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>>775193
Teto stank

>>775199
Hell yeah

Now, onto the matter of the drug use. A while back, I made a post where I basically renounced my previous support of Polanski because of info given to me by a youth liberationist friend of mine from off the board who is supportive of mutually consensual relationships between adults and minors, and this info pointed out that Geimer's consent to Polanski's advances was in question because of the quaalude he gave her. Some people on the board agreed with my renouncement of support for Polanski for this reason and posted links to the court records where Geimer made statements that suggested she didn't really want the contact with Polanski. Others vehemently defended Polanski, so the board was a bit divided over this. However, I must concede that my source did not know about the fact that Geimer was apparently already familiar with quaaludes going back a few years, and hence she may have been willing to take the pill that Polanski gave her while knowing full well what effect it would have on her. This, along with the fact that Geimer insists in retrospect that she wasn't a "victim" of Polanski in any way, forces me to question my renouncement of my initial defense of him. It should be noted that Polanski has never been accused of displaying violent behavior of any kind, was never arrested for any crime not related to this one since it occurred (at least not that I know of), and there is effectively zero evidence that he ever threatened Geimer a few decades after the fact into stating that she thinks he should not be charged. There are definite shades of gray in this situation, and this should be considered. Though I do not agree with Polanski giving Geimer the drug, there is good evidence that she was no rookie at drug use and thus may have known how it would affect her.

Lyons:
> "The child also apparently had the Stage Mother from Hell, a film industry tradition. In short, there may have been excellent reasons why both sides wanted to avoid a highly publicized Hollywood trial, and no reason to treat the grand jury testimony of a 14-year-old girl pressed by her mother and the prosecutor as holy writ. She may have interpreted Polanski's pleading guilty to a reduced charge as a kindness."

Of course, Lyons insists that we should ascribe ulterior motives on the part of Geimer and her mother for not pushing for charges against Polanski because the idea that she may not have considered her life "irretrievably ruinePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Clark-Foley: "The truth, though, is that early on a significant share of 'the pack' was howling about Polanski's victimhood just like Levy [emphasis in original] – but sanity finally prevailed. Unfortunately, despite popular opinion turning against the world- renowned director, his letter sadly suggests that Levy is still far from alone."
Yup, it's a horrible shame that not everyone has turned on Polanski like Clark-Foley and the rest of "the pack" had hoped, though since enough have bowed down to media pressure to do so she sees that as a case of "sanity" prevailing. Let's all note the fact that Clark-Foley, like Lyons before her, didn't bother to put a shred of critical evaluation into any aspect of Polanski's situation, which is supposed to be the job of a progressive blogger to do. All they did was go along with the herd (or, as Levy calls them, "the pack") and express outrage that Polanski was treated by some in any way remotely to the contrary of what our conventional wisdom insists upon. And I must ask, is it really the matter that Polanski is given special treatment for breaking the law because of the value several people feel he has towards the world of cinematography, or can it possibly be the fact that when a renowned celebrity gets in trouble for breaking laws of dubious wisdom people are more likely to question the nature of the law and its supposed infallible absolutist wisdom than they are if Joe Schmoe gets arrested for the same type of crime? Progressives can accept shades of gray in almost anything, such as war, love, and most forms of crimes– except for the idea of sex between adults and those we today label 'minors.' When it comes to that, moral absolutism reigns.

Now we move onto the article by Kate Harding.

Harding: "The good news: California's 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Roman Polanski's most recent request for dismissal of all that unpleasant business about his raping a kid and fleeing sentencing."
Yup, no gray area whatsoever when it comes to sex between adults and minors…it's always "rape." And let's all continue to ignore what Samantha Geimer has to say about this, okay? Nice to hear this from a progressive, but I won't belabor that point again since I already got into it up above. I will say here that it can be construed, as is likely the case by several of Polanski's supporters, that his fleeing the U.S. when faced with his conviction can be the equivalent of someone seekinPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The URL to the page on Salon.com where all of the Polanski articles can be seen is here:

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/roman_polanski

Here is the URL to my October 2nd, 2009 post on GirlChat entitled, "My Thoughts On the Polanski Situation Reconsidered," an opinion I repudiated in the above essay/analysis due to my further study of Samantha Geimer's grand jury testimony. This further study took into consideration all the evidence regarding its possible validity, including the fact that Geimer's subsequent actions, including her refusal to help indict Polanski in more recent years and her request that the charges be dropped even when she could have easily swayed public sentiment to her side if she did so–as well as statements she made on other occasions years after the incident–just didn't match up with that of someone who was actually forced to engage in sex without her consent. As a possible explanation as to why she made that testimony at the grand jury hearing if it wasn't actually true, one must consider the well acknowledged tendency of law enforcement officers and social workers to attempt to coax alleged victims of sexual abuse who had actually consented to the activity into fabricating details to make a better case against the accused, a tendency that became crystal clear to the public with the notorious McMartin pre-school incident. The URL to that post is here:

do you love the following:

• poop
  
• benjamin netanyahu
  
• cancer
  
• cockroaches
  
• dog poop
  
• alligator poop
  
• cockroach poop
  
  

BE HONEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why would you love the bourgeoisie, their culture and imperialism

Even me?

>>775315
do you love:

• toenail fungus
  
• obesity
  
• type 2 diabetes
  
• the various problems associated with the metabolic syndrome
  
• STDs
  
• cat poop
  
• carcinogens and microplastics
  
• poverty
  
• organized crime and murder
  
• rape
  
• food poisoning
  
• bird poop
  
• micropenises
  

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>>775321
What?

>>775323
It’s a NASCAR thing, Michael Jordan, yes, 90s Bulls Space Jam Michael Jordan owns a NASCAR team. Tyler Reddick is one of his drivers, in February right as Tyler got his first win of the year there’s footage of Jordan pinching the asscheeks of Tyler’s five year old son through his khakis.

>>775331
>>775321
the kid had ice in his shirt, jordan was trying to loosen it and help get it out.
mimicking slapping his ass doesnt help

>>775331
Is it as weird as the time Putin was filmed giving a kid a raspberry on the stomach?

>>775334
Probably the same, both are still less fucked up than the Dalai Lama outright sucking a child’s tongue

Why? Why did you tell us? Why did you need to ask us that?

>>775212
incels

Market demand increased after My Little Pony got famous and furry shit too.

Why? Why would you fuck an animal if it can't consent?

>>775317
They are mentally ill or can't get someone to consent with sex with them

oooooooooooooooooooooooooo…… ooooooooooo…,,

>>775273
mexico was conquered by the spanish, who are hugely catholic, so a lot of mexicans are more 'traditional values' types than the orthodox christians in america.

>>775083
Gigachad.

>>775293
Protestant, not orthodox.

Today's been the best day for my loop relapse. I'm not checking her socials every 10 minutes to see what they're feeling or thinking.
I'm not cured but I am healing, and I need to let myself accept it.

>>774583
In Japan a guy just got sentenced to 1.5 years in jail (suspended for 4 years thankfully) and fined like $1000 because he ran a website that posted movie and TV plot summaries. Obviously I'm sure plenty of Japanese people pirate but it's a deeply hysterical society about IP in general. Honestly I guess it explains why Nintendo behaves the way they do.

>>774558
They weren't masturbating during the sessions lol. They were killed during the sessions for doing it in their dorm or whatever

>>775220
good. that monster deserves to get locked up. now time for me to ethically support my favourite japanese creators

>>774525
this basically, legalism is one of the worst philosophies there are, confucianism at least has a good framework for why we should follow the rules and respect tradition, legalism is straight up retarded.

They're twitter users

>>774899
>culture forces women to submit
>dudes from other culture that forces women to submit makes your women submit
>"how could they do this?"
Also why do they gotta advertise it like this? Its like the right has some cuck fetish where they have to tell everyone about it.

>>774947
>Its like the right has some cuck fetish where they have to tell everyone about it.
are you new to online politics? this has been obvious for a decade

>>774899
that kurd is so hot

>>774912
>sugoiyim
I lol'd

>>774916
Every black man IS like FFVII’s Barret Wallace.

China sells a LOT of weapons to a LOT of oppressive far right countries. They even regularly provide military support to capitalist governments that oppress their population and their neighbors.

Yeah… I don't think it is inherently bad to trade with certain capitalist countries but don't do it with oppressive ones. China recognizes that Israel is committing genocide but that kinda makes it worse because then why are you trading with them?

>>775253
Movin' to the country
Gone eat me a lot of peaches

I like peaches. Especially yellow peaches. White peaches are alright but yellows have more flavor and are juicier although messy because the juice gets all over you. They're good with Tajin chili powder.

i also have a peach tree, but i think its diseased.

>>775262
Thanks for reminding me about that song, how nostalgic.