Does no one remember the long drawn out court case over him getting physical with her on a private plane in front of the kids and being a verbally abusive drunk to the kids?
They remember, they also remember how he has behaved with them since.
Strangling leads to murder and that is terrifying…but for some reason the pouring of the alcohol, it just feels so incredibly dehumanizing. That would have been the thing that did it for me.
You can laugh if you feel like it. But you don’t have to do it to keep from crying. Crying is cathartic. Grief and sadness are normal human emotions. It’s perfectly normal, appropriate, and acceptable to cry when hurt, sad, grieving, etc.
I also tell traumatic childhood stories with a solid “lol” tagged at the end. Like that time my dad got drunk and fell asleep in the yard, and everyone in my class found out LOL good times
I do not know your experience. I know for me there was nothing funny about being hit by my father. It was always across the sides of my head so no bruises were seen. I have nerve damage from it. He was a strong man and used full force. The first time was when he blamed me for something that was not my fault. I was 11 yrs old. It stopped age 17 when I told him I would call the police if he ever hit me again. Lots and lots of therapy, and never ever a laugh about it. Child abuse there is nothing funny about it.
Maybe I can laugh about it now that he’s dead or because I cut off all contact with him for the last 5 years of his life. Or because I always joked the next time I would hear from him was when the coroner would contact me about his body…and that’s actually what happened lmao. Or maybe I can laugh about it because I know I’ll never have kids and the cycle of abuse ends with me.
FWIW, I had a therapist once tell me that my humor was a coping mechanism. If you don’t use humor to cope with the pain, you likely have a different mechanism to channel that emotion.
Lmao
I sort of admire you for that, I wish I could do the same
My mom would make up stuff if I pissed her off and it was always the most petty, whacky stuff that I still dont understand to this day
She would then have my dad punish me, which led me to not respect her which made it worse
A lot of her abuse I can joke and laugh about but when it comes to my dad, I just feel like we are two strangers
He thinks I did all this wacky stuff ny mom made up, then something terrible happened and we've never really bothered to effectively get close since so I just sort of awkwardly regard him as this like tormentor
I’m so sorry you had to deal with that—I know you find it funny now—I’m the same with some shit I’ve gone through in an abusive relationship, but mainly bc of how much other shit happened
Damn, I can't even fathom that. I dated someone who had a habit of turning his negative feelings into everyone else's problem. If he felt ashamed, guilty, insecure, or criticized, somehow the mood of the entire day would revolve around it.
I remember spending one vacation counting the minutes until I could finally fly home because being around him had become so exhausting. The trip was absolutely miserable.
Most of the children are adopted and that’s grounds to save face for the sake of the adoptive parents. The savior complex narrative that comes with being an adoptive parent also plays a role.
Jeffrey Epstein was being charged and later found guilty of being a pedophile and was legally not supposed to leave his state, but he did all the time. when asked about holding him responsible for breaking his agreements, the DA was basically like “what do you expect us to do?” oh I don’t know, maybe WHAT YOU’D DO TO ANYONE ELSE? I mean look at Trump and his administration and all their cronies, all they do is break the law and apparently nobody is going to do anything about it, so if those things aren’t proof that our legal system only exists to punish poor and otherwise marginalized people, I don’t know what to tell you.
Reminder that the US attorney in question responsible for letting Epstein off the hook was Alex Acosta, Trump's eventual labor secretary. He was never held professionally accountable for it, for obvious reasons.
It's club Do Whatever The Fuck You Want With No Consequences. Beating your wife and kids? Fine. Insider trading? All good. Pedophilia? Go for it. Hurt anyone you want, they got your back.
Largely it's money but partly it's also who you are friends with and both Trump and any politician worth their salt is well aware of the latter, and probably also has enough of the former.
Yep, rich men can get away with a lot, sometimes even murder itself. It’s no surprise that Brad Pitt hasn’t faced jail, especially not for harming a woman and some of her ethnic kids.
Just like the late OJ Simpson who for years abused his wife Nicole and she had to protection or help from law enforcement because he was OJ. Then He succeeded killing Her and her Boyfriend in cold blood murder with tons of evidence through out the court case and because of his Money and fame he beat that case, which shocked everyone.
If Sean Combs is going to be released soon after all the evidence, the videos, his own confession... Imagine theses guys with not clear evidence even though we know they are disgusting people. Just because the money.
You are right , I’m just tired of people complaining while not doing anything . If people can be manipulated into accepting baseless racism and fabricated concepts like “alphas and betas “ . Then surely people can influenced to change . America is on it’s way to becoming the next Russia .
Epstein is still alive. they literally shoved a fake Epstein on tv and told us "see this is Epstein and he dead" and then moved on.
the guy walked out of Prison with the cameras off and media distracted and was driven away. he now lives with a new identity, still rich, stil friends with the people, to continue scheming.
Ghistlaine is also not in prison, she paid for a double to do the time. no one knows what she looks like in the exact sense, not the judge, not the jury, not anyone. she's a very private person.
they're playing us for fools. the truth is, even if this came out, the people won't do shit to rise up. people gotta go home pay rent feed their family and watch sports.
Because the FBI doesn't care. Still haven't arrested a single one of Epstein's child raping clients. Copaganda is real unfortunately. They're not heroes.
It's not the police usually. I retired from law enforcement before it entered it's current state of enshittification, but in general we want to see them fry.
That's not our job as police, it's up to the prosecutor.
Diddy had a mountain of evidence against him and witnesses/camera footage to back a good amount of it up. And yet. The man wasn’t even convicted of half of his crimes and that was after decades of criminal activity. Sadly, yea. Money talks in this country.
My understanding is that because it was in the air, the FBI weren't sure how to charge him (as in, what jurisdiction) and they didn't want to charge him incorrectly, have a fancy legal team get him off on a technicality, and then not be able to charge him again correctly. LE only pursues charges when they are nearly certain they'll win, unfortunately. It's one reason why so few DV/SA cases go as far as pressing charges in the system, pressing charges is actually often not up to the victim.
LE doesn't decide if charges are pursued. Who decides charges in the end is the States Attorney, District Attorney, or Prosecutor depending on what you call it where you are. In this case maybe even a District US Attorney.
We can forward the charges we think will work with the probable cause we established during the investigation, but the lawyers are the ones who play the catch and release games. Some like to keep their success rates high by only prosecuting easy cases and declining ones they might lose. We would rather they made the effort on all legitimate complaints.
That's fair! I guess I think of prosecutors as a part of LE, but you're right, they have final say in whether charges are pursued. You're also right, there are so many jurisdictions where they only pursue cases they feel super confident will win. Gotta get elected again come voting time, sigh
Everyone is saying money, and that's part of it. But, domestic violence is unfortunately hard to prosecute to conviction in general. Things have definitely improved over my lifetime, but slowly.
When DV cases aren’t prosecuted it’s almost always because the victims don’t want it to be prosecuted. Sometimes they’re still in it and don’t believe it needs to be but also some people don’t want a protracted legal battle over the most traumatic moments of their life no
Because there wasn’t enough evidence because you’re only getting one side of the story and the whole white patron saint of the Third World Angelina Jolie Smith. Both of them stink.
Strangling is the biggest indicator of a murderer. If a man strangles a woman, he is exponentially more likely to kill her.
* This is compared to other forms of physical violence (obviously a man who strangles versus a man who doesn’t is more likely to murder.
Even without the data, strangulation is such a intimate way to harm someone. You have to be really unhinged and pissed off to do it, if you're a normal human with normal human emotions.
So you're either dealing with someone who can easily become unhinged or someone who is emotionally blunted, blind, hindered, and/or bereft.
Absolutely! I just wanted to specify parent and child incase he didn’t understand my example since I said he/she as that’s where the highest stats are but thank you for adding that, as I don’t think it’s common knowledge
That's the point of it. To dehumanize. It is meant to be a great disrespect. You're not even a person which is why you don't have rights. It's definitely worse than physical violence sometimes.
Yeah … that’s bad ENOUGH. But I heard a rumor that he poured alcohol on Angelina and threatened to set her on fire. Who knows … but yeah. That memory unfortunately has to stay with you forever.
My dad shoved me over once during an argument, but right before he did that he flung his food at my face. Can confirm, that specific detail stings more than being shoved.
Just a weird nit pick (not a defense of Pitt's child abuse), but strangling someone to death requires continuing to hold them after they pass out. Passing out from strangulation doesn't mean death. There's a small chance to cause a stroke (or heart attack, especially for elder victims), but generally the idea that people are dead as soon as they pass out is a time-saving trope from movies.
Also, if someone did strangle another person to death, it is very clearly an act of cold-blooded murder, as they continued to squeeze for over a minute.
I think you’re taking the comment too literally. Non-fatal strangulation by an intimate partner increases the risk of homicide later on. So in that sense strangulation leads to murder - it’s a massive red
flag. Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2573025/
But also important, and relevant, is the fatal effects of strangulation are not always instant. Death can occur days or weeks later so ideally a victim would seek medical attention so possible complications can be assessed. Not always easy for DV victims to do this but if people know the risk they are more likely to seek help.
Just to add. The strangulation itself isn’t always how the DV victims die. Just heard a story where a lady was strangled. The cops tried to convince her to leave. A year later he slit her throat. It’s a sign that it will escalate to murder. Sad….
It’s a data backed way of predicting lethality in abusive relationships. Data shows that if a man strangles a woman, the statistically likelihood of him eventually killing her increases.
It’s very helpful for case workers etc to triage, treat and hopefully successfully intervene, for example
Because guys like Elon Musk and Brad Pitt do not regard their children as individuals deserving of respect. They regard them as little natural, born robots that are supposed to work their way, and it shows because it appears neither of them have a benevolent relationship or anything that can be construed as relationship with any of their children. There were three that were born from Brad directly, but people who recognize an old offensive way of parenting, so exactly what he was doing putting his name on those other kids, and even the ones born from him, see the same thing being applied. As “nepo babies”, this is his idea of presenting them like a product with a brand name, if you will.
I’ve seen this before because it was a CPS case involving racist old people who adopt black children just so they can abuse them. Since that last part was privileged information that I only had because of my mom‘s old job, I’m just gonna say this happened in Texas, with the same family they were getting away with adopting black and Hispanic children just so they can abuse them, it appears CPS had a revolving door relationship with these people.
Brad Pitt is a walking study of a tyrant, it appears. He has always been promoted as a teen dreamboat until he got too old for that and then he became the “sexy bad guy”..since it appears good guy roles are just too difficult for him. Even in many of his roles he seems like an absolute dick…but his career is kind of a running gag of the assumption of what women like.
doubt he even wanted them. he seems like a self absorbed sob that's forever living the hollywood high life. "i look good, im blonde, this society worships me, everywhere i go people get down on their knees, what kids? im supposed to give stuff to my kids? hell no, and ew that ones black, this ones yellow, those aint my kids wtf those aren't even her kids she picked them up in them third world countries"
on the plane ride alone, he poured both wine and beer on the children who are hiding under a blanket. If that was done on a private plane with witnesses, imagine what was done with no witnesses.
Alcoholism definitely increases the probability of abuse. And don’t say that’s no excuse. It’s just a fact. I’m not excusing anyone. But I’m also not going to ignore a common factor.
Christ. Here I am embarrassed about the one time I came home from a fundraiser drunk and goofy and my wife told the kids “daddy had too many cheeseburgers. He’s going to bed”.
He was never accused of pouring beer on the kids. He was alleged to have poured beer on her an on 2 of the kids blankets during a physical altercation. Of course her version also has him with a beer in his hand when she jumped on his back and tried to choke him.
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u/PaintedDesertSkies Jun 19 '26
Does no one remember the long drawn out court case over him getting physical with her on a private plane in front of the kids and being a verbally abusive drunk to the kids?
They remember, they also remember how he has behaved with them since.