No One Cared Justin Roiland Beat His Wife When His Show Was Good

Technically gf, but stock phrase is stock. 

E.g. his girlfriend didn't care. Could have reported it when his show was doing well, but, like, fuck that. 

One half of manipulating procedural outcomes is the "our hands are tied" part. E.g. gerrymandering. You stuff as many red voters into 100% red districts as possible, to minimize total red districts, then carefully massage the rest to have 60% blue voters, to spread "correct" outcomes across as many districts as possible. Then you "respect the vote" or whatever. Just how the chips fell. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. "The lines have to go somewhere, bothsides blah blah..."

The other half is carefully not initiating procedures that don't have the desired outcome.
Wait for the right moment. Oh man oh gee nobody reported anything (yet), our hands are tied...

Small digression: Rick and Morty is good when it's accurately portraying what it's like to be the smartest person in the room to the extent that you're substantially smarter than the smartest person everyone else can even conceive of. E.g. "I don't trust you." "You think your trust or lack thereof matters to me at all? You're still going to do what I want." Resistance is futile, you will be manipulated. Rick drinks because life is too easy without a handicap.

Like every story of cancellation, this is not someone brought down from the top of their game by a heckler veto. This is someone who already slipped and started falling, which is a real bad idea when surrounded by hyenas and feral hogs. 

Hollywood studios love working with criminals because it's cheaper to have the police break the contract rather than trying to pay a lawyer to wrangle it. This high criminal density has very intuitive effects on the artistic output, or rather lack thereof. 

Roiland thought he could get away with being an asshole as long as he brought in the cash. And that's true, it's just that if you stumble a bit - perhaps from drinking too much - then, well, it turns out the hyenas get hungry. Becomes dangerous once it's clear your ratings are in decline and your show's lost the plot. The hyenas don't get enough to eat, according to themselves. Not enough still-living bone to gnaw on. 

Another great way to avoid getting cancelled like this is not to go anywhere near Hollywood in the first place. It was vaguely defensible before Youtube, but now Youtube exists.

It amuses me that Harmon is the one who looks like a broken-in alcoholic, and Roiland is the one who voiced Rick "Dirty" Sanchez - typically, by his own admission, by getting drunk for real to get into character. Apparently the sweet spot was too drunk to stay on script but not so drunk he's doing, (reading between the lines,) ironic(?) antisemitic rants entirely unrelated to the scene.
Rick Sanchez is an enormous asshole. In vino, veritas. 

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/stone_toss/status/1618624804709441537

What causes a witch hunt is not normally witchcraft, but the warts and nasty temper.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-geography-of-madness
"He started bumping up against random Nigerians in suspicious ways, hoping one of them would accuse him of stealing their penis. Bures was an obvious foreigner, and a these panics often resulted in the suspected penis-stealer getting lynched, so this was a crazy thing to do. He could easily have died. Instead, everyone politely ignored him, nothing happened"

If you're not a witch you don't get accused of being a penis-stealing witch.

P.S. Bank of England. William of Orange: "It's not me debasing the currency into oblivion, I'm just accepting the offered loans. It's an allowed procedure. Go ask them where they get the money."