• kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is Diddy a pedo? I know he’s an absurdly prolific rapist, but I’d only heard of his adult victims.

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      Once you reach a certain wealth, Epstein gives you a call and there is apparently not many of these pigs that can resist fucking kids

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        Is pedophilia really that prevalent? If Epstein called me and was like “bilb I have a smoking hot 14 year old ready for you” I would not be enticed.

        Then again I’m gay and attracted to the more hairy and old type of man

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          I can’t recall the word and I’m not about to google it, but I suspect they are generally not “pedophiles” but that thing that refers to post-puberty but still underage. Like the physical attributes of sexual maturity with the power dynamics of a child.

          They might even go for plausible deniability. Again, haven’t researched too hard but I wouldn’t be surprised if some satisfied Epstein customers never actually asked or were told the specific ages and could at least claim they thought they were 18 or 19 or something.

          I do expect the Epstein “list” to be potentially messy. If there’s one thing that seemed obvious is that he collected celebrity contact info like trophies. If there’s a “list” in practice, I hope it’s anchored in evidence and I hope Epstein was big on making sure he had blackmail fodder. If it’s just contacts he managed to get, that would be a rough time for everyone all around.

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            I think the word you’re looking for is Hebephilia.

            Regardless of semantics, it’s all deplorable.

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              No arguments about it being deplorable, just that it is different and some things can happen in that case but not pedophelia, like someone claiming to be oblivious to the underage nature of the victim. It can strain credibility, but if you actually declare 18 as arbitrarily ‘good’ then after puberty some people have a chance at superficially passing, but no one could possibly believe that about a pre-teen. Of course 18 should be considered pretty deplorable if you are over 22 or so, but as it stands with things…

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          I think the fucked up part is that they aren’t really “true” pedophiles. I think it’s simply the power and being able to get away with something so henious that they are into. The Trump letter to Epstein reinforced this belief for me.

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    Pardons should be reserved solely for crimes against the state or crimes committed in service to eh state. Crimes against individuals by other individuals should not be pardonable.

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      Well, I dunno. Pardons are good when the justice system fails and locks up innocent people for decades. The burden of proof on appeals is set so high that the appeals system is broken in and of itself. Think about all the racially motivated prosecutions throughout the years, the unjustly prosecuted anarchists, the bribed juries, the kangaroo court shenanigans, etc. How many stories have we heard of cops badgering the wrong person for dozens of hours in interrogation until they got false confessions? All because cops’ egos are so absurd that they refuse to admit they might have come to the wrong conclusions with incomplete information. I’m all for pardons in crimes against individuals. The problems isn’t in the case structure, it’s in the person doling out the pardons.

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      Normally the function of pardoning was self-regulating in that the media would exscoriate any President who did it in such an abusive way and the electorate would punish them and their party accordingly at the ballot box.

      But corruption has become normalized and media has been completely hijacked by billionaires that reality isn’t so clear cut as it once was.

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      unfortunately presidential pardons have almost no restrictions, except a few. of course the republican congress wont stop trump.

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    pedophile avengers, the Winter rapist, 2nd installment: pedophile avengers, epstein list civil war, finally: Pedophile avengers, endgame where all Pedophiles try to throw each other under the bus to save themselves.

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    Add pardons for Keith Raniere, R Kelly and Andrew Tate and there might be enough cover to get away with Maxwell. “I don’t have a favorite sex trafficker, we’re taking care of all of it. I don’t play favorites” - trump, likely.

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    “I’m putting together a team. The best team. The best people–look, there’s a lot of, shall we say, bad folks. Can I say bad folks? The woke don’t like that too much, you can’t say anything nowadays, but if they had it their way, I’d just say that I disagree, but I don’t just disagree, they’re bad folks with bad ideas and they’re very low IQ. The sleepy Joe Biden people were just so incompetent and they left me with nothing and it’s horrible, and they should be arrested for what they’ve done, and I’m gonna look into it. But with these South Park, have you seen this? It’s unbelievable, but the left got to them and now they don’t do Obama anymore, and they make things up about me, and it’s actually not small, not even, like, it’s really quite large, but you won’t hear that because I’m very humble, but I have to tell you that I’ve heard many girls say that it’s not small, and more than they want, and not just from the very young and small girls either, but I shouldn’t talk about that. My lawyers say ‘Sir! Sir! Don’t talk about the young girls!’ but I have a very popular, they can’t keep their hands off me, and what am I supposed to say? ‘No’? ‘Wait until you’re 16, 17, 18’? There’s no, and it’s very unfair how they’re treating me, and it never would’ve happened to any other president. The Clintons were very bad people, both of them, and they don’t even hide it, but it’s always me that gets attacked by the fake news media, and I’ll never get any credit for the deals…
    But which one are you? Kanye or R Kelly? Because I want you both, you could really help me out with the blacks, and I could really help you with the pardon. And perhaps there could be a little get together at the southern white house, and we could talk about things and meet some young girls together, and it’s not gay so long as the balls don’t touch, they say. Many people say that.”

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      Wowowow that’s a call for violence buddy and violence is bad!

      Try talking to the pedophiles and ask them to stop being fucking children. If that doesn’t work you can try a protest - may I suggest ping pong paddles? They won’t be as heavy to hold as a wooden sign.

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      trumps planning to renovate/build a room that cost 200mil in the white house and decorate with all the gaudy gold plated room.

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    It’s totally off the rails - releasing criminals and rapists. I don’t know if true but I just read he is spending a stupid amount to build a gold plated ballroom in the white house? All while openly screwing the public and tariff taxing the American people and bragging about it on an official wh post to the tune of over 150bn. People en masse being dissapeared ? We’re cooked.

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    We can’t even do franchises properly. There is no way he would recruit Bill Clinton. This is like forming the Justice League but not including Superman.