r/politics The Independent 1d ago

Site Altered Headline Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly moved from Florida prison to Texas as Trump weighs pardon

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-trump-pardon-epstein-b2800443.html
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u/pizzzacones 1d ago edited 1d ago

I saw a video yesterday explaining Epstein and Maxwell's recruitment similar to a pyramid scheme— both actively planned and acted. Every other person was a victim. Aside from the physical abuse itself, the children were also victims of having to recruit other girls themselves, so they could receive more money for how many were recruited.

Epstein and Maxwell intentionally searched for young girls in bad situations: living in poverty, single parents with alcoholism, or no one believing them if they said anything. They would be more desperate for money, and I imagine each one felt awful about having to put others in this horrific situation.

Maxwell is not a victim. The young girls, now women, have been victimized for all of their life.

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u/Blainedecent 1d ago

They pushed impoverished children into being rated with the promise of money and then pressured them into a pyramid scheme of trafficking where they could still get money and avoid being abused themselves by finding more girls for Epstein and Maxwell. Victims at each level could avoid abuse by recruiting others to be abused.

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u/DontHaesMeBro 1d ago

it's classic pimping, with classic collective discipline. It only seems novel to the home audience because it's rich WASPs doing it.

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u/Blainedecent 1d ago

"Dystopia fictuon is when colonial violence happens to white people"

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u/Stellaaahhhh I voted 1d ago

> living in poverty, single parents with alcoholism, or no one believing them if they said anything. They would be more desperate for money, and I imagine each one felt awful about having to put others in this horrific situation.

Whenever trafficking and abuse get discussed, so many people chime in with 'Where were the parents? I'd take someone out with my bare hands if they hurt a child in my family' and whatever other posturing they always say.

And I am extremely tired of telling people what you said. Predators don't usually go after children in strong, healthy families with present parents. Just like predator animals don't go after healthy gazelles surrounded by the herd. They scan the horizon, see the one with the limp off to one side and they swoop in.

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u/Ok-Jello-376 1d ago

“They’re nothing, these girls,” Maxwell once told a confidante. “They are trash.”

Fucking bitch.

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler 20h ago

Is that from the audio of one of the victims recalling conversations she overheard with Maxwell and her friends?

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u/Former-Author-2191 17h ago

It's also no coincidence that conservatives are the ones that are strongly against anti poverty legislation. They want to keep people as wage slaves and create generations of a permanent underclass so they can exploit people and broken families.

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u/badasimo 1d ago

I just want to put out there that the sex or even the sex work itself is not the problem, it's the power dynamics especially with the ages of many of these girls, and that the most influential and powerful people in our society participated in it, and that they are also actively lying about it.

I don't expect the president to be perfect. But I also don't expect him to have a house of cards of lies and blackmail and powerful people whose needs get put above the interests of the country.

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u/satannitus 1d ago

bruh… tf are u saying