• chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Being especially attracted to 18 year olds as a 40 year old is weird too. The way youth is fetishized and exploited is bad.

    The physique of a 17 yo is similar but if you are attracted to that fact that she is 17, or pursuing her that’s considerably more messed up because that comes with a bunch of added power dynamics.

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      As someone near 40 with a kid I can tell you the idea of having sex with a teenager is absolutely repulsive. That’s an older child in my eyes.

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        Years ago knew a 30ish year old guy through FB that lived close by and had a hook on some hard to find party favors, and then a 17 year old in a group we were all in came forward saying he had been trying to get nudes from her.

        Anyways, I had mentioned the party favors to a friend with an estranged teenage daughter and he got upset that I wasn’t willing to go meet with the pedo aspirant to acquire some. Was recently musing he’s probably fine with the child sex trafficking on some level.

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    21 hours ago

    saying all white people are racist on account of the society they were born into

    wow what a useful maximalist construction of a straw man that avoids “American society is deeply racist”

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    The secret is that under capitalism all relationships contain alienation and exploitation. So the liberal mind cannot conceptualize the difference between a trafficking victim and having and a woman that had to put up with her boyfriend’s videogame addiction.

    So even well meaning liberals can lack fhe cognitive tools to understand the situation.

    Especially as they don’t fully consider children to have rights. They barely accept women have rigths.

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    A few months ago I came across data about the age of the other sex that people prefer to look at. For women it starts at 24, own age surpasses other’s age in the late 20s, and then it converges toward y=⅔x.

    For men there is no slope of the line, preferred age just stays at 20.

    This became one more piece of evidence that I don’t have man-brain; I’ve gravitated to women from their late 20s to early 40s, since childhood, and that hasn’t really changed.

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    It’s not paedophilia you jerks! It’s ephebophilia! I don’t know why you can’t tell the difference!!

    I’ll spell it out for you. Paedophilia is if you voted for Hillary and is clearly wrong and you need to go to prison.

    Ephebophilia is just boys being boys and is not political AT ALL.

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    It’s like saying all white people are racist on account of the society they were born into

    Yes. That’s exactly what we’re saying. The alternative is that people are inherently racist, which is worse.

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    I’m sorry am I missing the part where there is some evidence Trump’s alleged victims with Epstein were all age 17 or older or are we just shifting the goalposts here to construct a terrible argument on already very shaky ground by salami slicing your way from “well if 17 isn’t pedo and okay, then surely just one year less at 16 is okay, and if 16 is okay surely 15…”, etc, etc?

    This isn’t about what Trump or any other man finds attractive or fantasizes about or says he’d like to do (though to be clear that’s messed up too). This is about ACTIONS and the very real serious harm they cause to CHILDREN.

    CW, more ranting

    This is about what is alleged to have been done by him and a bunch of other men twice the age of these deeply underage girls and that is not talking or leering or whatever these people are trying to say here with their downplaying and shifting of things because it was very much about actual sexual assault and exploitation by adult men against underage girls who were sexually trafficked by a guy who ran a pedo ring for powerful men and depending on who you believe he was either an intelligence asset operating with the knowledge and looking the other way of the US government or a powerful man using this as leverage to blackmail and get money, favors, etc purely on a personal level and please ignore the obvious Mossad connections.

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      They are absolutely shifting goalposts. First by changing the so called age, then by ignoring that this is fucking trafficking and whatever the age it would have been fucked up. thats-why-im-confused

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          Kakarot is many things. A buffoon, a rapscallion, a pain in my saiyan tail. But he’s no pedo. vegeta-stare Now roshi… That mf was looking for underage bulma panties. He’s definitely on them logs. Stop wasting dragonball wishes on this piece of chit

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              In my universe I flay him alive. I don’t know what’s keep the other universe vegetas from doing the same. That old fart has lived long enough to be put out to pasture

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    To call being attracted to 17 year-olds pedophilia is basically calling all men pedophiles.

    glasses-off

    I am a terrifed pedophile who has horrific thoughts about 17 year-olds and I will do my absolute best to make sure you go through half the population of this god forsaken earth before you get to even think about talking about impeading my destructive, predatory sexual appetites. God Bless America.

    glasses-on

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    Bro really thought he cooked with that

    Aint no way all these schmoes are just popping out the woodwork exposing their pedophilia and being all “Actually berdly-actually pedophilia is not that bad!” what a time to be alive