I find that sometimes when people's behaviour is really contradictory too it can take a moment to sort of fully process exactly what they just did.

You sort of assume it was somehow your fault, or like sometimes I'll attempt to forgive the person like it's not so big a deal, then you get progressively angrier over time as you realise what a violation it really was.

I could imagine that happening with a cosby victim too. Like he seemed charming and is very funny in person. Everyone else loves him. He has a reputation as a clean cut champion of family entertainment. That's in direct opposition to how he seemed to drug your drink. Now he's acting like you're still friends and not mentioning the rape at all, acting like it didn't happen. It's the kinda thing that makes you temporarily question what happened - did you say something that made that happen? Did you drink more than you should? How sure are you that there were drugs? Maybe it was an accident etc?

I had a situation once where I had been single for a long time and unhappy about it. I finally meet a new girl and things are great. Few months in a bring her to hang out with one of my best mates (who had his own girlfriend). Throughout the course of the night this guy brings up in conversation how much in love I had been with an ex-girlfriend. He tells my current girlfriend all about how I had said I would never love anyone else. He basically tries to wind her up and split us up. Then he goes back to normal hangs with us. Makes plans to see me again. Hangs out with me again like it's no big deal. I bring it up and he just says "oh did I say that? Probably just chatting" and plays it down when he had gone on in detail to her about every one of my faults for like an hour lol.

Was kinda hard for me to process...cos like trying to bust up my relationship apparently just for fun and for no reason is not the actions of a friend, yet this guy has been friends with me for years, and he's not acting like he wants to end the friendship verbally. Just like it's going to a new normal part of our friendship to fuck me over now. But not even admit he's fucking me over.

So like this kinda made me mad over time. I forgave him on the spot for the dumb comments at first cos I was just kinda shocked and figured he fucked up some how, but then it started to eat at me ....like why did he do that? What else will he do? Did I cause it? etc.

So like...while in principle I agree with Randell in the idea of like "why would you keep hanging out with a dude who raped you" I can also see how sometimes when people are very nice to you generally but then randomly do something completely assholish and seemingly out of character that it can take a little bit to process what the hell happened.

He was knocking them out.

mitchejw wrote:

misterID wrote:

So was Steve McQueen. He was literally on his way, saw a good looking girl on the sidewalk, picked her up and decided to nail her and blew off the party.

My auto correct Kind of messed up my Cosby post. Went ahead and edited it. Basically, the prosecution made a deal with him that if he went ahead with a civil trial and testified they wouldn't press criminal charges because they didn't have a strong case. In a criminal case he has the right not to take the stand. You don't have that right in civil court, and they can use that testimony against you in a criminal case whether you take the stand or not. The prosecutor just decided not to honor it and ran a campaign that he was going to prosecute Cosby.

I think Cosby is guilty as a mother fucker, but you cannot shit on someone's constitutional rights.

I have no idea if he’s guilty or not…how can you be so sure?

I’m so confused about whether or not people find this shit to repulsive or even criminal at all. It hits close to home for me and I’ve resigned myself to the fact that many people just don’t care.

Because he admitted it. That's the whole point, he testified in a civil case, and it was used in his criminal case against him.

mitchejw wrote:

James wrote:

I say this on a regular basis but I'll say it again...

The US is in a state of collapse and in the meantime...we get to have a dystopian existence.

They don't even bother pretending to hide the fact that our elite get away with anything...and in the off chance one of them goes to jail... just hold your horses....they'll get you out of there.

They did the same thing with Epstein 10-15 years ago. Fucker was supposed to rot in prison but they gave him the deal of the century....and then he continued to party with our elite and no one cared.

This will blow over quickly. They'll let it spin through the outrage cycle a bit and then it will be gone from the headlines.

Is they the main reason for things falling apart? The elite getting away with murder?

Well.... it's one of the reasons.

We don't matter anymore and at some point in the past 10-15 years or so...they decided to stop acting like they care.

Everything is just blatantly out in the open...and why shouldn't it be? Anything they do no matter how good or bad will have a bunch of plebs defending them.

Like the stimulus. They made a production out of doing it and it only cost a couple hundred billion. What put it into the trillions was giving shit tons of money to various corporations. Other things too but that was the meat and potatoes.

Gave money to stop them from laying off workers (supposedly) and they pocketed the money and started laying off workers.

I see they're already trying to turn this Cosby crap into a left/right issue on social media.

Don't fall for it.

It no longer matters which color sits in the big seat. It's corruption top to bottom.

Remember those kids in cages you hated and only a Nazi would put kids in cages?

They're still there...they just stopped calling them cages so their cheering plebs would stop whining.

Remember how Kamala was put in charge of the border issues and was going to be hard at work fixing it?

How's that working out?

None of these people care.