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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 93 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Only serving 6 month sentence out of a 10 year sentence? How did he get off that easily?

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 53 points 1 week ago

Rich and powerful men are allowed to abuse children as they see fit. Even this much we're lucky to get

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But 9 and a half years on probation. That's a long time not to be able to leave the state without permission and to have to take random piss tests.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That's some joke I'm missing? /S?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

KidFucker in Chief mote it be

If he got off that easy there must have been a kid around

[–] Ghostwurm@lemmy.ca 76 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Just another photo of trump adjacent to a criminal.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago

And still no drag Queens harming the kids, but again a church person.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

I only see criminals in this picture

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 14 points 1 week ago

TRANSITION TO

GREATNESS

Lurking in the background really pulls the whole thing together

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

And Trump next to another pedophile.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just another photo of a criminal sitting next to a pedophile

I'll leave it up to the reader to discern which is which

[–] whiskybourbon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

They are both criminals and both pedophiles. You can't trick me!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It could be 100% of his friends and associates and the fascists would deny it

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I automatically assume all hyper religious public figures are either pedophiles, are with a group that turns out to have a history of abuse, or are covering for pedos.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

When the Statistics show about 1/6 can't say I'm too surprised about how many religious people are.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Guilty until proven innocent

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 38 points 1 week ago
[–] natecox@programming.dev 34 points 1 week ago

Why are we not talking about how this child predator fuck is only going to serve 6 months of a 10 year sentence?

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always the ones you most suspect.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Oh good. I don't have to worry about Dolly Parton, or Mr Rodgers.

I feel like my world view would be crushed if I ever saw a legitimate claim against either of them.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I had a β€œChristian” ask me why I don’t rape and kill people if I don’t believe in god…..I said β€œbecause I don’t want to to do anything like that and if this world is the only world wouldn’t I want to make it as good as possible starting with my own actions” I think about that conversation a lot lately and it is deeply concerning

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I had a flipped conversation. Working IT, late at a client's office, the secretary (we knew each other well enough) stated that without the Bible we couldn't know right from wrong.

"Um, I don't need religion to tell me rape and murder is wrong. Do you? I mean, think on that, did you have to be told?"

I'm sure I got a bit of that wrong, but that was the gist of it, and it was that short. She sat back in her chair and stared at me a minute. One of those oh-so-rare times in life when you hit someone with a brand new thought. Love to see it, love to experience it!

I like Penn Gillette's response to this question which is just as good:

"I've raped and killed all the people I've wanted to."

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago

You mean a Child Rapist had Direct Access to the Republican Party which is ACTIVELY SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND HIS CHILD RAPING ASSOCIATES? What a weird Coincidence! Anyways DEMONRATS are Raping Children in Pizza Parlors!

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

My copy of the surprised Pikachu meme is broken.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Meanwhile my unfazed Pikachu meme is working perfectly

[–] manxu@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am very positively surprised that the prosecutors in Oklahoma didn't let this drop. The temptation might have been huge: the statute of limitations had long expired and they revived the case with an old law that pauses the clock on the statute.

This guy is still trying to get his huge pension back. After ruining a child's life.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

The statute of limitations didn’t expire, which is detailed in the article. He left the state so the statute of limitations freezes

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are the odds on Drumpf stepping in?

[–] RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

How do you think they celebrated Trump hiring Morris.

[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Gateway to pedophilia.

Gateway to childhood trauma.

And ofc the Pedo-in-Chief protects his own ilk (until he needs to trash them to make himself look good or to keep himself out of trouble)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Was this the one that said it happened a long time ago and everyone prayed about it? I didn't realize he had the largest church in America.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

If pedophile denial in Churches were a stock, I'd short it.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Always has been

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe in the family

With my ever-loving wife beside me

But she don't know about my girlfriend

Or the man I met last night

-Genesis, Jesus He Knows Me

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Christians sure like diddling kids.

[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why does he look like a character Dave Chappelle is playing on Chappelle's show lol

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Because Chappelle was playing a caricature of the "trustworthy white man". Nailed it.

[–] molten@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's so well known and pervasive I can ask my conservative 'friend' "what do you think the founder of Gateway just pleaded guilty to?" And with no prior knowledge he knows what he did and can become defensive.

I almost wanted to do a switch too and tell him he actually pleaded guilty of fraud.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

ah, another one

Very curious that statistics don't seem to matter when it comes to white men sexually abusing children, or gun violence

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These cases all just blend together. At this point you should just expect these types to be abusive and you'll be right more often than your own. I guess he'll have to go on the list, Part 57

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