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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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This is disgusting and disturbing -- and of course, it's exactly why Johnny Depp filed his defamation lawsuit in Virginia in the first place, for the live broadcast, so stans and bots could engage in this emotional terrorism campaign and edit footage to manipulate public opinion.
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Lance Bass acts out Amber Heard's testimony on TikTok trib.al/m8o2Blf
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Fuck Lance Bass and fuck anyone who thinks lip-syncing to a victim's description of abuse is remotely funny. Please block me if that's you, because I don't need any more morally bankrupt trolls in my life than the universe already forces me to deal with.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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If you're not caught up on the trial, basically Johnny Depp is suing his ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation on the grounds she violated the non-disparagement clause of their divorce agreement, for writing an op-ed about surviving domestic abuse in which she did not name him.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Depp's lawyers are arguing that their relationship was so high-profile that Heard didn't need to name him for readers to assume she was referring to him. Disparagement is lies/opinions, so Heard's lawyers are responding by saying it's not disparagement because it's the truth.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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The stans and bots love to edit the tapes of Amber Heard "confessing" and either call her the abuser or label their relationship as "mutually abusive," but as victims we're told over and over against we're the problem so if we take responsibility it'll get better, but...
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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...abusers always twist anything we say back against us. Amber Heard's "confession" tapes are textbook examples! If one partner initiates the violence and does 90% of the damage, calling the 10% done in self-defense, even pre-emptively, "mutual abuse" is just plain morally wrong.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Just adding for the record: I do not like Johnny Depp or Amber Heard, either in their roles as actors or just as people, at least to the extent they've shown themselves to be publicly both during press tours and during these trials. I don't know either one in real life.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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But it's incredibly obvious that Amber Heard was a victim of domestic violence at Johnny Depp's hands during their relationship, and that he is now further using these lawsuits as a way to continue abusing her.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Johnny Depp is 23 years older than Amber Heard. When she was born, he was famous and had already begun cultivating a reputation for violence, trashing hotel rooms and assaulting a security guard. Even if she didn't have evidence (she does), how do y'all ignore the red flags?! 🚩
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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By not throwing these lawsuits out in the first place when they were filed, by humoring Johnny Depp in the name of fairness, both UK and US courts are creating an open season against any survivor with the courage to speak up about their abuse.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Any abuser wealthy enough to finance it, and/or any lawyer clout-chase-y enough to do this kind of scummy work pro bono, now has a little more leeway to abuse victims further. I am honestly terrified about what will happen if the US legal system allows Depp to prevail.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Also for the record: Men can be survivors of domestic abuse too! If anyone was naturally predisposed to buy Johnny Depp's "I'm the real victim here" lies, it would be someone like me, who survived abuse from a woman -- my sister, who was two years younger than me.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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So I'm speaking as a statistical outlier myself, though thankfully I'm out of that house and safe now. As I said, my abuser was my sister, who was two years younger than me. I always heard "it takes two to tango"/"you're older, you should know better"/"she's just jealous"/etc.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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If I verbally/physically defended myself, it was my fault for egging her on. If I didn't verbally/physically defend myself, it was my fault for submitting. I was told to "walk away," but of course she'd just follow me. She broke the locks on every door in the house eventually.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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All it taught me is there's no such thing as a "perfect victim." People will always find excuses to blame you and not intervene to help you, even when they're direct witnesses to the violence and/or court-mandated reporters. I wasn't worth saving; I had to save myself. So I did.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Like, literally, a textbook abuser tactic is to pick a fight about something they're obviously wrong about, so when you engage, they can then make it about every fight you ever had by jabbing a metaphorical finger in a past unhealed wound, running away before you can respond, ...
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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...and thus successfully baiting you into chasing them, specifically so they can claim they're the real victim! Hit and run! Over time abusers become adept at finding what provokes their victims the most easily, like a pop artist from 30 years ago singing their greatest hits!
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Someone trying to save the relationship is programmed to want to fight, in order to get to a resolution. A classic relationship counselor line they repeat in therapy so much it's almost a joke is literally, "Never go to bed angry." If you leave, you're not invested in fixing it.
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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blocked me back now, but he's been in other tweet threads arguing that Amber Heard is the real abuser and Johnny Depp was the victim based solely on his non-expert interpretation of the tapes and precisely zero of the other damning evidence, so...! 🤡
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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The expectation that victims need to act exactly like trained conflict de-escalators in every situation ever in order to be believed is literally dictating what constitutes "perfect victimhood," but somehow I'm the one who's defending abusers here...? Go off, I guess...?!
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Self-professed allyship means almost nothing unless/until it's actually tested. If you bail the second it turns out you have to be allied with a victim you don't personally like (especially when her case is an upsettingly textbook example of DV/IPV), congratulations, you failed!
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Mollie Katie 🖕😷🖕
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Life Tip: If you don't build the core architecture of your personality on fandom/standom or anti-fandom, you'll never feel the need to become a conspiracy theorist to justify not feeling a little bit bad that you once were taken in by love of shitty people and/or their art.
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