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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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Mod Visigoth_860@lemmy.cafe posted a really creepy and pro-pedophilia post at https://lemmy.cafe/post/11105990

Mod immediately bans the two people that call it out as trolls.

Update: post is locked after two more bans

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[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 month ago (6 children)

https://lemmy.cafe/c/thoughts

Looks like that community is his own personal soapbox for telling everyone that he wants to fuck 14 year olds. Consider reporting it to the admins of the instance.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 41 points 1 month ago

Consider reporting it to the admins of the instance.

I've done that same thing with a similar sort of instance, and mods banned the community and the moderator from their instance.

Reporting works.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Community is called "thoughts".

Only one poster visigoth_860 who is also the mod.

Am I allowed to pee in the popcorn? because I got some thoughts.

[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

Well, that's a user tag I didn't expect to have to make. Gross.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The community was deleted

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[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good riddance!

Edit: in case you missed it and was curious what it was... it was about 6 or 7 posts all from that same guy over the span of about a year, all of which were long winded rants complaining about "ageism" and concluding that the age of consent should be lowered to 14.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

I looked at some of the posts. One had an admin commenting on it, so I don't think they care.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Age gap sex isn't harmful

Uhh OK mayyybe?

Chris Hansen damaged society

HELLO FBI? THIS GUY RIGHT HERE.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Chris Hansen damaged society

There's a sincere argument that turning "Pedo Hunting" into a consumer spectacle has done nothing to deter the act of child sex trafficking and exploitation, but been fantastic for the NextDoor community of busybodies and concern-trolls. The #MeToo movement has flatlined. I don't see any real efforts to provide financial aid or social assistance to kids targeted for sex work. But lots of local news sites seem obsessed with elevating allegations of sex between kids to the front pages.

Reminds me of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, wherein 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse were reported and investigated by prosecutors leaning into the national media trend and looking to make headlines. Right now, we've got a flood of Trans-Panic and Gay-Panic news articles that try and conflate kids going through hormone therapy with psycho-leftist parents doing mass grooming.

Doesn't look like this guy gives a shit about LGBTQ civil rights. But those that do are chronically aware of how simply being queer can get you tossed in the same category as creeps and predators.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

I also remember hearing somewhere that the show tainted so many cases with bad practices and horrible evidence gathering techniques that they couldn't get convictions once the proper authorities were involved.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago

Yeah, there have been some cases of "pedo hunters" here; turned out to be a flimsy cover story for violent nazis.

It's, uh, not a topic suited for thoughtless entertainment.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Social media dorks keep trying to emulate hansen but keep "accidentally" getting the wrong person. And when they do get the right person all it does is warn them they got got and it's time to skedaddle before the actual cops show up.

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The post was deleted, but I was able to access it exploiting the fact that the deletion didn't federate with another instance. ~~Should I repost it here? Serious question, it's yucky but without the content of the post it's really hard to say something about it.~~

EDIT: archive link to the post. Discretion is advised.


Anyway. I'll focus on the claims made by the user, instead of assuming if he is or isn't a paedophile.

What people like that mod, or Richard Stallman, don't get, is:

  • consent is impaired if one person has power over another
  • the age gap gives you power

Beyond that all that talk about desire is a big red herring because attraction is shit inside your head, what matters is what you do.

I won't comment about remocrats vs. depublicans because I don't care about USA internal politics.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm ok with it just being mostly gone, but the choice is yours.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've archived it. I think that it's important for transparency.

Sadly I couldn't find the content of the comments of the two banned users. That modlog calling everyone "troll" strongly hints PTB, though.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

I've archived it. I think that it's important for transparency.

I appreciate that. On Reddit, it can be difficult to follow the breadcrumbs as stuff just gets nuked and we have to blindly trust OP.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

or Richard Stallman,

Well, I learned something new and horrible today

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. His opinions about software freedom are fairly solid, but when it comes to children and sexuality, he'd do everyone a favour if he simply shut up.

In his defence, though, I don't think that he's a paedophile; I think that he's just trying to extend his views about individual freedom into sexuality, but he's too socially clueless to get it right. And then the whole thing blew out of proportion because of both witch hunters and people exploiting it for political opposition.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Very good software people are not very good social people.

[–] Cruxifux 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Dude the mental gymnastics this guy tries to put you through to try and justify trying to make leftists okay with him wanting to fuck 15 year olds is insane. And you can tell he thinks he’s WAY smarter than he actually is.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup. The whole thing is a fallacious slop: fallacy of the beard, straw man, begging the question, so goes on. And as a result, he's defending something that is morally insane.

Those two are not the same:

  • a 20yo has sex with a 17yo; no payment is involved
  • a 42yo has sex with a 17yo; the 17yo is an escort

and yet he's trying to make both look like the same.

[–] Cruxifux 9 points 1 month ago

He’s also trying to posit the idea that the left is losing elections because they won’t embrace pedophilia and that is alienating male voters. Which is an insane take.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sex with minors? With an age gap bigger than like 2 years, no. But close in age is fine, like 17 and 18.

20 year olds want 15 year olds

Uh...

Matt Gaetz

Oh. Oh no.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Holy shit this person seriously is a fucked up individual.

Does lemmy.cafe have any infrastructure for removing dangerous people from their instances?

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yah that post is gross. I'd remove it.

There's your reason why.

The pedo holds the reins.

Block the community, block the user, move on.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, quite aware that's the mod and thought I said as much. Should I reword it to make it clearer that both the mods I refer to are the same?

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yikes this is not good, this person probably should not be a mod of this community, or any community really. Sticking up for pedophilia is a really bad thing to do and also probably could get the instance in legal trouble. This is way past power tripping in my opinion, it could be a legal issue for the instance.

lemmy.cafe's admins should probably look into this and possibly kick out this mod, since it could possibly cause them some big issues later if he dos anything like this in the future.

Edit: Archive.is Link CW: Pedophilia apologia.

CC: @Illecors@lemmy.cafe @Gemini@lemmy.cafe @FartInTheWind@lemmy.cafe @bahmanm@lemmy.ml

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[–] araneae@beehaw.org 20 points 1 month ago

Republicans, by boldly overlooking large quantities of sexual misconduct committed by many of their most prominent members, show horny 20 year old male voters that it’s ok. The GOP understands and tolerates them.

Rape culture? On MY Lemmy?

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 20 points 1 month ago

That OP must be a nonce, a rapist, or both.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

I think we can say this one is about wrapped up, they banned his mod account and the community from lemmy.cafe. Maybe he'll start another somewhere else, but when that happens someone can just make another post.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yikes, that post has a real ick factor! Like a pedo apologist’s essay, and what do you want to bet he’s a horny 20 yo?

The part that really squicked me out was combining the drinking with the underage. Like they need to impair a naive person's judgement even more to have a chance. No way this guy has any game.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

link says couldnt_find_post

if you wanna reiterate about a conversation online, it would be good to include screenshots of what was actually written. otherwise it's hard to follow.

edit: nvm i found an archive in the comments

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Gross. I've been on here since the reddit exodus. Found my first user to block.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen someone on lemmy make that very same argument. That person seems quite delusional.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Social Media can agree on two thinga:

  1. luigi did nothing wrong
  2. Pedos go into the woodchipper
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[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Either I'm banned or they don't federate with lemm.ee

What was the post about?

Edit who downvotes such a question?

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

This /C is some dude posting his ideas, that are mostly shit, and looks like it aways come to the point of having sex with teens, no matter the subject

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea i cant see it either, says post doesnt exist. They must've deleted it out of shame.

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