"We support victims unless our friend did it. Then he did nothing wrong and was a truly admirable role model by all accounts." - Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
I mean what an apology guys. Wasn't the worst this year but wow. Especially considering what Ashton claimed to stand for it's clear if Danny was raping kids Ashton would still be sending that letter just the same. Bro he probably wasn't even surprised given the creepy behavior Ashton and Danny had around young Mila Kunis. Like those old interviews just make it seem like she was groomed on set. Especially with words like her not having a choice and Danny wagering money on whether or not Ashton would stick his tongue in her mouth when he took her first kiss. She even described that she was genuinely afraid.
From what I've seen of these letters written on behalf of Danny Masterson, their reasoning isn't even that they believe he didn't do it. It's that he's actually a really good guy! And even though he raped someone (twice), he's not a danger to anyone else (two different women) and obviously he'd never do it again (a third time) so why are they being such meanies (by punishing a dual rapist)
Despite the forces and damage from Hurricane Sandy, the statue of the Virgin Mary remains unharmed.
Will Smith was just banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping a guy. Unrelated but here's an IMDb list of the most famous actors and directors who signed the letter asking for the statutory rape charges against Roman Polanski, who is not banned from the Oscars, to be dropped.
COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.
african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement
They’re not only hoarding and blackmailing, but the cherry on top is that the US, UK, Australia, most of Europe, Brazil et al. actually voted AGAINST waiving intellectual property agreements for the existing vaccines, something that India & South Africa proposed MONTHS ago to the World Trade Organization, and which most of the Global South voted yes to. So rather than letting countries manufacture these vaccines themselves, meaning they could have their own supply, they’re being kept, by multiple measures, beholden to the Global North for donations. The US voted multiple times to block this, before and after Biden’s inauguration.
Read more:
- Overview from JANUARY of this : https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/01/02/india-south-africas-covid-vaccine-proposal-wto-patent-waiver-must-considered-compulsory-licensing/id=128652/
- Update from February: https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/trip_23feb21_e.htm
- Recent coverage of the deal not being met (again): https://www.law360.com/lifesciences/articles/1363457/wto-fails-to-reach-deal-on-covid-ip-waiver-proposal-again
- Map of the vote (colorblind-friendly): https://twitter.com/comradesquirrel/status/1370595876536729600?s=21
[Image description: a world map. Countries in black (US, Brazil, most of Europe, Japan, Australia) opposed; countries in green (Africa not including Algeria/Libya/Western Sahara/Eritrea; China, South Asia, and most of southeast Asia; and Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua) are co-sponsors/full supporters; countries in yellow (Canada, Mexico, Chile) are undecided; countries in light brown (Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Thailand, Bhutan, the Phillipines, and Papua New Guinea) are general supporters; and the remainder are gray, which is not designated as anything]
Meanwhile as India is getting hundreds of thousands of new cases a day and running out of oxygen tanks for hospitals, the US won’t lift restrictions on raw material exports that would support vaccine production: https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/us-defends-restrictions-on-export-of-covid-19-vaccine-raw-materials-amid-indias-request-to-lift-ban/
On vaccine nationalism: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-vaccine-justice/
and, like, WATCH border policies change because of this
yeah and the irony of australia voting against waiving that shit is that our vaccine rollout and supply has been absolutely terrible because we have to ship these vaccines over from Europe and the US to here which is an insanely long distance, when we could be making it in the university laboratories that were initially contributing research to the vaccine. Brisbane labs were contributing significant research, even I had a friend working in a lab that was doing COVID research and development. We have the capability to manufacture these vaccines ourselves but the lib government would rather have a dangerously slow vaccination process rather than fund public healthcare and education (as most of the research was done in university labs).
