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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish we had a functioning justice system. Seeing these fuckers marched off to jail would be so great.

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[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Lol, they want Clinton to be as dirty as Trump so badly.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (46 children)

lol, libs want to cling to the idea that their oligarchs are the good ones so badly

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don’t know how people can maintain their suspension of disbelief at this point.

How do people still not see that, as horrendous as a child rape ring is, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s just an entertaining diversion for these people, whose day job is running the imperial core.

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m worried about the implications that the child sex ring was a honeypot that was supported by multiple intelligence agencies. My understanding is that Maxwell has ties to Mossad and the US government clearly had knowledge of this shit for decades, yet the few investigations went nowhere. Is it simply because the perpetrators were wealthy and influential? Or was it because the whole operation was viewed as an important intelligence asset? In addition to funding the bombing of schools and refugee camps, are my tax dollars also funding a child sex trafficking rings?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

are my tax dollars also funding a child sex trafficking rings?

If you’re in the mood for yet another mindfuck today, your federal taxes don’t actually pay for anything. Previously.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's really hard for people to accept that everything they believed in is basically wrong. They don't live in a democracy, they don't have a voice, they can't vote their way out of the hole they're in. That's a hard pill to swallow for the crowd that convinced itself that they just need to vote harder and everything will be alright.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Nice fantasy world you’re living in.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago
[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

The USA founders kept children as sex slaves? Details on this?

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Most of the founding father owned slaves. Raping slaves was not an uncommon practice at the time and there were no restrictions on the appropriate age of the slaves one rapes. Thomas Jefferson may have started his “relationship” with Sally Hemming when she was 14.

I think it would take a decent effort to get clear proof about the founding fathers raping child slaves, but it is known that they owned slaves and many had illegitimate children with slaves and raping child slaves was a common practice at the time so I think it’s a strong possibility.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

ITT: Centrists defending the lesser pedo because they're perfectly fine with pedophilia as long as there's at least one person worse than they are. And there isn't a one of them who won't immediately revise their position as soon as one of their guys is the worse pedo.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Genuinely curious, did they have child sex slavery when America was founded or just the normal kind of slavery?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, the normal kind of slavery usually involved some level of rape, and slave children weren't uncommon, so...2+2=4...

They didn't see people or even children. They saw a n****r. They saw a n****r with a hole. A hole that they owned, and can do with what they please.

Apologies for resorting to the strong language, but it's kind of important to impart...we grew up with a very romanticized vision of slavery taught to us by the white American public education system. I made a goddamn diorama of a plantation in the 5th grade (1995). And put a happy little slave working the tobacco fields (my mom even crumbled up a cigarette and glued it to the board. It was a Misty. I can still smell it...)

Using the hurtful word, in this context, I think is important to remind us of exactly why it's such a hurtful word. The history has been forgotten by so many.

I'd gladly use any of Carlin's 7 Words in most contexts. That word is obfuscated for a reason. It shouldn't be used anymore, except in this type of context, to remind us of our violent past.

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