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The problem is we're never going to hear all the evidence the jury heard, so most people can only go off the public reporting, which amounts to "it happened in the span of five minutes with other people not far away". Pell has been a prominent public figure for decades, and people feel like they "know" him because of it, while the victim is remaining anonymous. I absolutely think he did it (and covered up a bunch of poo poo that he'll never be charged with) but I wouldn't be surprised if a higher percentage of people harboured doubt than you'd expect, largely because of the combination of the above.
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I think the Liberal Party should absolutely double down on this platform of defending the worlds most senior pedophile catholic priest
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Don't forget the long dead potential boat paedophile the libs made a huge deal of last week before flipping to total and absolute paedophile support
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Senor Tron posted:What's the logic of withdrawing the application? If they know it's not going to work I guess it potentially looks better for the appeal if he is already imprisoned rather than papers being full of photos of him out and about? It could of course just be for his safety. But Richter's arguments at the bail hearing might come back to bite him in an appeals session, since the angle of his argument implicitly accepts that the incidents took place. That seems quite unhelpful to Pell's case, let alone the sickening terms he used. https://twitter.com/theheraldsun/status/1100615087705018368 Gosh its so hard to defend paedophilia these days what with all the lynching.
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What the gently caress That's got to be out of context, not even Abbott is insane enough to run a "look we all rape a few children from time to time" line
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hiddenmovement posted:Deets plz Given the photos in the age on the weekend, and that they’re bottlenecked through a single facility that they process plastics at, you’d be pretty brave to bet that they’ll start receiving new material before they go insolvent as they don’t have income coming in
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Is this going to actually help sink the people standing by Pell or is Australia far enough gone to just let it all slide?
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Amethyst posted:What the gently caress My reading of it was that he spoke to his friend, his friend said I didn't do it and Tony didn't launch into a judgment of him even though it would be easy to.
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Amethyst posted:What the gently caress Look, a bad Father is like a bad father
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JBP posted:My reading of it was that he spoke to his friend, his friend said I didn't do it and Tony didn't launch into a judgment of him even though it would be easy to. Look hopefully I never have the experience of someone I considered a friend being convicted of sexually assaulting children, but I feel I may have a different reaction
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If I read it out aloud in tone voice it literally says "I rape kids" tho let me point that one outSolemn Sloth posted:Look hopefully I never have the experience of someone I considered a friend being convicted of sexually assaulting children, but I feel I may have a different reaction the power of catholicism is having everyone around you go ah well
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Man I'd forgotten about that "A bad boss is like a bad father or a bad husband" line. The mad monk.
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JBP posted:If I read it out aloud in tone voice it literally says "I rape kids" tho let me point that one out If everyone sins, no one does
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Feb 27, 2019 07:52
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I'm trying to find the politicians who voted for the NT Intervention but cannot. Can goons please Google this for me. Signed, JPB
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Amethyst posted:What the gently caress He did train to become a Catholic Priest before he went into politics. Maybe he got a few training sessions in.
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ewe2 posted:It could of course just be for his safety. But Richter's arguments at the bail hearing might come back to bite him in an appeals session, since the angle of his argument implicitly accepts that the incidents took place. That seems quite unhelpful to Pell's case, let alone the sickening terms he used. It's amazing how bat poo poo insane the right wing Twitter trolls are posting in that conversation. Good to see the majority are like "gently caress you Hun" with some cancelling their subscriptions. Solemn Sloth posted:Pakistan and India are off to war again btw I thought India only did that when Pakistan was better than them at cricket
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What does the "OM AC" after Howard's name mean
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Amethyst posted:What does the "OM AC" after Howard's name mean Order of Merit, Companion of the Order of Australia
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Member of the Order of Australia / Companion of the Order of Australia edit: 3rd highest and highest honours in Australia respectively
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JBP posted:*in extremely Charlie Day voice*
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After committing more than $200m to advertising in the last year, the Morrison government has moved to change regulations which would free taxpayer-funded electoral allowances to be used for radio and television ads. Labor, which vows to challenge the change, says it will mean an additional $22m of taxpayer funds is available for political advertising. ScoMo is such a slimey scum bag.
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Feb 27, 2019 08:30
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He's going to try to steal this election.
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St Kevins can get in the bin. https://twitter.com/Milliganreports/status/1100624665578369024 Both abused boys went there and as part of their scholarships had to be choir boys, which is how they got sexually abused by the pedophile George Pell. One kept quiet for years because he didn't want to lose his scholarship and the other killed themselves a few years ago, never telling anybody about the abuse.
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Don Dongington posted:He's going to try to steal this election. Where's antifa when you need them?
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Capt.Whorebags posted:Order of Merit, Companion of the Order of Australia can you all nominate me next year ta
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Defending a pedo priest is a solid strategy in the lead up to a federal election. It’s what the silent majority wants to see.
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drunkill posted:St Kevins can get in the bin. That's bad enough, but I'm finding some journalists support Brennan's polemic like this guy who is furious over the suppression order to start with. Seems to me he wants the case thrown out because he dislikes the judge also. He's been flinging out all kinds of half-baked angles including Brennan's. I suppose we had to expect a backlash, but its pretty blatant.
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Don Dongington posted:He's going to try to steal this election. What's the exact opposite of a heist movie.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Pakistan and India are off to war again btw Yeah, two Indian jets shot down seems like a big deal. Has that ever happened before?
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Brennan is a good guy*, this is disappointing. *he obviously cancelled now
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Tree Bucket posted:Yeah, two Indian jets shot down seems like a big deal. Has that ever happened before? Over a thousand people died in a small war in 1999, including some planes being shot down There have been skirmishes and smaller conflicts since then. It's bad though.
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Dude McAwesome posted:Defending a pedo priest is a solid strategy in the lead up to a federal election. It’s what the silent majority wants to see.
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The Howard and Abbott responses to Pell make me think what a poster above said: that they don't see it as a big deal. Nobody decent refers to making a child suck your dick as a "mistake" And very few decent people, upon having one of their friends convicted of making a child suck their dick would say "none of this changes my opinion of you."
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BrigadierSensible posted:The Howard and Abbott responses to Pell make me think what a poster above said: that they don't see it as a big deal. It isn't saying rape is a mistake. It's "he who is without blame" poo poo. Oh on the Howard comment that's just loving crazy.
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Tony "baddies and baddies "Abbott Tony is a dumb piece of poo poo and expecting anything less while reading this thread smdh.
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BrigadierSensible posted:The Howard and Abbott responses to Pell make me think what a poster above said: that they don't see it as a big deal. They don't think it happened, because they think the accusers are all liars trying to bring down someone they know to be a good man. To convict Pell would mean that they were wrong about another powerful white man, and they see the attack on Pell as an attack on their identity and belief structure.
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