Because the list takes the onus away from women needing to speak out. We shouldn't require victims to expose themselves if we have other evidence.
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What do you wanna bet that, within the next month, a right wing talking head uses that phrase to defend Ghislaine Maxwell?
Actually, most of us can tell the difference between a committed sex trafficker and the actual sex slaves she helped traffic.
If this does get said in her defense, it will be bad faith, and the only people that repeat it will be MAGA loyalists.
Sure seems like a lot of these topics are coming up despite the fact any person with two brain cells to rub together knows there will always be some of any demographic who lies.
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/
Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs
—————————other Trump information:
Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY
Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75
• Much of this info can also be found on: https://theepsteindocs.com/
Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.
If you're the sort of moron who sees conspiracies everywhere, then the conspiracy goes one way in the first part and a different way in the second part.
They literally see more women speaking out as more unlikely.
Allegations of sexual crimes should always be taken seriously and addressed immediately, however, that's not the same as taking the words of the victims words as the truth. A due process has to be mandatory and proof must remain a non negotiable requirement to arrest and punish someone. That's the one and only way justice can be served.
Why can't we just rely on common sense instead of jumping to massive generalizations regarding someones gender?
Trump has been covered in red flags regarding his treatment of women for years. E. Jean Carroll? Stormy Daniels? Katie Johnson? The Hollywood Access Tape?
I'm a little anxious that if Me Too blows up again it may have the opposite effect intended, and instead deflect attention away from Trump as people argue over the movement itself.
I've heard some people call this the 'him too' movement. It's supposed to encapsulate the idea that right now we're seeing white men pushback against the 'Me Too', BLM, and 'Trans rights are human rights' movements.
Because people lie. What we can do is to not victim shame so women would be less afraid to come forward. This alone would help deter a would be attacker
While in theory this is a good idea, I have first-hand experience with people grouping together and accusing me of doing things with another (at the time) underage individual, trying to get me kicked out of school/smear my name/see me imprisoned/etc...
The issue? The other underage individual they said I was doing things with, was female. Me, I'm gay as fuck. Which was made pretty obvious during questioning. Also upon examination with the other individual being tested and questioned separately... Suprise, they found that, indeed, both testing and questioning showed the accused activities were completely unfounded. All parties that made these false claims admitted that they were falsified shortly thereafter. I could have sued them, and their families (since they too were underage) - this could have actually ruined my life, these things should be punished, these traumas compensated - but I decided against it, just wanting the situation to go away. It was an awful experience, and I still have trust issues; one of the accusers was friends with me. At least, so I thought.
Now, that's not to say 'oh they are lying' in this case, but you can't just blanket believe either side. You need facts, proof, evidence. Imagine if I were to make these claims about you - suddenly you are interested in evidence and due process.
(I won't be replying to any replies to this comment - don't want to tear open that scar any more than I already have writing this)
You're situation, while tragic, has nothing to do with his. He has been found guilty of assault in court. He has paid hush money and come to settlements. He has had his due process and now is sitting in the highest seat possible and no one is safe.
The original pic uses non-specific language. If you find people responding as if it's a generalization, that's because it is.
The thing is, though, that whilst false reports do happen – and I’m in no way trying to downplay the tragedy and horrific consequences for victims of that, such as in the case of this thread’s OP – that’s far rarer than the much more common case of women being ignored, put off, and scoffed at when they try to report actual sex crimes.
I was groomed as a child and nobody would listen to me. Then I was kidnapped and raped for months – when I finally escaped and found the police, I was sent to a juvenile detention centre for being delinquent. Finally, after much therapy as an adult, I again tried to report my crime, and the first officer basically said I was wasting their time, and implied it was my fault.(e: I do have an open case now with a sergeant who takes me seriously, but that took some climbing of the hierarchy to find.)
This is extremely common, and part of why many, many women don’t even bother to report these crimes.
The ‘believe women’ thing is because of this, and reacting to such stories with ‘well actually I knew a woman who made up charges’, whilst true and horrible, feeds those who want to believe women are likely to make this shit up when it’s so common that 1 in 6 women will experience assault, and many are afraid to report it. That can be generalised, because it’s shockingly common.
e: people make up and falsely report all sorts of crimes – burglary is a big one. Lots of people make up burglaries when they’re in dire straits and realise they can get more for insurance than selling their things. Or arson. But when someone reports a burglary or arson, you don’t see others jumping in to say ‘well actually, my ex said I burgled her for insurance purposes.’ That absolutely happens, but it’s uncommon and irrelevant to burglary victims’ crimes. We all can see that has nothing at all to do with real burglaries. That’s a whole different crime.
Sorry, /rant, but this is personal to me.
e2: I was on a fast track for uni at a very young age, and this derailed my entire life. It wasn’t a brief but terrible thing; it ruined my whole future before I was 15. So I’m sorry for having a bit less empathy about this. Instead, my trajectory was bowling alley janitor to ‘accountant’, to short-order cook, to telemarketer, to delivery driver, to cook, to restaurant manager, to erotic dancer (no sex), to residential property manager, to cashier (retail), to assistant manager, to manager, to designer (I’d been learning design and development in my free time in the mid 90s), to teacher (of programming to state workers), to programmer, to dba, to project manager – then back to designer so I could really learn and do it. That was my last job, and it was a stupid amount of work to get there with only 9 years' education, since my normal life completely stopped at the kidnapping.
While I feel sorry for your experience, rape can ruin a life just as much and happens more often (and unpunished) than false accusations. They actually took you serious and made sure to do the proper interogations to find out people were lying. We are just asking they do the same for women who are raped.
You don't have to listen to the women, just listen to Cadet Bonespurs himself.
He went on Howard Stern and boasted of going into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant.
I mean, if anyone without Trump's money and influence had this many accusations leveled against them, you can be pretty sure they'd be behind bars by now. It's not that the women aren't being trusted, it's that the entire fucking system is broken. Or more accurately, is designed to serve the rich and powerful.
Consider that if these women came forward, then the corrupt justice system, that's supposed to protect them, would dismiss or refute thier claims and leave them vulnerable to the powerful people they tried to expose.
They have to be believed AND protected from those they accuse, else they are just painting a target on their backs.
Women have already come forward and had their lives destroyed. If the general public believed them during their trials, or honestly, if they weren't intimidated into dropping their case, this shit would already be in prison.
But the testimony of women is valued less by the justice system than the testimony of rich powerful men. That's the problem. There is less trust in women overall, across the board in this patriarchal society.
refute thier claims
That's what the defense is supposed to be attempting in an adversarial trial system.
My current bias is that an adversarial system is a good way to actually achieve justice, but I'd be open to learning about non-adversarial criminal trials.
I think people do.believe them, it's just the way justice systems work. It has to be proved without shadow of a doubt.
In general I agree but the timing of saying this is peculiar given the E.M. trial.
What’s the EM trial?
More ironic than peculiar.
Ghislaine Maxwell's case got reopened. Cuz if there's no Epstein list than why did she go to jail?
Because she trafficked children. The DoJ's official story seems to be that Epstein and Maxwell abused children purely for their own edification while hanging out with a bunch of powerful people whom those children later falsely accused of sex crimes out of pure spite.
The Hockey Canada Sexual Assault Trial. The woman who was involved had the initials EM.
Some Quotes from the woman judge who presided over the case: “Although the slogan ‘believe the victim’ has become popularized of late, it has no place in a criminal trial. To approach a trial with the assumption that a complainant is telling the truth is the equivalent to imposing a presumption of guilt on the person accused of sexual assault and placing the burden on him to prove his innocence. That is antithetical to the fundamental principles of justice enshrined in our constitution.”
“On the basis of all the evidence, I find as a fact that the complainant did express she wanted to engage in sexual activity with the men by saying things like “Is someone going to f—- me” and by masturbating, the judge says.
“I accept the overwhelming evidence that E.M. was acting in a sexually forward manner by masturbating in this room full of men and asking them to engage with her. She communicated her willingness to engage in sexual activity.”
You can't just convict someone on vibes
No you can't. You can however refuse to give them a job because they keep making inappropriate remarks about women and multiple women have accused them of sexual abuse, rape and harassment.
EXACTLY. You don't need to "trust", you can look at the comments that were consistently made in regards to women, the vile behavior he engaged in, the known relationships, and the week court cases, i.e the evidence that was there in plain sight but people chose to ignore
Nobody who matters (Trumps fanbase, Trumps voters, Trumps politicans and Trumps supreme court) care whether he's guilty or convicted.
But the Epstein list is something very central to the Trump campagin narrative and thus if he's on there, that could cause major issues between Trump and his fanbase/voters.
We believe them, we just need to prove it.
People believe in magic sky daddy, im still waiting for proof there too. To be clear, if proof appears im obeying sky daddy so hard.
It's not just about trump tho and it's about concrete evidence. The list is yk about getting a list of all the perpetrators.
First hand witness testimony is evidence though.
And fwiw we've already got it. Not to mention he's already been found guilty of rape in a court of law if we want to go through the whole "sexual assault means rape and the judge said so" thing. "He's a rapist" is a statement of fact, even if the cowards at ABC News don't want to say so again.
Well, yes but it's not just about trump tho. Like the point of the list would be to get more names of more people. And that's not even mentioning how most of the epstein list stuff was less about holding pedophiles responsible but about trump building and profiting off of a conspiracy narrative.
So, do you want to drop "innocent until proven guilty" for every accusation by a woman or do you have some simpler system than "evidence presented in an adversarial trial" you'd like to filter them through?
The justice system is broken, and I don't know if it can be fixed. It is far too affected by Capital.
Nothing here is suggesting due process be skipped. The problem is that if he had his way, it definitely would be.
"just believe women" (emphasis mine) implies not applying the evidentiary standard or due process to accusations from women. If we apply due process we aren't just believing them, we are (also) verifying their claims.
But, like I said, the "justice" system is broken. Not only do we have ACAB issues, and DAs being political, but there's systemic bias against women and the marginalized from judges. (The "right" judge might not have a negative bias, but "on average" there seems to be a measurable effect/affect, tho it is hard to be sure you are comparing like with like when aggregating cases.) All of those are aggravated due to Captial being unequality distributed, and legally influencing 2.5/3 of those systems.
Trump isn't giving due process to the "illegal aliens". Why should we give it to him?
Because if we dehumanize persons, we are also fascists.
That said, Trump has gotten more than due process. He should be serving a sentence for he 43 (?) felony convictions, it is a miscarriage of justice for the sentence to have been nothing. And, that's not the only example of "the system" being corrupt in his favor.
While I still hope for reform, revolution is appropriate ever since SCOTUS ruled on presidential immunity (yes, under Biden).
I just want to take a moment to apologize to women for all the bullshit you’ve had to endure, like being treated as interchangeable, objectified, talked down to. None of that is okay, and no one deserves it.
Apology not accepted. If you personally never did any of the above, then an apology is not needed. Nor is it fair to ask of men to apologize on behalf of other men who did. Women don't want apologies from men who aren't at fault. They just want men to stand up for them.
I get the sentiment, but wording matters because this is the kind of rhetoric the manosphere loves to take out of context to claim that men have to apologize for just being men.
That's a fair sentiment individually, but it's not just an individual problem.
Men don't just need to be not part of the problem, they need to actively be part of the solution.
I agree that men should actively be part of the solution, but there is a healthy way of doing it without involving guilt and self-depracation.
Men's mental health is a critical part of feminism. This is because when men's issues are accepted and destigmatized, it helps destigmatize it for women too. Encouraging mental health support among men means reducing women's role in providing emotional labor.
Sadly your view is not the norm.
It is. And no, I'm not one of the good ones.
Women are tired of 'man guilt' the same way PoC are tired of white guilt. At best, it's self-depracating. At worse, it's performative. Women want empathy and to be heard, not to hear an empty gesture that then gets weaponized by anti-feminists.
In Vietnamese there's no phrase for "thank you."* It's more important to have a thankful attitude. I think we could take a lesson on the situation you're talking about there.
* They use the literal words "thank you", or it's equivalent, for visitors, but that's different.
Would be cool if i could smile or show kindness around men without tge near certainty that ill be treated like a piece of meat.
Instead i need to take joy in denying them that.
I am all for seeing trump and anyone else in that list behind bars, but this kind of bullshit thinking goes nowhere.
how is it bullshit please explain...
I dont think it's going to be a "list" like a nice spreadsheet itemising various white guys liaisons with under-age women including names, dates of birth, and witness details.
Whatever is released, if anything, is going to be ambiguous and you're going to need to weigh the information and its source.
This meme is challenging people who would generally line up behind the conservatives to consider other sources of information.
I like the energy, I think Trump should be rotting in prison, but it's a shit argument that basically gives unrestricted power to random individuals.
You could make a similar collage full of false accusers. Without the need for proof, this could easily become a weapon to be used against good people. Don't forget that Trump's base is full of women as well
Money and government are in the way. Person to person, who the fuck wouldn't believe the woman?
Well if i have to believe women here, it's a slippery slope to believing them about my bros!
That is an issue. Just believing women is ideal.
Okay but i can't turn kn my bro's, dude. And i don't wanna be (known as) a guy who's into rape.
I mean, maybe if we could judge people and try to heal as a community, rather than having some white dude dumb robes do it. Shame, loss of status, violence, restorative justice.
That sounds communist! And who will hurt the people i don't like?
Anarchist here. And, I'll do it. What'd they do?
Point out how much i suck in ways i cant refute, not be my slaves, have a life that's substantially different from mine.
Ah. Then, no. I won't do that for you. Man, justice is easy
But who will hurt the people i dont like!? And how will i sleep at night if i can't call it justice?
Kids got raped and now you’re saying it’s their responsibility to jail the rapists? No.

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