Knowing 'what's right and wrong', Virginia Giuffre refused to be silent (www.abc.net.au)

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Virginia Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, has died at her farm in Western Australia, aged 41.

The prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew died by suicide.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Oh my goodness this is really awful and sad. I often wondered about the sheer amount of stress and mental anguish that must have haunted her. Poor girl.

Y'know I've had a really shit day finalising moving house, things have gone wrong and I got bloody angry earlier. But hey, I'll be there again tomorrow carrying on because what happened to me today is damn trivial.

Sad news, may she rest eternally in peace.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All due respect, but I read your comment as trivializing her lengthy, arduous battle with suicide, and I'd very much like to give you the benefit of the doubt — not only for the benefit of those who thankfully have no idea what it's like, but most of all for those that do. 🙇🏽‍♂️

Edit: Typical. Reactionary downvotes in complete disregard to the potential for risk to others — from either confident ignorance or myopic childishness. Bravo, team. Way to show your colors.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry but…how do you read it that way? To me it comes across quite clearly as just the opposite, and your comment comes across as incredibly rude and looking for a fight. I suspect that's also where the downvotes came from.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 month ago

How compassionate. Well done, all. Bye, silly island. 😗

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry but I genuinely don't understand what you're saying here.

My above comment was not meant rhetorically by the way. I genuinely don't understand how you read Dia's comment as trivialising, and I would like to understand.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks Zag. Jesus I had a completely fucked day in so many ways, then I read about that poor girls misfortune. It made me realise that I'm ok in the big picture. As you're aware I wasn't trivialising anything. Some people just need to be a bit of a shit cunt I suppose.

Apart from that, I hope life has been treating you well.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah I'm doing well. I saw your recent post in !australia didn't go over very well. Don't take it too personally, I think that's probably just because Lemmings tend to really dislike Facebook.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Cheers. Yeah I assumed it was the Facebook thing. Strange world.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah bye, don't come back.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Cmon Dia, that was unnecessary. You had the opportunity here to be the better man. Why not take it?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Haha. Oh I'm far from perfect. Been moving all week and I'm very tired. It's been one hell of a gruelling time I can tell you. And y'know, at times one can react in a certain way, and that was my response.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's fair. I've had more than my fair share of rude replies to someone who was being unnecessarily rude to me in the past, like @[email protected] was to you above, even if their rudeness was, as I suspect, unintentional. I'm still honestly confused about how they could have read your comment the way they did.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Personally I'm not a fan of comparing misfortunes as a way to feel better or worse about your own but I also think it's basically a cultural thing that people do without really meaning any harm and something that you can't expect everyone to have really thought about and corrected.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unintentional harm is still harm. Ever try starting an apology with, "I didn't mean to, but..."? Same reason why trying to explain why your culpability is lessened by a lack of intent toward the results of your actions miiight not be the best choice.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Awwww bub, did sum peeps downvote you

Awwww noooo you're soooooo hard done to.

You're a weirdo and sad. Go back to Reddit and be a dick there buddy.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That poor woman. Unimaginable courage. I wish her peace now

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