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Wheres all the 'kill your local pedophile' talk now?
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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Dude's electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.
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?
Tennessee...
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.
They started the meeting with a prayer about "keeping their minds on the children", followed by the most robotic sounding pledge of allegiance I've ever heard, and then they proceeded to pardon the predator, mostly using religious "grace" as a justification. America!
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.
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"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.
why would he be removed? he goes to church on Sunday.
also, bring back punching people in the face in public
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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.
How do we know holding them accountable doesn't work? We've never actually tried it.
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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.
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.
Honestly it helps me understand what kind of peace you are talking about. Property is a very personal thing for people because of the lack of peace. But consider me awake and listening. Any book or media recommendations?
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