Billy Corgan Says He’s Stood by Marilyn Manson Despite Sex Abuse Claims Because He ‘Didn’t Feel He Was Guilty’: ‘I Don’t Want the World to Tell Me Who My Friends Are’
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Rose McGowan and Evan Rachel Wood seem more trustworthy. Like, they don’t text Jonny Depp about fucking teenagers, for starters.
Billy Corgan looking like Bill Burrs evil twin
Bill Burr went to Saudi Arabia to help white wash the crimes of the regime, so just twin.
a further reminder that neither of these people deserve your money
Does losing all your friendships make you more or less likely to improve your character?
Nobody says you have to abandon close friends that have made huge mistakes, you can help them through it while recognizing their faults - as long as they are doing the healthy thing in admitting culpability and working on positive ways forward.
What is generally ill-advised is telling the world that you are just going to ignore the mistakes or pretend they didn't happen so thay you can keep hanging with your deeply-flawed buddy. That shit's just unhealthy for all involved.
I can speak from experience here - one of our friend group, we'd been good friends for years without red flags that any of us noticed, was very credibly accused of rape, and we believed the victim's story. None of us are still friends with the rapist any more. This is a good thing. Don't remain friends with "friends that have made huge mistakes" if those "mistakes" have permanently traumatized victims and the "friend" turns out to be a fucking predator. That's what we're talking about under a Marilyn Manson story, not a "could happen to anyone" forgivable mistake.
That was aimed at your first paragraph. I agree with your second paragraph.