#rehire James Gunn. This was a right-wing hatchet job on someone who criticized the Supreme Leader, and it worked. Nobody should help these people. It's also an example of why I've never liked these internet lynching mobs.
I'm with you on the internet lynching mob stuff, but just as a matter of principle, should it make a difference to his firability whether this was brought to the public's attention by right-wing trolls or someone who was earnestly bothered by the tweets? Either his conduct deserves the result that he got or it doesn't. It's not that we should fire people for horrible offensive tweets but only if the people who made them into news are on the left. That should be irrelevant to the outcome.
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Chris Hardwick is returning to AMC next month. An interesting development for sure. You'd think their investigation was pretty thorough considering the accusation.
This will be interesting to see, I mean, the allegations against him were unreal, perhaps too much so.
Lets see what happens when this all shakes out, because he was portrayed as a monster and I dont think you can make that kind of thing go away, so either that portrayal was exaggerated or erroneous or some weird stuff is going on here.
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So the convicted rapist know as Brock Turner is in the news again. For some reason, a lot of the articles I’m seeing about this clown call him the ‘Ex-Stanford Swimmer’ or ‘Ex-Stanford Student’, which is infuriating. He’s a convicted rapist. Call a spade a spade, cowards.
Anyway, his lawyer is arguing that the rapists conviction should be overturned, because:
Which apparently means, this lawyer alleges, that the rapist, Brock Turner didn’t actually intend to rape his victim because he has his clothes on:
Luckily the judge isn’t having it:
It’s insane to me that Brock Turner the rapist doesn’t just go away and hide. He can’t be helping his cause at all by pulling stunts like this, especially after he was already handed a lenient sentence. Here's the articles:
Ex-Stanford swimmer appeals sexual assault conviction:
That reminds me of another case where some kid from Texas was trying to say that he didnt understand consequences because of his privilege? I'm glad the judge isnt having any of it but its still insane to me that they put that through.
It seems like the Law really needs a degree of common sense applied to it.
What a time to be alive.
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^Ahh the infamous "Affluenza" case. Yeah that ####face got to walk for driving drunk and killing four pedestrians because he was too rich and had everything handed to him, so he couldn't understand right from wrong (wonder if this approach would have worked for a straight murder...). The little #######'s mom actually helped him lam it later on when he violated probation, and he ended up getting arrested in Mexico (I think he got like 3 years in jail after that).
Would be hilarious if the judge reviewed Turner's case and actually chose to re-sentence him more harshly. More than likely he has a future in the Trump administration.
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I'm with you on the internet lynching mob stuff, but just as a matter of principle, should it make a difference to his firability whether this was brought to the public's attention by right-wing trolls or someone who was earnestly bothered by the tweets? Either his conduct deserves the result that he got or it doesn't. It's not that we should fire people for horrible offensive tweets but only if the people who made them into news are on the left. That should be irrelevant to the outcome.
That's where I'm currently at on this whole #rehire thing, too. So now, who brought the situation to light and why also matters, and not just what the situation was? That opens up a whole big can of worms.
I've kind of been wondering what the reaction to tweets of that nature would if, say...John Oliver had brought them to the public attention on his show, and they were from a Republican Senator. Would folks be shouting #rehire?
Hahaha I was going to comment on that too. What's with the H? Meanwhile, Bautista's is super classy. I guess he's had to sign a lot from his wrestling days, although you'd think in that case you'd have a really simple and quick one.
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Hahaha I was going to comment on that too. What's with the H? Meanwhile, Bautista's is super classy. I guess he's had to sign a lot from his wrestling days, although you'd think in that case you'd have a really simple and quick one.
Dave is going to have some serious carpal tunnel problems in his old age, but I must commend him on his penmanship. Thats a hell of a signature.
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If you do an image search for his autograph, it's much more like the typical scrawl you see from celebrity autographs. He isn't signing hundreds of things at Wrestlemania with David M. Bautista Jr.
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Not exactly high profile but I think it fits well here:
Not all young men are sexually obsessed, says Court of Appeals
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An 18-year-old woman accused Tim Robbins and Josh Deschamps, two young soldiers, of raping her at a Montreal hotel in 2008.
Robbins, 21 years old at the time, denied having even taken part in the sexual relationship. He claimed to have fallen on Deschamps and the young woman having sex in the bathroom of their room, but swore that he had turned around, went to bed and fell asleep immediately.
Impossible, assessed Judge Manon Ouimet of the Court of Quebec in 2015: "For any normal young man, it is an exciting scene. "The court does not believe he quickly left the bathroom," she explained. Knowing what was going on in the bathroom and for the same reason, the Court does not believe that he fell asleep immediately. She sentenced him to 15 months in prison.
Judge Manon Ouimet believed that "because of his young age, [Tim Robbins] could only want to attend or even participate" in the sexual relationship, the Court of Appeal lamented in a decision released in mid-July.
This reflection, based on the sex and the age of the accused, is very problematic, the court has just decided by granting a new trial to the young man. "The judge's comments are unfortunate," the court wrote. "They use prejudices and stereotypes, which is an error of law."
Pretty dangerous that a judge can just pass off assumption in a sentencing that "any normal young man" would hang around. Many of times when I was young I have opened a bathroom or bedroom door at a party to find people going at it and I don't recall ever standing there gawking or jumping in as I would quickly close the door while saying sorry. I'm really surprised a judge could have that opinion quite frankly as the basis of their job is to be nonpartisan.
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This to me is pretty equivalent to the judge that told a young woman to dress less provocatively and keep her legs closed. This judge needs to be fired because her preconceived notion is really dangerous.
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jazzbandhandsSo, you're basically a child rapist. 37 year old woman grooming & raping a boy two months past his 17th birthday. I had to open another IG account to post this because you blocked me when I called you out on Anthony Bourdain's suicide after photos surfaced of you cheating on him in Rome with a 20something French journalist, Hugo. Looks like I was right about you, you are a covert abuser; men, and now apparently boys also, have their careers, reputations, mental health, and ultimately their lives ruined by you! But you don't skip a ####ing beat, do you? Did you manipulate Anthony into buying you a house in Rome? Did you manipulate him into giving you the first 200grand to pay your first installment on your accused rape settlement in April 2018, and then you cheated on him in June? Who the #### do you think you are running around this world with your fist up for the #metoo movement while you're abusing men like they're at your disposal? The wake of destruction you leave behind in this world will be your only legacy. I feel sorry for your children; their hearts broken and their lives destroyed, to find out their mother is a narcissistic sociopath, a predator who only cares about her image and agenda. Now your sidekick, Rose McGowen, publicly distancing herself from your sorry ass... Guess she wasn't up for being your spokesperson this time around, huh? Monsters like you can go to hell and are the reason real abuse victims are often not taken seriously. I know you're not capable of it, but you should be ashamed of yourself.
I don't know how I feel about this one. Of course there's an irony, but it doesn't change what Harvey Weinstein allegedly did to her nor does it change what the MeToo movement is about. If anything it goes to emphasis its importance as it's another case of sexual assault that was just paid off and forgotten for years.
However, it sounds like (although I could be mistaken) they just had sex when he was 17. It doesn't sound like she was in a position of authority or was otherwise groomed or coerced into it. If so, what she did would be perfectly legal in Alberta.
