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  • To protect the overall organization and potentially to protect other people in his life. My impression from looking at the documents is that this is a very large international network. I imagine there would be consequences for being caught, such as the torture and murder of everyone you hold dear. If your only options are to kill yourself or to get murdered and have everyone around you also tortured and killed, I could see a narcissist choosing the former option.

    I don’t know anything for sure, but the released files definitely gave me the impression that Epstein was not the top of the chain. Rather, he seems like the American representative of an extensive global cabal. Somebody out there was putting together those sample albums of girls for him. Somebody was running the brothels he seemed to be visiting. He was getting calls from all over the globe with descriptions of new girls. It seems to go much deeper than just Ghislaine trolling the local middle schools for fresh meat.

    So, if he did kill himself (heavy on the if), then I’d imagine it was partially because there is a scarier monster out there who is ready to take out the trash if anybody gets sloppy.

  • I’m willing to believe he killed himself to protect the organization, but someone on the outside created the conditions for him to do so. The idea that one of the most closely guarded prisoners in the country just happened to know exactly when the guards were negligent and when the cameras were malfunctioning is just absurd. He was given a window of opportunity by somebody, at the very least, or murdered at most.

    I have no doubt that the contract required to enter an international sex trafficking organization also includes exit obligations if you are caught. There are a whole lot of dead people around this case, and the chance of it being a conspiracy is way higher than the chance of it being a coincidence at this point.

  • I work for doctors. They literally can’t upsell because insurance won’t pay.

    Your doctor makes a bullet pointed list of diagnosed conditions called medical codes. A licensed medical coder (whose license is dependent on accuracy) reviews the doctors codes and edits the bill to only charge for conditions that are within the scope of the specialty and justified by the data collected in the visit notes.

    The bill is then passed to the insurance company who has their own medical coders who review the work of the previous medical coder. If they believe the bill is inaccurate, it is reviewed by another doctor who works for the insurance company. If the bill is determined to still be inaccurate, the insurance company refuses to pay and kicks the bill back to the practice.

    If many bills are determined to be inaccurate, the medical practice is audited to see if there has been a pattern of upcharging or inaccurate coding.

    This is the point where a multi-million dollar lawsuit can start, and the practice finds themselves in court to have a judge determine if they should be paid for their work. If they lose those lawsuits, they lose coverage from the whole insurance company, and that is how a practice goes bankrupt.

    Don’t get me wrong—for profit healthcare can lead to problems, but believe it or not, the system is designed to keep things above board and make sure that people are charged accurately.

    The real issue is that each insurance company has contracts with each network of practices to pay them a designated percentage of the overall bill as a deal to keep them in network, so healthcare costs are extremely high because the practice will only get a percentage of the billed cost as pursuant to the individual agreement with that insurance provider. If you have to pay out of pocket because you went out of network, you are eating a huge cost while an in practice provider would be getting much less money after it was processed by your insurance company.

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  • You’d be amazed of the things that butt doctors see.

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  • Everyone knows you’re supposed to boof the cocaine and eat the acid. Amateur. /s

  • You won’t be out when your rent is a million per month and groceries are 100k.

  • Just how?

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  • You might if it was the symbol that kept him under a billion.

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  • My shaft is where all my generation comes from. /s

  • The shame

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  • Your stuffed animals are getting older, and this is their kink. /s

  • This is a deep cut nerd joke. I approve.

  • He could.

  • It’s similar to fear factor—you can authorize quite a lot of things in a contract.

    The medical examiner has said that they don’t think his death was caused directly by the treatment during the stream.

  • I try to avoid them as much as possible, usually.

    I’m not saying he’s unusual for a 13 year old, just that writing articles about him like he’s a progressive silver bullet seems to be off the mark.

  • In my opinion, part of that attitude is a valid criticism. Republicans are good at constructing messages that appeal to the emotional and instinctual parts of the brain. A lot of democrats have been stuck in a pattern of indignation and admonishing, which is what I detect in this kids videos.

    If you look at the last two promising progressive campaigns, they were ones that also figured out how to appeal to emotionality. Obama overcame a major establishment competitor with Hope, Change, and pop art. Bernie did better than any leftist has ever done by focusing on a battle against the elites that must be waged before it is too late.

    It seems like the rallying cry is more effective for swing voters and nonvoters than intellectual outrage is.

  • I agree with most of his points, but there is something about his delivery that I find a little obnoxious. I’m not sure he is going to effectively change people’s minds as much as he just appeals to the intellectual liberal crowd.