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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Bread and circuses

[–] StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I monitor far-right groups pretty intensively and a good chunk of Paedophile Hunters are key organisers of said groups.

Its also not uncommon for far-right groups to be family operations where the adults will groom their teenage children into organizing and encourage their children to date other, often older, fascist organisers.

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nazis: If you support LGBT you're a pedophile. And we're already coming for you.

People, for some fucking reason: Pedophiles get fucked, do what you want to them, erase them at any cost!!

"Please hold this paper target in front of your face while I shoot at it."

"Sounds dangerous but I see you are aiming at the paper so I should be fine."

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What this ultimately amounts to is the worst actors using a blanket justification to carry out revenge fantasies against whatever marginalized group they're fixated on.

If you happen to be part of any of these marginalized groups, now would be the time to get armed and get dangerous. It would be great if we lived in a functioning society where this wasn't necessary, but the failure of so many of our institutions is slowly rewinding our social fabric back to wild west times.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Didn't an entire TV show get into some serious hot water for doing this sort of thing which resulted in someone committing suicide while filming an episode? These people are potentially putting themselves in serious danger if they corner a pedo who feels like they have nowhere to run or anything left to lose.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

corner a pedo

And since these are internet vigilante kids with no oversight, they will inevitably corner some non-pedos too.

Put yourself in that situation- a couple teenagers with cameras approach you on the street and start accusing you of some of the sickest crimes imaginable. Even though the accusation is false, this has the potential to ruin your career, your relationships, your entire life.

I'm not sure how anyone would respond, or should respond, but I can definitely see how people might resort to violence when falsely accused of this horrible shit on camera.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Just happened here in Austria. Police took 20 people into custody (13 have since been formally arrested) for luring people to fake dates where they beat them up.

The suspects said they hunted pedophiles, but at least in some of the cases they targeted young adults who expected to come to a date with 16-18 year olds.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminder, those "Pedophile Hunters" don't really give a damn about children.

They're sadists who are out to hurt & kill

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A quick word to anyone seeing this and thinking "oh that's fine", look into the Snowtown Massacres". That's what it looks like when this kind of thing actually happens. Life isn't a Tarantino film, those who accomplish their aims violently are generally very dumb.

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[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Oh I get it. So this stuff gets pushed on left wing spaces. Then the left wing adopts this ethos where they say "pedo hunters aren't good" then the right goes "oh you're all pedophiles" and then the divide is bigger

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's not it. The right will lie about anything. If we change our beliefs to prevent the right from lying about us we would never have to stop changing our beliefs.

This is more about right wing militias hunting lqtb+ people under the guise of pedophilia.

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[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

There's one in the white house. Why don't they seem to care about that one?

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Heh seems to me that these pedophile hunters are just violent hateful people who found a way to make their hate and violence appear righteous.

There should be no tolerance for vigilante justice in a civilized society.

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[–] TylerBourbon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Republicans and Church leaders everywhere are terrified.

[–] FermionWrangler@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I always knew there was something wrong with that these people were doing but couldn't exactly put my finger on it and never talked about it because people would've yelled at me and used false dillema arguments like many people who criticized them back them recieved "You support pedophiles you removed"

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[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Is this an angelfire website in the 90's? Who the hell thought a background amalgamation of moving images was the best way to present printed media?

I just can't with these websites anymore. I find it almost impossible to read when there's a embedded video as it is.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Beating up pedophiles sounds great, so does beating up rapists and murderers, but remember you can be called a pedophile for leaning in close to a kid in a photo. "B-but in this case it really WAS a bad guy" doesn't justify mob violence. I don't want my safety to depend on the right people being in a particular mob on a Thursday.

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