The partner of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, completed a second day of questioning on Friday, where she shared information on about 100 different people with the Justice Department.
Maxwell, who was convicted of child sex trafficking in connection with the disgraced financier in 2021, met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche for about three hours on Friday at a courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida.
She also sat down with Blanche to answer questions for about six hours on Thursday as the Justice Department tries to quell fallout over its handling of the Epstein files.
Hey, no worries!
I think my guesses were fairly close?
Either way, if English is not your first language, you speak it better than most Americans I know, and I appreciate you translating / conversing in it so well… I am of course your stereotypical American who only speaks English, lol.
As to general hatred of the poor… yeah, I know it occurs basically everywhere, to a sickening degree.
I’ve had many Eurozone online friends over the course of my life, and they’ve explained to me how in even the highly developed areas of Europe, each different country has their own fun flavor of social ostricization and bureaucratic mess of how assistance is qualified for.
As to the religious angle: I get the sense that we broadly agree, disagree on a few things, and some may be lost in translation.
I totally agree that religious extremism, religiously motivated acts of hatred and violence of all kinds are detestable.
I am an atheist myself, but uh, I realize that though I may disagree ultimately with whatever religion as an explanation for how the world works… many religious people are not extremists, and despise their own religion being tarnished by participating in horrific acts.
But at the same time yes, the absolutely insane irony of Israel, a state made for genocide victims… is now committing a genocide?
Fucking absurd.
Maddening.
…
Anyway, I am not sure that the rest of what I’m writing is necessary or relevant, you may already know some of it, but it is hopefully helpful additional context as to how politics and terminology surrounding Jews functions in the US:
In the US we have a term ‘Secular Jew’.
Non-practicing Jew, Non-devout Jew, Irreligious Jew.
Terms like that.
What this basically means is, someone who is Jewish by culture, by heritage, who partakes in some level of Jewish customs or traditions… but they are really atheists or agnostics, they do not really believe that the Torah, the Old Testament, is more than an important piece of their history, they do not devoutly follow or study it.
It is quite common in the US that many Jews are this kind of irreligious, and they are often quite politically liberal or left.
Conversely, in the US, on the right wing of politics, we have many, many fundamentalist extremist Christians who believe strongly in an apocalyptic doomsday scenario that very much revolves around Israel, the state, Israel the land, Israel the Jews living in Israel.
So, you end up with this wacky nonsense world where… Jews, left of center, in the US, say ‘Israel does not represent all Jews, their actions are very bad.’
And then the other side, the right of center US Christian extremists, say ‘Israel does represent all Jews, to criticize Israel is to criticize Jews.’
They say this despite most of the actual Jews in the US saying and believing the opposite.
It is madness.
I get some sense that this also occurs in European countries, but I am not familiar with… to what extent this occurs, I am not familiar with to what extent it is a massive driver of politics in general.