The New York Times on Tuesday ignited a wave of backlash after revealing a framed photograph of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman displayed inside the New York City mansion of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The article, which takes readers inside the late convicted paedophile’s seven-storey Manhattan home, features surveillance cameras positioned above his bed and in adjoining rooms, taxidermied animals, and provocative artwork, including a sculpture of a bride clutching a rope suspended from the ceiling in the atrium.

The criticism escalated as people connected the image to long-standing allegations of Gulf-Israeli collaboration.

Sam Youssef, author and editor of American and International Affairs, asked: “Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”

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    The photo in question. Please download and share for the Streisand effect!

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      Good thing he’s Twitter’s second largest investor, so he can wave away this a well. Less messy than having to trick a reporter to go to his embassy and having him chopped up to bits to shut him up from Twitter.

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      I get that you may not like the guy but that’s straight up slander. there’s no evidence he had anyone killed with chainsaws. it was a bonesaw.

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    It’s always the ones you most expect.

    I’d love to see this guy’s head on a pike.

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    It would be so ironic if MBS raped girls together with Barak the former prime minister of Israel. The most fucked up way to make peace in the Middle East imaginable.

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        They did not increase oil production to replace Russian oil, after the full scale invasion of Ukraine. That was something the US really wanted, so hard to say they are in the pocket of the US. The simple honest answer is that the entire Gulf leadership has no problem with large scale human rights violation and starving thousands. They did it themself in Yemen and currently partly in Sudan.

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          That’s true. They do look out for their own wallet first. Any time they can earn 5 bucks by slaughtering a poor brown person the Gulf leaders are the first ones in line.

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          the entire Gulf leadership has no problem with large scale human rights violation and starving thousands

          No way! What about the fact that they’re boldly standing up for their coreligionists in Palestine?

          /s just in case.

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      Rich people love raping children.

      It’s an industry and part of their culture.

      If you support rich people, you support child rapists and child rape.

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        JFC talking about a fucked up over generalization

        “Jews love raping children”

        “Blacks love raping children”

        Do I even need to continue to make the point? Yeah, (ultra) rich people probably are abusing employees and probably are way too much creative with taxes and I could point out a whole lot more selfish behavior but FFS dude, you’re really making shit up here.

        Rich people are very problematic and shouldn’t be allowed to exist (as in, make them as rich as everyone else though heavy taxes for them, not murdering them all), there is no need to make sick shit up just for shits and giggles

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          i agree that the generalization here was dumb but “rich people” is not at all the same category as “jews” or “black people”. so no you don’t need to continue to make the point because you’re not doing it well.

          you yourself make a distinction in your final paragraph. imagine saying “jews are very problematic and shouldn’t be allowed to exist”.

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    It’s funny to think that the world is mostly able to get along except for the faux friction cultivated between cultures by a handful of people to maintain a status quo which affords them any luxury they could crave. More articles like this and I won’t need to buy tinfoil.

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      It hurts my soul every day to think of what things could be like if we weren’t held back by this handful of evil manipulative people that sow chaos where otherwise we might have peace, cooperation, empathy, unity, and strength.

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    Of course, this clown is a puppet. He didn’t get his position because he’s a good leader, he got his position because he plays ball. Have fun blowing all those resources on “the line”, ya stupid fuck, until it’s your turn to be Saddam’d.

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      Do you now understand why Arab rulers kneel to Netanyahu and the Mossad?”

      Is New York Times “Arab rulers”?

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          Epstein had a very casual photo of the two of them together, almost like old buddies. That’s the crucial bit I believe.

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            Foto with bin Salman? The guy who ordered journalist to be brutally murdered and dismembered? And people are now angry at bin Salman because of the photo? I’m still confused.

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              There are plenty of people who believe the propaganda that Bin Salman sells. This is much harder to refute, even for them.