That’s not the point the OP was trying to make. If Weinstein is a lecherous toad and we’re gonna discuss his influence on the Democratic party in parallel with the Kochs influence on the GOP, then we can’t really equate the two. Weinstein has nowhere near the influence with his paltry 1.4 million dollars.

At the risk of being spoiler-y (warning! spoiler-y), the story ends up being pretty feminist and subverts a lot of the ‘white guy is the chosen one’ tropes. It also comes across that the civilization is in disarray partly because it doesn’t sufficiently see women and objectifies them too much. It was long but so…

Great, the hardline Bern-folk are going to purity test us all into a two-term Trump Presidency.

Mia Farrow has been a consistent character witness in favor of Polanski.

There are no credible accusations of rape against B. Clinton. The only thing that was ever proven was a conensual, although obviously improper relationship, only discovered after a years long fishing expedition that failed to uncover any other actual wrongdoing.

They accepted the money, and now they’re giving it back.

The amount of shit I got on this site for pointing out that Hugo was a rapist every time he posted his regular rant on this site...

I don’t hope for anything, I believe in forcing accountability.

The NYT published this photo right front and center as the main illustration of their harvey article. It’s okay though, they managed to feature Malia’s name prominently too. They will never lose their hardon for taking down powerful but vulnerable women. I am so sick of this oh-so predictable bullshit from the Times,…

EXACTLY.

As I sit here, depressed as hell, watching HGTV, there are SO MANY Koch funded attack ads against the D candidate for governor here in Virginia. Every single commercial break. I’m talking upwards of 10 ads in an hour. I am literally bombarded with their evil fucking influence. Weinstein is an ass, but he is far from…

Trump was a godsend for Hollywood. They could simultaneously claim to be against sexism but at the same time not upset the Hollywood apple cart.

Shrugging implies that I don’t care. It’s not that I don’t care. It’s that at some point that act of generating outrage becomes largely performative and perfunctory. It feels weird and oddly insincere to act as though I’m surprised by things I’m absolutely not surprised by. Another woman has come forward to say she…

With all due respect, that’s not even the point of this article. The point of this article seems to be that the destruction of America by republicans is justified because Hillary Clinton is a hypocrite. We used to have a saying, “It’s ALWAYS about the money.” But that’s no longer true, because now it’s ALWAYS about…

Really? I don’t see how Weinstein has affected any Democratic politician’s vote on any issue.

All politicians are crooks and the only thing that’s more hopeless than hoping they are virtuous leaders of societal change is my desire to see the Cowboys win another Super Bowl.

“One could certainly argue that Weinstein’s money and influence over the Democratic party is nothing compared to that of the Kochs or the Mercers over the Republicans”

How’s your contraceptive coverage today?

Yep. Despite the fact that there are equally chummy pictures of Weinstein with pretty much every prominent face in politics and entertainment for the last 25+ years, and despite the fact that it’s crystal clear that Harvey was chums with Bill, not so much Hillary, this is the exact (clearly old, Hillary hasn’t had…

Prefacing this with the acknowledgment that outrage and ridicule over this kind of behavior is absolutely warranted, I’m having trouble generating a ton of it at this point because I thought this was basically who we all assumed Harvey Weinstein was 20 years ago—and certainly 15 years ago when thinly veiled parodies…