• Ibex@lemmy.world
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    The damage control has started. The bad thing is I can see some people being ok with her statements.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    1 hour ago

    So the Republicans have gone from defending Trump to defending statutory r*pe in general. The law is really clear on what that is.

  • Randelung@lemmy.world
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    Oh, they’re going the “explaining the difference between a pedophile, a hebephile, and a ephebophile” route. Let’s see if it works out for them.

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    48 minutes ago

    The age puberty starts has been dropping and it now occurs earlier than ever in recorded history

    But I imagine this fact actually appeals to conservatives and republicans

  • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    Weeeeelllllll technically, that would make them ephebophiles. (Kelly is grabbing on to what ever she can to deflect). Medically, people sexually attracted to early to later teens. As far as what we know right now, there are no pedophiles, (pre-pubescent attraction) on the list. Though there might be a possibility. We just don’t know yet.

    In any case, rape most foul it most certainly was. And all of them need to be prosecuted and jailed for it. While being sued for every penny they have in civil court.

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      Holy shit, I knew the clip from ages ago, but I’ve only recently gotten to know Gianmarco. Good to know my taste in comedy hasn’t changed. 😂

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    Hebephilia vs. pedophilia? That’s a defense I’ve seen before. Didn’t work for creepy Internet boyz. Let’s see if it works for the Republican party.

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    “This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls,” she continued. “I’m just giving you facts that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”

    “And that is what I believed and that is what I reliably was told for many years.”

    Kelly admitted that she began to change her opinion after Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed that Epstein had thousands of videos with child sexual abuse material.

    “For the first time, I thought, oh, no, he was an actual pedophile,” the conservative host recalled.

    Megan “I was fine with him fucking teenagers” Kelly, everyone.

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      But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby."

      How does this make any sense at all? How does one “pass as even younger” but still somehow “look legal to passersby”? Those are directly conflicting concepts.

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      10 hours ago

      Sometimes you got to wonder if hate Muhammed just because want to be like Muhammed so bad

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    He’s a hebephile not a pedophile isn’t much of a defence. So he goes after 11+yo children instead of children less than 11yo? Also most people don’t know, or rightly care, about the age distinction - both are child abusers.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah. I’ve only ever seen the hebebebenebphile argument made by creepy pedophile motherfuckers. Nobody else wants to split hairs to defend this sort of behavior.

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        Well, technically the distinction is important for psychiatrists. So if they ever study what the fuck was wrong with Epstein and his fellow creeps the psychiatrists need to have that distinction in mind.

        Who else could also use that distinction… Judges? If there’s a punishment range (like e.g. you get 5 to 15 years in prison) I can imagine they might be giving harsher verdicts the younger the victim maybe?

        God, I need a shower. Why did you made me think about it.

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          Oh I agree. Pedophile, hebebebenebebphile, who cares. Pervert. Criminal. Abuser. Rapist. Those fit either category.