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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    Sometimes I wish I was wealthy for doing nothing.... Will Smith
    Smith hitting Rock is unacceptable, and it is not the first horrible thing Smith has done... But it is not like he got wealthy for nothing, inheriting a lot of money, or even just getting money for his looks. He is a good lyrics writer, a good rapper, and has worked hard to be a good actor.

    Smith definitely worked a lot harder for his money than trump.
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
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    Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
    trump is a child rapist. We all know it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    For most people, what he did would have gotten them arrested.
    They have been changing the laws so that domestic violence must lead to arrest, but almost all other similar violence is very variable on whether it will lead to an arrest. Even domestic violence is often ignored.

    What you would need to have this lead to an arrest is for first a police officer to witness the slap, then the police officer has to care, then the victim has to be willing to press charges, and finally the police officer has to care some more. Alternately, if a police officer does not witness the slap, the victim has to make a complaint, a police officer has to care, a prosecutor has to care, a judge has to care, a warrant has to be issued...

    I think you are getting the point. Huge amounts of violence is just ignored. The reason violent people finally go to jail is not because every violent crime is prosecuted, but because they commit a huge number of violent crimes.

    Rock is not making noise about pressing charges, so if this were normal people, the police would pretend it never happened.
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
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    trump is a child rapist. We all know it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Will Smith was to be the next black role model, but oops!

    Cosby was not a bad man.
    Smith is 53 years old. He either has been a roll model for decades, or has not been... But he will not be the next one. Cosby's fall from grace happened 50 years after people started calling him a roll model.

    Cosby's moral lecturing really rubbed people the wrong way. He probably would have gotten away with his rapes had he not lectured everyone on morality.

    Smith is careful not to curse, and sells himself as a family man, but does not do as much moral lecturing. And his crimes are not as severe.
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    trump is a child rapist. We all know it.

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    The wealthy don't work for their wealth. You think a guy like Warren Buffet has ever "worked"? You might "work" in the beginning when you first start playing the stock market (I.E., learning how to invest), but once you begin to generate passive income, it's a matter of reinvesting dividends and continuing to earn passive income.

    Essentially, men like Buffet have built a fortune off the backs of the working man. He lives in the lap of luxury as a reward for sitting on his ass for decades, and we normals sacrifice the best years of our lives to give him what he has has, only to have nothing to show for it except a meager retirement fund and a worn old body (and many people won't even have a retirement fund).

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    Well, now this story has gone about 4 or 5 stations past 'WhoGivesAShit West'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Smith hitting Rock is unacceptable, and it is not the first horrible thing Smith has done... But it is not like he got wealthy for nothing, inheriting a lot of money, or even just getting money for his looks. He is a good lyrics writer, a good rapper, and has worked hard to be a good actor.

    Smith definitely worked a lot harder for his money than trump.
    Trump, Trump, Trump!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Smith is 53 years old. He either has been a roll model for decades, or has not been... But he will not be the next one. Cosby's fall from grace happened 50 years after people started calling him a roll model.

    Cosby's moral lecturing really rubbed people the wrong way. He probably would have gotten away with his rapes had he not lectured everyone on morality.

    Smith is careful not to curse, and sells himself as a family man, but does not do as much moral lecturing. And his crimes are not as severe.
    Not roll...maybe pudding pops...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Smith is 53 years old. He either has been a roll model for decades, or has not been... But he will not be the next one. Cosby's fall from grace happened 50 years after people started calling him a roll model.

    Cosby's moral lecturing really rubbed people the wrong way. He probably would have gotten away with his rapes had he not lectured everyone on morality.

    Smith is careful not to curse, and sells himself as a family man, but does not do as much moral lecturing. And his crimes are not as severe.
    Smith is a "roll" model? A bread roll model?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Smith is a "roll" model? A bread roll model?
    It is Saturday....

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    It is Saturday....
    Indeed.

    I hope poor Walter doesn’t awaken his children for school today as he recently did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    A nigga did that to me once.

    I caught him in the woods later when it was just me n him and beat the everloving shit out of him.

    He didn't slap me, he sucker punched me.

    I gave him like 5x that, and almost drowned him, then decided I didn't want to be a murderer.

    So I dragged his 200-lb ass back up the 4-5 foot bank and put a few more blows to him and left.

    He tried to swing at me and was all bent over in the motion, and I punted that bitch dead in the face while he was mid-swing like Martin Gramatica.

    It took his feet out from under him and swept him dead onto his back where I gave him a couple stomps in the face for good measure.

    I kicked that motherfucker so hard my foot hurt for a week. It was a good hurt, though, I or my friends got all the others that jumped me that night, too. Except for one...

    A dude that has a dick and balls tattooed all across his back, and I'm not trying to break into prison to get his dumbass.
    So, detention hall in the 7th grade was a little rough huh?

    Just joking!

    Sounds like you handled yourself OK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Yea, and it's obvious that you never recovered from the drain bramage you suffered as a result...
    Funny!

    I tried to be a comedian once- Everybody just laughed at me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    I liked to see someone try that in court. “Your honor, I just had a brain fart when I decided to gat that fool.”
    Trump has tried this many times- IT SEEMS TO HAVE WORKED FOR HIM MANY TIMES!

    Well, then there was that time his Brain-Fart excuse didn't work- Trump University!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walt View Post
    Smith is 53 years old. He either has been a roll model for decades, or has not been... But he will not be the next one. Cosby's fall from grace happened 50 years after people started calling him a roll model.

    Cosby's moral lecturing really rubbed people the wrong way. He probably would have gotten away with his rapes had he not lectured everyone on morality.

    Smith is careful not to curse, and sells himself as a family man, but does not do as much moral lecturing. And his crimes are not as severe.
    50 years ago, Fat Albert would be on right now on Saturday Morning.

    Right after Bugs Bunny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    "Will Smith is hospitalized in a prestigious mental clinic, which he entered voluntarily, to try to alleviate all the stress and discomfort that this situation has caused him."
    I hope he gets help, I think he was headed this way for awhile. I think constantly being scrutinized while famous wears on high profile people.

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