It wasn’t just IT guys before Metallica’s lawsuit. I was in college before they filed their lawsuit and everyone used Napster. And trust me when I say that my pothead friends who used Napster to trade Phish bootlegs didn’t know jack shit about computers.

It sounds like he knows full well there’s no tape, so rather than argue about whether or not he played on a MAME’d machine, he just denies and says “Go find the tape” because he knows there’s no tape to find.

There’s also the idea that if Vee-Jay records hadn’t been forced to give up The Beatles to Capitol records after their president almost drove the company into bankruptcy over gambling debts that a Black owned record company would have been behind the most successful and culturally impacting rock n’ roll act of all…

The best and only Manson story I like is from Robert Ressler’s book Whoever Fights Monsters. He goes to interview Manson for the behavioral science project that eventually became Criminal Profiling and Manson is just being full on Manson. That thing where he is half Biblical Prophet, Half Crazed Monkeyman. Ressler…

The older I get, the less “beyond a reasonable doubt” makes sense in a “he said, she said” situation like rape. It’s not “he said, she said” when the SHE has a burden of proof so high that it’s no longer “he said, she said” it’s “prove the bitch ain’t lying.”

Not only that but initially the comedian Kurt Metzger went to bat really hard for the guy solely based on the idea of someone being ruined by a whisper campaign to the point that it cost him a gig writing for Amy Schumer’s show and him being called a Rape Apologist but after having a lengthy talk with ONE of this…

That show was so damn underrated and Uncle Deadly was one of the best parts of it.

That’s exactly what it is. If they can minimize it enough then they are not only off the hook, they don’t have to examine their own behavior, they don’t have to think about what they do and be analytical at all, heck...they don’t even have to FEEL BAD.

If a female streamer admitted to infidelity she would have to move to another planet to avoid the harassment and even then they would build rocket ships and travel through wormholes that sent them a million years into the future just for the chance to hunt her down and call her a whore.

Your starting point is “The ad was racist” because you and all the people you quoted projected their own ideas onto the ad and you’re working backwards to prove it.

Fox News would basically become a TRUMP 2020 24/7 political ad.

If it comes out that Salling was himself a victim of child abuse and that he was acting out a cycle of abuse would you still feel like “nothing was lost.”

Wat? There’s a ton of great stuff on Amazon. Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is one of the best shows I’ve seen in years. Probably my favorite “New Show” since The Good Place. The Tick is great. Sneaky Pete is very fun. Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton was excellent AND it didn’t have any women being menanced or sexually…

Also people are projecting all kinds of shit at Three Billboards that isn’t in the movie and saying it does things it doesn’t do while missing what it DOES talk about. Like saying it redeems racism while ignoring how it talks about the normalization of domestic abuse while it literally states it’s thesis near the end…

This is so so so so so wrong. The Academy Awards are and always have been a political horse race.

At Hollywood Studios where you get your pictures taken with Mickey and Minnie, they have two movie posters. One for a film starring Mickey and one for a film starring Minnie.

I do! And it’s a very good point. The difference here is consistency and the authority figures surrounding the case. With the Satanic Panic, many of those kids WERE actually being molested, just not by Satanists. Take for instance the McMartin Daycare case.

Of course they didn’t vote for anything they didn’t see. The question is, “if they actually hold the awards in the respect you say they do...why not SEE all the films before voting?” Because while not a one says they voted for a film they didn’t see...almost all admitted to not watching a good chunk of the nominees…

Hey Ralph, I used to be where you are. I too was all, “I believe Dylan but I think it had to have been the uncle. The one who was actually convincted of molestation.” That was before I fully recovered the memories of my own and I fully realized how impossible it is to have memories THOSE vivid and strong and have them…

Have you not read the thing THR does every year where they reveal how 5-6 random Academy voters vote? Most of them admit to just going with people they like having never seen the actual films.