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[–] [email protected] 232 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It occurs to me that Kutcher and co might not have had access to the court proceedings, testimony, and evidence, but might have had a lot of access to Masterton's side of the story.

It also occurs to me that being friends with people is complicated and that bad people emotionally loan shark a lot - maybe they felt obligated to send letters of support because they were being guilt tripped about all he'd done for them or because they think being a good friend is supporting no matter what (aka being an enabler).

All that said, Kutcher's a grown up adult who should have been able to predict that supporting a sex abuser is going to conflict with being involved in an anti-sex abuse organization.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The 8 people that downvoted you are the type of people that love cancel culture.

Ashton was shitty defending his friend. Ashton does not deserve the backlash he is receiving for the exact reasons you describe.

Then again, Lemmy was up in arms over the LTT situation, and all of my comments saying "hey, lets wait to hear both sides" were HEAVILY downvoted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fake internet points don't matter anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Didn't say they do. Stop trying to undermine my comment by replying about something unrelated.

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