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Ashton Kutcher Resigns From His Anti-Child Sex Abuse Organization Amid Danny Masterson Support Backlash

It occurs to me that Kutcher and co might not have had access to the court proceedings, testimony, and evidence, but might have had a lot of access to Masterton's side of the story.

It also occurs to me that being friends with people is complicated and that bad people emotionally loan shark a lot - maybe they felt obligated to send letters of support because they were being guilt tripped about all he'd done for them or because they think being a good friend is supporting no matter what (aka being an enabler).

All that said, Kutcher's a grown up adult who should have been able to predict that supporting a sex abuser is going to conflict with being involved in an anti-sex abuse organization.

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How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

Log in as her on your device. Delete the history, turn off ad personalisation, unsubscribe and block dodgy stuff, like and subscribe healthier things, and this is the important part: keep coming back regularly to tell YouTube you don't like any suggested videos that are down the qanon path/remove dodgy watched videos from her history.

Also, subscribe and interact with things she'll like - cute pets, crafts, knitting, whatever she's likely to watch more of. You can't just block and report, you've gotta retrain the algorithm.

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Is it reasonable to tell a person you once loved about the fact years later?

You don't love her. You barely know her. It's been years, you have no idea what she thinks, what she's done, what she would do, etc.

What you love is some ideas you have about her.

You never dated her. You never saw what she was like outside of class, at home, at work, with her friends. You don't know if she's honest, or cruel. You don't know what her political beliefs are, or her religion. Would she kick a puppy? Is she an addict? Is she selfish or generous? Is she clean or slovenly? Does she have a partner? Does she have kids? Is she even hetero?

This is all aside from the fact that you're imagining a connection that you know isn't there. Telling her has nothing to do with her and everything to do with your own ego.

This way of thinking with the fantasy of loving someone you don't really know and the idea that your feelings years later are important enough to barge into her life with a confession of love without even finding out who she actually is and what her circumstances are... This is a red flag that even in the incredibly unlikely event that she's single and into you, you are not going to be good for her.