[cryo32]

I genuinely don’t think such folk have as much influence and power as everyone thinks. In my (direct) experience it’s just a complete mess and they’re reacting naively to every problem.

They’re fighting a battle against the real problem which is the paid up influence campaigns that give them problems to defend. Start at the press, the social media companies and the think tanks.

[greenavocado]

They form these groups to network and do favors for each other and provide cover for each other. After a while you are asked to do increasingly compromising things to yourself to do deeper into/stay part of the club such as blood rituals. Bohemian Grove high priest Henry Kissinger led simulated animal sacrifice rituals attended by many others in the "inner circles" of the top strata of decision makers and wallet holders. They do this because engaging in a common taboo unites the group extremely strongly, and these behaviors are the ultimate taboo.

[einsteinx2]

> They do this because engaging in a common taboo unites the group extremely strongly, and these behaviors are the ultimate taboo.

This last sentence immediately made me think of Epstein’s island and the “ultimate taboo” they were engaging in there.

[wartywhoa23]

> They do this because engaging in a common taboo unites the group extremely strongly

Nothing unites the scum stronger than a guaranteed scorching pan in hell for all of them.