• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    As bad as this guy is (literally just one of THE worst guys), I can never get over how his wife is a pediatrician and they have three daughters and she’s just along for the ride? The damage that family does to millions of children, and especially girls, through their direct action and inaction is astonishing.

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      Libertarian types, which the right is part of, sees CSAM as just “recordings of crimes”, so they likely do it intentionally, to slowly change the general public’s view on things.

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      zuck attended epstein’s party at one of his “properties” along with other well known billionaires in the past, he definitely knows or is involved.

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    You know how in the movie Idiocracy they used " 'baitin" as a shock factor, and had all the woman characters be demeaned and sexualized?

    Somehow, this is a lot worse.

  • DisgruntledPelican@lemmy.world
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    This is definitely the kind of ai Trump would use if he was able to use a computer. He should ask his sons to teach him how to use it, they are so good with technology.

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      I don’t think even his worse sycophants wouldn’t have thought his truth social posts were a good idea. Depicting himself as jesus etc…

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    This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.

    Today’s kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country’s economy. Capitalism is going great.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)

      I good deep dive is the You’re Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)

      TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that’s a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.

      Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.

      Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.

      This is the United States of America.

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    Other ads animated a photo of a 14-year-old Instagram influencer “showing off her new sports club uniform” into “a video of her performing oral sex.”

    Ok that’s enough internet for now. Please alert me when it is safe to return.

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      Don’t wait standing

      (I dont know if this translates, in argentina we day “get yourself a chair” or “don’t wait standing” meaning that something wont happen)

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        Ah, in English we say “don’t hold your breath” for that, although sometimes it’s also used for things that might happen eventually but it will take a long time.

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        The meaning of the idiom is remarkably clear in English. I propose we adopt this one.

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        I think we say, “don’t hold your breath,” in English.

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          Or “don’t count on it” (because if you did you’d be counting for eternity)

          I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now…

          “Why don’t you wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first”

          … yeah, I like the chair one

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            That sounds kinda close to an old saying I’ve heard once in over 40 years

            Put a finger in your mouth and a finger in your anus, and hope; if that doesn’t work, switch around.

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            When I was a kid I thought the saying was “why don’t you piss in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills first?” And I was like wow adults are gross

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              idk which hand you’d fill first doing that method, lmao

              It’s basically just a crass way to say “wishing is for suckers”

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                idk which hand you’d fill first doing that method

                Definitely the piss hand, unless your bowels are unwell.

                …is not a sentence I thought I’d be typing today 😄

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        Humanity’s fine if we ripped down these over-paid pedos instead of allowed them to run billion dollar scams…

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        fwiw, I think this is their actual endgame: use digital to convince people this isn’t a small cabal of the ultrawealthy causing so much of this harm.

        They say dictators don’t need majority support, only a majority of people doubting themselves.

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          At least 56,575 children are sexually abused every year.

          That’s according to U.S. child protective services records.

          The number is staggering—yet it only reflects child sexual abuse that is recognized, reported, and found likely to have occurred against children ages 0-17.

          FBI crime data shows that 51% of reported rape is perpetrated against people ages 0-19.

          That’s approximately 61,754 young rape victims every year, including our most vulnerable children, adolescents navigating middle and high school, and young adults just beginning to move through the world with more independence.

          It’s really not a small cabal of the ultrawealthy though.

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                When what passes for the leader of the “free world” is a spearhead for pedophilia it’s kind of a bit late to be safe talking about “normalizing” stuff.

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                  Well yeah, that’s why it’s so silly to see comments about how these people at the top are trying to normalize it. It already is, they’re already in power, they’re not going anywhere.

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                I doubt that group would be very significant if it weren’t for the outsized influence of a handful of very wealthy, decadent men. At the very least there would be fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.

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                  fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.

                  There are very few roadblocks for rapists as it is.

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      Better pull the plug on that bell, because “it’s here to stay”, some people says proudly.

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    There’s a nonzero chance oligarchs are pushing this to normalize pedophilla.

    Like how Ghislane Maxwell was super involved in early reddit and their main draw for a long time was “legal” sexualization of children.

    Especially since it’s a common accusation they make against “the left”. Most of the time when they accuse, it’s a confession.

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      Hell, I vividly remember the old /u/ViolentAcrez thing, and tons of users being butthurt when subs like /r/Jailbait, /r/CreepShots, and /r/Upskirting were taken down.

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      pushing this to normalize pedophilla.

      They don’t really need to manufacture how normalized pedophilia is in our society. They’re simply capitalizing on it.

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        Doesn’t the widespread outrage kind of speak against this, though?

        Here in Hungary, it was a scandal regarding the cover up of sexual abuses of young children under state protection that sparked the overthrow of Orbán, and was the only thing that managed to crack that nut finally. It’s hard to overstate how much it galvanized people, even his own supporters, against him.

        I don’t know, I understand that it’s demoralizing and I can even buy the argument it’s more normalized than it should be, but the very existence of outrage against figures like Epstein (which seem to me to be extremely widespread, though maybe I’m missing something being out of the country for some years at this point) or this Hungarian scandal lead me to think the vast, vast majority of people do not find it remotely normal or acceptable. I don’t think tarring all of society with the brush that it’s been normalized is accurate. Or I’m misunderstanding what you mean by normalized.

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        Might already be capitalizing on it with the international sex trafficking of children. Surprised most people don’t know about shit pop or you call it hip hop.

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          Might already be capitalizing on it with the international sex trafficking of children.

          Definitely are.

          You think Epstein was the only one? You think he hasn’t already been replaced yet?

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    People are reading into this way too hard. This seems like an ad attack which is nothing new on Facebook. As you can target by user preference using: “oh this person from your feed but now naked” to bait a click is classic personalized ad attack. Facebook ads platform needs to be abolished altogether - it’s incredibly unsafe.

    Very deceiving article title by arstechnica, disappointing.

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    Surprise! Nazis do not only exploit the marginalized, but also find and exploit weaknesses is ordinary people.