Celebrity Paedogeddon and old men yelling at clouds

Danno If it makes you feel any better, he is pretty disrespectful.

And his wife, who he cheated on

Much as I hate victim blaming, I have to sliiiiightly question taking the surname 'Disrespectful'. But that is definitely hindsight bias on my part

Yes you are

It's tiring to see the same people all about protecting the kids from predators turning a blind eye when it's own of their own thats found guilty of it. Using kids as political game, point scoring for the team.

Man was incredibly fortunate to be in a position where he could play video games the rest of his life and financially support himself and even living beyond his means in a 9 to 5 job. All he had to do was not be a creep

Have we done Van De Velde yet? Picked by the Dutch for the Olympics this year, let’s just ignore that conviction for raping a 12 year old eh

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c511yz5ze18o

How unpopular is that sport if he gets a spot?


‘We are one man short for the beach volleyball…. call…. The Child Rapist’.

Oh no

Need to read/listen to the story a bit more, but hot take, seeing Tortoise release it immediately as a 4-part podcast feels a bit trashy. Media is blurry these days, but I automatically associate podcasts with bingeable content rather than public interest journalism.

Even his version of events is, oh yes just a man in my 60s having a bit of consensual fun with my nanny who is in her 20s, nothing to see here.

Reminds me a bit of Woody Allen. Like even if you don't believe the worst accusations, the best you can say is that he fucked his adopted daughter and is now married to her.

So the courts fully released some Epstein trial docs. It alleges a lot of things, most notably that Trump is a pedo and has been accused of it by name from an individual he defiled years ago, 12 at the time. How much mental gymnastics are the supporters gonna do this time?

His supporters don't care, they're too emotionally invested and can very easily ignore evidence. Humans are surprisingly good at mental gymnastics when faced with things that don't fit their views and beliefs.

Sunk cost fallacy. The more emotional and mental labour somebody has invested in following a cause the less likely they are to change their views and beliefs. Sunk cost fallacy is very real.

Sunk cost fallacy isn't the only reason of course, Many of Trump's supporters are just cunts. But it's a powerful force.


Feel it myself about the Gaiman report to a degree, it's hard to reconcile the report with the views I previously held, and it's very easy to think "oh the reports are wrong"

And that's just an author I kind of like, not even somebody I'm massively invested in.

If you have fully backed a demagogue and bought into the personality cult surrounding him I can imagine a lot of people would find it incredibly painful to abandon that cause.

AKA, just have a quick google.