Users constantly offer me to sit, sometimes repeatedly. And while I appreciate the gesture, that chair means I am capitulating to the machine that is taunting me with its flippant disregard for my desire to doom scroll, drink caffeine, and talk shit on the service desk in the secret group chat from the comfort of my own desk.

For context, on another post about Steven Tyler from Aerosmith openly stating he finds his underage daughter to be sexually attractive, @weps@lemmy.world said that this actually isn't weird at all and any father who doesn't feel the same way doesn't love his children:

@weps@lemmy.world would you consider incest, rape, and pedophilia to be forced weird sexual stuff?

Aw shucks, I fight bigots and fascists just for the warm tingly feeling <3

Would you like me to provide screenshots of you being a mysogynist? That can be arranged. You did not just call someone pretty. You called them a pretty girl, a chick, commented on their makeup use, and then used all of that to claim that they were too dumb to understand the topic. The topic itself? The woman, a diabetic, was doing an incredible service to the world by pointing out and making it known that Dexcom is making diabetic care harder for their clients intentionally. You then also made a very off-putting comment about well groomed boys before running off.

I will reiterate that gender and sexual orientation is not correlated to someone being a sexual abuser. Boiling it down to "they're gay and repressed so they commit crimes" is disgusting and you know it. This is not up for debate, it is not a fact. It is right wing propaganda to isolate and vilify minority groups.

Perhaps instead of using that tired and honestly offensive "minorities around me are targeted so I'll use my judgement for them" dialogue, you should shut the fuck up and actually listen to what they say. I showed your comment to several people in my very LGBTQ heavy social group today, and the consensus was that you were being a vile pig. You won't reflect on that even for a moment, though.

That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it is, that’s not my fault. And if it was, I didn’t mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.

Anthony Kiedis from RHCP is another example I'm vocal about whenever that band comes up. Unfortunately, most people don't seem to know that he openly admits to "dating" children on a fairly regular basis with no remorse, and the rest of the band seems to be into it as they continue to perform together.

People tend to not like having their parasocial relationships questioned, but it's important to remind ourselves and others that we don't know these people and to not worship them just because they're "rockstars."

Steven Tyler is a rapist because he chooses to be a rapist, and he is a pedophile because he refuses to get treatment for a mental illness that urges him to abuse children. It has NOTHING to do with his gender or sexual identity, as "rapist and pedophile" is not a gender or sexual identity. You can call these people out for their actual crimes without gay bashing. Someone being afraid, anxious, unsure of how to express their identity to others, or just not wanting to, does not turn them into a sexual predator. It's entirely unrelated, and it's common right wing rhetoric to correlate LGBTQ identity with sexual abuse propensity.

I already have you tagged as a mysogynist, so the benefit of the doubt that you're accidentally being an ignorant bigot is flimsy at best

And this is a thread about Australian police accessing private phone data, unrelated to their stops. If you can't see the parallels, that's on you.

We don't have to wonder. Samuel Tunick is being federally prosecuted for exactly that. As far as I remember, he didn't even trigger the wipe himself, ICE did while fumbling with his phone when he correctly shut the fuck up after they demanded his pin. They arrested him (a legal US citizen) and charged him with concealing and destroying CSAM material.

According to recent articles, almost 6 months later and the court has just now agreed that ICE lied about the events and evidence they claimed existed. 6 months of his life for getting off a plane in an airport, randomly being detained, and committing the "crime" of wanting his privacy respected on a device he owns.

For those who somehow struggle with the point being made here: Police stopping you, demanding access to your private device, and then railroading you through the system for standing up for yourself is fascism regardless of the nation it takes place in. It's naive to assume police in other countries somehow have more altruistic goals or intentions when they do the exact same things with the exact same rhetoric.

Don't believe her bullshit. She helped them with literally everything she is now claiming to oppose. Its part of the strategy, her "feud" with MAGA is another grift. This is how they sway centrists to fascism, by having one mouthpiece suddenly become "reasonable" and ease moderates into the pool when they're too afraid to cannonball into the deep end.

You making it about gender (pretty girl, chick, commenting on makeup use) shows the opposite, that you have no expertise and little education on the topic. Educated and confident debaters don't need ad hominem fallacies to dog whistle for other bad faith spectators to come in and dog pile their opponent.

Seeing as you want to repeatedly use this person's gender identity as a method to try to belittle their argument and cause, I'm going to tag you as a mysoginist and assume whatever you have to say about this is in bad faith and rooted in sexism. Be a better person.