• @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    Ah, there it is. The sponsored hate train. Like reddit, but cheaper. But hey, thanks for keeping this site running.

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      Pls show me where I can get some of this sponsorship money. I’m not usually one to hate train, but this fellow makes it easy, so I’ll take my easy money.

      • @[email protected]
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        Sure. What’s another landfill on the internet.

        Step 1: Make your own “social” website.

        Step 2: Prevent bots from signing in. (You really don’t want to miss this step, otherwise you’re free real estate.)

        Step 3: Write your own bots that will scrape other “social” websites for content. This is to attract people before original content begins to form.

        Step 4: Sell post priority and upvotes. And there you have it. Your own money generating cesspool of gradual deterioration.

        That’s it. And yes… Easier said than done. Step 2 is really the hardest one. Perhaps make it obligatory to sign in with a phone number or something, cause capchas are a whole battlefield in itself. I don’t really know how hard / easy it is to get a bunch of phone numbers to use for this purpose…

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          I need some extra information on step 4. I’m kind of needy of others’ perceived opinion on me and convinced that ‘number go up’ will convince people of the quality of my ideas.

          As such I want to inflate my imaginary numbers, with as little effort as possible. So doing steps one through three is too much hassle.

          Where could I aquire me a bunch of upclicks to fill my empty husk of a soul?

          • @[email protected]
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            You can only do this to sites that skipped or didn’t take seriously enough step 2. Depending on how good the sites filtering requests is, this can range from 100$ linux server running python scripts for account creation. 100 accounts = 100 upvotes. All the way to very sophisticated proxy networking, capcha cracking, in some cases even AI driven internet monopoly demon that isn’t too cheap, so it better be making everyone else miserable enough to make you not think about doing a ninja flip from a 4 story building into a wood chipping machine for a couple of minutes.

  • celeste
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    Does anyone have a link to a source on the age of the kid? I’m wondering if I’m missing it. People keep saying she’s 17. Was that in one of his edits?

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    I keep thinking back to years ago when someone at work tried to tell me this guy was good and I could just tell on vibes alone to stay clear.

  • @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    I’m shocked that yet another anti-woke pos who gets triggered by pronouns turned out to be a predator. would’ve never guessed!

  • 🍔🍔🍔
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    very funny to release what is clearly a meticulously crafted response to career ending allegations of pedophilia while still staying in character as like the bad guy in a movie where a golden retriever learns to play counter strike

  • @[email protected]
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    I’m no fucking predator or pedophile

    Well… If the person was a minor, and you weren’t, and you knew they were young and the messages were ‘leaning inappropriate’, you’re a pedophile.

    Also a predator.

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      I hate to get so semantical but using the word pedophile incorrectly just desensitizes the word. Pedophilia means being attracted to children, primarily meaning before or in the early stages of puberty, usually younger than 13. In fact, many pedophiles would not be attracted to someone aged 15+ because they are typically exclusively or primarily interested in prepubescent bodies.

      That doesn’t mean this guy isn’t a total asshole, but he’s not a pedophile, and I think anyone can understand an adult sexting an older teen, while still absolutely horrid, is quite different from sexting a child.

      Once again, absolutely not defending this guy, I don’t even know who he is… but I think it’s important not to desensitize the word.

      • icallthebigonebitey
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        I’ve attended a seminar for child protection before that was delivered by a former cop (that worked in the sex crimes division) and they said the exact same thing - in the context of correctly making the distinction between paedophile and sex offender.

        Sounds like he was grooming her.

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          110 months ago

          Colloquially, it’s a catch-all nowadays. Like I said in another reply, we don’t need to differentiate between lowest common denominators. That gets into sounding sympathetic to these fucks, and anyone who sympathizes might as well be one themselves.

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        I know the distinction, but hebephile doesn’t carry the same weight. Also, I believe I read the minor was 12. So… Pedo.

        I stand by what I said. We don’t need to be apologistic towards the scum of the earth. Kids are kids.

        • Asherah
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          Oh fuck. I heard she was 17 and that was fucking bad enough as is. Fucking hell this man is awful.

        • @[email protected]
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          Still not a pedophile nor a predator even for flirting. This is not a 12 year old, but in many jurisdictions a responsible adult.

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              Yeah, he is mainly a cheater on his wife. Not exactly great, but conversations on this sound like by people who never leave their basement and talk to people.

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                A pedophile predator is somebody who systematically texts underage people, and fishes out the vulnerable ones to exploit their weaknesses for their own satisfaction and exerts control over them. Speaking to a single, depending on the jurisdiction (±1 year), consenting adult (17 is young, but not completely stupid), with slightly flirty messages is absolutely not that. it isn’t even toxic. in fact, it devalues this tag for behaviour which is not cool due to the cheating and a bit skittish because of the age difference, but is otherwise kind of okay. See, next time somebody tells me about a pedophile predator I will be thinking about a conversation between two adults, or almost adult and not nasty abuse scarring people for life.

                • Carighan Maconar
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                  Yeah that’s a fair take.

                  It is reprehensible and disgusting behavior, but it doesn’t mean we should universally apply labels across vast swaths of different issues, as it devalues said label and poisons future discussion.

                  Simple labels simplify discussion of course, but that runs the risk of losing nuance for the specific way someone was a disgusting creep.

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                  Have you talked to 17 year olds? They are far from developed in most cases. Anyone even in their late 20s should notice the difference in development and stay clear.

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                Unlike you who leaves in his windowless van to go hang out with your girlfriend at her highschool.

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            Not in the jurisdiction he was in, and that’s all that matters.

            Also, while sending sexually explicit texts to minors (using only words) is not illegal, I’m pretty sure we can correlate what his intent was. What, do you think he’s going to come out and fully admit he’s a pedophile? No.

            Also, nowhere in any of his statements has he clarified that he didn’t know they were underage. If it were the case that he didn’t know, that’s a pretty fucking big deal and he should know how important it is to explain that. He didn’t though.

            Stop defending pedophiles.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    My t-shirt saying “I’m no fucking predator or paedophile” has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

      • AmbiguousProps
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        If I recall correctly, he filmed some people in a bathroom without their consent

          • AmbiguousProps
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            Well, other than just having a phone in your pocket and mistakenly hitting record, I’m not sure how it could be accidental.

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        He streamed inside a public bathroom at E3. Then there’s also the thing where he cheated on his wife. I don’t know why people are so drawn to online personalities who prove over and over again they’re bad people with no intention to change.

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    wop wop wop wop wop

    I have this feeling this is probably not the last controversy involving minors we will see shake out of his mustache this week. Justin Roiland had his empire also collapse from grooming. Guy is done.

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      That’s why drake is done too? The guy who beat the shit out of a woman and tattooed it on himself? Drake the groomer with his new album? That done?

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        That’s the thing right. Nobody gets “cancelled”
        They get called out and shamed… and then carry on with business a few weeks later.

        Rammstein is filling stadiums again, drd will come back from his vacation and keep on trucking on.

        They never face consequences and yet they cry about a woke cancelculture that only exists in their heads to hype up their own bullshit

  • Chozo
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    How quickly we went from “I didn’t do it” to “I did it, but it wasn’t that bad”.

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    Seems like I have to add this moron to the ignore list right next to Musk, so I no longer see posts about him.