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Crazy how Spacey’s career abruptly ended, even though he was acquitted and/or found not guilty. Yet Trump, who has lost his civil sexual assault cases, is the fucking president of the United States and no one will do anything about it.
You forgot about being a 34x convicted but not sentenced criminal.
He was sentenced, it's just that his sentence was ... nothing. Which of course is a totally appropriate penalty for a fucking felony.
*34 fucking felonies
My pet theory here is that the RNC likes having a populist for election purposes and someone who is culpable that can be ejected if needed. In this case, culpability has to fall outside range of a self-pardon or any presidential immunity. I think the civil cases qualify for that, but I'm not sure.
Spacey would still be making movies now if he’d just preyed on vulnerable women instead.
Dustin Hoffman, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ryan Seacrest all have multiple SA allegations that they were able to play down and keep working, but those were all from women.
Most homophobia stems from the fear of male rape, so the usual meninist/MRA crowd who scrambled to defend “innocent until proven guilty” for Russell Brand (3 upcoming producer credits) are nowhere to be seen when it’s Spacey.
(for clarity, this is not a defense of Spacey, it’s an attack on hypocrisy)
-- Edwin Edwards
Jesus Christ is that a real quote? It's accurate AF. Like, uncomfortably accurate.
Yup.
How can you mention these people and forget Jared Leto? He's an actual cult leader.
I think if your whole brand is being a creepy weirdo, that sort of makes you immune to the consequences of being identified as one.
I'm always pointing this out
Shane Gillis jokes about the only thing worse than Vikings are, gay Vikings.
That dude can suck the shit directly from my asshole.
😎
Hahahahahahahaha gay Vikings he said!
It’s a joke about the hypocrisy of it. Not hating on someone being gay.
Much like how society gives celebrity abusers of women a free pass. How spacey has been cancelled (rightfully so), but Trump is president.
The joke points that out. But sure, take it literally.
yes, it is revealing how flexible the conservative soul is when it comes to corruption and perversion, while simultaneously being inflexible about things like compassion, charity and kindness.
The only true thing Trump has ever uttered was that he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose support.
That is so not true. He also said "I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait."
Fair enough! Two true things.
You know what though? I bet he was lying. I bet he doesn't just start kissing them. I bet he does wait. That's totally what TACO would do.
Worth noting Spacey is currently on Epstein flight logs that have been released
Epstein's private plane took President Bill Clinton, actor Kevin Spacey, and comedian Chris Tucker to Africa
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-traveled-with-bill-clinton-kevin-spacey-2019-7
There is a list here:
https://www.printernational.co.uk/timmann/history.htm#epstein_list
That website looks terrible. And it labels jewish people directly?
That's really fucking funny, if true. (black humor, dead baby funny)
You got a sauce on this?
https://quokk.au/post/120016#comment_530256
probably the severity, and the amount of people he targeted, plus anthony rapps "confession" about him being targeted by spacey. Also movies/shows dont want to be associated with a known pedophile too, so they wouldnt cast him anything anyways.
Why though? Why is it assumed that people will boycott a show/movie if it has a known paedophile in it, while brands/political parties with a mass-sex-offender at the helm are just peachy?
He didn't do it? Oh good, I liked him in K-PAX
Not guilty isn't the same thing as "didnt do it"
From Wikipedia:
Yeah he's still a creep/sex pest, just not a child abuser. As far as we know.
Spacey was asked what he was doing in the park at 4 a.m. He said: "You know walking your dog in the park is a perfectly normal thing to do
Doubtful tbh
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