• bananon [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Remember when the cops didn’t have a warrant to take the dvds, so they normally would’ve left someone there to guard it until they could get a warrant, but instead they let Epsteins lawyer take it?

        • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Totally agree, but it would be funny to have her just start screaming names in the courtroom and the guard just goes all :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:

          “It just went off by itself!”

        • rubpoll [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Maxwell could name all the names she wants, but that won’t make any difference.

          CW: child rape obviously.

          Honestly? She could openly say Trump and Bill Clinton and Bill Gates and Dersh and Prince Fuckface and everyone else were fucking kids, she could describe in excruciating detail every heinous act, she could produce binders and photos. Nothing would happen. The media might even report on it, for like a day, or two even. But legally, nothing would happen.

          Bringing it up online would get the exact same results it would right now: "It doesn't matter if Clinton/Trump did all that, what matters is 2024," or better yet, "Bill Gates has done so much good for the world, if anyone deserves to rape a child, it's him. Give him a pass." A few stations like WaPo and NPR would run defense for any tech billionaires named, but otherwise there'd be a collective shrug nation-wide and I don't think a single trial would result of it.

          I think Maxwell is gonna get some kind of last-minute plea deal like Epstein did the first time he got arrested. Somehow the sentence will get reduced to 9 months, with weekends off "so she can work." And then she'll just vanish.

          The DoJ will have gotten its moment of "look, see? We arrested one of the pedophiles, so it's over, IT'S OVER!"

          Ghislaine will have her double jeopardy and just retire in Europe or New England.

          The media gets to write a thousand op-eds going "FINALLY, We Have Closure on Epstein, and Anyone Who Disagrees is Awful."

          Everyone with power wins.

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                3 years ago

                someone come up with a name for the "I say I hate pedophiles running everyhting and want joe biden dead. so people call me conservative." thing

          • kristina [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            :yea:

            watch one chinese billionaire be named and the cpc builds a giant funeral pyre and burns him alive

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              "China continues to persecute it's citizens for doing business in the USA" - The Atlantic probably.

              • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                First Hong Kong, now Little St. James Island. When will the CPC's persecution of small island nations stop?

        • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I think that was mentioned again in like the first few days of the ghislaine trial. The binders of cd's with names on them. Not that it matters because there wasn't additional info.

      • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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        3 years ago

        She's going to turn out to have an uncommonly weak hyoid bone. The weakest hyoid bone, believe me. More and more people are saying it.

    • Saleriy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Just compare the coverage of the whole trial vs coverage of the Rittenhouse one.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    3 years ago

    https://twitter.com/vrycoolandgood/status/1476327626763649030

    The BBC invited Alan Dershowitz on to comment on this, introduced him simply as "Constitutional lawyer", failed to mention his legal representation of Epstein and failed to mention him being personally named by victims, in fact Dersh himself decided to instead of commenting on the Maxwell trial, rant about how the accusations against him and prince whoever were all false and smear a woman who was not even involved in the Maxwell trial.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      3 years ago

      You're not supposed to feel satisfied. You're a pleb, so you're supposed to shut your mouth and get back to enriching all these child fuckers.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      There's definitely stories about her being proud of it trigger warning for SA, rape

      But she also knows if she forks over names, she'll be found dead in her cell from "suicide" (and maybe even if she doesn't)

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      She enjoyed doing it. I think she basically started doing it for Epstein in the first place.

      She's a people pleaser, and those people are an international cabal of billionaire paedophiles.

  • MaxOS [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    "all flights to New York City now boarding"

    :not-hillary:

  • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    What was count 2?

    Count 1: Guilty

    Count 2: Not Guilty

    Count 3: Guilty

    Count 4: Guilty

    Count 5: Guilty

    Count 6: Guilty

    • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Guilty charges were sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy.

      Not guilty charge was enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.

      I think it all comes down to legal mumbo jumbo but the big charges stuck and she gone.

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          Yup. Now we can all pretend that everything is good in the world again. Forget about the black book, forget about the dvd's, justice has been served.

          :liberalism:

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        my guess from the other charges is that she isn't the one who did the enticing. So she was part of the conspiracy to entice, and transported the people who had been enticed, but they didn't have enough evidence to show that she had done the enticing, as opposed to someone else.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I thought Brace's bit on the Trueanon episode about this rang really true. Namely that this means it's done, no one else is going down for this, the fact that Epstein was the center of a pedo sex ring of the rich and powerful will be lost. In the future when someone brings up that fact to a person who has never heard of Jeffrey Epstein they'll look it up, and they'll see that Epstein was convicted in 2007, arrested again in 2018, committed suicide, and then his associate Ghislaine Maxwell went down for it all. A far reaching conspiracy? That's lunacy, it was just one rich guy and his sometimes-girlfriend preying on poor children in Florida. Nothing else to see here, no reason to pursue it further.

    • Antiwork [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Just finished the episode. Yeah they really nailed it. It’s a great reminder why abolition of this whole system is the only answer.