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4) This smug sycophant is a dipshit.

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Billable hours?

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Apparently. Y’know, men just cannot help themselves.

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And very chillingly, it seems that men even in the most restrictive male dominated societies, where women are covered and isolated and society is grouped by gender have brutal, fatal rapes that go unpunished. Where honor killings are understood.

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"Views went too far" is always the clue -- because the "for what" and the "for whom" are never asked

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its a little like closet gay guys going way out of their way to bash on out gay men on the street - they need the cred from their group

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That, plus if most of your clients are rapists, you tend to start seeing the world from the rapist point of view.

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Strictly speaking everyone deserves counsel, but not necessarily a defense.

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I certainly want to believe that Satan will have an even deeper and more awful place in hell for Weinstein and his supporters. HW is entitle to a vigorous defense but I was taught that did not include lying in public arguments and suborning perjury.

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Lines are there to be crossed. And if anyone knows snark when they see it, it's the Wonkerati.

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or, actually, what you are describing sounds different - it sounds more like magical thinking

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🎶 Please allow me to introduce myself…

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As soon as the trial's over she'll be off to a new gig in the West Wing

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And lo, he spake unto them, saying "WTF?".

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Yeah, how much of an entitled pos do you have to be, when your first thought upon seeing someone incapacitated to think, "I'll fuck them?" not, are they dead? do they need help?

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