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Is the question: "Was Robert Maxwell evil?" The guy who was a media mogul British agent and Labor MP who worked closely with the CIA and the KGB, was stealing intelligence assets from the US and selling them to Israel, and then tried to extort money from Israel to expose them to the Americans, who then died mysteriously immediately afterword, upon which it was discovered he had emptied his employees pensions in order to fund his own failing businesses, themselves imploding from debt, on top of it all was being investigated for war crimes during WW2? That Robert Maxwell?
Yes he was evil as fuck, one of the most parasitic individuals of the 20th century. And Ghislane was his favorite, the yacht he was on when he definitely wasn't pushed overboard by mossad agents was named "The Lady Ghislaine". Arguably its how she was so good at staying in the circle of so many psychopathic narcissists for so long.
Capitalism. The answer is pure, unadulterated capitalism.
And nepotism. Which happens to make a lot more then just capitalism rotten.
They didn’t realise that her father who stole loads of money from pensioners was evil?
It’s offset by his years of nazi hunting
The growing inaccessibility of science
If US tax dollars funded it (through NIH), then by NIH Public Access Policy it's likely available free to the public at PubMed Central.
There’s a Behind The Bastards podcast episode on him
Link to the (first) episode for those interested
Robert Maxwell's story is wild. I don't want to spoil anything, because it is very much worth hearing about him. Let's just say: His life story is full of larger-than-life twists and turns.
Dude might as well have been the inspiration for inglorious bastards in the the first episode
Who knows if that's really his name right? We know it definitely isn't! Just like the seventh one he ended up on or something.
Robert Maxwell's oily fingers were in so many industries, it was insane. He's a hated figure in the UK - partly because of his general shittiness, but mainly for fucking over a load of pension pots. He's on the scale slightly above James Corden; but slightly below Margaret Thatcher for general hatred.
If anyone has seen Tetris of late, that film paints Maxwell and his cronies in an appropriate light.
It's a shame, because Mirrorsoft were a decent publisher as well.
If anyone has seen Tetris of late, that film paints Maxwell and his cronies in an appropriate light.
Oh my god, I didn't realize this was the same Maxwell. Depicted with cartoonish levels of nefariousness maybe just one step under Baron Harkonnen.
Yeah. You could literally substitute the news of his "disappearance" with the Surprised Pikachu meme.
Absolute arsehole of a spunkpuppet.
Pretty much yeah.
It turns out the parasite class is actually one big club of tens of thousands of generationally-wealthy narcissists. Who woulda thought!?!
Robert Maxwell was born with a different name in a desperately poor and non-modernized part of Ukraine, and saw his whole family murdered by Nazis. He’s a villain, but he was in no way a child of privilege.
Ahh, so he went to the Henry Kissinger School of Becoming the Very Thing that Damged You Initially.
There is a whole suite of special Hells for that type.
If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, send the paper’s authors a polite email requesting a copy. They can, and often do, send a free copy to people who request it.
capitalists will always do capitalist things.
pirate all of this that you can.
You can often just email the authors and get a free copy. It's not like they receive any royalty.
yep, I do this often!
It's not theft, it's making a copy.
it's not science if it's above criticism, and if it can't be accessed by all who would, we can't expect it to have undergone the utmost scrutiny.
To gate access is to be anti scientific.
The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree, Ricky.
It's not so far off as it looks, either. Epstein hung around a lot of rich and famous folks (many of whom are implicated in a more direct way), but he also hung around a lot of academics (who, yes, are also implicated in many cases). He met a lot of those academics by the way of Ghislaine, who met them by way of her father.
But his daughter turned out so nice!
Someone should paywall the paywall model. You can paywall this, but for a monthly subscription. Don’t mind me profiting off of you profiting off of others.