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[-] dead@hexbear.net 79 points 2 days ago

The context of this tweet makes it even worse. The tweet you posted is part of a tweet thread where Peter tries to argue that Epstein was not a pedophile.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Holy shit he's actually doing the "actually it's ephebophilia" meme

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

hes also saying he did it too

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 days ago

If you feel the need to point out the difference between pedophilia and hebephilia you're probably a pedophile.

If you do it because you just confessed to being a hebephile, you're definitely a pedophile.

Teens are kids, you can't change my mind.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago

"If you ignore the definition of a word and change the definition to something else entirely, then it's not the meaning of the word."

I hate these fucking "Ummm ackshully....." debatelord libertarians. Him and the thousand people who liked his post need to be lined up against a wall and shot. I mean that literally, FBI agent reading this. Fuck these snakes.

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

Even without seeing that my first guess was dead on: they think it's a vice, like just a little crime that special good boy rich white patriarchs can do as a treat, and are very, very invested in insisting that it's not disordered and it doesn't make them other and weird. Crimes against people they see as beneath them are just fun little treats that rich guys get to do as long as they don't piss off the wrong people, but having something wrong with them? The very notion of it is deeply offensive to their fragile little egos.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 28 points 2 days ago

"Well I'm not technically wrong" yeah but you're still arguing for something nobody should approve of so fuck off?

Yeah its not the textbook definition of "pedophile" but the cultural definition says its "pedophilia" and is condemned as imbalanced and immoral.

Ask this person if they are capable of understanding why they don't call cigarettes "f*ggots" despite it being "tEcHnIcALlY tRuE."

Because you have a cultural, socially determined definition, Pete. You fucking pedantic dweeb.

We all know what you are doing. You know what you are doing.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

Linguistic prescriptivising one's way into a prison cell would be pretty funny if a cop would do something productive for once and arrest this sex pervert.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

this dude needs a swift, knuckle-first slap in the mouth

and probably a whole lot more

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[-] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 69 points 2 days ago

When i was in college I Killed and Ate people. That doesn't make me a cannibal!

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 61 points 2 days ago

I didn't eat people, I ate corpses smuglord

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Don't you see the difference! I'm just pointing out the difference! Why are you getting mad at me for my pedantic semantics!!

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago

kelly pedantphile

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 63 points 2 days ago

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 72 points 2 days ago
[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 62 points 2 days ago
[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 62 points 2 days ago

i thought he was going to be smuglord 18 year old with a 17 year old ro,eo and juliet law guy, but he's actually smuglord pedo with a thesaurus guy

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's not pedo, it's just sparkling grooming of minors for sexual exploitation. There was grass on the field, so it's fine actually.

he-admit-it

barbara-pit libertarian-alert

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ephebophiles also deserve to get shot

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[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 55 points 2 days ago

In a just society, this tweet would have prompted an arrest. Openly admitting to this kind of crime, so brazen.

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago
[-] commiecapybara@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago

avgn-horror

What the fuck did I just read

[-] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 2 days ago

“People often use the term ‘pedophile’ in a commonly understood way that is semantically incorrect,” and “I, Peter Schiff, am probably guilty of felony statutory rape,” may both be true statements, but one of them is considerably more newsworthy than the other, and I think he’s pretty dramatically mistaken about which one that is.

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'd say it's wild how reactionaries are so insistent on trying to draw a line between pedophilia (the predatory crime) and pedophilia (the disorder), but it really makes perfect sense: they revel in hurting others, they revel in having power over others and abusing that power, and they don't care about consent in the first place, but they will be absolutely livid if you suggest there's something wrong with them that makes them weird and bad.

There's also the extreme normalization of teenage girls as "acceptable" targets for adult men that all these fascists grew up immersed in, and which realistically has only started breaking down bit by bit in the past 20-30 years. To them preying on teenage girls is a socially acceptable vice like day drinking or doing rich guy drugs, because the world revolves around their own libertine treat lust and they perceive themselves as the sole arbiters of what is "normal", which makes them confused and angry when someone starts telling them that preying on their choice victims is not only bad but it makes them weird and other. It's one big mess of misogyny and libertine sociopathy and toxic masculine posturing/fragility.

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

It’s sad honestly because anyone with two brain cells can figure out that only a pedo would start a semanic argument about the word “pedophile.”

It’s a pretty simple concept that applies to pretty much any pseudo intellectual trying to escape a negative label.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 38 points 2 days ago

I want some kind of emoji or something to use as a response to this type of comment that flags it as like... the moment when a Fallout NPC says something that makes you open V.A.T.S. and target their head as soon as the dialog finishes.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Hmmm maybe Caesar/House/Kimball/other NPC with their head highlighted in VATS? Might be a good set of emojis

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

who's this pedo and what makes him important enough to not be immediately arrested?

[-] SockOlm@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

google says libertarian

it would be funny if the subject matter were not about the sexual assault of minors

[-] buh@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

google says libertarian

Well yeah, I could tell from what he posted

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think on some level I still thought the "actually it's ephebophilia" bit was an exaggeration

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 37 points 2 days ago

that's exactly what that means tho

[-] Lavender@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago

With the finite time one has on this planet, I can't imagine spending any of it correcting someone on the technical definition of harm to a minor.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

I'll call you a pedophile to your face for sex with an 18-year-old just to make you argue for legality in public

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

Doesn't it though? Doesn't it make him a pedophile morally, linguistically and legally?

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

I'm only a pedophile using the natural language, colloquial definition of the word.

how-compelling

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

You mean to tell me QAnon was a massive psyop of projection by brazen pedophiles to paint their opposition as the real ones?

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

Oh god the ephebophile argument rises once again

[-] engelsaxons@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago

I mean, we could just say that (IIRC the group names) pedophiles, hebephiles, and ephebophiles all deserve the same punishment for their crime? At a certain point we're just arguing semantics. Just don't fuck someone unless they're a consenting coherent adult. Call it what you will, the result can just be the same: wall

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

Aristocrats joke voice: the Libertarian economists!

[-] take_five_moments@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

actually it does

[-] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

I guess if you're eighteen and they're seventeen, then sure? But also if you're in college it'd be kinda weird to be with a high school student like that. Maybe on some technicality, but let's err on the side of don't do that.

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[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago
[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago

We need to add an asterisk to the Sartre quote:

Never believe that [right-wingers] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words*.

* With the exception of 'pedophile'. For some reason they take that one REAL seriously

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Sartre isn't the best guy to quote when the topic is pedophilia

[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago
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