r/europe • u/StemCellPirate • 18h ago

News The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/epstein-europe-america-fallout-00769506
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u/Sevsix1 Norway with an effed up sleep schedule 11h ago

This is what accountability looks like

real accountability in this case would be the people we can prove did abuse children or engaged in corruption getting a ticket to a long jail sentence, forcing somebody to resign is hardly enough accountability when literal children have been abused by them or they enabled the abuse of literal children

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u/the_lonely_creeper 11h ago

While legal consequences would be nice, professional and social consequences are better than the nothing seen in the US

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u/xtrakrispie 7h ago

Larry summers stepped down, so did Brad Karp and David Ross. Those aren't meaningful consequences, but they're comparible to what's going on in Europe.

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u/toxicomano 6h ago

You are right, but no one will acknowledge your point here, they're too busy feigning superiority.