• ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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    10 hours ago

    Libs think so highly of their shitty opinions.

    as soon as they get any pushback whatsoever: "Russia is here to fight me"

    as if any nation state finds it even remotely important enough to reply to your dumbass opinions on whatever culture war bullshit is going on at the moment.

    Russiagate broke these people's brains.

    • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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      1 hour ago

      Seriously, I feel like since the election campaign started in the US, everyone who doesn't side with them is automatically a russian bot. They're fucking delusional

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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      4 hours ago

      I'd say they are still suffering from sympathy McCarthyite Red Scare disorder.

      Russiagate was targeting aging White people who lived through and internalized the Red Russian menace and the weak-minded, brunchbrained libs of the younger generations are just the new carriers of the old virus.

      What only reading Harry Potter and avoiding theory does to you.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    11 hours ago

    It’s fascinating to see in real-time how the American political class never takes responsibility for anything and manages to find a new foreign threat to explain it. Americans can never do any wrong and if they do it’s because a foreign outsider told them to.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    11 hours ago

    I think 31 years is old enough to decide if hanging out with a worm and it's host body is a thing to do. Even if the worm is a charming continental that speaks 6 languages and knows how to play baccarat.

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    Age gap discourse is incredibly stupid. The problem with age is when fully developed adults take advantage of children or young adults who are not yet fully developed and thus vulnerable to manipulation. Once everyone is over 25 or so, it’s just adults fucking other adults. It’s wildly infantilizing to assume a fully capable and independent 31-year-old woman isn’t mature enough to be responsible for making bad decisions.

    This is not an endorsement of RFK in any way. I want to be clear that I would prefer that no one be having sex with RFK, and it would actually be really great if we never heard about him ever again.

  • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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    9 hours ago

    Some people can’t even achieve age gap!

    Even if we do away with the stigma and treat them as equals, we must also create factories that can patch up their pants so age gapless ppl don’t have to bear the embarrassment of wearing scrubbed up, holey inseam clothes!

      • wild_dog [they/them]
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        8 hours ago

        She was but she tried to split the progressive vote in 2022 when Kristen Gonzalez ran for NY State Senate and justified it by saying small business owners wanted her to run.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, she was originally co-chair of the Obungler campaign or something like that. One of those Occupy type so-called "progressives."

        obama-drone

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    "Age gap discourse" is a form of social violence that attempts to wrest away the hard won sexual agency of women by infantilizing a woman, removing all of her agency, portraying her as a literal child, and portraying her consensual relationships as sexual violence. And all this is done, not in private by concerned friends, but in front of the world. "Age gap discourse" is dragging a woman through the mud of the town square yelling "this child is being sexually abused!" And pretending it's feminism.

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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      4 hours ago

      God, I'm so glad about the Hexbear position on this session. I had an ex, "socialist" who always said any woman younger than like 30 was a "child" whenever it came to relationships or sex. We were together like 8 years and it would come up occasionally but any arguments I would make against it were just labeled "anti-feminist" or taking advantage or whatever. Of course when she was younger she could make the same choices but now other women couldn't because of power dynamics.

      I wouldn't be surprised if she was @LiberalSocialist@hexbear.net.

    • HarryLime [any]
      hexagon
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      12 hours ago

      At best it's a negation of the idea of "adult" as a concept, and at worst it's an attempt to say that it can never apply to women.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      9 hours ago

      wrest away the hard won sexual agency of women by infantilizing a woman, removing all of her agency

      After 20 some years of reading blogs, personal essays and other anecdotal accounts of personal trauma, I've honestly come to the conclusion that people don't have agency, or if they do, they don't want it. Especially when it comes to sex.

      Turns out humans are messy idiots who often choose to do things they almost immediately regret and often express a desire for society or some other "big other" to police their behaviors to prevent them from making decisions they regret. Most people do express this desire that literally because it runs up against our fetishized concept of "freedom", but I think it's a desire we all have and that all the "age gap" stuff is an manifestation of it, we want society to police our sex more so we don't consent to things we end up regretting.

        • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]
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          8 hours ago

          One of the episodes is him showing his massive surveillance system, the screen behind him is people doing various sex things, I think, and saying it's setting people free. I forget the nuances.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    12 hours ago

    Everyone I don't like is Russia and everyone I do like is a persecuted intellectual

  • miz [any, any]
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    11 hours ago

    is there even a relationship being alleged here? or is this "it's not fair for an interview subject to be older" like wtf