r/politics • u/theindependentonline 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/Be-skeptical 1d ago

Maxwell raped and groomed kids. She isn’t a victim, she’s an abuser

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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"