It could still be the old one?
8d 4h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in politicalmemes@lemmy.ca from sh.itjust.works
The billionaire has no wikipedia page:
The direct answer is this: In 2023, billionaire asset manager Stephen Deckoff bought the pair of islands for $60 million, promising to create a luxury resort. As of 2026, no construction on either island had been reported.
I think the question is meant to be: where is the pedophile elite partying now? Where's the new Epstein Island?
The whitehouse...
Yeah, probably. My answer was going to be: Wherever the fuck they want it to be. It's not like there's consequences or anything.
@kylie_kraft
What do think Cuba was--- and will be again by the time Trump & co gets done with it.
They sure are spending a lot of time building that ballroom basement
Never in my life did I imagine a bunch of old dumbfucks with the world's smallest balls would need such a large ballroom.. guess when you can't run you hide under the rubble of democracy.
Probably Mar-a-lago
Yep, that's the question I'm asking. I made this meme.
I thought the running joke was that it's the "resort" Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were planning to build on a Mediterranean island a corrupt leader of Albania let them take illegally (or questionably legally, I can't remember). Not sure if it's a coincidence, but it's said that island even has 3,600 abandoned Soviet bunkers.
Albanian bunkers. Why would there be Soviet bunkers in Albania?
My apologies if the bunkers were always Albanian. I may have seen it misreported. There is history there, though. Here's what I could find on Wikipedia.
During the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Albania relied heavily on the Soviet Union. During that time, the Soviets built a base for Whiskey-class submarines and a chemical/biological weapons plant on the island and surrounding areas. The island stationed around 3,000 soldiers during this period.[15][16] However, the Soviet-Albanian split in the early 1960s marked the end of the Soviet naval presence on Sazan.[13] After the fall of communism four submarines remained at Pasha Limani port in the bay of Vlore.[17] To this day, many Soviet-era gas masks can still be found scattered around the valley of the island.
The island now is uninhabited but there is a small joint Italian—Albanian naval base, of reportedly two soldiers, used mainly to counter contraband between southern Italy and Albania, as a training field for the British Royal Navy, and as shelter for boats in nearby Albanian waters.[18][17][19][15][16] There are approximately 3,600 nuclear bunkers that were built by Albania during the Cold War.[15] There is also a villa on the island belonging to the former communist defence minister Beqir Balluku. In 2010, the island's surrounding sea waters, and those of adjacent Karaburun Peninsula were proclaimed a National Marine Park by the Albanian government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazan#Post%E2%80%93World_War_II
While Albania had a socialist governent for most of the Cold War, they were not allied to the Soviet Union. They were close to China till around 1980, and then more or less isolated. The bunkers were designed to defend against an invasion by NATO, the Warsaw Pact or Yugoslavia.
The island now is uninhabited but there is a small joint Italian—Albanian naval base, of reportedly two soldiers
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Why would there be American bases in Turkey?
Because the US is the biggest imperial power of our time.
Billionaires own multiple properties across the globe, and have enough money to circumvent laws everywhere. Surely there was never just one Epstein Island, even when he was alive. P Diddy's house was a sort of Epstein Island. No billionaire would put all their eggs (ie, trafficked children) in one basket. That's like the first rule of investing.
It's not like any of them went to jail.
this has never been about just epstein. the phrase "epstein class" has been neutered of its original impact of "this is a way of life for a gertain group of uber wealthy people" and instead turning to focus on epstein and his gaggle of golf pedophile buddies.
there's three prevalent ways to think of epstein's death:
- to keep him from talking
- he wasn't killed but was removed quiety from prison during the lost tapes
- someone was eliminating the competition
i tend to fall more into the first and third options, and also do give some credence to the possibility that accountability and consequences aren't something monsters like him opt into, or that just someone really fucking hated him and killed him.
but the point is, it was NEVER just epstein running this business. he was one guy the uberwealthy used to launder their money and sex crimes. any languages he didn't speak that an oligarch only spoke? there's an epstein of that language, too
Ivanka is trying to purchase one for her dad.
I'm pretty sure it recently had a massive expansion.
Washington DC
I wonder how much staff were paid to ignore the shinannegans? Like how much money buys indifference to child sex trafficking?
Mar a lago