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Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I would argue that it’s totally appropriate for this thread when you realize that, statistically, the likelihood of one guy banging 20,000 other guys and every one of those other guys was

A) over 18

B) sober enough to give enthusiastic consent

is so beyond astronomical that in order to feel good about that number you’d have to believe Joel Schumacher to be the nicest, wokest man alive with a desk drawer filled to bursting with consent forms.

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AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Or, I know this is crazy, he's lying and the point of this article is that we live in a culture where someone can honestly believe someone can say this in public and expect praise.

Peaceful Anarchy
Sep 18, 2005
sXe
I am the math man.

Martman posted:

It's kind of weird because like, to claim 20,000 you have to have done some specific math in your head. 10,000 from Chamberlain isn't crazy to hear because he's basically saying "it might be 5 digits, it's that many!" To take it to 20,000 instead of just 10,000 implies a level of accounting that's just absurd once you're reaching those numbers.

But yes, it's not appropriate for this thread at all.
You'll be relieved to know he didn't claim 20 then. The headline gets more clicks if they write "up to 20 0000."
In the article it's "2 figure thousands" and then:

quote:

After Goldman corrected his estimation to “20,000 or 30,000,” Schumacher narrowed it down to “10, or 20.” (Again, that’s thousand.)

porfiria
Dec 10, 2008

by Modern Video Games
Classic overcompensating virgin.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Polanski got the Grand Jury Prize in Venice :waycool:

The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


Kind of astounded people are surprised that an Italian film festival is giving awards to a sex pest given Italy’s general demeanor towards women and feminism, it’s not exactly a secret that the country has some, er, issues with sexual equality

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
“Mi Polanski!”

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

The Cameo posted:

Kind of astounded people are surprised that an Italian film festival is giving awards to a sex pest given Italy’s general demeanor towards women and feminism, it’s not exactly a secret that the country has some, er, issues with sexual equality

Asia Argento had to flee the country after saying Harvey Weinstein was a creeper to her (yeah, I know she has also been accused of pedophilia, but that came out after she she had to flee her home for saying she was sexually assaulted).

davidspackage
May 16, 2007

Nap Ghost
A news blurb I read gave this a wonderfully reductive take, it said Polanski couldn't accept the award himself "due to a #metoo matter."

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

davidspackage posted:

A news blurb I read gave this a wonderfully reductive take, it said Polanski couldn't accept the award himself "due to a #metoo matter."

He was afraid of getting arrested for a sex crime completely unrelated to the sex crime that means he can never set foot in America again for.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I mean Berlusconi got caught loving a 17 year old at a house party didn’t he?

Also the whole “Rome is couched in millennia is covering up pederasty” thing.

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Don’t forget Kevin Spacey deciding to stop by a Roman museum to do a poetry reading about an embattled boxer that was in no way meant to relate to him.

I mean seriously, what the gently caress was THAT? :psyduck:

dirksteadfast
Oct 10, 2010
I’m convinced Spacey is trying to become memetic by doing bizarre crap a la Shia LaBeouf, hoping it’s enough to charm his way back into public favor (I’m not comparing him one-to-one with Shia, just the quickest example to use). And unfortunately there is a non-zero chance it will work.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

you can peep the comments on that let me be frank video from last year and see for yourself how many people are behind the kevin spacey redemption tour

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

R. Guyovich posted:

you can peep the comments on that let me be frank video from last year and see for yourself how many people are behind the kevin spacey redemption tour

I won't be doing that

give us a hint?

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Alan Smithee posted:

I won't be doing that

give us a hint?

Dude Mel Gibson beat his wife and blamed his DUI on the Jews and then seamlessly reintegrated into Hollywood in like under two years. Do you really need a hint?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
yeah but this is dudes with dudes

it's a weird nexus point whereas once you could get away with same sex transgressions due to wokeness but now woke policing has caught up with same sex and also the alt right weirdos don't want to back them up because they're secretly homophobic

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



idk how secret that is

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012

Alan Smithee posted:

yeah but this is dudes with dudes

it's a weird nexus point whereas once you could get away with same sex transgressions due to wokeness but now woke policing has caught up with same sex and also the alt right weirdos don't want to back them up because they're secretly homophobic

I dunno, they didn't seem to have any problem with Milo Yiannopolous until he defended pedofilia (and even then he still has his defenders).

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

AceOfFlames posted:

I dunno, they didn't seem to have any problem with Milo Yiannopolous until he defended pedofilia (and even then he still has his defenders).

https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1170818436202737667

he is actually complaining how beneath him Telegram is (the place he got banished to after losing Twitter etc) and refuses to go to Gab because he is shocked, SHOCKED to find homophobia and antisemitism there

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

AceOfFlames posted:

I dunno, they didn't seem to have any problem with Milo Yiannopolous until he defended pedofilia (and even then he still has his defenders).

They didn’t have any problem with him because he was saying exactly what they wanted to hear and gave them a little shielding to homophobia accusations. Plus the only time he talked about his homosexuality was how much he loved being topped by a “subhuman black stallion” which played into the weird interracial fetish a large portion of the Alt Right have.

sethsez
Jul 14, 2006

He's soooo dreamy...

AceOfFlames posted:

I dunno, they didn't seem to have any problem with Milo Yiannopolous until he defended pedofilia (and even then he still has his defenders).

Milo was always one of the alt-right's Convenient Minority Friends and was primarily useful for "not being like all those other ones." Kevin Spacey doesn't fill the same role, and if the alt-right does decide to defend him it'll be due to general knee-jerk "gently caress SJWs" wires crossing rather than anything about him in particular.

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Billy Bush is back on TV
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/billy-bush-returns-to-tv-three-years-after-access-hollywood-tape-scandal

Billy Bush: ‘I Think Al Franken Was Sacrificed. I Feel Empathy For Him’
https://news.yahoo.com/billy-bush-contemplated-suicide-fired-000702583.html

MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito Resigns Amid New Jeffrey Epstein Revelations
https://news.yahoo.com/mit-media-lab-director-joi-191431384.html

Michael Jackson allegedly cried when Marlon Brando confronted him about child sexual abuse allegations
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-jackson-marlon-brando-confrontation-145645072.html

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012
The Bill Gates angle is the most baffling part of the Epstein/MIT story. Why would he give away $2 million of his own money to MIT but let Epstein get the credit? Are the guys at MIT really such Linux fanatics that they would prefer Epstein's money to Gates's?

Maybe Epstein blackmailed Gates into it; no rich and famous person should be above suspicion of raping kids at this point. But Virginia Roberts et al. never mentioned Gates. Maybe they just didn't recognize him?

The other explanation I’ve seen suggested is that Gates was indirectly paying Epstein for some sort of financial services. Not sure what that could be that he couldn’t just get someone else for, though.

Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Sep 13, 2019

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Silver2195 posted:

The Bill Gates angle is the most baffling part of the Epstein/MIT story. Why would he give away $2 million of his own money to MIT but let Epstein get the credit? Are the guys at MIT really such Linux fanatics that they would prefer Epstein's money to Gates's?

Maybe Epstein blackmailed Gates into it; no rich and famous person should be above suspicion of raping kids at this point. But Virginia Roberts et al. never mentioned Gates. Maybe they just didn't recognize him?

He has multiple companies dedicated to giving away his money. There's gotta be dozens if not hundreds of people whose only job is figuring out how to donate Bill Gates' money, and somehow he needs a post conviction Jeff Epstein to donate money to MIT?

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

There's definitely a connection to MIT/academia as Virginia Roberts mentioned Marvin Minsky by name.


Marvin Minsky was named alongside several other prominent men
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-island-court-records-unsealed

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Larry Nassar Appeal Claims Child Porn Sentence Is 'Draconian'
https://news.yahoo.com/larry-nassar-argues-his-child-porn-sentence-is-draconian-in-another-appeal-151828260.html

Most people in his situation would crawl into a hole and hide for a few years. There were so many victims that I'm still coming across unseen videos from his trial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjauZUfoHLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3pEiUygwf8


‘Leaving Neverland’ Director Calls Dave Chappelle’s Jokes About Michael Jackson Accusers ‘Revolting’
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/leaving-neverland-director-calls-dave-015018579.html

Jeffrey Epstein's 'fixer' who ran major modelling agency vanishes 'like a ghost'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-fixer-who-ran-19122659

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

Zogo posted:

Jeffrey Epstein's 'fixer' who ran major modelling agency vanishes 'like a ghost'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-fixer-who-ran-19122659

He's dead.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
Dude was connected to Steve “goldfinger” mnuchin

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1174341459308437504

:thunk:

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


:stare:

garycoleisgod
Sep 27, 2004
Boo
Did he get pushed fall in front of a train?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
Wonder if q Chuds will care

Oh it was a gay thing? Nvm

Boywhiz88
Sep 11, 2005

floating 26" off da ground. BURR!
No talk about Thomas Middleditch’s insanely gross Playboy interview?

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005


Boywhiz88 posted:

No talk about Thomas Middleditch’s insanely gross Playboy interview?

Guessing part of the problem is that no one gives a poo poo about Playboy these days.

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



About swinging?

E: https://playboy.com/read/thomas-middleditch-20q

There is nothing gross about this interview.

Vintersorg fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Sep 19, 2019

sponges
Sep 15, 2011

Boywhiz88 posted:

No talk about Thomas Middleditch’s insanely gross Playboy interview?

They both seem into it soo...whatever?

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i dunno it seems pretty clear he gave his wife an ultimatum or something similar and that there's clearly one half of the couple way more into the idea than the other

Origami Dali
Jan 7, 2005

Get ready to fuck!
You fucker's fucker!
You fucker!
Lol he says that now that he's a celeb, he's getting attention and wants to gently caress a bunch of other people outside his marriage, and argues with his wife constantly about it. "I'm the gas and she's the brakes". Maybe it ain't full Paul Manafort, but that doesn't sound healthy, no matter how much he wants to dress it up in the language of open mindedness.

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R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

it's always great when people think marriage is some kind of magic bullet that will solve whatever sexual incompatibility they previously had in the relationship. very healthy outlook

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