• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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      There is a free spot on my bingo card the size of Texas. And Florida.

      Actually, we should give up Bingo and start a new game called Headlines. It’ll be like Cards Against Humanity, except the black cards will all be “____ arrested for <offense such as child pornography or domestic violence>”.

      The white cards will all just be various individuals or descriptors like “Hulk Hogan” and “Texas Megachurch youth leader”.

      After everyone plays, you do a search for the headline and the most recent exact match wins.

      I spent more time thinking about this than it’s worth, but I’m committed now.

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      Ooooh I’m gonna have to go with Conservatism and racism. But pedophilia is probably a close third after misogyny.

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    Surprising absolutely no one. It’s a trope at this point that megachurch pastors and staff are sexual deviants and pedophiles.

    Keep your kids safe. Don’t let them go to church.

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      Just a friendly reminder that pedophile is not synonymous with child molester. It’s a term describing sexual attraction, not behaviour, just like ‘heterosexual’ is. Simply being a heterosexual doesn’t make a man danger to women any more than being pedophile alone makes them danger to children. They have a sense of morality too.

      The vast majority of people in prison for child abuse are not, in fact, pedophiles but just good-old rapists. Children unfortunelately simply are an easy target. The capability to rape a person - underage or not - generally requires some levels of narcissism, psychopathy and/or machiavellianism i.e. the ‘dark triad’ personality.

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        Sucks that he was trying to get help with it. The buck stops at his solicitation of nudes to minors though. He gets what he deserves here.

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          Yeah, absolutely. All bets are off once you go from just thoughts to actions.

          If I remember correctly, the strongest correlation with offending is proximity to children. So if someone has these tendencies and works in childcare, teaching, a church, or, in this case, as a ‘youth leader,’ then we’re on a bad path there…

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    Abilene Texas is a wretched hive of Christian nationalism and reactionary entitlement.

    I only drive out there because I have family there; my niece was a victim of another pedo pastor there.