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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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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours 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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours 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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[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 day 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.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

The community was deleted

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 30 points 1 day 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 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 13 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

That's probably the most disgusting thing I've seen within the last 18 hours

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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.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

or Richard Stallman,

Well, I learned something new and horrible today

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day 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 6 points 1 day ago

Very good software people are not very good social people.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day 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 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day 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.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day 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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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 day 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 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

Should probably report this stuff to their instance admins. That way it disappears completely, that's a better solution than pretending things don't exist, especially when it comes to shit like this where the person is a pedophile.

I'd also suggest letting your local instance admins know about it since once they know they can ban the user with content removal which will wipe out he community on those instances as well.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 12 points 1 day 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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[–] araneae@beehaw.org 18 points 1 day 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 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 15 points 1 day 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.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day 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 day ago (7 children)

Social Media can agree on two thinga:

  1. luigi did nothing wrong
  2. Pedos go into the woodchipper
[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One caveat to the second one. Child molesters go into the woodchipper. As long as they're a "nonpracticing" pedo who is going to therapy and knows that their attraction to children is wrong then they're fine. It is a mental illness after all. But the moment they do anything to a child then straight to a woodchipper, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

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