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Linda's avatar

This is disgusting and shameful. I hate we live in a world where women's pain and trauma is dismissed as "attorneys reached to far" or "she wasn't believable" or whatever lame excuse society gives to men to uphold the patriarchy. May Diddy and men like him 🔥🔥

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Shari Dunn's avatar

Their pain is not a prosecutorial overreach, there's a culture that shames women that doesn't allow them to get help when they needed it. The law has to apply to all of us equally even if Donald Trump doesn't think so. But the time to help Cassie was when she was beaten in that hotel, but she didn't think she could get help, and the people there did not help her. He would have been convicted of those charges at that time. I can tell you, as somebody who represented victims of domestic violence, we as a culture don't want to hear it, and we blame women. So the case they brought wasn't the right case; you can't prosecute somebody for something that is not what they did. But the reason she and other women who testify couldn't get help is our fault, we as a society, and I can tell you this, having done the work, we don't want to hear it when it comes to domestic violence.

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BlkGMagik's avatar

“we don't want to hear it when it comes to domestic violence.”

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LOUIS YOUNG's avatar

Excellent commentary. This is incredibly disheartening.

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V Warren - nee Bicunas's avatar

Even in the late 60s early 70s they were banning books. Don't remember the titles now. But I do remember that my local public library had one of those rolling carts that said banned books on it that we could check out. And I did.

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V Warren - nee Bicunas's avatar

I have to wonder if I put my comment on the wrong post... Still a great comment.

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Major Depressive 🎢's avatar

Are there Epstein-like considerations involved? I.e., did Diddy have blackmail material in the area of national intelligence? Or is his crime what it appears to be? I don't know, paid little attention to him or this trial. Did prosecution deliberately fail on Rico? Or just overreach?

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Shari Dunn's avatar

Yeah, well, based on their evidence, it sounds like plain overcharged. A conspiracy usually includes more than one person, and they never produced that. But again, as I say in the post, the real conspiracy is a cultural conspiracy that surrounds domestic and sexual violence and prevents the incidents, the beatings, the sex abuse, from being prosecuted when they happen. I intend to put that, the cultural conspiracy, on trial in my next book.

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KMB's avatar

LOVE the t-shirt!

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