• Possibly linux
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    Translation: this guy has wealth parents and is spoiled to high heaven

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    In Belgium a couple of years ago a brown student died during a hazing at a fraternity. Every one involved , all white and sons of doctors, lawyers and judges, basically came away scott free. They were all sentenced to community service and weren’t found guilty for criminal negligence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Sanda_Dia

    Belgium has a elitism problem. Bet if this rapist was a brown medical student or a street sweeper or something he would’ve gotten jail time.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yalls have a guy convicted of rape facing zero consequences, and you think saying his name is a shit practice?

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes. There is a due process that needs to be observed, and exposing people just because you don’t agree with the ruling is exactly the argument fascists and dictators bring to push their agenda and discredit the court of law.

          You might also look further into this specific case, the article is very one-sided and meant to create outrage.

          1. The alleged perpetrator tried to bring the woman home but her roommate didn’t open for over 30 min
          2. They’ve been making out in the bar and been observed holding hands and kissing by a cctv along the way
          3. Eventually they ended up in the guys house where they had sex, which she later said was nonconsensual, which is very much possible. However, witnesses say the guy was also drunk beyond being able to reasonably give consent.
          4. He was given a suspended 3 year sentence, not a free pass.
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              228 days ago

              I never said nor I implied that. The point made during the trial was that the people were observed to be intimate and drunk, so whatever happened next was at least not premeditated.

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                126 days ago

                at least not premeditated

                Since when is premeditation a condition for a rape conviction?

        • @[email protected]
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          1 there is going to be a new trial bcs they appealed.
          2 We have standards and keep away from mob justice, public shaming, the death penalty and indentured servitude slavery.
          Your uncivilised, appauling country is no reference for civilised counties, on the contrary.

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    Ok I can understand if he was caught with pot, drug paraphernalia, or drunk driving (without injuring someone).

    But raping someone? Idc if you’re talented or have a bright future you should have it on your record or face a punishment like probation

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      @chrischryse @dwazou there are certainly better ways of getting more doctors than giving medical students a pass on rape.

      But as we all know, this is just Brock Turner all over again. At best this is a judge who saw something in a kid because of how he looked, something he wouldn’t see in this kid if he looked different. Whether that’s because they look the same or because the kid looks like his mental image of what a doctor should be.

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      I think you have enough pedos in your own country to worry about a thing from 30 years ago

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          228 days ago

          Not yelling, that’s he imagination in your weard head.
          Jusqt saying a Germ definitely shouldn’t be obsessed with something totally unrelated to this case.
          Especially knowing how horrible you all are.

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    Judges who do this need to be… whatever the judge equivalent of disbarred is. It’s wrong.

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      If we are going to be ol fashioned then we are going to be ol fashioned… If there is no justice we will go and find justice. We’re even seeing this with the likes of Saint Luigi. People just don’t understand history. FAFO

      The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America David Stout

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    By finding him guilty but not punishing him, he will be made to feel guilty and the chance of him reoffending will be prevented, without socially impairing the man

    What a load of horse shit. “Letting him get away with rape penalty free will ensure he doesn’t do it again” is some crazy fucking logic. Seems like knowing there are no consequences for your actions would make repeating the offense significantly more likely.

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      It’s funny that the court would explicitly legitimize the idea that some people deserve to be “socially impaired” and others do not despite committing exactly the same crime.

      Funny in the sense that it contradicts the entire foundation that the legal system is based on and makes the court look illegitimate and deliberately corrupt.

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      It’s a bit like the old sitcom “Night Court” where the judge would find the ladies of the evening guilty as charged and turn them loose with “time served” as their penalty.

      This “lack of sentence” is a bit more than time served since the penalty for this crime can still be applied at any time if the offender is in court for anything else.

      It’s overly lenient and a bad message, but better than letting off manslaughter charges for a defense of “affluenza.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43621839

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      Hey, it worked great when Susan Collins took that approach with orangeboi in his first term, didn’t it?

      …didn’t it…?

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      311 month ago

      I’m sure this concept of non-punishment will now be applied to many other cases across social classes, right?

      Right…?

    • slingstone
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      What’s the guys name? You’re right that we need to treat him like that other rapist, Brock Allen Turner.

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        It was posted here by someone but it got removed. I guess we reddit now

        Oh well, wonder where I can search to what a promising career looks like to a rapist

      • @[email protected]
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        1029 days ago

        Are you guys talking about the rapist, Brock Allen Turner, or a different rapist named Brock Allen Turner?

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          There’s just the one Brock Allen Turner, rapist, of which I’m aware. This other guy, though, needs to be made as famous as Brock.

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    He was training to be a gynecologist, so definitely would rape again. Don’t wish for him to have another victim but sounds like a second offense gets him a sentence for the first one as well.

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      529 days ago

      His training to be a gynecologist is irrelevant. Please do not propagate the myth that men go into gynecology to take advantage of women. If he’s a rapist, that’s independent.

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        unrelated to male gynecologists in general, this particular gynecologist is a rapist and will have lots of access to vulnerable victims.

    • @[email protected]
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      She was unable to walk-drunk, he got her home.
      This guy wants to be a gynaecologist for fucks sake.

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          329 days ago

          Really?
          You don’t see a problem with this guy being alone in a room with a woman in a vulnerable position having her genitals touched?

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            If there’s a problem with him being a doctor, he shouldn’t be a doctor. The idea that vaginas are somehow especially vulnerable is mysticism.

    • @[email protected]
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      Thanks for pointing this out.

      He claims that he asked her several times if she consented and that he had been given the impression that she did.

      Seems like it was more of an “unintentional rape”, like manslaughter is unintentional murder. Wrong: yes. Bad judgment: yes. Deliberate malice: maybe not.

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      yeah i fail to see how this is rape. i guess every drunken hookup we later regret is a rape

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    So if he’s gonna rape as a med student, he’s definitely gonna rape as a doctor. And that judge is a rapist too, judging from their warped views

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        He probably did something similar in his past. Maybe raped a drunk girl at a party or similar while in undergrad. Never got caught for it, and never went on to do it again. So he figured if he can learn his lesson and not repeat the crime, why not this kid? Justice to the victims isn’t even considered.

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          Hey, Schmababaugh got away with it…

          Boys will boys, and they like beer…

          /s

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    Oh wow, something from Belgium showed up here. Obviously most reactions are the same here. But I would urge everyone to read more details about this. As there much more uncomfortable nuance here. One of those being that the dude is also in agreement he did something wrong. He also gave a relatively accurate description of the events of that evening that got proven with phone records and CCTV at different locations. Making his account of what happened at the least somewhat reliable.

    Obviously the woman could not consent because she was drunk as fuck. And she’s allowed to get drunk as fuck without being taken advantage off. CCTV showed them kissing at the bar they met. Phone records show he tried to call her friend she was supposed to go home with. CCTV shows them going to that friend’s dorm and not getting in and waiting there for half an hour. Then they walk back to his place while kissing on the way there. The morning after his messages to her indicate he wants to continue seeing her. (https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20250402_95297572?journeybuilder=nopaywall but it’s in Dutch)

    Again, she could not consent, and he as the least drunk of both of them bears the responsibility of this. I do think he should have had some form of punishment above of what he got and for the woman’s feeling of safety a restraining order like she asked. And something that would have made mandatory counselling and follow-up possible. Not to mention that although justice in Belgium isn’t supposed to be revenge, it should also cause some sort of satisfaction for the victim.

    This situation just shows that the definition of rape over the decades has become more complex and nuanced, but unfortunately the tools to deal with this have not. This dude definitely did something wrong, but he’s not just a vicious predator.

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      If they were both drunk, could either of them consent?

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          Wait, so women can’t have sex while drunk or else it’s automatically rape? TIL I rape my wife every time.

          • Geetnerd
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            So, if you and I hang out, get drunk, you pass out, and I’m all up in ya, it’s not rape?

            Cool. I"m going to a party next weekend. Want to go? What’s it going to be like? Drinking, fighting, crying, fucking. Who all’s going? Just me and you. Interested?

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        What does that matter if he was drunk to?

        Apparently not too drunk to undress her, and himself, then insert himself.

        This is rape.

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          ??? She did consent, but while completely drunk. The argument being made is that she can’t consent while drunk, but he also consented while drunk. Did she rape him?

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            This is neckbeard level of thinking and it’s gross, she couldn’t walk on her own and he brought her to his place and raped her, his level of drunkness was faaaar lower. Disgusting humans everyone that says tjis is ok to do. But that’s what you get when you were born with a small ugly dick, you need girls to be drunk to start sucking that tiny penis

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        There are different levels of being drunk. She was so drunk she blacked out and had trouble walking. He As drunk but can supply a recollection of what happened. There’s nuance like I said, but someone who can recollect events and relies on his rational actions where he called her friends can logically be considered to be more responsible for not taking into consideration she was too drunk to be able to consent.

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          Alcohol impairment can be very messy. I know someone who had 1 and a half drinks, had no speech slurring or obvious signs of being black-out drunk, but did not remember a third of the night the next day because she’s a lightweight that’s drank a single-digit number of times in her life (she’d also eaten very little that day and had some recent sleep debt). I would not have guessed she was blackout drunk, she was just talking about her problems and was articulate the entire time I saw her. If I didn’t know she had been drinking, I can’t think of how I would’ve known short of some kind of specific motor function test that’s made to suss that out/harder than just sitting around, talking, and occasionally going to the restroom. She just looked a little tired. When we spoke later, she didn’t remember basically anything after a certain point (a couple of hours’ worth) and wondered if some vague flashes of memories had been dreams. It was rather surprising to me.

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            That’s the difference between blackout, and passed out.

            People who are blackout drunk can be walking and talking, and not remember anything later.

            Passed out is unconscious.

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        321 month ago

        It really depends on how drunk you actually were at the time, and that’s what makes cases like this so difficult. Generally speaking, simply being drunk isn’t enough.

        Hell, even being blackout drunk isn’t enough. Because you can be blacked out without being passed out; Blackout drunk simply means your brain isn’t recording things to your memory, so you won’t remember it after you sober up. Contrary to popular belief, alcohol doesn’t make you forget existing memories. It just makes it so you don’t ever commit things to memory in the first place. That’s what happens when you’re blackout drunk.

        In order to be incapable of consenting, you need to be so drunk that you can’t comprehend what is happening. Because informed consent requires two things: Information anbout what is happening, and enthusiasm. You can have both, even while blackout drunk. Because you forgetting your enthusiasm the next morning doesn’t automatically make it rape. After all, you were informed and enthusiastic when it was happening, so you consented. If you were capable of understanding what was happening and were enthusiastic, it’s not legally considered rape.

        And that’s a surprisingly high threshold to beat. You usually need to prove to the courts that you were basically passed out (and therefore unable to be informed about what was happening) before they’ll consider it rape.

        Even if people would colloquially consider drunk sex rape, that’s not typically how the courts view it. And that’s a large part of why so many accused rapists get off without a guilty verdict; The victim basically has to prove that they were missing either information or enthusiasm to overcome the accused’s “they consented to it” defense. And if the victim was blacked out and doesn’t even remember the evening, that becomes extremely difficult to do without outside witnesses corroborating that the victim was passed out and/or combative.

        And hell, in cases like the Brock Turner one, even when the victim proves that she was passed out, the rapist can still get away with just a slap on the wrist.

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          He can get away with it when he’s “Upstanding Citizen From An Impeccable Family, And This Would Ruin His Future.”

          In other words, a rich male white kid. Whose daddy plays golf with the attorneys, and judge.

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            Because of the fallout about this the entire ruling was made public. It’s clear that the wording used everywhere is rage bait. Again I think he should not have gotten the sentence suspended but it’s not like the judges said it got suspended because he’s such a bright boy…

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          Brock Turner?

          You mean convicted rapist Brock Turner?

          I just want to make sure that’s the rapist Brock Turner you’re talking about and not some other Brock Turner.

          I only know of one Brock Turner, and he definitely raped a woman, but the judge let him off easy because he has affluenze.

          The judge decided that a punishment might jeopardize the rich kid’s future, and cited that he hadn’t been brought up to realize the consequences of his actions. To my naive understanding that seems like a really teachable moment.

          By the way, in case anyone wasn’t sure: Brock Turner, the convicted rapist, raped a woman and got away with it because his parents are rich.

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            Rapist Brock Turner, aka rapist Allen Turner, who got a 6-month slap-on-the-wrist sentence for what his father called (and I quote) “twenty minutes of action”? That rapist Brock Allen Turner? The one who only served 3 months?!

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              Yeah, Brock aka Allen Turner! The rapist who barely got inconvenienced after he raped a woman who was passed out. The one who had two guys testify against him because they interrupted him in the middle of raping someone.

              That rapist Brock Turner.

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              “Hell, your Honor, he had whiskey dick! It took 13 minutes to get it up! How much damage could he have done!”

              Disgusting.

              I wonder if he would have felt the same if a bunch of Frat Bros had cornholed his son in a “Hazing Ritual.”

          • Geetnerd
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            How dare you besmirch Brock Turner.

            The convicted rapist FORMERLY known as Brock Turner is now known as Allen Turner!

            Get it right!

            /SARCASM

            Fuck that guy. I hope it follows him the rest of his life.

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              Thank for making sure we all remember Brock Turner that changed his name to Allen Turner is a rapist!

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        And how do you determine who raped who if it’s a question about how drunk you were? I have had a lot of nights out in my teens (european), where I have no clue what happened after midnight, but didn’t get home until 05:00. If I had sex with someone pretty much equally as drunk, who did the raping?

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          Uh, when you walk into an alley to piss, and there’s an unconcious girl with a dude on top of her humping, you kinda know…

          And that’s exactly what happened.

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              Noted.

              I’m talking about Brock Turner, AKA Allen Turner, who was caught doing exactly what I posited, and was let off because he was a rich white male, and had a “promising future.”