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Timeless Appeal posted:To be fair, I don't think that they've given legal aid to cases against Republican politicians although I could be wrong, focusing more on the private sector. But yeah, their justification was that if they were seen as partisan then they might lose their tax exempt status, but from what I've read that's probably not true. And the connections and what has been at best fence sitting with Cuomo makes it hard to take seriously. Possibly some sort of smokescreen. I mean, "We won't take your case, but we encourage you to pursue it elsewhere" can pretty quickly and easily be boiled down to "The 'official' group for this refused to take her case. Really makes you think...  "
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GreyjoyBastard posted:While I don't really agree with the "metoo is doomed / dead" position, this is probably the best argument I've heard for it actually having taken a significant hit as a movement. It also doesn't really require a conspiracy, which is more troubling than if it did. Extended discussion of rape culture is upsetting, takes more effort, and gets fewer clicks. Unfortunately it seems like it primarily goes one of two ways: - It happened to someone who knew someone who knew someone else. So many layers of separation that it becomes some abstract concept. - It happened to a famous person, in which case the actual issue is overshadowed by the famous person themselves or it's treated like some isolated incident the same way as when a cop decides to shoot a black kid. "Oh, well obviously it's bad that this guy did that. We'll deal with him, but I'll be damned if we're going to pull the lens back any to examine the system that lets this keep happening over and over and over."
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https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/1424902207472734208?s=19 In news that will surprise literally nobody... Though I am...not sure of the right word, amused feels wrong...about them using the "We can't be pedos because we always joked about and marketed ourselves as pedos!" defense.
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Yinlock posted:The idea that Epstein wasn't collecting a big ol blackmail folder from visitations to Pedo Island is patently absurd. I doubt he'd have been murdered if he didn't have a Big Book of Blackmail that the "right" people didn't want seeing the light of day
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Maybe pump the brakes on trying to use people's rap sheets against them to try to win your argument.
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Kalit posted:I mean.. they're a private company. Couldn't they pretty much just say "we don't want you anymore"? I'm assuming there would be a contract involved, so it's possible they just needed to make sure they met whatever conditions were in it that would allow them to fire him without being sued for unlawful termination or something. Personally, I figure they were willing to try to let it slide under the rug and then found out something that would make it un-ruggable and cut their losses while they were ahead/before it became public, but, who knows? Well, besides the bigwigs at CNN.
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