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    I happen to also believe that having a friendship with a paedophile doesn’t automatically make someone a paedophile. However, to have the type of relationship that trump and epstein had and to claim complete ignorance of his crimes is absurd. Trump, obviously knew about epstein and maxwells activities and if he didn’t actively participate, he passively accepted it and covered it up for decades.

    And as the saying goes if 9 people sit at a table and a paedophile sits down and none of them say anything, there are 10 paedophiles at the table.

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      And as the saying goes if 9 people sit at a table and a paedophile sits down and none of them say anything, there are 10 paedophiles at the table.

      I really don’t like this argument. There’s a big difference between not reporting something and being complicit in that something.

      For example, my neighbor smokes pot, and likely does so illegally. If I don’t report them, does that make me a pot smoker? No, that’s absurd! I personally don’t agree w/ the drug law despite having no desire to use marijuana, so there’s absolutely no reason for me to report them.

      That said, if my neighbor was a pedophile, I would report them. Why? Because I want to protect kids, and getting the police involved is the best way to do that. So if there are 9 people at a table and a pedophile sits down and none says anything, there’s still one pedophile, but also 9 pedophile enablers. I don’t think those people should be guilty by association, but I do believe they are shirking their moral responsibility.

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        As you yourself say, if we’re talking about the systematic trafficking and molestation of children, silence is complicity. There’s a world of difference between a crime that literally doesn’t harm anyone and what epstein was doing.

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    I’ve seen this exact same text written to look like a real comment on three different platforms now…

    when the pedo sex crime conspiracy theorists finally are proven right… the new conspiracy theory is that it was all just a hoax and there’s no deep state or pedo trafficking rings despite mounting evidence

    mighty convenient

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    Who is anon quoting here? Because his text is green, but he’s clearly not greentexting.

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      I assumed from the greentext and the thumbnail they were mocking other anons. it was a thread making fun of the pedo cope on 4chan but the veneer of “irony” is so schizo that I can’t really keep track any more

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      Frank’s Little Beauties. Trump owned Miss Teen USA from ‘96 to ‘15. We can put 2 and 2 together.

      Well, I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show, and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. You know, I’m inspecting, I want to make sure that everything is good. 

      You know, the dresses. ‘Is everyone okay?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I’ve been very good.

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            Even now in NY the age of consent is 17

            In my state it’s 16 and they recently met to decide if they wanted to raise it to 18… and decided not to.

            There was actually a news story a few months back about how the cops had to let a 40 year old who met with and had sex with a 16 year old girl on the internet go much to the complaint of the father because as far as the state was concerned… the latter was legally an adult and could make her own sexual choices.

            The idea that this stuff is wrong is newer than you might think. I know it sickens me too

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              Most of the developed world is 16 yeah ? Australia is. Hell you can soon vote in elections at 16 in the UK.

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                Indeed, America’s weird in that in quite a few states you’re able to fuck adults and drive at 16, but you still go to school and can’t vote until 18, when you can join the army and take on tons of debt, but you can’t drink or smoke till 21, and you can’t rent a car until 25.

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          Heck in the early 2000s as well.

          Notice how the theme of Clone High says that the clones are “sexy teens”… a line that is suspiciously missing from the modern version’s theme.

          I still remember all the people “Joking” about wanting to fuck Mary Kate and Ashley and various radio stations and media groups celebrating their 18th birthday with drool and awooga noises.

          Heck the first season of To Catch A Predator didn’t even get police involved, literally just a finger waving and then just letting them leave

          People actively being repulsed by adults having sex with teenagers is a depressingly new phenomena.

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    Didn’t know you could have an Ancapistan flag next to your name on 4chan. Really underlines how much of a child fucker OOP must be.