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    In america, if you are in any sort of position of power you’re not really ‘cool’ unless you travel with the trump/epstein crowd.

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    Is the girl in question the one blurred out? And is he not touching her? How is that appropriate? It’s not JUST the inappropriate sexual comment, but also TOUCHING of a minor, during a public meeting.

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      They’d have to blur her because otherwise she’d be doxxed, and have incels claiming she’s ugly and should be grateful that a man noticed her, and worse. As it is, her name is probably readily available and she is probably getting worse attention than the asshole who harrassed her.

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        Well… that tells us all we need to know then

        Off to the dungeons with him

        EDIT: Aaaaaand I’m now finding out they didn’t even stop the meeting. Come the fuck on

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        Since when is that a thing? Or they didn’t want to be on the news.

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          Protecting the identity and privacy of victimised children is the default stance for journalists here in the UK. I just assumed that was true in most of the western world… Does Canada identify child victims in news articles then?

          The reason this girls been anonymised in this case is likely because she’s already been objectified, and would be subject to further trolling/ harassment from people outraged with the situations outcome and looking for a target to blame.

          Just look at what happened to Virginia Guiffre, after publicly coming forward with her allegations she was subject to consistent death threats and harassment. Sparing anyone that situation seems merciful in my eyes.

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    I became involved because I reside in Washington County, I went to school my entire life in these schools. The things that are happening now have happened for as long as I can remember. It’s the “good ole boy” system. They protect each other and let each other get away with whatever they want, and it needs to stop.

    Many such cases, tale as old as time, etc.

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      Them “good ole boy” s have infested the government at every level. May not be rid of them til they age out.

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        I’ve been hoping for that for a long time, but for every one that has the grace to age out and die, at least one more ages in.

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          This is the problem. I’m in my mid-40s and I have seen new “good ol’ boys” move into the system as their predecessors die or retire.

          The system is self-perpetuating.

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    Mr. Ervin has explained that he meant nothing offensive and that we have simply misunderstood his intentions,” the board said.

    Uh huh, we just misunderstood (slightly paraphrased) “god you’re hot, what school do you go to?”

    There are SO many ways to interpret this, you don’t know what he meant, except for that all those ways are all fucked up in the head

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      The reply from the petitioner is great. We can’t know his intent, obly he can, so we can only judge his words and actions. Nips that excuse right in the bud.

    • i_love_FFT@jlai.lu
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      Maybe he just checked her temperature? And noticed she had a fever? And knew about potential contamination risks, and wanted to know which schuto quarantine?

      /s

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        I’m sure it’s theoretically possible to not want to pay your fair share of taxes, while not dunking on any particular minority.

        It’s rare though.

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          It’s always just selfishness with conservatives. It’s not complicated, they’re just selfish assholes through and through. If you wanna know what a conservative will do, just imagine the most selfish move and voila.

          Children starving or an extra $50 in property taxes, guess what the conservative picks every single time!

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            It’s surprising how quickly they come as well.

            I’ve seen perfectly normal people go from “I felt a bit ill after that COVID vaccination, I’ll look it up online” to spreading fake stories about immigrants and having opinions about Hunter Biden. Within months. They’re not even American.

            This shit’s a fucking virus, and social media is the vector.

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        The people you disagree with are far right… or far left, depending upon your political orientation.

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              You said one thing. Put on your thinking cap, I’m sure even you can figure that one out.

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                I don’t get the hostility. It seemed like a pretty uncontroversial observation to me. Nobody complains about “the left”, they complain about “the far left”; nobody complains about “the right”, they complain about “the far right”. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together can observe this.

                I have no idea why this would upset anybody, but it seems like I’ve triggered some people. Unless you’re just bots, in which case: deuces.

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        the majority of people are not far right.

        the issue is that people who are far right, are far more likely to run for office than moderate candidates are. and run better campaigns, and win more votes.

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          I don’t know. I ask because I cannot explain anyone even tolerating Trump’s actions in any way unless they are far right. I still know people defending his actions… Anyone opposing him in any way, the rest of America thinks is “far left”. So it’s a weird time…

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            You are captured by the false media narrative that you are one thing or the other.

            The vast majority of voters are neither far right or far left. They are moderate. However, moderate people dont’ get any airtime because the extremists here, and everywhere else, paint everyone as either FOR or AGAIN things.

            Moderate voters went for Trump because he offered them a better platform to vote for, especially economically. And Trump’s tanking now that his policies are showing to be horrible. But he has 2.5 more years in office.

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              They’re not moderate, they’re the people who will say “they just need to drop a bomb on that neighborhood” talking about the black neighborhood of course. They love acting moderate in public but they really want genocide against brown people and they want poor people without healthcare to be left in the street to die. Trump is doing exactly what they’ve been saying in private for decades.

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                  Im really not, that’s the average US voter. Idk yeah you can call them far right but then half the country is far right. And his point was that it’s a false media narrative. Completely backwards, it’s literally the mainstream media that works extremely hard to sell these “far right” positions as moderate.

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    “God, you’re hot. Do you know that? Where do you go to school at?”

    How do you possible make this worse? Ask them where they wll be later.

    Not calling for violence but how does this not get you tarred and feather in the parking lot?

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      Not calling for violence but how does this not get you tarred and feather in the parking lot?

      Haven’t you noticed? pedophiles are in fashion now… they can even be presidents

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      Here’s why:

      “Boys will be boys.”

      “He’s not wrong, she is hot.”

      “Little slut deserves it for dressing like that.”

      “Why didn’t I think of this? I wonder if he has any videos.”

      “Note to self: accept his 4th of July pool party invitation this year.”

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        He’s a symptom. Violence against the idiots who can’t help but say the quiet part out loud on camera won’t stop the millions that do manage to keep the most blatant statements contained to men’s spaces.

        What we need is a culture of nuanced introspection and personal growth, where people like him can admit that they’re pigs without it destroying their lives or moral standing, instead being a first step towards rehabilitation. Women and girls deserve to be kept safe from him and boys deserve better teachers, so he wouldn’t be able to work in education until he has done a lot of personal growth, but violence is just scapegoating.

        Of course if the state threatens violence unless you pay taxes that pay for people like him to endanger women, then you can engage in organized mutual self-defense. Hard to get to that culture of personal growth otherwise.

        In the mean time, people are entitled to organised mutual self-defense against him, which might also include violence but probably won’t.

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        There is more effective ways of dealing with it, outside of violence. I do like tar and feather though, just the right amount of violence

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          Is chemical castration, violence? I suppose it is. I would imagine the tech isn’t available to the general public anyway.

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          Just so we are clear, tarring and feathering is an extremely violent act. I’m not arguing against it, but covering someone in molten tar is not non-violent in the slightest. I’m personally all for it.

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          What are those more effective ways?

          All the ones I can think of that don’t involve violence don’t seem to be working.

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            Thats because too many people sit on their ass waiting for other people to take care of it for them.

            Coincidentally a lot of them are the same ones who call for violent action (and not all of them lean right).

            These actions only work if a majority of citizens actually take them, not sit back and complain about how they dont work because things dont magically get fixed the instant a minority of people do it once.

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              Bingo.

              my biggest complaint about the liberal/left is they will do anything but take charge. they seem to love sitting around and quarter backing and demanding someone else do something in their name… and a lot of them don’t even vote, because ‘what is the point’.

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      Pedophiles are praise worthy unless you are trying to make it big on the Internet, then you beat up random people who cant fight back and pretend they are this guy.

      Everyone is willingly living a hypocritical lie these days.

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    And he is sitting next to her and grabs her when he says it… Ewww.

    Definitely investigate this guy, i bet he has a BAD history. May be some criminal charges in the future.

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      He is already not allowed on school grounds unsupervised because of his sexual comments to children from before this incident.

      So agreed on the bad history.

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    White House chief of staff: “Mr president… we’ve found your new Secretary of Education sir”