Edit: Holy shit, this attracted a lot of attention

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    So this guy is trying to legitimize Epsteins pedophilia? I wonder what it costs to bribe someone to say that? Probably disappointingly little.

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    That was Greta’s ENTIRE POINT THOUGH! That the younger generation shouldn’t need to be the ones to come up with the policies to fix the shit the older generations did!

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    This guy apparently can’t tell the difference between a 23 year old and a 16 year old. Sounds about right.

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      Since the post is quite moldy I think greta thunberg was 16 at the time of writing. I hope this pedo apologist has changed his ways by now, or gone to hell.

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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      To be fair kids these days are looking older and younger at the same time. My fiance’s daughter is 18 and looks like she’s 14. My sister’s son is 16 and looks like he’s 25 due to his facial hair. I’ve always hated the “you can always tell” mindset because demonstrably no you cannot.

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        A fly in the logical argument is that with increases in available nutrition vis-a-vis caloric density of available food, it’s skewing the onset of puberty toward younger children. 18 used to be the cutoff because that’s when puberty was most likely to start, on average. It was never really about emotional maturity, at least until recently (AND A GOOD CHANGE IT WAS!). Puberty is a body mass coded trigger, not so much an age related one. I think I heard of one medical case where a girl who was only 8 years old had begun puberty because she had gained so much weight by that point. An outlier, for sure, but the point still stands. I’d say these sickos need to learn some basic self regulation, but then again we are talking about group of people who have outsourced their morality to an imaginary metaphysical “presence” in the sky. Personal accountability was never really a strong compass in their lives, clearly.

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      There’s a lot of talk of that in the book they’re always misquoting. Selective hearing/reading, perhaps.

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    That dude is one of those conservatives that doesn’t fuck kids for the sole reason that it’s illegal. These people shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

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    9 days ago

    How are those two things even remotely related‽

    I lived with a Republican for almost 30 years and still their “logic” baffles me.

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      Nothing. One person talks shit, while the other sells a strawman to “prove a point”. Both are shit people.

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    He was a god damn sex trafficker. Even the adult women were forced, let alone the girls. In no world does.l that dbag’s arguement make sense

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      Agreed, the reality is that he raped everyone that was available. Children weren’t the sole victim - in the sake of this post, it was a teenager that was the victim which illustrates how wide spread this is.

      And that argument is probably ragebait, which that other person has fallen into.

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    10 days ago

    “There are two things that I care about: being able to virtue-signal that I support oligarchs, and being able to force others to do whatever I want in the bedroom. Since those two things are what I want, clearly they’re related.”

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    I hate that those bullies we all grew up with are the ones in power, not just politically and economically, but also culturally. It makes me sick to my stomach that evil has taken over.

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      Has taken over?

      Has always been in power. Ever since there was such a thing as power. Centralized power attracts and fosters evil. Always has, always will.

      The only way to mitigate it is to decentralize power as much as possible.

    • A404@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      You (generally) do not gain positions of power by being good person. There is a reason why most politicians come from a wealthy background.

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    I feel so safe for kids surrounded by good conservative Christians with high morale values thanks to their faith as opposed to fellow atheists who have nothing to stop them from abusing, raping and killing children!

    They signal almost day they signal how much their faith make them better people!

    PS: Before the shitstorm, of course I don’t assume Christians are bad people by default. It’s just the ones who talk the most about how they have values and anyone who’s not them doesn’t seem to also be the ones who have the least.

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      If you dont have a god, what stops you from fucking roadkill?

      And per new interpretation of god’s will, we are to fuck heretic roadkill.