• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Calling it a social media witchunt is a bit trite. A number of people came forward, detailing a history that spanned years. His claims that they were motivated ‘by money’ and painting it as ‘aspiring actors’ when we’re talking a group that includes professionals with their own VERY well established careers also reeks of the rear end of the equine.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, let’s not confuse “not guilty” with “not a creepy old man”. The bar for the state taking away your rights based on your activity is fairly high – as it should be – but not being able to produce sufficient evidence of acts that don’t leave a whole lot of physical evidence behind doesn’t make the accusations false.

      It just makes them not enough.

      And, I’m sorry to everyone out there who seem weirdly motivated to want to believe that accusers are overwhelmingly liars, but his hand-waving away of the accusations was not confidence inspiring.

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        1 year ago

        Let’s not forget that multiple accusers up and fucking died while waiting for their day in court, also.

        Kinda hard to provide testimony that could have been compelling for the court when a number of key witnesses don’t survive the trial.

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          1 year ago

          Multiple sources i’ve read indicate that Spacey seems to believe he can climb right back on top of the A-list again now this court case is over.