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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#175176: Feb 20th 2017 at 10:52:06 PM

"“The president has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.”"

funny thing is, he dont, he is just saying he is not antisemitic which is not the same about WHAT WILL HE DO against anti semitism, is the whole "is not racism if I said so" typical of republican party.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#175177: Feb 20th 2017 at 11:17:32 PM

Anyone else finding it kind of weird that pedophilia is apparently where the alt-right draws the line?

To add to what others have said, they don't. Not if it's man-on-woman padeophilia. In fact some of the incel guys, who often overlap with the alt-right, actively campaign for that to be legalized.

Gay paedophilia is another story though.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#175178: Feb 20th 2017 at 11:44:31 PM

Oh god, don't get me started on their "femogamy" bullshit.

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#175179: Feb 21st 2017 at 12:35:03 AM

What.

Let me rephrase that: Oh wow, it is waaay too late at night/early in the morning for me to look that up and probably get very annoyed. Think I probably get the general idea, though.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#175180: Feb 21st 2017 at 2:55:56 AM

List of Things Progressives Should Do Before Primarying Joe Manchin

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#175181: Feb 21st 2017 at 3:25:21 AM

Before going easy on O'Reilly, keep in mind he defended the electoral college thusly:

"...Left wants power taken away from the white establishment. They want a profound change in the way America is run. Taking voting power away from the white precincts is the quickest way to do that."

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#175182: Feb 21st 2017 at 4:19:45 AM

He makes it sound like a bad thing.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#175183: Feb 21st 2017 at 5:46:42 AM

[WaPo] The Trump White House is already cooking the books. Make America Argentina Again tongue.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#175184: Feb 21st 2017 at 6:03:46 AM

Even Richard Spencer has standards, it seems.

All we need now are soundbites from Bashar al-Assad, Kim Jong-un, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Alexander Lukashenko and Geert Wilders, then maybe he might be able to draw attention to his self-published book*

*Which had a smaller than advertised print run because of course he would embezzle most of the money.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#175185: Feb 21st 2017 at 6:25:09 AM

Reuters reveals that while Pence was giving his speech to the EU, Bannon held a secret meeting with German diplomats stressing his, and by extension the president's, support of anti-eu right wing nationalist movements on the continent.

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#175186: Feb 21st 2017 at 6:37:56 AM

[up] Probably talking about the formation of Oceania?

The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#175187: Feb 21st 2017 at 7:01:09 AM

[up][up]Fucking arsonists.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#175188: Feb 21st 2017 at 7:05:59 AM

This may be useful. :) http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-overthrowing-government/

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#175190: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:11:59 AM

So...is this seriously the end of Milo? Is that really what this is shaping up to be?

Alright, I'm morbidly curious - how exactly did he defend pedophilia?

Oh God! Natural light!
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#175191: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:20:13 AM

He essentially said older men raping LGBT children "helps them discover who they are."

From the same interview-

But you know what? I’m grateful for Father Michael (his rapist). I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#175192: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:22:29 AM

Wow, yeah, okay.

I mean I already knew he was a piece of shit, but...

I don't know - I guess I just think that there's at least one line that even the biggest pieces of shit won't cross, and that for many of them, that line is...well, this.

Shows what I know, I guess.

edited 21st Feb '17 8:23:21 AM by KarkatTheDalek

Oh God! Natural light!
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#175193: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:25:16 AM

It can be pretty much summed up as: it is A-OK to stick your dick in a 13 years old kid if he somehow gives meaningful consent and societies strict views on the subject harm sexually active teenagers.

Heavy:READ: Transcript of Milo Yiannopoulos Video on Pedophilia

Milo: “This is a controversial point of view I accept. We get hung up on this kind of child abuse stuff to the point where we’re heavily policing even relationships between consenting adults, you know grad students and professors at universities.”

The men in the joint video interview then discuss Milo’s experience at age 14.

Another man says: “The whole consent thing for me. It’s not this black and white thing that people try to paint it. Are there some 13-year-olds out there capable of giving informed consent to have sex with an adult, probably…

The man says, “The reason these age of consent laws exist is because we have to set some kind of a barometer here, we’ve got to pick some kind of an age…”

Milo: “The law is probably about right, that’s probably roughly the right age. I think it’s probably about okay, but there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world by the way. In many cases actually those relationships with older men…This is one reason I hate the left. This stupid one size fits all policing of culture. (People speak over each other). This sort of arbitrary and oppressive idea of consent, which totally destroys you know understanding that many of us have. The complexities and subtleties and complicated nature of many relationships. You know, people are messy and complex. In the homosexual world particularly. Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming of age relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable and sort of a rock where they can’t speak to their parents. Some of those relationships are the most -”

It sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me, another man says, interrupting Milo.

Milo: “And you know what, I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.”

Other people talk. Oh my God, I can’t handle it, one man says. The next thing in line is going to be pedophilia…says another man.

Milo: “You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13-years-old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. Who have not gone through puberty. Who are too young to be able (unclear and cut off by others)…That’s not what we are talking about. You don’t understand what pedophilia is if you are saying I’m defending it because I’m certainly not.”

Another man said, “You are advocating for cross generational relationships here, can we be honest about that?”

Milo: “Yeah, I don’t mind admitting that. I think particularly in the gay world and outside the Catholic church, if that’s where some of you want to go with this, I think in the gay world, some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys they can even save those young boys, from desolation, from suicide (people talk over each other)… providing they’re consensual.”

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KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
#175194: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:28:48 AM

That fucking...

I really hope this ruins him.

Oh God! Natural light!
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#175195: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:33:46 AM

[up]In a fair world, it most certainly would. And in a fair world, Trump telling everyone to 'grab em by the pussy' would have ruined him.

3 guesses as to just what kind of world this is.tongue

edited 21st Feb '17 8:34:13 AM by kkhohoho

Pseudopartition Screaming Into The Void from The Cretaeceous Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Screaming Into The Void
#175196: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:37:09 AM

Some of his defenders kept saying "he's not talking about actual pedophilia," but I couldn't bring myself to actually watch the video so thank you for posting that transcript. He's... literally using the sort of language that child abusers use to justify their crimes. Wow.

vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#175197: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:37:30 AM

The guy could have made an argument about lower age of consent about how teenagers engage in sex at 14 or 15 years of age so the law should reflect that, but making a "pederasty is character building" argument smacks of self-delusion.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#175199: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:42:18 AM

"It builds character!"

PhiSat Planeswalker from Everywhere and Nowhere Since: Jan, 2011
Planeswalker
#175200: Feb 21st 2017 at 8:44:54 AM

Link down.

Oissu!

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