• katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    it does make me suspicious that so many grown ass men and female billionaire authors are so concerned with what kids have under their clothes

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      Either only pedos are sociopathic enough to get rich, OR getting rich turns you into a pedo I won’t take any other explanations

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        i don’t want to cast aspersions on everyone, but when i was a numbers guy, of my high net worth clients, 3/4 have been tried for CSA. i’m not sure whether my boss was a magnet for them, someone is setting up our wealthy former clients, or it’s something like you said. None of our relatively poorer clients have been tried as of a year or so ago (last time i checked in). All I know is something smells off.

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        their brains are wired for excess over empathy

        you don’t get that rich with a bleeding heart

        after you’ve paid to fuck everything money can legally buy (and that is a metric fuckton of stuff) all that remains is the not legal

        now throw in how money isolates you into thinking you are different (plenty of studies on this) and those kids are lesser (sub human even)

        billionaire’s are a disease

      • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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        I think it’s the latter, there are poor pedophiles after all. But when you get rich enough you slowly find yourself without real friends that can relate to you and vice versa, there’s no trust and then it’s just ego-boosting yes-people surrounding you all of a sudden. Of course you’re gonna end up thinking you’re irresistible, untouchable and able to get away with traumatizing underage teens.
        And that’s not even accounting for the kind of mindset one has to have in order to get to the top, all the wage theft and pollution etc.

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      You can only be a mindless drone for them if you give up who you truly are to be unhappy for them.

      Also they rape children so they want you to look the other way.

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    Considering that there’s like somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 trans people for every senator, this is gravely concerning statistic

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      Yeah even taking the full 7386 legislative members across all states it’s a pretty stark (like 31000%) difference.

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    By my calculations that makes these senators many orders of magnitude more dangerous. Won’t someone think of the children??

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    As much as I love this statistic, this is only based on reported cases, meaning only those who have been caught. It’s like quoting rape statistics when most of them aren’t reported.

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      True, there are probably even more senators who are guilty of misconduct in bathrooms and the ratio is even further apart.

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        Grindr stats go up whenever there’s a fascist (ie. Republican) national convention.

        They loooove to fuck and mistreat queers, be they gay, trans, intersex or whatever. But give equal rights, ho!

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      Given how many people there are salivating at the chance to report a trans women using a bathroom, I doubt the reporting bias is in favor of senators.

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          Such a Freudian slip to understand penis instead of pants! (And how much do these people talk in the bathroom? Like, let me be!)

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          Basic knowledge of the English language and what people do when there aren’t any paper towels would also make any normal person who misheard that very quickly conclude that pants was the word that was said, because it is insane to say you’re going to wipe your hands on your penis to dry them.

          Unfortunately transphobes are not only deeply abnormal, they’re also given newspaper columns instead of therapy.

          I remember this going down in real time when the trans woman in question found the article and realized it was about her. Like, I know, Daily Fail, but Christ.

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          Supposing that she did say “I’m gonna wipe my hands dry on my penis” in order to provide a menacing reminder of the existence of her genitalia… How effective of a threat is that, really?

          Like, try imagining someone genuinely trying to dry their hands using their dick. Idk about you, but my mental word cloud for that concept reads something like “weak”, “pathetic”, “lost”, “incompetent”. Not a very threatening concept.