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Right? Like we get it, you're not in the files, and you want to remind everyone you were acquitted and found not civilly liable of your own sexual misconduct. But "not guilty" is not the same as "innocent," and dodging legal responsibility is not vindication.
Basically the courts don't matter and all that matters is public opinion? And this is where you launch into a "the courts are corrupt" and "the rich never get punished" or some similar BS?
I mean are they wrong that the rich never really get punished? Trump and those 34 convictions that resulted in nothing already forgotten? Diddy getting a not guilty for the severe charges also forgotten?
Ekhm... Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein are suddenly no longer considered rich?
So far Cosby's was overturned and he's not in jail, and Weinstein's was overturned and he is awaiting a retrial (granted, he is doing so in prison).
Lol all I could think was "these are terrible examples"