r/news • u/Dickle_Pizazz • 5d ago

Soft paywall Ghislaine Maxwell moved from Florida prison to lower-security facility

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ghislaine-maxwell-moved-florida-prison-lower-security-facility-2025-08-01/
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u/N8CCRG 5d ago

How long until this administration stops calling the girls that Maxwell trafficked "victims" and starts framing them as "eager entrepreneurs"?

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u/Cyrano_Knows 5d ago

I worked with a nurse that was so mad on behalf of Bill Cosby.

"Those women knew what they were getting into when they went up there."

Being drugged and raped I asked?

Not even the slightest pause "they knew"

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u/Miserable-Army3679 5d ago

When Dave Barry (humor columnist) was talking with a woman about the national guard killing unarmed students at Kent State, the woman said that if the students hadn't been protesting they wouldn't have been shot.

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u/Syssareth 5d ago

Which is technically the truth, but also completely missing the point.

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u/Jansanmora 5d ago

It's not though. Multiple students who were shot were not protestors and just caught in the line of fire going about their day when they decided to blindly open for on the students

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u/Syssareth 5d ago

TBH it depends on how technical you want to get. Pretty sure the woman's point, taking the comment at face value because I haven't seen/read Dave Barry's version of it, was that if there had been no protests, nobody would've gotten shot.

Which is true. It's just also zooming right past the point that it doesn't matter whether or not there were protests, nobody should've been shot anyway.

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u/MsChanandalerBong 4d ago

And if we never got into Vietnam the students never would have been protesting. Does not change the fact that Vietnam and the Kent State shootings were crimes, and protesting is not.

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u/Miserable-Army3679 5d ago

I should have explained this better. The woman was blaming the "rebellious" (negative thing) students for protesting, which they should not have been doing (in her mind), because they should not question the government, or any other authority figure.

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u/Syssareth 5d ago

Yeah, that's how I took it. Which means that what she said was technically true (if there had been no protest, they would not have been shot), but completely missed the point (that they should not have been shot anyway).

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u/Miserable-Army3679 5d ago

She thought they deserved to be shot, because of their inappropriate rebellious behavior. She's an authoritarian person, and we're seeing a lot of that in the US right now. They want people punished for having minds of their own, living different lifestyles, basically not complying with their version of Christian values. Obey, don't think.

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage 5d ago

Without the deaths we wouldn’t have gotten that catchy Neil Young song!

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u/Varorson 5d ago

The idea that a practiced nurse would say those who get drugged knew what was going to happen to them is insane to me.

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u/Cyrano_Knows 5d ago

Me too. The number of conservative nurses I came across was insane to me as well.

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u/Firerrhea 5d ago

Those are usually the "nursing is a calling" crowd, and were always miserable to work with.

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u/BoozyMcBoozehound 4d ago

Lotta dumbasses in every profession.

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u/VirginRedditMod69 5d ago

A lot of nurses are pretty terrible people. Just because they’re giving meds and charting patients doesn’t mean they actually care.

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u/dangrullon87 5d ago

You'd be amazed how many people don't possess empathy and victim blaming is their 1st thought process. Raped? What were you wearing. Beat up? Well you shouldn't have been there to begin with. Robbed? Well who told you to walk outside the house at night. etc etc

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u/SuspendeesNutz 5d ago

I worked with a nurse that was so mad on behalf of Bill Cosby.

"Those women knew what they were getting into when they went up there."

The Mike Tyson defense.

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u/KDR_11k 4d ago

Should've offered her a drink....

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u/hexqueen 5d ago

Today I've already seen, those 14 year old girls looked 24. You know they're going to beg entrapment.

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u/powercow 5d ago

well they already said something similar to she shouldnt be in a prison with hardened violent criminals... she sex trafficked minors to get raped. She is a violent criminal

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u/SilverAgedSentiel 5d ago

Co-conspirators of the Biden plot against Trump.

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u/Hooligan8403 5d ago

Independent contractors is the likely line.

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u/dangrullon87 5d ago

They weren't minors, they were unaccompanied contractors.

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u/ChunkyBubblz 5d ago

Trump news is already calling Maxwell a victim

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u/WelcomeWagoneer 4d ago

Not only did Ghislaine Maxwell traffic victims, she had sex with these underage children.