Thread by @msbellows

Fascinating detail on how the Old Boy network operates in this long piece about @AlanDersh. Even if he didn't avail himself of Epstein's odalisques, Dersh was an enabler of a pedophile pimp, + himself is a poster child for unreflective, unrepentant 20th c. male dominion.
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https://twitter.com/irin/status/1155832661920886784

@AlanDersh .@AlanDersh may be profoundly flawed, but this is one of the best insights ever into the unhealthy psyche of the über-privileged (incl. Dersh himself): sick people obsessed with trading away what they lack to increase what they don't need:
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@AlanDersh Here's a great cautionary tale about how outsiders can misunderstand the details of litigation. Here, Dersh + two of Giuffre's lawyers sued each other. Apparently, Dersh's insurance carrier paid big, but the deal also included a small payment TO Dersh so he could claim he won:
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@AlanDersh How "zealous advocacy" can become moral blindness: acc to above, when his victim "starred in her high-school play," Epstein sent roses; but when she testified against E, Dersh argued "we feared that she might "mislead" investigators bec she was "an accomplished drama student."
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@AlanDersh I'd love to ask Dersh if he ever saw the mural Epstein had painted at his NY mansion "of himself in jail, telling visitors that it was a reminder that he could always go back."
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@AlanDersh (Also, note this aside: when Fergie, Duchess of York, nearly went bankrupt, her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, apparently arranged for Epstein to help pay some of her debts. Which: weird to us, but normal for these circles that rule the world.) telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/th…
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@AlanDersh Here's my takeaway: there is a small group of truly powerful men who rule the world: Putin (the richest man on Earth), MBS, arguably Koch, a few others we probably don't know.
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@AlanDersh Then there is a second circle of those who delude themselves into BELIEVING they're in the first group bec they, too, own yachts and private airplanes, but whom the first group merely tolerates and utilizes for their own purposes; tools who think they're masters. That's Trump.
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@AlanDersh Then there's are lower circles of people who know they are not the true Masters, but who very consciously insert themselves as enablers for personal profit ("profit" meaning money, power, sex, ego gratification): Epstein, Stephen Miller, McConnell -- and @AlanDersh.
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@AlanDersh Dersh poses as a warrior for civil liberties, but in truth he is a procurer no different than Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman who set out some mornings cheerily saying she needs to "get more girls for Jeffrey." Such people, unlike Trump, know exactly what they're doing.
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@AlanDersh The existence of such INTENTIONAL pimps and procurers is why I simultaneously agree with @AOC and other true warriors who want to tear down this whole pustulent system instead of compromising with it...
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@AlanDersh @AOC ... while also insisting that those warriors be pragmatic and effective (unlike, IMO, Sanders): because this corrupt misogynistic system needs to actually be torn down. We need warriors who actually are good at winning these battles.
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@AlanDersh @AOC Trump is merely the disgusting comedonal plug, the gross, visible surface of the larger, largely-hidden infection. Poor Dersh: he thinks he's being personally attacked, when actually he's just feeling the lancet as it slices into the whole festering pustule to drain it.
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@AlanDersh @AOC Yes, #TaxTheFuckingRich. Jail the child molesters and corrupt pols. Yes, shut down the tools of evil like Eric Prince and Elaine Chao. But these are just the instruments we employ to excise the entire rotting mass that infects the body of humanity.

Including @AlanDersh.
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I think this is pretty good, even if I wrote it myself.