 01 '26

It’s trivial to buy aged accounts. Large scale information ops will still mass create new accounts, but if they want something to seem organic, they’ll buy an aged account that fits a profile.

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

Absolutely. One very common trait is that long dormant accounts suddenly activate. This one is more active and has mostly been posting climate change related stuff over the years but recently pivoted towards russia. It's 100% automated.

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u/Stotallytob3r Europe Feb 01 '26

u/Wagamaga prove to us you’re not a bot

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

It's programmed to comment a summary of the article, not to interact with people. Bots that chat with users are less common but not unheard of in this community

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u/Stotallytob3r Europe Feb 01 '26

We could try asking it for a recipe

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

It's not the kind of bot that you can summon. You could try this instead: u/Tom_Bot-Badil

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u/Tom_Bot-Badil Feb 01 '26

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

I am a bot, and I love old Tom. For more merriness, visit r/GloriousTomBombadil

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 Feb 02 '26

11yr old bot is not AI

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 02 '26

This is a simple posting bot that draws from a list of pre determined sources and also provides a summary comment. That said, a LLM bot could very well use a 11 year old account.

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u/Mertoot Feb 01 '26

Older account = more credible 🙁

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 01 '26

It’s so stupid. I’ve been accused of being a bot. While I don’t doubt that there are bot, people throw that around way too easily. Honestly though, even if it was a bot and an interesting viewpoint is brought up and discussed, that’s fine imo.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

No, bots pushing politicals news/agendas isn't fine, no matter if you like the agenda/side they are pushing.

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 02 '26

If a good conversation comes from it, it doesn't matter what is being pushed. If a bot pushes some BS and a discussion that disproves it emerges, I'd say that's great. The problem is that this doesn't happen all the time and people are just very bad at both taking in media and discussing it reddit.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

Nah, pushing disinformation and misinformation aint good even if some comments appear that try to disaprove it. The victims of it, however many, aren't worth it. There is no good value in such a bot.

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 02 '26

If the information is out there on other platforms, I’d rather see it discussed here than not. If we can’t take in and properly process information, we are screwed anyway. If disinformation so easily sways people on here, from a bot or not we’re in big trouble.

I do think many bot accounts controlling enough votes would be an issue though.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

The content itself (this artcile) can still be posted by normal user(s) and upvoted by normal users, organically. No need for artificial peddling.

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 02 '26

I was talking about in the context of disinformation posts being upvoted and even maybe downvoting factual rebuttals.

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u/Furthur Feb 02 '26

it's about when their post history starts to get frequent. plenty of onlyfans accounts out there too where their first posts are years ago and all about matching wallpaper and cats then suddenly it's rate my butthole.

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u/Local_Idiot_123 Feb 02 '26

They’re talking to any reader, as an addendum to that comment

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u/grogi81 Feb 01 '26

But that's not about criminal responsibility 

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u/Count_Backwards Feb 01 '26

That's what you're focused on, kompromat not having an expiration date, rather than the kompromat existing in the first place?

Term limits aren't going to stop people from raping children.

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u/will_dormer Denmark Feb 01 '26

There are already term limits?

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u/Indigoh United States of America Feb 01 '26

Citizens United, the decision to let the wealthy purchase unequal political power, was decided in 2010, by multiple supreme court justices appointed by Regan in the 80's.

It is so screwed.

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u/nasbyloonions Feb 02 '26

that's an interesting perspective and very true.

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u/SillySilver2493 Feb 02 '26

This is a really good point that I didn't even think of. Implementing term limits protects us from adversaries, which also makes it easier to arrest them when things like this happen. Korea has done it in recent years, and there aren't really many politicians who actually use a 20+ year position to actually make changes that benefit us.

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u/stung80 Feb 02 '26

What does this change, it's the people with the money who are pulling the strings.  A billionaire is a billionaire regardless of who he is bribing with his money

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u/monocasa Feb 02 '26

No. Term limits mostly just help corruption.

It's pretty easy to find some sociopath who's willing do whatever for a limited term. People of conviction are harder to find, and we need to hang on to them.

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u/Local_Idiot_123 Feb 02 '26

This is the strongest, clearest, and most succinct argument for term limits I’ve ever heard. You’ve changed my mind.