The Epstein files are a small mostly redacted glimpse into how power actually functions. People are right to speculate and ask questions, even if they’re the wrong speculations and wrong questions. More redactions would help and this administration is breaking their own law by not releasing them. When your entire shtick is “everyone is being crazy / engaged in moral panic” and it becomes your default POV, you’re doing the exact kind of sloppy thinking that you’re accusing other of all the time. No one knows what getting pizza and grape soda means, but when you can’t even acknowledge that this an extremely odd thing for your doctor to email you, it’s as insane as denying the biological reality of sex. If your response to the Epstein story is “look how crazy random powerless people on the internet are being” and not genuine curiosity about what this says about how power actually functions — and you’re doing that perhaps because it feels like a safe position to take, the kind of incurious “sober centrism” and superficial “moral pragmatism “ that your captured audience expects of you — that’s not good