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[–] 86 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

It makes me think of the rich assholes in Altered Carbon. They’ve lived so long in the most athletic and pristine “sleeves” that they’re essentially bored of life and their whims just get more and more unhinged, because they have zero moral checks and balances. It’s affluenza. Parasites in society that drag us all down with them.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    While I fully agree, the meme kind of misses the point.

    Money is power and power is the ability to do what you want. Once you get so much that you can do anything that society allows, if it’s gone to your head and corrupted you, you see the social taboos of society as a restriction on your freedom.

    That’s why they always talk about freedom and that we should be removing social and government barriers, they reached the limit and honestly don’t know where to go from there.

    They have spent their entire lives gaining privileges through more money and can’t conceive of any other way to live.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago

    This also has cause and effect backwards in many cases. People who do awful things are ripe for blackmailing and controlling, so they get inserted/promoted to important positions to act favourably for those running the blackmailing. (eg the Epstein files)

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’m really starting to think pedophilia isn’t a sexual orientation at all but rather a symptom of some sort of histrionic/narcissistic social/personality disorder.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    I imagine that power is a similar stimulant as drugs. The more you have, the more you want. And with any kind of addiction, it quickly becomes toxic. You're wealthy, so you want to be super rich. Once you're super rich you want to have direct power over people instead of just power through capital. One form of this may be political activities, lobbyism, propaganda, buying land, sport teams etc. Another can be sexual domination and abuse and getting away with it. It's all a form of 'I can do whatever I want'. I guess Trump admitted the sexual dimension several times ('grab em by the pussy').

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    [–] 13 points 4 months ago*

    Most are predatory with sociopathic traits, and child predation is the ultimate expression of that.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    It's about asserting power over the weaker by those who could.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    not to forget alot of scientists and artist for whom being in a VIP boys club and feeling special is apparently more important than being a decent human.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Preface: I am not attracted to kids!!!

    I'm gonna get roasted alive for this but here we go.

    I honestly think that, like a lot of other issues with humanity as a whole, this boils down to the fact that a lot more people are attracted to kids than they'll ever admit.

    I see it the same way with rapists and abusers. No one's gonna openly talk about being like that so they don't get caught but the fact that it's so common tells me it's not out of character to be done. Especially looking at history and how commonplace it was for grown adults to marry underage kids or sell them into sexual slavery.

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    You have to click on it, it's a gif of mice running towards food but the food has "CHILD PORN" over it. I was confused too

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The aforementioned scum flailing around until theres CSAM to consume.

    Porn is not a valid term for it.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    I'm a little confused here.

    We know for a fact they're predominantly evil sociopaths, war criminals, child predators, liars, thieves, rapists, and murderers, among other, equally horrifying crimes.

    But we're still not shooting them on sight. How come?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    May be we do. One thing that has been stuck in my head for a long while: I have something to lose, and I have people to care about, same as many others. So I am not running around killing every bastard. But - there are people who have nothing to lose, no family etc. - what about them?

    The answer may be quite simple: even when they do punish some bastards, I do not get to hear about this, because guess who controls the media. Yes, it doesn't cover "haven't heard anything like it at all" - but making it "almost didn't hear about it" for me is definitely possible

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    there are people who have nothing to lose, no family etc. - what about them?

    All I'm going to say is that squeezing the middle class like they have been is going to create a lot terminally ill people with otherwise treatable disease. Those people may very well be incredibly pissed off, along with family, and also have the time and resources to do things that might be life-ending anyway.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Because we'd get caught and then destroyed in the media by the elite who want to keep doing it.

    Can you imagine the outcry from the hardliners of either major US political party if someone with even minor leanings towards their "enemy" kills one of their elite?

    The reality is, while many people say they'd willingly do that, the vast majority of people have too much to lose if they do, and they know it.

    That's the real issue. The political elite have been pushing us right up to the breaking point for 100s of years, and they've learned just how far they can go without starting an actual revolution.

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