• TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    26 days ago

    -These exchanges, as did many others, took place well after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to sexually abusing teenage girls as young as 14 years old, and continued up until his arrest in 2019 for child sex trafficking.

    Fuck this guy.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    26 days ago

    So he basically said “I know I fucked up and no one wants me here but it’s my job so let’s focus on the material”. Didn’t look “extremely awkward” to me. I mean, fuck this guy but what do people expect him to do? Kill himself?

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        25 days ago

        Jobs are kinda hard to come by tbh.

        But if he’s in there, perhaps he’ll get a job in prison.

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      26 days ago

      Lets not forget the part where he asks advice from Epstein on how to romantically approach one of his mentees.

      I don’t think he feels any remorse, he is just trying to strategically minimise his losses by giving the appropriate soulless responses. Anyone with a drop of conscience and respect for their students would have permanently resigned from teaching.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        26 days ago

        I don’t know what he feels or thinks. I’m just commenting on the click bait title. What I would be interested in is why he’s still allowed to teach at all. Then again, maybe titles like that help direct attention to it and will get us some answers from Harvard?

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      Even if he’d never met JE in his life he’d still be an SOB. Not a good dude, not a good economist, should not be teaching at all, and at 70 has every right to retire and just go the fuck away.

      And that’s what the fuck he should do.

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    25 days ago

    This dude already sucks absent any Epstein connection, and I don’t know what annoys me more: that even this might not get his corrupt geriatric ass out of the classroom and the halls of power, or that it’s the only thing that might.

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      24 days ago

      Its actually hilariously pathetic if you read through it all, at some point even Epstein gets annoyed with it.

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        24 days ago

        yea, i think it was also the fact that she was UNDER mentorhsip, and epstein was suggesting how to use that against her, power position over someone suborniate, i dont how much it work against her though, she was a daughter of A CCP official, or or backed by the ccp.