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Posted on 9/13/23 at 2:12 pm to AlonsoWDC
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There was basically no evidence against Jerry Sandusky
Are you fricking serious?
I thought about arguing it, but it was all victim testimony with one witness that saw rhythmic slapping in a shower but wouldn't say it was sex.
Guy is a pedophile and a groomer and tons of victims said so, but if his point was there was no physical evidence, I guess that's true?
Posted on 9/13/23 at 2:26 pm to deltaland
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Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
Jesus Christ this place is unhinged.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 2:27 pm to Darth_Vader
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All constitutional amendments past the 15th should be repelled.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 3:39 pm to CatfishJohn
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I thought about arguing it, but it was all victim testimony with one witness that saw rhythmic slapping in a shower but wouldn't say it was sex.
Guy is a pedophile and a groomer and tons of victims said so, but if his point was there was no physical evidence, I guess that's true?
There's a man named John Ziegler who made a podcast where he really digs into all of the evidence.
John starts by taking apart the timeline of the Mike McQueary story. McQueary included details that can be analyzed: he says he was watching a broadcast of Rudy before he went to the field house, and that the campus was empty that evening.
Ziegler figured out when Rudy was on, when various activities would have made that part of the campus busy, when McQueary was known to have been elsewhere, and so on. (And I can believe McQueary was simply mistaken about Rudy, but Ziegler's timeline holds up without that bit.)
Under this timeline, McQueary waited several weeks after the incident, at which point he wanted to talk to Paterno about a position coach job that'd just then opened up. At that point he felt compelled to mention the "slapping sounds" incident to Paterno, because he had reason to believe Paterno had heard about it secondhand. (There's no doubt McQueary found the incident notably strange and told people that.)
We know McQueary did not intervene to stop the supposed assault. Ziegler's timeline further implies he didn't feel hurried to mention it to any authority figure, and might not have mentioned it at all were there not suddenly a job opening on Paterno's staff. None of this is consistent with the notion that McQueary thought he'd witnessed a rape, and he's never emphatically said he did.
So many casual observers rely on the sheer number of accusers as evidence. "One of those kids must have been telling the truth." Ziegler therefore goes on to examine each supposed victim in great depth.
Realize that the vast majority of them did not testify in Sandusky's criminal trial. Many of them were only subjected to perfunctory depositions focused on allocating the money Penn State had already earmarked to pay damages.
Most of the victims are not credible at all. There's the guy who admitted to his wife that he made it all up. There's the guy who said Sandusky diddled him in a silver convertible, a type of vehicle nothing else connects Sandusky to. There's the guy who said he knocked Sandusky's two front teeth out; Sandusky has dental records and he was on TV throughout the relevant time period, and yet nothing corroborates this claim.
There are other aspects of Sandusky's behavior that just don't add up, if he's a molester. His marriage has held up. He's never "come clean" but tried to portray himself as "ill" and "in need of help." The cops never found any pornography at all in Sandusky's house or anywhere else. These things are almost unheard of among actual pedophiles. I'm not even sure the "almost" is necessary there.
Sandusky's medical records indicate that he had extremely low testosterone during times when we are supposed to believe that he was sodomizing dozens of people, demanding fellatio across the street from Joe Paterno's own house, etc.
That supposedly brilliant reporter who broke the whole story, and won a Pulitzer... where's her book? Seems like she'd have been able to easily score a #1 bestseller out of this. What's she doing now?
There's a whole subplot about power strugles on the Penn State board, the simmering desire of many to usher Paterno out, etc., but I've gone on enough. I encourage people to look into this for themselves, and particularly the "so many victims" canard. Look at the McQueary claim, but also look at who actually said what at the trial. And once you've done that, ask yourself, "which of these victims do I actually still believe?"
ETA: I forgot to get into just how much of the case here rests on "repressed memories." I don't believe in repressed memories. I'd remember blowing the defensive coordinator at Penn State. Maybe I'm just weird like that .
This post was edited on 9/13/23 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 9/13/23 at 3:40 pm to yaboidarrell
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash are highly overrated
Posted on 9/13/23 at 3:42 pm to lsusteve1
Hellman's is the only REAL mayonnaise.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 3:42 pm to yaboidarrell
Godfather 3 > Godfather 2
Posted on 9/13/23 at 3:46 pm to yaboidarrell
Jimmy Buffet sucks and I hope to never hear his music ever again.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 4:00 pm to yaboidarrell
Bohemian Rhapsody sucks
Posted on 9/13/23 at 4:18 pm to slinger1317
quote:There's a lot of revisionist history around that band. When Freddie Mercury died, the big media talking point was "Reagan won't talk about AIDS." So, when Mercury died, they suddenly turned Queen into this beloved, venerated cultural icon, and they just had never been that. People had moved on and Queen was pretty widely seen a cheesy, outdated, and irrelevant relic of the 1970s... until Mercury died at the perfect time for the 49 percent of the population who are drooling idiots to use him to make a point against Reagan.
Bohemian Rhapsody sucks
This post was edited on 9/13/23 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 9/13/23 at 6:51 pm to Gravitiger
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Godfather 3 > Godfather 2
I wouldn't go that far, but Godfather 3 is a good film that gets unfairly shite on.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 7:38 pm to yaboidarrell
Every time you view anything on the internet, you are being manipulated...one way or another.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 8:17 pm to Jenious
The OP said an unpopular opinion not an incredibly stupid one
Posted on 9/13/23 at 8:27 pm to Darth_Vader
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Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote or hold any position of power because they’re too emotional to make decisions that must be founded in sound logic
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All constitutional amendments past the 15th should be repelled.
I used to scoff at “repeal the 19th” but I’ve since realized that people who can’t be drafted and don’t have to pay taxes can vote to send me to war and raise my taxes.
I’m not as opposed now.
This post was edited on 9/13/23 at 8:34 pm
Posted on 9/14/23 at 12:27 am to WB Davis
Some bro country songs aren't terrible.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 1:06 am to Porpus
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There's a lot of revisionist history around that band. When Freddie Mercury died, the big media talking point was "Reagan won't talk about AIDS." So, when Mercury died, they suddenly turned Queen into this beloved, venerated cultural icon, and they just had never been that. People had moved on and Queen was pretty widely seen a cheesy, outdated, and irrelevant relic of the 1970s... until Mercury died
That’s how I remember them too. Even the Live Aid performance has been lauded by revisionist history.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 10:13 am to deltaland
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Chains like Outback and Logan’s are.
Local ones can be very good.
Ruth’s Chris is about the only chain that’s decent.
We ate at Charlie's in New Orleans for a bachelor party one time. The guy who set it up raved about how great it was going to be. The steak was okay, nothing special but okay. The mushrooms were straight out of a can.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 10:33 am to yaboidarrell
Chicory in coffee is disgusting, tastes like dirt
Posted on 9/16/23 at 7:34 pm to BengalShark
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JD is the best QB on LSU
This might not count as an unpopular opinion anymore after the dumbarses who wanted Nuss seem to be in hiding…
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