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BainsBane

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2. Yeah, I'm kind of baffled by Allen in particular
Mon Feb 3, 2014, 06:01 AM
Feb 2014

and surprised he has more support even than Assange. I get that people admire Wikileaks, though I don't think that should make him immune from abiding by the Swedish arrest warrant. The Allen admiration, I do not get. He's a Hollywood director, and an overrated one IMO.

Bill Clinton. I know there were allegations by Republicans he had raped someone. I guess I had in my mind that yes, he is a philanderer but I never followed details of the allegations to know if there were any credible claims of assault. Tiger Woods isn't accused of raping anyone. He cheated on his wife. There are light years between a philanderer and a rapist and especially a pedophile. The first may be a personal moral failing, but it is not an illegal violation of another person. I think it important to not conflate them.

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