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Dude has an iron-clad defense, though. Said it's only abuse if the child is the same sex and he likes women/girls. I really wish I were making that up.
Edit: wow, I actually totally misunderstood his absurd defense. He actually said "sexual deviancy is directed towards one sex rather than two" and since he's attracted to women (when the victim here was a boy) he can't possibly be a sex offender. I think we've finally found something so far gone that even MAGAts can't support it.
Not that I don't believe you, but do you have a source for that? It's so outrageous I need to see it myself.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UhKkcYv3GoY
🤢 That is one of the most disgusting claims I've seen. I'm normally against the death penalty but scum like this makes me question my stance.
I mean, he himself called for people like him to face the death penalty. I am anti death penalty, but I am also in favor of medically assisted suicide for those who fully consent, so if he's opting-in I say let's do it.
Yeah, it's normal to generally be against it but some people just don't fit into that. It should be reserved for the most evil people.
Thanks! Also, gross!
Not only a pedophile but also a sexist. But somehow that makes it better in Republican eyes.
What else can we expect? if you have read The Handmaid's Tale, the authorities there were the most corrupt. Republicans and far right folks want to make USA what it was in The Handmaid's Tale. Wokes too are so bending towards the Islamists that they too will end up making USA a sharia state.
I never see leftists embrace Sharia-like rules or laws. The only 'fuzzy' thing is headscarves that seem to be understood as both an expression of religion and an instrument of oppression. Besides this contradictory feature I don't see any move towards Islamic rule.
Do you?
Yes
Never was a truer username chosen
thanks
I was with you until that last sentence.
Never mind. These political labels are too small for me.
0/10 trollpoints
well cannot beat the biggest trolls in the governments
wow, it's not enough that one party is literally CHOCK FULLA PEDOS, no it's gotta be both somehow, even though the evidence CLEARLY POINTS IN ONE DIRECTION.
https://goppredator.com/
https://www.dscc.org/article/icymi-unreal-number-of-sex-scandal-republican-candidates-exposed-daily-beast/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/from-hastert-to-gaetz-lets-talk-about-republicans-and-sex-crimes.html
show me the evidence for the left pushing sharia law. show me, or admit you're fucking wrong.
there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
Damn bro. Protecting pedophiles?
That's how far you'll go for the gop? When you know they're sex criminals, you'll still defend them?
sick
Wait - you're trying to say that the left is actually hard right? Because Sharia is pretty undeniably very conservative. Actually, The Handmaid's Tale fits much more closely with what republicans want. I think maybe you're a bit confused mate.
maybe I am cuz everything is so confusing and like from what I heard from right wing is that the left deliberately hid the grooming gang cases to appease Islamists and like in UK, it is left that allowed ikhwanis in the British universities. They hate west.
It's a safe bet that anything you heard from the right is bullshit or warmed-over hasbara.
I live in the UK. The police used woke as an excuse for their own incompetence in investigating the grooming gangs.
I know a lot of British Muslims. None are Ikhwaan.
The only people burning down other people's homes over here are white rightwingers.
First time meeting a brit who is not right wing. Check your DMs here in Lemmy.
holy shit....
Hang him