• harmsy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You could attach pretty much any heinous act imaginable to a private equity executive and my reaction would always be the same: “Yeah, that tracks.”

    Private equity firms are a parasitic scheme that needs to be abolished and banned.

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    As Hemphill got to know the women, he convinced them to confide their past sexual traumas, which he then deliberately reenacted as he assaulted them, Curzer said. He took advantage of some victims’ inexperience, the prosecutor said, or crossed boundaries that victims had clearly articulated

    I read the whole thing along with the other… Character issues. Pretty sure he’s well beyond what I’d consider fixable.

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      4 days ago

      Hey hey, the Barnacle never tortured a woman. He just gaslighted them severely and caused irreparable harm to their mental state, but never physically tortured them.