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[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Comedian Gianmarco Soresi on why R. Kelly is not a pedophile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6C2KL_S9o

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I've always blamed marketing.

For those who don't know: Over the last 80 years, public relations, marketing, and ad agencies have spent trillions of dollars using Freudian psychology to engineer humans to believe three things:

  • youth is desirable — aging is death

  • sex is satisfaction — denial is death

  • success satisfies desires — failure is death

This is why youthful, feminine humans are used to sell products. They appeal to women who are conditioned into supportive roles and appearing desirable and men who are conditioned into seeking satisfaction and conquest of the desirable. A youthful, sexualized image yields success. Sex sells.

The person you can thank for this is named Edward Bernays. He is the father of public relations as an industry and wrote the book "Propaganda" in — get this — 1928.

Reengineering us to believe that a mid-40s single, black, mother of three who works two jobs and volunteers in the community on Sunday into the most desirable human image and we would have an entirely different world.

This world is based on the Paris Hilton sex tape.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He should be in prison instead and we do mean it this time democrats

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never been aware of Thomas Jefferson being into women in that age range. Can you expand on that / pass resources for further research?

Asking primarily because I tend to favor Jefferson among the founding fathers. I'd be very disappointed if he was actually into.....that. But want to be sure I have an accurate picture of historical figures.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Jefferson was a massive hypocrite. A slave owner who often spoke of freedom. People of the time called him out for the hypocrisy.

But specifically, it's been proven through genetic testing that he impregnated one of his slaves, who was the much younger half sister of his wife, because Jefferson got his slaves from his slave dealing father in law, who also raped his slaves.

More hypocrisy, Jefferson wrote about how Americans should live idyllic lives on small farms in touch with nature, and ran a slave powered nail factory.

Specifically, young teen boys, because their hands were smaller, and could more easily operate the dangerous equipment.

There's so much more, and all of it bad.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Have a fun listen to the 4(?) part Behind the Bastards episode on ol Tommy

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Tbf, it is very relevant in discussions/for decisions about actual solutions, mitigations and treatments.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Actual solutions are to hold the people who raped a 13 year old accountable.

I don't really give a shit which less specific term you want to use. 13.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we're being fair, is the couch fucker having discussions/decisions about actual solutions, mitigations, and treatments?

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, if king Trump likes fucking post-pubescent children, then they need names and definitions for that when they attempt to legalize it.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

And while we're being honest, I find actual pedophilia waayyy worse/abhorrent, so I don't like pedos getting the slight reputation boost by being grouped in with the "better" creeps.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

When they're saying "barely legal 15 year olds" then that's not the discussion.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago