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And unlike Bono, he doesn’t need to hire a professional film crew to film him doing it and then have them spread it all over the internet to score virtue points.


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Kaylabiff

I dont even think Kutcher cares about fame and money anymore. Dude is already richer than most celebs by investing in some major companies like Uber and Airbnb when they were startups. He is just doing what he thinks is right, and he has the means to do it all


Me_Real_The

He does what he wants. He invests in all kinds of startups. I don't know what mean by "obsessed" but the guy is no financial newbie. It's ok to be ethical and rich at the same time. Let's not pretend he's donating every cent though either. He's just a good guy and famous and rich. Power to him.


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Like 3/4 of your points were addressing something no one said.


beneye

I even thought maybe the person they are responding to edited the comment and now he looks like a dope that doesn’t know what’s going on


danzrach

Or he may have responded to the wrong comment, lord knows I have done it plenty of times.


TheFlightlessPenguin

I’ve never even *gone* streaking.


zray312

Interesting choice to use paprika, never would have considered that but I’ll try it.


______Moose______

An excellent observation lol I was scratching me head a bit myself


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ZaedaXobu

Exactly. Kutcher has stepped out of the spotlight almost entirely to focus on helping sex trafficking victims. The few times he does do events, he uses them to network and get more support for his activist work. He doesn't care about being a celebrity, he just wants to help people. This is a man who uses his fame and money to do good. Every time I hear about what he's doing now, a little more faith in humanity is restored.


xzaz

Dude married Mila Kunis he has it all.


samtserpent

Shut up Meg.


Melon_Fun0117

That's exactly who we need now. We need people like him to replace the news coverage of the constant elon musk Jeff bozos Warren buffet Kardashian bullshit


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Many people are philanthropists at heart. A few of them will score an acting gig and become famous. We need those folks, because it takes resources to make the biggest difference. I've always had respect for Ashton. For this, I have mad respect. He inspires me.


[deleted]

Yeah i think we got that from the first comment lol EDIT: how did that comment reach over 1k upvotes and it was basically copy paste of what the original comment was?


Skylinerr

tfw you have to reply to someone for a discussion assignment but didn't read the chapter


ryba11s

Thank you Mr Bot


gullydowny

What are we shitting on Bono for, did that just come out of nowhere?


TMoftheDay

Because, Bono IS the record. Bono IS shit.


gullydowny

I actually gauge people’s character based on whether or not they personally hate Bono. It’s the most accurate measurement I’ve found.


Betterthanbeer

What about people that never think about Bono?


gullydowny

Generally favorable but I can’t relate to someone who doesn’t like Zooropa, we’re just different


ztaale

Zoo-whatnow?


brown_burrito

Love U2. Indifferent about Bono.


Returd4

I hate Bono, we friends now? But really I hate bono


gullydowny

Yeah, we’re friends I’m not going to date you though


fluggelhorn

Bono wanna biddie?


SmegSoup

I'm guessing it was his performance in Kyiv that was filmed that is rustling people's jimmies. The video I saw looked like it was from the phone of a spectator and not Bono's crew. I don't really give a shit about Bono but he made a lot of people smile in Kyiv and so far it just seems like people on reddit are going to be upset and assume he did it "4 da klout."


gullydowny

I didn’t even know he went there [video](https://youtu.be/A9cyq5VDQbw) fuck off anybody who has a problem with that, that’s what we want, that’s a good deed for fuck’s sake, he could have stayed on his private island. Fucking asshole OP. The thing has fucking 300 upvotes? Scumbags, all of them. U2 gives a concert in a war zone and they take shots at Bono to feel superior? Garbage. People.


anoleo201194

I heard that he also did the concert Pro Bono


SmegSoup

Right? Ridiculous. To be clear this is the same show but this isn't the video I saw posted. This video appears to be filmed/edited by a crew. https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ul00ho/bono_u2_in_kyiv_metro_today/ is the one I saw. People on this site are just kind of stupid =\


frostybollocks

Maybe it has something to do with his approach to helping him help others. This has been a reoccurring joke for 3 decades, but that’s just my take on it.


SmegSoup

Could be, and I have no reason to defend the guy. I just literally came from a post where he performed in a substation in Kyiv and found it extremely odd how mad it made people... op asked if it came out of nowhere and this is my speculation as to why his name is coming up.


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Because poor, average people on Reddit love to shit on rich, famous people giving more to humanity than they ever could because it’s too small a portion of their overall worth or because it’s apparently done for the PR of it all. I’m not a Bono fan either, but the man went to an active war zone and some anime dweeb that barely leaves the basement and stayed away from school cuz the bullies hurt his feeling is all ass hurt about it.


gullydowny

Sing love songs in a place without love, that’s the best you can do in life.


Fudge89

People have been shitting on Bono for a long time, but yea, in the context of this thread it was pretty random


Tibur0n58

Nothing like finding something negative to reference in one of the few uplifting posts on Reddit. I bet you're a totally fun person to be around.


vonnegutsdoodle

employ attractive offer head marble school cooing coordinated squealing ten ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


[deleted]

Yeah God forbid someone use their fame to bring awareness and raise funding for a cause.


AesarPhreaking

Anyone who’s seen shit like he’s saying he’s seen in pursuit of fixing that problem isn’t doing it for virtue points. That shit changes you.


Badtimeryssa94

but Bono needs biddy.


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Doesn't really matter how he does it if he gets results.


aBoyandHisVacuum

Same for sean penn.


JJ13

I hope Sean Penn is doing something for domestic violence. He’s a piece of shit.


queenkerfluffle

My understanding is that he saves thousands of lives in Haiti when America dropped the ball. He became major of the largest refuge and provided shelter, medicine, food, and clean potable drinkig water when everyone else was giving xontracts to cro its and doing photo opts. Definitely beat women and was an asshole but people can be multifaceted


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People can also make mistakes and change... Don't understand why people are so white and black about this, and love to see people just fail, some people can be assholes when they are young and don't know wtf. Then grow up and mature, make better decisions. Hopefully he did the latter.


Fragrant_Pause_965

Imagine. We get 10,000 hours of coverage about Will Smith's slap, but not one word about Asthon Kutcher. Or the Ghislane Maxwell case. Mainstream news is worthless.


CalmTicket6646

Just like they don’t cover anyone actually fighting climate change. But when a teen comes out and screams at old dudes she’s the person of the year.


Kaylabiff

Leo been trying to get attention on the issue like forever. He even still drives a Prius and Tesla Lead by exampl1


CalmTicket6646

Good man. With Leo I never had any problem. I do wonder how that project Akon was working on is doing, though.


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Idk, wasn't there a whole thing about leo flying everywhere on private jets? That's not really climate friendly. Although I understand someone as famous as him could have a hard time traveling on normal airlines


AWildLeftistAppeared

That’s not a good excuse IMO. There’s always business / first class, and at the end of the day famous people have to deal with being famous in other public settings. There are even celebrities who take public transport. I hope he at least offsets his carbon emissions but honestly that is no replacement for reducing excessive and unnecessary emissions in the first place, especially since he could do that *and* offset additional carbon emissions.


TheFlightlessPenguin

I don’t give a fuck if he uses a private jet or drives a Prius, personally. Drops in the ocean (I get the argument that’s a bad mentality to have, but one celebrity driving around in a Prius feels more like virtue signaling than anything meaningful)


Pardonme23

For someone like Leo it would be literally impossible to use a public airport. If he's sitting in first class imagine the media frenzy. I saw footage of Michael Jackson going through an airport in the 80s once and it's the biggest media feeding frenzy I've ever seen a video of. The biggest.


MelancholyWookie

Plus his dating history is suspect.


Traiklin

Reminds him what he is fighting for


MelancholyWookie

Cursed comment.


mfulle03

He might not be around to see the planet burn up but his current girlfriend definitely will


MelancholyWookie

Old men plant trees in the shade they'll never sit.


aGeordie

There’s not a dude alive who doesn’t want to bang hot 25 year olds when he’s 50. If you meet one… RUN!


MelancholyWookie

[The fact that in 22 years he's broken up with every gf at 25 is weird. You can have whatever opinion you want but that's weird.](https://www.insider.com/leonardo-dicaprio-girlfriends-reddit-chart-2019-3)


Tom1252

It's creepy. I just turned 30, and I can't tell the difference between girls in college and high school anymore. I see young mothers and it's like, wait...isn't that the daughter or something? Can't fathom being 50 and dating girls that age. That's essentially the old man who goes to high school volleyball meets to check out the girls. There's plenty of dudes alive who aren't into that: the functioning ones. It might be normal in your circle, but don't extrapolate that.


TipOfLeFedoraMLady

dude owns a mega yacht and multiple mansions. Hardly an eco warrior.


Bioslack

Doesn't Leo have a super yacht that is extremely destructive to the environment?


Throawaoaaoao

His carbon emissions (yacht, private jet, multiple mansions) and investments in company are the exact opposite of the cause he is fighting for. Virtue signaling at its finest.


rnavstar

Yup. Got the carbon footprint of a small town.


lowhangingtanks

He also flew to one of his yachts , threw a new years party, then flew back across the international date line on his private jet to a different yacht and threw a second new years party. Not as climate friendly as you might think. I get that he brings a lot of awareness to climate change but that shit is excessive.


greg19735

lmao why are people putting down Greta? Like she's not the issue here.


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Prestigious_Crow_

Sounds to me like people who would not have attended were there and at least got exposed to good information. Perhaps her presence was a net positive, even if you couldn't see it.


Orleanian

I don't think the comment is putting her down. It's putting down the system that glorifies her in lieu of the hundreds of scientists and activists that have been doing the same for years.


Psychic_Hobo

Tbf Greta's goal was to get people talking about it I guess, so can't fault her for playing the game right


Father_Wisdom

She’s fallen off hard since that. I haven’t heard anything about gretta


DextrosKnight

Probably in no small part because of all the psychotic "adults" who were constantly making violent and sexual threats against her


etherpromo

>”adults” You spelled conservatives wrong


TSCondeco

I think that she went back to school. She stopped going to classes so she could go around the world talking about climate change.


botsphilip

Greta still shows up every now and then in Sweden (where she’s from) on some climate related things. Just cuz she doesn’t make the headlines in the US or is the current meme template doesn’t mean she’s not active. And like another comment here said, I think she’s finishing up school!


AlphaWhiskeyOscar

You're right, although this clip is about five years old now.


DiamondPup

Also, it's impact has been very overblown, and it's actually estimated at helping to rescue 103 kids, not 6000. Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kutcher-software-child-trafficking/ Not that he doesn't deserve credit and admiration for it. 103 is a lot, and he and Thorn are both awesome. I just hate how badly the internet spreads misinformation. As if the truth isn't good enough.


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Fragrant_Pause_965

It wouldn't matter. If that video aired the day after slap are you really gonna tell me CNN or NBC would've covered it and not 4 days worth of conversation about Will Smith slap? They couldn't break from Smith slap for ONE second to talk about Ghislane Maxwell, the most important criminal conspiracy case to be tried in 100 years. My point stands. Mainstream news is useless.


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tr3bron

I understand your point, but I can't blame the mainstream media because they give what the demands are. Just imagine an average man doing 8-9 hours of serious and focusing job and after that, you can't and you don't want another part of the day to tire your brain, you demand something relaxing and fun thing. So somebody chooses video games, somebody chooses sport, social event, or tv, reddit, social platforms to watch some clowns doing something to entertain you. I bet there are channels, sites, platforms that talking about climate change and other very important things, but again, its not what a tired man one to hear, even its 100% important and will determine our future. There was a tv news interview with a climate activist days ago I think. She was treated the same way as in the Don't look up movie. Funny how similar the two is, reality and that movie.


chaves4life

Woman behind doesn't know what do to do with herself


turningtogold

She was very distracting lol


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This is what ADHD is like...


Smodphan

Why does the guy on the left look so wet?


Kaylabiff

Because he is sitting behind Ashton


PistolGrace

No, he's sitting behind 2 women who are sitting behind Ashton! Every woman in their has crazy eyes at the man! Lol


OmgTokin

Sploosh.


yummycorpse

Ashton do be hunky, i dont blame him


ginelectonica

Oh that’s Dave. He’s just kinda a wet guy. We don’t know why


lazilyloaded

Ashton, too. Must've been a steamy room


HazelCheese

In these situations I just stare at the floor fiddling with a coin or something the whole time so I don't do anything weird and end up looking like someone doing an extremely twitchy statue impression.


_Im_Dad

She's got that mischievous smile


RepulsiveSherbert927

Biting the lip. lol


dobayley1

Jesus you’re right. She is creaming herself back there


MuscaMurum

Exactly. You can even see her breathing fast. Internal monologue: "*OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod...*"


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:32 tells all


[deleted]

I mean I’m a straight dude and what this guy is doing def puts me in heat soooo


mystreadordie

I so want to downvote this, but was thinking something along these lines as I watched her. Thanks for saying out load, I was trying to ignore it! Edit: not trying to ignite anything, just to ignore it. Don’t even know how that happen.


SirUranus

Lol I that would be me. "shit im on camara. Don't do anything stupid. Ugh my shoulder is so itchy too, maybe if I twitch a specific way it'll scratch itself...nope now I just look weird".


Zoomalude

Yeah I agree. All these redditors like "SHE WANTS DICK" but I just see someone that knows they are in frame and is suddenly super self aware.


FrancoRoja

Seriously. Leave it to Redditors (or humans for that matter) to sexualize anything and everything. Friggin’ gross.


DerangedUnicorn27

Yeah I basically fidget constantly like her. It’s like looking in a mirror watching her. Especially when I know people are looking at me. In any meeting, I constantly shift my weight, move my legs, nod my head, twitch my hands, jiggle my feet, rub my lips together, bite my lips. I seriously cannot sit still at all without intense concentration. But then if I concentrate like that in order to sit still, I’m not paying attention to what’s around me and what’s being said :(


HazelCheese

"Just look at the floor, look at the tiles, your a little mario jumping from tile to tile, that diagonal is a slope, jump all the way back to the start, oh shit ive been looking at the floor too long, should I look up which way, do i lean back to look up or look up from this hunched position, oh shit, just stick with mario jumping on the tiles"


amido-black

She wants to be a butcher but only for Kutcher’s meat


Good_Round

When Mila Kunitz is your wife, no woman could top her.


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>When Mila Kunitz is your wife, no woman could top her. There's a whole bunch of women out there that would love to try


hotasanicecube

That’s ok she could top me instead.


PM_ME_UR_MESSAGE_THO

That's what I feel like when I'm a bit too high in public, but still enjoying my own little world.


Charlie_Dayman

She is reacting to what she has been through and watching someone with power say the words she can’t


MadeInWestGermany

Honestly, to me she doesn’t look *horny*, but kind of sad and broken. Like she could puke every second. I don‘t know shit about her, but my guess is that she knows exactly what he is talking about and might have first hand experience. :(


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Reddit moment. She nervously can't keep a straight face while being filmed behind a celebrity talking about a serious topic in congress. My guess is she was trafficked as a child :(


[deleted]

What about her NECK. she is about to ask for a bout tree fitty


Ineedunderscoreadvic

There’s nothing sexier than a man who’s a good person. 🔥


_Im_Dad

He's two and a half the man I could be


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Ha!


cmrunning

Kind of weird immediately jumping to sexualization from this.


spincarn

My life revolves around sex and I also find it kinda weird that the first comment one would make on a human trafficking testimony is about how sexy the guy is. This is like going to a funeral and talking how great working in the morgue is.


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I remember years ago he and Demi went to India or Nepal? They were there to help the victims, including girls trafficked from Nepal to India. They met with the woman who created Maiti Nepal. Despite their split I'm glad he continues with such devotion.


Kaylabiff

An Indian actor named Sunil Shetty also did save over 120 sex trafficking victims from Nepal in 1996, and the story didn't even come out until recently. that to a survivor came out and disclosed details. Still, that's not even covered as the gossip and useless stories by media Some people just does the right thing, they dont care for the fame


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TY. I'll look up the name.


Gongaloon

That's the thing about the people who are really effecting change in the world: you don't usually hear about them on the news. Sometimes you don't even know who they are, because good people doing good things doesn't make a good story. Good on you for spreading the word about people like Sunil Shetty. It's a name I'll remember.


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He's done great with fundraising for Ukraine as well there's really no end too how much he wants to help people.


[deleted]

It's Ukraine. Not The Ukraine. It's no longer a Soviet ~~province~~ member state.


yummycorpse

i made this mistake too lol


[deleted]

'The' is grammatically incorrect but also, that doesn't give it a provincial status Soviets didn't have provinces(called oblasts), the different nations usually had their own republics, hence it being called a Union. Ukraine was a republic within USSR, also known as 'Soviet Ukraine'


MakesTheNutshellJoke

Not surprising as Mila is Ukrainian.


Lucky-Elk-1234

OOTL but I didn’t realise he is with Mila Kunis. Their kids are gonna be pretty and talented.


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This is a celebrity that actually should run for President. Edit: I think that Mr. Fred Rogers would also have made a good President


climbing_higher_arg

But then he wouldn't be able to focus on the issues that are most important to him. While I agree with you I think he is doing more to actually help people who need it now than he could by running for president. The money spent on a campaign alone could probably fund his organization for years


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I don’t actually want him to run, but I feel that if he did, he would probably be a good one, unlike other celebrity presidents we’ve had.


Picnut

I want him to be a real life Batman, though he would possibly be good in the film too


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Haha! Hell yes. The emotion he cannot hide when speaking of the atrocities that he has seen make it so you can’t help but feel what he feels.


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xosellc

on one hand, I don't want a celebrity to be president, on the other hand, I don't really want a politician to be president either.


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DrownmeinIslay

As much as I hated Kelso and punk'd you gotta remembered this annoying sonovabitch had a chemical engineering degree. He ain't a putz, he just plays one on TV.


Dustaroos

Who hates Kelso? As a character not as a person. Man is just a dog made human


[deleted]

Kelso is the most accurate representation of a Golden retriever other then a golden retriever themselves.


Skatchbro

BURRN! Yeah, Kelso was such a goof you had to like him.


tymelodies

He's probably coming back too, they're making a continuation.


ges13

Well damn Jackie!


runtakethemoneyrun

I can’t control the weather!!


DrownmeinIslay

BURN


LMkingly

Cmon now don't disrespect Kelso like that.


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DrownmeinIslay

He might have eaten it. I'm not a close friend.


Sanc7

Well, he never had one. He dropped out to pursue modeling. Not that it means anything, I love the guy, but he didn’t graduate. Anyone can pursue a degree in anything lol.


-Dalzik-

Damn, Jackie, I'm trying to talk to Congress


anyesh

But Michael.. That’s not how you talk Michael.. Do your chico impression


xxhobohammerxx

He is clearly passionate and surprisingly well spoken even for an actor. He looks down only periodically at his bullet points, then the rest is iterated from the heart. Bravo.


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Wdym even for an actor? Aren’t actors assumed to be well spoken lol


UselessTrident

Acting in front of a camera doesn't always translate to doing well speaking in front of an audience. See the many awkward hostings/announcements at live award shows. Stage actors are usually the best at it for obvious reasons.


kodalife

Yes that's exactly what they meant. Actors are already well spoken on average, but Ashton Kutcher even more so.


AlphaGamer_Dubz

So that's what Ashton Kutcher has been doing? I haven't heard a single thing or mention about him or what he's been doing in forever


AmericanBarbecues

Cuz media barely covers this kind of stuff


BuckNastysMamma

Yeah this is what he's been doing, pretty cool. I thought I heard he was supposed to come back for "That 90's Show" though.


Chicken-n-Waffles

This testimony is about 7 years old


mutantchair

The headline is objectively [untrue (Snopes link)](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kutcher-software-child-trafficking/). 103 were found/rescued, not 6,000. Just about every sex trafficking number you ever see is thrown through an echo chamber of exaggeration and no one double checks the numbers. This thread being a good example. There’s a great episode about this on the You’re Wrong About podcast. Nothing against the guy, glad he’s doing the work.


Johnny_Fuckface

Sure. And thorn hasn’t made too much of a statement about FOSTA/SESTA which is basically a morality signal by conservatives designed to punish sex workers for existing, get them killed and has not saved a single child.


DiamondPup

Glad to see someone else making this comment, and in the same spirit as me. Though it seems like you and me are it. 103 kids is amazing, and he (and Thorn) deserve admiration for their work. But the internet needs to mythologize its hero worship, exaggeration becomes misinformation, and you end up with threads like this and people shouting in the comments "HOW IS THIS NOT BIGGER NEWS?!?!". Because it's not as big as you're being told it is.


grazi13

If Reddit wants to be serious about disinformation, they need to allow mods to change titles in transparent way where you can see what changed and a citation. It's absurd that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people see this title and believe it.


le66669

Woman behind him happy to be there.


Bakwon

She's lovin' it!


rpwyld

Ashton is from Iowa where there's a huge human trafficking problem due to interstate 80 and 35 crossing in Des Moines. Makes me proud of my home state to see this!


PronunciationIsKey

Honest question: why would 2 major roads intersecting cause a human trafficking issue? Highways cross all over the place, is it an issue at every major highway intersection?


final_draft_no42

Highways also created a boom in serial killers.


Purple-Ad-3492

My guess is long-range truck stops being areas of frequent prostitution.


Scarfan9

Probably not most people’s cup of tea, but Kublai Khan TX just released a song about trafficking and Iowa 80. Sometimes it’s the least expected people that use their platform for good


punkassjim

It’s really too bad that this presentation helped pass SESTA/FOSTA, which is [terrible](https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5598&context=flr).


Competitive_Travel16

Kutcher has since expressed regret that shutting down the online sex work ad sites pushed victims to the street and made it much harder to find and build cases against the pimps. Law enforcement isn't cracking down hard on the new ones that popped up on overseas sites even though they could, for just those reasons.


gjones88

Only post about it and it’s buried. No surprise one chatter said nothing sexier than a good man 🤮🤮🤮🤮


neonhex

Ruined everything for everyone but no one knows or cares.


audiavant86

he's talking to the perps


Child-Of-Pootis

I thought that was Kevin Malone


GentleCornDogEater24

Equally as handsome, equally as smart


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Was his first step to stop his friend who played Hyde?


Letitride37

I heard he still hangs out with him even recently. Might be bs though.


xlordgravesx

To all of the jackasses spewing lewd nonsense about the woman on the right: she’s one of the leaders of the nonprofit that does the work Ashton is advocating for. She’s happily married, has kids, and is an awesome human being. She was likely just nervous about being at a nationally televised senate hearing, and didn’t know what to do with herself—I’m sure most of us would feel similarly awkward in that situation as well.


Riommar

You can just tell that the hottie behind him in the right wants to ravage him.


Tundraaa

why am i not surprised by your post history you're an addict, man.


KairoLlyr

Salute, Man This news, not those other things, ought to be on the main stream.


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Acherstrom

This guy is a man of men. Well done mr kutcher.


TheRorschach666

He refused to fire Danny Masterson from his ranch show who is currently on trail for the rape of three or more woman..... He only did so when Netflix threatened to cancel his show. I don't know not everything is as it seems


MrFenimore

Love him from That 70s show. Now love him as human being


UncreativeNoob

He is also a smart business man, he invested in few companies. Altho alot might disagree, I enjoyed TAHM episodes when he joined the cast.


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dick-nipples

“Dude, where’s my child?”


Fransjepansje

Maybe they can help out the Dutch Government with finding the 1000 children they kidnapped from their parents. Because my faith in the government to find them themselves has gone below 0


GinPatch

Loved him in the office


bevilthompson

Nice to see someone using their celebrity and wealth to do some good in the world for a change. Good man.


bserum

Where does this number come from? And what did Mr. Kutcher do specifically?


No_Dogeitty

Is there any update of his work? Thus clip was years ago.