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    4 months ago

    Of course childhood bullying is never justified or acceptable, and victims of it should always be protected against unjust violence, physical and psychological…

    … but maybe, this little shit has always been an insufferable twat, and had it coming.

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          He sexually coerced multiple women without explicit consent. That’s a bit more than a “mistake.”

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            He asked for consent and didn’t, at the time, understand that he is such a powerful figure in comedy that some women didn’t feel they had the power to say no. I count that as a mistake.

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      “Nooo I didn’t skim the pages! I read everything and understood everything too! And then I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me”

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    I mean, so did I. I didn’t have anything else to do, because we didn’t have the internet. Lived with a single mom, so there was no porn in the house to find either. So it was either Power Rangers Movie for the 50th time, or learn something.

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    Which encyclopedia? If it’s one as grand in scope as, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica, then I’m going to call bullshit.

    And that aside, reading something doesn’t mean you’ve absorbed it or understand it.

    Plenty of times I’ve been reading a book tired and been like hold on, I’ve read the past 5 pages and I can’t remember anything that’s happened.

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    “the” encyclopedia

    I played math blaster and reader rabbit and such and those probably actually made me smarter. Reading an encyclopedia as a regular book just tells me there is already something wrong with him from a young age.

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      Before the internet, it was common to have a big, general encyclopedia in the house for quick lookups. But usually only one, so, the encyclopedia makes sense.