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[–] GonzoAtBarstow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

A quick google suggests you'd get more time for fucking the monkey

I'm probably on some kind of list now

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 hour ago

I’m just going to pretend this is about the sketch The State did where Thomas Lennon is explaining on a talk show that he does “monkey torture.”

When asked what he has learned from his research his response is “they hate it.”

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

Before reading the comments I thought "Global Monkey Torture Network" was a funny turn of phrase. Great band name.

After reading the comments I'm just sad.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You can be anything you want to be in this world!

"I want to be a ringleader of a global monkey torture network!"

...

You can be almost anything you want to be in this world!

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

These laws need to be revisited. They paid for and shared hardcore CSAM/snuff, with a slim veil of it ackshually being against monkeys and not humans. The guy got caught with regular CSAM as well, women were quoted as projecting their hatred of humans on monkeys, and it can't get more obvious. It's not like these sickos are clever or something, but they found an awkwardly safe grey zone in law to feed their their vile fetishes in a relative safety. That obviously invites a very heated discussion of where and how to draw the line right, and I myself find that if human is to keep being treated differently, at least, there are lotsa details like it being systemic + organized + commercial + international enterprise - all should factor into the sentence, breaking the set limits of just 5 years max for what looks like running a literal baby crushing machine.

The laws are like this because animal agriculture is also a literal baby crushing machine so harsher laws would basically make animal agriculture impossible.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 49 points 6 hours ago

He was sentenced to three years and three months in prison at Woolwich Crown Court.

"It is no exaggeration to say that as a lawyer or as a judge I have never encountered such a horrific case of animal abuse in my life," Judge Christopher Grout told the court.

"There is a vile underground community who have a hatred of monkeys, particularly baby monkeys, and take pleasure in seeing such monkeys being tortured and killed."

The judge said Poklek would be released after serving about a third of his prison sentence under the Sentencing Act 2026, and called for longer sentences for animal abuse, which currently has a five-year maximum.

He added: "If ever there was a case that demonstrates that the statutory maximum for animal cruelty is too low, this is it."

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 45 points 6 hours ago

What the actual fuck?

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

More details NSFL

NSFLHe said Poklek and his acolytes paid for monkeys to be dismembered while alive and their body parts fed into a blender.

Primates were filmed being boiled alive, having their genitals and fingers cut off, being skewered with a kebab rod from top to tail and sexually abused.

Mother monkeys and their babies were slaughtered in front of each other by locals and one man was filmed cutting open the top of a skull and eating the animal’s brain.

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

cutting open the top of a skull and eating the animal’s brain

My ex is from Thailand and told me that there are restaurants where you can eat live monkey brains. I guess there's a hole in the table so they can put the animal below and the diners have access to the brains.

While I suppose this could've been a lie, it was not the only instance of horrific animal abuse I was told about so I'm inclined to think it is real.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

Aaaaaaaaaand that's enough Internet for this year.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

As a long time “NSFL” content reader and watcher (efukt, rotten.com and liveleak - I watched it all):

I had to stop reading the article because I was getting physically ill - and I watched videos from the Yugoslavian war. This is truly vile shit and whoever was doing this or watching it should never be allowed to be around anything living ever again.

If you go “how bad it could be” it’s worse. Don’t read. Believe me.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 57 minutes ago

Yeah I didn't read it all.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 hours ago

Thanks I will take a pass

[–] noob@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Stephen Miller is desperately looking for alternative sources of entertainment ever since his monkey torture feed has dried up.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 58 minutes ago

He follows zionazi torturing Palestinians.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 hours ago

Maybe he hates monkeys so much because he's reminded of them every time he looks in the mirror. A hate-filled mind rots the body.

[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 hours ago

Cut off his testicles and feed them to him with a nice Chianti

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yet the Epstein gang walks free.

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Same audiance imo. And dont forget animal protections have historically preceeded child protections. When trump couldnt kill a kid, he instead reached for a litter of puppies to quench his bloodlust. So i consider this progress, however small and symbolic, within the context of our cruel world.

Change happens slowly, then all at once.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

I was “just” SA. This is something much much worse.

If kids do this shit to insects as kids it’s considered a marker for psychopathy or sociopathy. They did that to actual living monkeys.