This is giving strong "I hope nobody finds out I went to Epstein island" vibes.

I was just reading up on this subject, and for the life of me, even if King believes this to be true, I can't understand why he wouldn't just keep his trap shut.

I think there are two different lists people are talking about. One of them definitely exists, and the other one may or may not exist.

There is no doubt that law enforcement has created a list of Epstein's clients. It was even the subject of a judge's order. There are probably many such lists of people who have definitely given Epstein money, for example.

The question is whether there was some sort of list that Epstein kept himself, which probably would only be useful for blackmail purposes. If there is no blackmail intended, then Epstein probably would have intentionally avoided making such a list, which would also incriminate himself and could possibly get him killed. The existence of this list was originally asserted by right wing conspiracy theorists during Biden's presidency. It seems the only person who has confirmed this list exists is Pam Bondi, who is completely incompetent, but lies frequently in order to cover for her incompetence.

This list may or may not exist. But I think if you assert at this point that it doesn't exist, it only makes you look like a pedophile. It seems the height of stupidity to say that it doesn't exist if you don't have a horse in the race.

The guy did write about a bunch of children running a train on another child to "recharge their matches" in the book 'it' acting like it was a liberating experiance.

Guy also described a girl pissing and shitting herself in "the girl who lived tom gordon" in detail which weirded me out even as a kid

Also:

This also reminded me that in his short story "The Jaunt" Stephen King felt the need to include the following lines for no apparent reason:

Ricky and Pat were watching him seriously, his son twelve, his daughter nine. He told himself again that Ricky would be deep in the swamp of puberty and his daughter would likely be developing breast by the time they got back to earth, and again found it difficult to believe.

Interesting, the mystery expands...I can't wait for all the people who are associated with that list to be catching well-earned strays from the fallout.

Stephen King is on the list.

Man, who would've thought that the guy who wrote a child orgy scene would turn out to be a pedophile? Edit: Didn't expect this to blow up and result in multiple bans... whoops.

I can believe there's no neat little notepad with a bunch of names on it, but there's definitely a shit load of evidence incriminating a bunch of powerful people, given what we already know.

Wow, what a massive POS, and misusing "UFO" to boot. Yeah, everyone has seen something flying that they couldn't identify at some point or another. "UFO" does not automatically mean "extraterrestrial spacecraft."

Wow, the replies on some of King's tweets are really telling....

No chance that chode isn't a trump supporter.

E: also, I didn't realize just how many of King's books involve child abuse... I knew about the obvious ones, but goddamn...

bro self reported

Sounds a lot like Stephen King is very likely to be a pedophile that has raped children on Epstein's island 🤔

When they're finally leaked it'll feel like christmas and birthday at once except with sinister undertones.

Bet he's on that list the fucking nonce

This isn't surprising really, especially after the Neil Gaiman thing, but it is disappointing.

Tucker said it out already. They did not leave you to connect the dots; They literally left you with a complete line with only one missing dot to connect. Even the dumbest MAGAts could see through it.

It's really funny how all this denial is focused on the existence of a concrete "list." What everybody means, and what anyone honest knows, is that the request is for the release of a list of the people who went to the Epstein island and were associated with the convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein himself.

If you can convict Maxwell, there is evidence of what happened. Whether or not someone has already written a list is completely irrelevant.

There are exactly two types of people who would deny this:

1. Die hard, believe-anything-Trump-is-saying-today, MAGA faithful
2. paedophiles or people otherwise on the list

I wonder which one Stephen King is....

That part of IT might make a whole lot more sense all the sudden

Lol. Guess who's on the list. 🤣🤣

It's nice of the people on the list to out themselves. At this rate we can just compile it ourselves.

Tell me you're on that list without telling me you're on that list.

Stephen King confirmed himself as a pedophile

Never meet you're heroes. Especially not if you're underage.

Wait. Isn’t the list available online?

Huh. I thought he publicly quit twitter and moved to ~~blue sky~~ threads?

https://xcancel.com/stephenking/status/1857165864346267891?s=46&t=PJVWm80PofrGWNJIfp3Bsw

I'd like to remind this thread not to jump to conclusions. It's not exactly unheard of for a notorious coke addict to be confidently wrong about something. I'll believe he's a sicko when I see his name on the list and not a second sooner.

Edit: Am I really being downvoted for not immediately joining a mob and instead waiting for proof? "We did it ~~reddit~~ lemmy!"

didn't this dickhead also pose with an "I'm speaking" t-shirt after Harris used it to silence anti genocide protesters?

anyway i hope people remember this next time they read It and reach the part that was very predictably left out from the movie

hawking was seen with ghislaine or epstein at least through the photos.

I mean, he wrote IT so idk if this would surprise anyone lol

Ok I love Stephen King but now I'm like wtf. of all the hills to die on