It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.

  • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I find it preposterous that you're talking about "power dynamics" when the 25 year old in this situation, at the time, was a poor intern at The Young Turks (making $25,000 / year in Los Angeles) who has lifelong body dysmorphia from being overweight as a teenager. While on the other hand, the 19 year old in this situation was literally

    spoiler

    Michael Jackson's daughter.

    I mean, if anything, the 19 year old had more power in that relationship. She literally had 1,000,000 x more money than he did, at the time. He was literally a broke-ass boy toy to her. Do you not get that? Does six years of age make up for millions of dollars? And a nineteen year old who grew up in that environment is going to be very, very mature for their age.

    tl;dr: LET STRAIGHT WOMEN HAVE BOY TOYS.

    She consents. He consents. They were both adults. They were both mature. They are literally still friends with each other, on good terms. Please don't fall into the negative side of being parasocial. This is not even something worth talking about.

      • dead [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Liberalsocialist "coincidentally" created a drama thread at the same time that Destiny is trying to create drama with Hasan Piker for having sex with a 19 year old when he was 25 years old.

        Liberalsocialist has a lot of posts that "coincidentally" align with Destiny. I think Liberalsocialist is a Destiny fan and constantly causing drama because of that.

        • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Firstly, this post is not about Hasan, that's why I didn't mention him until someone else did and I had to respond.

          Secondly, I hate Destiny. That guy literally platforms Nazis. I'm a liberal socialist, not a fascist.

          Thirdly, what the fuck is wrong with you? Why do you always fucking come to my posts and just attack me? Literally no one does that, but whenever you comment something on my posts, it's always not only negative, but now also just attacking me.

          • dead [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            You have a drama post every single day and people see that. Everyone sees that. I mostly ignore them. This is one of the few times that I comment on it.

      • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Sorry, there are already five comment threads on :reddit-logo: about this topic. So I just consolidated the info.

      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Please don't pay attention to this. This post is not about Hasan, though his drama is what inspired it.

              • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
                hexagon
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                2 years ago

                Everyone was discussing this without even mentioning Hasan until someone mentioned him and derailed the convo.

                  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
                    hexagon
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                    2 years ago

                    Way to twist the statistics. compare the number of comments mentioning hasan before to after this particular comment. only one person asked before if this was about hasan, to which i said no, but was inspired by his situation. that was it. we all discussed the issue. but this person had to fucking write a whole-ass novel about how hasan is not a pedo or whatever and now everyone is accusing me of being a destiny stan or a bit or whatever the fuck.

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This post was inspired by Hasan but is not about him, nor his specific situation. I'm not going to address your other points because they're irrelevant to this discussion which is about a topic much broader than that.

          • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I mean, it kind of feels like you're trying to gaslight people that were in perfectly harmless and healthy relationships into thinking that they need to see themselves as somehow sick / dirty / impure / sinners. So yes, it could be harmful. If Christianity can have negative effects on people's view of sex, then secular over-policing and internet with hunts can have the same effect.

      • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's not important, but Hasan Piker, Twitch streamer, had a short-term relationship with

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        Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson's daughter

        a few years ago. He was 24 and she was 19 at the time. People are trying to "cancel" him over this relationship. It's stupid.

          • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
            hexagon
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            2 years ago

            Firstly, this post is not about Hasan. That's why I didn't mention him. He inspired it and made me go down this line of reasoning, but that's it.

            Secondly, if it was Paris Jackson, it would be 19 and 26.

                  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
                    hexagon
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                    2 years ago

                    i didnt subtweet anyone. i didnt even fucking hint at this being anything other than a question and a statement. i made it clear, when brought up, that hasan inspired my line of questioning but that it isn't about him or his specific situation. this is about a broader issue but congratulations, you have successfully made it about hasan.

                  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
                    hexagon
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                    2 years ago

                    it did get brought up and i addressed it. but before this particular comment thread, everyone focused on the topic, not the hasan drama that preceeded it. but this dude had to make it about hasan and now half the new comments are about him. if i wanted to post about hasan, i'd do it. i've done it before.

      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        this is exactly why i didnt fucking mention him. i knew it would make the convo about him and not the issue i was talking about.