• Cherry@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    This puts the US admin in a weird spot. This guy is charged with possessing CA images. Will the USA protect him or hand him over?

    It kinda sets a precedence in a way on if pedos are protected or not. We all know the reality but in such a high profile situation like this where there is a charge and he is not politician what will they do?

    IMO, Given he is partially African American and generally operated out of the UK, they will hand him over, but that sends the very clear message pedos are to be punished.

    Interesting position that’s occurring here (I suspect by design of the UK) . The USA protects its pedophiles, however verbalizing protection of a non white not fully American pedophile is a possible stretch.

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      The US doesn’t protect pedos per se, it protects the disgustingly rich and those connected to them.

      It’s just that there’s a great deal of overlap between that group and the pedos

      I suspect Tate is not in the obscenely weathy group, or he wouldn’t have been imprisoned in the first place.

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t disagree with your assessment…but the fact they elected one to the highest office is a pretty powerful message (on normalization) to the rest of the world.

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          You seem to focus too much on the pedophilia. It’s not that these people like pedophilia. They like the rich. And if the rich are pedophiles, who cares, they are rich.

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            The love of rich is stronger than the hate of pedophiles, yes that is how it looks.

            I can’t understand it personally. Only one of those is actually a despicable crime. Worshiping rich is people idiotic to me, letting them be above the law, on that kinda crime goes well beyond idiotic.