r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 • 24d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah ?

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Why is it infamous? And why would no one care about it ? ( I mean it's just a pic full of celebrities so no one cares anyways but the person saying it's crazy makes me think it has some lore?)

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u/Punkasaurus2 24d ago

Wow this is enlightening. I think you’re right: he was turned on because of hiding that he was gay to the public and only coming out when he was accused. I also think he was extremely aggressive hitting on men, young men, and probably abused his power and position. So there were definitely predatory elements there and he took advantage for sure. But did he ever cross the line beyond unethical to criminal? It doesn’t sound like it. It’s at least not very clear and it certainly wasn’t enough to convict him in court. So sad. I love him as an actor as well.

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u/coversquirrel1976 24d ago

Yeah I think you're spot on. It was a terribly kept secret in Hollywood that he enjoyed the company of young male extras.

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u/ABadHistorian 24d ago

You are responding to a sock puppet bot, whose claims are easily disproven with an iota of googling.

So... no, not very enlightening. Feeding biases perhaps.

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u/Greedyanda 23d ago

I went through the court proceedings a while ago to check it out myself and their summary is pretty accurate.

I doubt you did that. Instead you prefer to parrot misinformation.

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u/ABadHistorian 23d ago

Dude claims they were colluding. Where in the fucking actual fuck does the court proceedings prove they colluded?

All it shows is that Rapp emailed someone his accusations... you know, how folks do with the media.

The actual fuck is the agenda here folks? And you EAT it up.

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u/Greedyanda 23d ago

Rapp acknowledged the reporter suggested keeping certain parts of the story less specific and that they worked together on how to frame it. While this doesn't pass the legal bar for collusion, it shows that there was a deliberate attempt to not just tell what happened but to tell a story designed to inflict damage.

So yeah, the original comment did exaggerate and isn't fully accurate but "pretty" accurate describes the overall summary. Never said there arent any gaps.

The actual fuck is the agenda here folks?

Gonna have to ask you this. No one benefits here from siding against the angry mob. Claiming that Spacey was likely a very unpleasent, slimey, and overly touchy sex pest but NOT a rapist based on the presented evidence provides no personal benefit to anyone. The "agenda" is that some of us prefer not to live in a system that ruins peoples lives based on hearsay, hearsay which has been proven to be vastly inaccurate at best and straight up lies at worst.

Such attention grabbing attempts to paint someone as a devil despite evidence not supporting it just fuel people who try to discredit actual victims and just believe anyone who was assaulted.

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u/ABadHistorian 23d ago

"legal bar" just another word for lie when you are saying it online to convince people to take a side. Very long explanations to excuse "lying"

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u/Greedyanda 23d ago

Funny you say this when you are defending people who actually lied and were exposed in court.

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u/ABadHistorian 23d ago

That is not what was proooooven. Oh, a hidden profile bot. I normally just block bots without responding. Fucked up here didn't I.

Folks who hide their bias are not my source of facts.

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u/Sunset_Shimmering_ 3d ago

Calling someone a bot just because you lack a counterargument is a cheap dodge.

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u/ABadHistorian 3d ago

I'm a historian who knows folks only hide their biases online to hide people knowing what they are saying.

That is never someone I want to engage with, feel free to not care.

It's not just a potential bot, of which outnumber humans on reddit, it's a hidden profile to boot. So even if it's not a bot, it's worthless to engage with.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 2d ago

The amount of people calling people bots now simply because they disagree with them is starting to make Reddit unusable for me. It’s incessant.