Half the school board thinks Keith deserves a third chance (that’s right, not his first time making inappropriate comments to a child).
They say only he can decide if he wants to step down. They did vote in favor of censuring him. The rest of the school board members that laughed during the comment and touching of a child faced no repercussion. Some even pretended to be offended during the emergency hearing.
Ugh.
There’s not one man in that entire city who is willing to do thirty days in jail to kick this guy’s ass?
Not one bored retiree with honor?
Curious, when’s the last time you took a misdemeanor to kick some guy’s ass in jail?
About ten-eleven years ago, I hit a guy in a grocery store because I saw him bitch-slap his preschool aged daughter who had asked for cheerios.
It was crazy because his wife stepped to me after that. I have never hit a woman, but that mouthy trashmonster was almost my first. I was a lot more naive than I am now, because I honestly thought she’d be appreciative of the fact that the guy bleeding on the floor was no longer assaulting her 3 or 4 year old sweetheart. Instead, she got in my face and started screaming.
I said some choice words that I will not repeat as they were offensive and, at times, misogynistic.
Anyway, I left before any cops got called so I didn’t get arrested or face any consequences. Left my cart in the aisle and shopped across town later than night.
Would happily do it again.
Respect. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Sadly, he probably didn’t change the situation for that poor kid.
So your are saying there are no conditions where you would ever take a charge? Like if a woman or child is being harmed in public, you wouldn’t defend them? In self defense there is always the chance of having a assault and battery charge.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I have a 200 Million Beri bounty, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on the World Goverment, and I have over 300 confirmed fake deaths. I am trained in advanced Observation Haki and I’m the top sniper in the entire Straw Hat Pirates. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Reverie? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my Straw Hat Grand Fleet and your Vivre Card is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my basic slingshot. Not only am I extensively trained in trickery, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Pop Greens and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the New World, you little shit. If only you could have known what holy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo
Love that copy pasta lol
Tennessee…
Adults sexually commenting on underaged people is not “mildly infuriating”
They don’t have anything stronger on Lemmy. Gimme a break here.
I swear there was a “actually infuriating” community.
Lemmynsfw is archived
!actually_infuriating@lemmy.world Wdym lemmynsfw? Was there one on there as well?
Just love knowing all those cunts are complicit in the sexual harassment of children. Something that should have a zero tolerance policy.
Think about what it’s said and done when cameras are off.
Willing to put a month’s wages down on which party he’s affiliated with.
Really either one honestly. The dems are just better at hiding it.
Oh, just fuck off…
Nah son as willing as I am to bash Dems at every available opportunity, only Republicans are consistently pedophilic
Hm. You wanna fact check that? https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1
democratic donor and billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein
LM fucking AO
This is hilarious omg
Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues
Hahah wow these sources you linked to are so trustworthy! /s
Read the list of dems. Someone who clearly is biased against dems did the work of looking that all up to support their biased opinion. But that doesn’t mean the data is wrong. Their conclusions from it are not the same as the data.
Shill or troll? Because you can’t possibly be this fucking dumb
Its reasonable to assume there is a ‘good’ party if youre not from here, but you dont understand american culture. We kill our heroes here.
Theres less baroque monsters and absolutely unbelievable monsters.
Dumb is assuming that because one side is really bad, that the other side is angels.
https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1And wait, who would I be shilling for? I said nothing positive about anyone.
Bothsiding pedophilia.
Huh…what stage of denial is that again?
Both sides are https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1 And both should be punished. I used “punished” because my real opinion is probably against some rule.
lmao
literal pedo president stated a war to distract from his pedo files and you’re response is both sides same
While your statement is popular, my response was to a bet that the subject of this post was a republican because he is inappropriate with minors.
My response to trump in general would probably get me banned.saying dems are the same as repubs just better at hiding it is some silly shit in 2026
individual examples exist but anyone with eyes can tell the difference in trend
do you remember Al Fraken? dude didn’t even do anything wrong
Democrats and Republicans are really the same underneath. The mental illness that drives both to seek power and influence is the core of why they choose that profession. That same mental illness is what drives the type of pedophilia they commonly have. Democrats have learned to be more discreet because it will affect their success more. Republicans have learned the opposite. It probably even helps Republicans success in some cases.
trump got elected twice
eric swawell
the obsession some people have with trying to justify their bad choices is lol
anyone that can’t tell the difference is a fucking moron
We’re just gonna pretend the Clintons weren’t part of the pedo files?
tell you what, Trump can release the full unredacted Epstein files and we can find out together
Agreed! However, Biden also could’ve released the files.
Any current senator, or from the past 5 years, could release the full unredacted files but are actively choosing not to.
sure and if Biden was currently president I’d be on board caring about it right now
hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges are possible after but I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment
single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further, worrying about anything else is like trying to diagnose cancer while the patient is bleeding out from a gut wound
even if the Epstein files were not a thing that would still be true, there are so many other ways he has destroyed this country for the foreseeable future
he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone, literal traitor for profit during war time
hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges
We can though. They’ve all had the full unredacted files since 2019 and have had plenty of partial evidence since 2008.
I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment
You should because until you do everything will continue to get worse.
single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further,
The tail doesn’t wag the dog, Trump is a symptom not the root cause. The issue with your metaphor is that the cancer and bleeding out are unrelated.
he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone
That and so much more! It’s never going to happen though without severe political upheaval because almost anyone who would order that execution has hands which are similarly bloody.
He didn’t need to know. It’s a knee-jerk politician reaction to not release ingo if it may hurt anyone in thier party… or the oligarchy.
I’d like to downvote and say no that’s wrong.
But I don’t know that’s wrong, I’d really like to think it and belive it because the VAST majority of history has put them on the right. But that could just be confirmation bias.
The right certain has their share of horrible people.
Sadly, it isn’t wrong. I’m pretty solidly anti-politician. We need better people making important decisions. https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1
There are links to Britebart and fucking Newsmax in there and you’re posting that stupid link everywhere.
Stop being a moron.
“The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” --Lt. Gen. David Morrison, former head of Australian Army.
Amusingly he was talking about a situation where male soldiers were sexually assaulting female soldiers, while a larger group of servicemembers knew this was happening but did nothing to stop or report or prevent it.
He’s 100% right though. The standard this school board walks past, and thus the standard they accept, is one of their own sexually harassing a teenage girl.
Every one of them that laughed or snickered or whatever should be removed.
We’ve been “walking past” this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.
You had genocide and slavery sitting right there and you went with economics for your dashboard analogy, a bold choice.
We’ve been walking past an awful lot for very long. We got comfortable. We got lazy. The Framers set up a pretty good system for us and after WWII and Vietnam and the civil rights movement, we basically all decided that we had fixed our society and government and we could sit back and crack open a cold one.
He just said what all the other old dickless codgers were thinking
Why are you Libtards up in Arms about THIS? Being a Pedophile is as American as Apple Pie!
-Republicans who show up ARMED to Children’s Hospitals to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!
Sadly, as much as it’s a joke in this commentary, it is.
We went from Lawrence King and his ring in the 80’s and early 90’s to Epstein in the 90’s and 00’s, and both were publicly and evidently connected to the highest levels of the US government. King’s ring also had mysterious deaths, including the lead investigator and his son being killed in a plane crash.
Good thing Epstein and Ghislaine were caught and all that nonsense is over with. Yep. Definitely not happening anymore.
why would he be removed? he goes to church on Sunday.
also, bring back punching people in the face in public
I seriously wonder how far away the US is from stoning women and girls to death for not being virgins…
I think stoning is too closely associated with Islam/Arabic nations, whipping or nailing to a cross would be more appropriate for the US
No, the Old Testament definitely advocates for stoning. That was what the whole “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” thing in the New Testament is referring to. Jesus was stopping a stoning. But many conservative Christians conveniently forget that the New Testament is a thing, and refer almost exclusively to the Old Testament for their teachings.
You’re absolutely correct! But do you expect the average American to have read the Bible? let alone the old testament?
But do you expect the average American to have read
Fucking scum. Screw them
Oh weird, so strange and not usual at all that the ones not calling for his resignation invoke Christian values and Jeebus (and literally comparing him to the pedo in chief). Unfortunately with world events being what they are I’m sure this’ll be forgotten within a day or two. Apparently we can only wait for this guy’s name to pop up in the paper in a few years for having raped a bunch of pre teens.
Somebody immediately blocked me yesterday, despite me never speaking to them or having seen them before, because I said we needed to start using violence against people who do this shit. It’s the only way to stop it, because clearly holding them accountable doesn’t work in the US. If it did, we wouldn’t have a pedophile for a president.
Violence is a circle. You do it to someone, they do it to you. The only way to stop that cycle is to kill your target. Now murder’s on the table for anyone who thinks a type of person is unacceptable, which is only sensible until it really, really isn’t. Operating under the assumption that violence is a reliable deterrent will ultimately get you killed, man. Unless you plan on being the only guy with the nuclear option at your disposal. Good luck with that one.
Peace should be the standard, even when it’s hard. Don’t get me wrong, there are people I won’t shed a tear for when they get hurt. But I would consider the best case scenario to be “a problematic person course corrected before they hurt anyone” and the next best to be “a problematic person learned from their mistakes”. That’s what accountability looks like imo, and we don’t always meet that mark. That’s a shame, but not big enough that violence is the only answer we have. We can and should be better than that.
This is moral relativist bullshit.
Back your words up.
Only one thing ever stopped fascists.
so the only thing we disagree on is whether or not we’ve reach the last resort?
I don’t think we have yet. Not for this guy, at least. He called a kid hot, in front of colleagues who were amused by it, and the proof is undeniable. I’m sure enough local pressure could get him (and maybe his colleagues) fired, and a black mark on his character would be even better. People should let him know what they think of him everywhere he goes.
That said, the president and his ilk…tbh that’s where I struggle to find the peaceful option. Can’t find a better representation of institutional failure. Violence won’t necessarily make things better, but I can’t shake the feeling we’ve been backed into a corner.
You talk of peace but leave out justice because violence is how laws are enforced. Wake me up when you start preaching that private property is violence because until then this is just hypocrisy.
I actually don’t think violence should coincide with justice. It just does because violence is enforcement, and we don’t have a better way laid out for peaceful coexistence (at least, not in the US at present). Violence exists, and one of the most reliable methods of regulating violence has unfortunately been to meet it where it is, with greater violence. Beyond that, we have a tendency to go to great lengths to justify violence against one another, so much so that it’s an art in and of itself. I’m well aware how idealistic I’m being in wanting peace as a baseline, but nothing worth doing is without challenge.
Private property is a can of worms I can’t touch right now. But I have ancestors that were considered private property, and existence itself is being claimed by the highest bidders with little that can be done to resist it. You won’t find me arguing that private property isn’t at the very least directly supported by violence. I’m not quite sure why I’d have to preach about it to substantiate my desire for peace though? I’m engaged in a system I didn’t choose, and I find my rebellions where I can. It’s hard to exist in these times without a bit of personal dissonance.
How do we know holding them accountable doesn’t work? We’ve never actually tried it.
Yes, that’s the problem, thank you for stating the obvious, you truly are an intellectual.
Anyway, sounds like the real problem is that our laws aren’t being enforced. So maybe we should deal with that instead of normalizing vigilante justice.
How many people need to get away with rape before you feel it’s justified to do something about it?
Zero. But what I want to do about it is replace the people in charge who are currently not holding rapists accountable.
Coincidentally that might solve some other problems here too, like how we spend $1 trillion a year on the War Department but “can’t afford” universal healthcare.
How did you know they blocked you?
Piefed, which I use, has actual blocking, unlike Lemmy. You cannot reply to someone that has blocked you on Piefed, the option is greyed out and you are given an error that says “you are blocked by this person” if you try. if that person is a mod, you also cannot post to any of their comms, if I remember correctly.
also, they said they were going to block me.
Ah, I see! That’s a nice feature.
That’s a nice feature.
that’s a shitty feature and i wouldn’t participate anywhere where they have that. you are free to ignore whomever you want, but this is “i have a last word” button and that is retarded.
you can’t have the power to say whatever bullshit you want publicly and then prevent people from calling you out.
You make a good point, upon thinking about it more!
i mean it really can go both ways. you definitely can have some troll that is bothering you in a way where having such block power could be useful, but it can also be abused in a way i described. assholes will weaponize anything i guess.
But if you don’t see their comments, who cares if they’re shouting into the void?
Isn’t your suggestion just holding people accountable?
I meant through the legal system, but yeah. But apparently wanting to use violence makes me “exactly as horrible” as a pedophile. 🤷♂️
Idk why punching people in the US is treated exactly as bad as shooting people but its stupid to think a bloody lip is the same as like a bullet hole.
Idk, but somebody who does shit like he did definitely deserves a few guys taking them out back behind the building to give them a real good beating.
If saying that makes me “exactly as bad” as them then so be it, I’ll be the bad guy and take one for the team. 💪
might have something to do with the fact that when you punch someone, they can shoot back. but yeah, i agree that this person should be handled by the community. i would think that the kid has a father and he has some friends…?
That is a symptom of the exact problem I’m asking about.
These are the same people who see rape and murder as the same levelof sin as being gay. I was raised around that type of bs.
“i dont hate you for being gay, its just your burden. Like johnny is pedo, and pam is a murderer, and frank is a thief. We’re all sinners and its not our place to judge”
i wish i was kidding…
“Exactly as horrible” is unfair to you. But it sounds like you’re advocating to give up on rule of law and just have the strongest most violent people be the ones to decide what’s right. And I’d argue that you’d just get back to where we are right now: wealthy people would control the system, they’d employ strong violent people to enforce their personal whims as “law”, and you’d be complaining that nobody is willing to beat up the pedophile (because his friends would hire goons to kill them).
I mean, presumably that’s what’s stopping you personally from implementing your own recommendation, right? Because if you showed up and kicked this guy’s ass you’d be beaten and arrested by the police.
wealthy people would control the system
oh no, I’m a leftist. the plan is to murder the rich people. then they can’t do anything to stop you. I’m a big fan of a firing squad, but one of the other AN admins suggested slow roasting over a fire. I’m also partial to putting them on wooden stakes like Vlad the Impaler, but we can figure it out as as we purge them, I suppose. maybe a little bit of everything?
Oh OK. Murdering rich people might effect social change. Though I’m skeptical because not a lot of people actually do it, which is an important component of that change.
I think you still end up coming around in a circle: in your fantasy of mob-justice, what prevents the wealthy from ending up being the ones who control it? (Like Vlad the Impaler!)
Holding people accountable works if they are actually held accountable.
Right, which didn’t happen. So it doesn’t work. Flushing a toilet gets rid of poop, when it works. When it doesn’t flush, it doesn’t work.
I’m being pedantic, but the analogy would be more like what you initially said if no attempt to actually flush the toilet was made.
Whatever you say, Batman. Are you the one who’s going to deliver the punch?
Plenty of other countries have more vigilante justice and still have corrupt leaders, so clearly that doesn’t work either. Maybe instead work to make your government better. In a democracy, it represents the will of the people.
Because you don’t have the will to throw a punch, you’re just going to project insincerity onto those who do? Weak shit.
Because
nonsenseI know that throwing a punch won’t solve the problem, will gain sympathy for the attacked, and will put me in jail. Smart shit.Coward.
It is not possible to be more cowardly than the person your comments all indicate that you are.
Are you the one who’s going to deliver the punch?
I hit my step-father over the head as a child with a cast iron pan for trying to force himself on my mother while drunk, so yeah, I’ll fucking beat him up for you, if you’re too much of a feckless hand-wringer to do anything to defend your community from predators. wouldn’t want you to break your nails or muss up your hair gel.
Maybe instead work to make your government better. In a democracy, it represents the will of the people.
the United States is not a democracy, and the will of the people is ignored. so basically, you’re advice is to sit back and do nothing, same as always.
if you’re too much of a feckless hand-wringer to do anything to defend your community from predators.
Unlike you, I do things that work instead of just putting myself in jail. I was lucky to grow up in a household with education and without violence, so that’s why I’m more likely to make correct decisions.
the will of the people is ignored
News to me.
your advice
is to call for his resignation, raising embarrassment until he does. I’m active in local politics, so I know what works. It’s the people who aren’t active in politics who think action movies have all the answers. Rand Paul is still in office. Tony Gonzales will not be.
There are a lot of problems with the US that more cast iron pans would fix. Good on you.
The bar is so low, yet the US keeps effortlessly limboing under it
YES! Exactly like that!
Good ole boys gonna good ole boy
Maybe I’m being unfair to someone out there, but I kinda like the term “rednecks.”
Redneck is something else
Good ole boys are the political in group in small towns. Generally they have good jobs and are seen by locals as community leaders of some sort. Rednecks are basically anyone who enjoys things typically associated with rural living. Anyone can be a redneck and there are plenty of rednecks in jail for way less serious things than child abuse.
TBH, there’s an intentional slander element I’m going for.
The idea being that such ‘community leaders’ are little more than rednecks to me, at the end of the day. And I’m not sure I agree about the ‘rural living’ definition. Nothing wrong with rural life IMO, but rednecks are moreso representative to me of toxic actors amongst such folks.
Jeff Foxworthy’s entire oeuvre in shambles.
oeuvre
Btw, that’s a great, but hard word to learn in French. Took me like 10x to pronounce it correctly, so I might just be a…
“Redneck” implies working class (because it’s traditionally caused by getting sunburned from working out in a field) in a way that “good ol’ boy” does not.
The idea of a redneck community leader is an oxymoron.
I always thought of the striking West Virginia coal miners as rednecks, and some of them were community leaders. But times and terms change.
I’d say the term has undergone what happens with many other definitions over the years, i.e. it’s shifted somewhat in meaning. More than just being about an outdoor worker, I think it implies a certain type of conduct and attitude.
And I absolutely meant it as a slander to those ‘community leaders,’ as explained earlier.
This is literally a Good Ole Boy network at work. It looks like he’s a dairy farmer, though how much actual labor he does is anyone’s guess. He may also be a redneck, but he’s a good ole boy, and this is what that looks like when that system is working.
Yeap, good points.
It’s likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.
