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Billy Corgan Says He’s Stood by Marilyn Manson Despite Sex Abuse Claims Because He ‘Didn’t Feel He Was Guilty’: ‘I Don’t Want the World to Tell Me Who My Friends Are’
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Grainne lemmy.dbzer0.com Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Montagge lemmy.zip Montagge@lemmy.zip
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Man who drove his own wrestling company into the dirt so a Fox News pundit could hold the title for two years has opinions on sexual assault allegations

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Arcanepotato crazypeople.online Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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“As a Christian person, you have to stand by your friends,

Oh.

Edit: ugh I just know I'm going to get pissy if people assume things so I'll mention I'm a prison abolitionist so I don't think people who do bad things should be thrown away, but that's also not what he's saying here.

My oh is about the idea that it's christian or otherwise 'virtuous' to assume your friends are incapable of doing bad things.

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velma sh.itjust.works velma@sh.itjust.works
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Trash. The both of them.

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Cellery quokk.au Cellery@quokk.au
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Oh Billy… he never did recover from his mother dying.

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ProfThadBach lemmy.world ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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He has always been a shitty person.

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58008 lemmy.world 58008@lemmy.world
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You can stand by your friend while also condemning his behaviour. In fact, that's what a real friend does.

I've heard a few interviews with Corgan where he says something like "I was there for some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that most people don't know about, I won't go into it, but it's because of these magical secret things that I think the way I do". It's like his get-out-of-jail-free card when he's challenged on anything. It's some "my girlfriend goes to another school" shit.

He's also buddies with Alex Jones and thinks kids are having gender 'ideology' forced upon them, so yeah...

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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
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You can stand by your friend while also condemning his behaviour. In fact, that's what a real friend does. I've heard a few interviews with Corgan where he says something like "I was there for some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that most people don't know about, I won't go into it, but it's because of these magical secret things that I think the way I do". It's like his get-out-of-jail-free ca...

Going to delete their music from my feed now

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Brave Little Hitachi Wand feddit.uk yakko@feddit.uk
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“As a Christian person, you have to stand by your friends, Oh. Edit: ugh I just know I'm going to get pissy if people assume things so I'll mention I'm a prison abolitionist so I don't think people who do bad things should be thrown away, but that's also not what he's saying here. My oh is about the idea that it's christian or otherwise 'virtuous' to assume your friends are incapable of doing b...

A lot of people treat their faith as a ward against accountability. Weird that he seems almost to know that's what he's doing.

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Ashrakal lemmy.ml Ashrakal@lemmy.ml
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I’ve not followed this drama at all, but I remember a similar case with Johnny Depp - the world turned away from him in favour of Amber Heard, only for him to later win the case.

He was still pretty much eliminated from Pirates of the Caribbean, or his other role as Grindelwald thanks to the drama.

So I’m not surprised people don’t jump one another as quickly now just because of “claims”. Anyone can claim anything - and they’ll still have to go through the courts regardless.

I’m not defending anyone here, just saying that: let the courts take care of the evidence and the ruling. I’ve seen too often that netizens jump on a mildly bad person just like that, while the Epstein class still walks undisturbed.

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sus programming.dev sus@programming.dev
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I’ve not followed this drama at all, but I remember a similar case with Johnny Depp - the world turned away from him in favour of Amber Heard, only for him to later win the case. He was still pretty much eliminated from Pirates of the Caribbean, or his other role as Grindelwald thanks to the drama. So I’m not surprised people don’t jump one another as quickly now just because of “claims”. Anyon...

Manson has been accused by more than 10 different people of sexual assault, which is quite incomparable to the (still messy) Depp situation.

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velma sh.itjust.works velma@sh.itjust.works
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I’ve not followed this drama at all, but I remember a similar case with Johnny Depp - the world turned away from him in favour of Amber Heard, only for him to later win the case. He was still pretty much eliminated from Pirates of the Caribbean, or his other role as Grindelwald thanks to the drama. So I’m not surprised people don’t jump one another as quickly now just because of “claims”. Anyon...

I’ve not followed this drama at all, but I remember a similar case with Johnny Depp - the world turned away from him in favour of Amber Heard, only for him to later win the case.

And the Sun won the right to call Depp a wife abuser in court, so whatever.

Johnny Depp loses libel case over Sun 'wife beater' claim

Mr Depp, 57, sued the paper after it claimed he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard, which he denies. The Sun said the article was accurate.

Judge Mr Justice Nicol said the Sun had proved what was in the article to be "substantially true".

He found 12 of the 14 alleged incidents of domestic violence had occurred.

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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The world can’t tell you who your friends are, this is true, the heart wants what the heart wants, but the world, however, very much can certainly tell you to go fuck yourself you egotistical rape and sexual abuse apologist piece of shit.

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