Half the school board thinks Keith deserves a third chance (that’s right, not his first time making inappropriate comments to a child).
They say only he can decide if he wants to step down. They did vote in favor of censuring him. The rest of the school board members that laughed during the comment and touching of a child faced no repercussion. Some even pretended to be offended during the emergency hearing.
Yeah, but… think about it. We haven’t seen the girl. What if she was, like, REALLY hot? A complete fucking smoke show. 10/10. One of the ones you might sneak into a dressing room at beauty pageant to see. Or maybe even hop on a private plane to meet on some luxurious island. Or even carry across state lines. I don’t think we should pass judgement on this man until we determine if he was a pedophile, a pedophile, or a pedophile.
Edit: Also, if reading the first few lines of this post made your stomach twist a little, then you are one of the good ones. Keep it up. The world needs more of you and less of this douche nozzle.
The first few lines did have me thinking ’ I don’t know where you’re going with this one bro…’
You act like you’ve never stared at a teenager’s ass. I used to spend hours doing it. Hell, I think some of them even liked when I looked at them. Mind you, this was way back when I was a teenager. I couldn’t help but double up the joke, but worse.
Side note… I did watch the vid. She was pretty and all. But she was dressed far more conservatively than most high school girls. Certainly not dressed to look hot. So if he can’t keep his mind off the underage girl dressed conservatively, what would happen if he saw a bare midriff…
what would happen if he saw a bare midriff…
I dunno – Boner City?
Good ole boys gonna good ole boy
Maybe I’m being unfair to someone out there, but I kinda like the term “rednecks.”
This is literally a Good Ole Boy network at work. It looks like he’s a dairy farmer, though how much actual labor he does is anyone’s guess. He may also be a redneck, but he’s a good ole boy, and this is what that looks like when that system is working.
Yeap, good points.
Good ole boys are the political in group in small towns. Generally they have good jobs and are seen by locals as community leaders of some sort. Rednecks are basically anyone who enjoys things typically associated with rural living. Anyone can be a redneck and there are plenty of rednecks in jail for way less serious things than child abuse.
TBH, there’s an intentional slander element I’m going for.
The idea being that such ‘community leaders’ are little more than rednecks to me, at the end of the day. And I’m not sure I agree about the ‘rural living’ definition. Nothing wrong with rural life IMO, but rednecks are moreso representative to me of toxic actors amongst such folks.
Jeff Foxworthy’s entire oeuvre in shambles.
oeuvre
Btw, that’s a great, but hard word to learn in French. Took me like 10x to pronounce it correctly, so I might just be a…
Redneck is something else
“Redneck” implies working class (because it’s traditionally caused by getting sunburned from working out in a field) in a way that “good ol’ boy” does not.
The idea of a redneck community leader is an oxymoron.
I’d say the term has undergone what happens with many other definitions over the years, i.e. it’s shifted somewhat in meaning. More than just being about an outdoor worker, I think it implies a certain type of conduct and attitude.
And I absolutely meant it as a slander to those ‘community leaders,’ as explained earlier.
I always thought of the striking West Virginia coal miners as rednecks, and some of them were community leaders. But times and terms change.
Okay, being specifically a labor leader is the exception that proves the rule, because that’s a role in opposition to the establishment, not part of it.
It’s likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.
Thank God. I was worried we were going to hold men accountable for once
Hi, man here. I just wanted to say that not all men are like this. But also as a man, I’d like to say there are too many men that ARE like this.
And just so everybody is clear, “too many” is any number above zero.
Hi, man here as well. We don’t need more men apologists.
If you make a habit of punching those adjacent to you, there will be a moment when no one is behind you for anything.
I’m going to continue to advocate for those not in power until the power dynamic switches.
No one said stop.
Hi, man here.
Fuck misogyny and misandry. There is no excuse to be prejudiced.
He should have his computer confiscated and searched. It’s a cinch this fucker has a TB of CSAM in an unencrypted HD just waiting to be found.
Almost a million in England and Wales alone https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/eight-in-10-convicted-in-uk-over-child-abuse-images-avoid-prison-nca-says
Yeah but it’s back to the “good ole boy”network here. Not excusing the guy but there are assholes everywhere. However it t makes a huge difference whether their behavior is acceptable or not.
I like to believe that in most places people would be horrified and he would have immediately been discouraged/cesured/sanctioned and never do that again
Yep, men always get away with it, that’s why they closed all the male jails
What if I told you politically connected men get to sexually harass and abuse at will while marginalized men get imprisoned over weed?
You are a mythic creature. Don’t let anyone try to sell you on anything different.
marginalized men get imprisoned over weed?
now that can’t be, Nurse_robot already said that men were not held accountable.
(Getting imprisoned over weed isn’t being held accountable)
… What?
well, you’re saying men aren’t held accountable. That explains why the jails that held men in prison for committing crimes all closed down, because the men are not held accountable.
Talk to some women about their experiences with men doing creepy shit and facing no consequences. I bet you every single woman in your life will have stories
wow, very impressive. But men are held accountable, but certain people abuse their social standing. I’m amazed at the tru fax you are spittin’
And yet you’re complaining in another thread that Trump isn’t being held accountable for his actions (which I agree with, he should be in prison). You’re inconsistent and hypocritical.
No, irony would be if in another thread, I went “oh not, womens getting away with it AGAIN. Women are never held accountable”. I want people in power to be held accountable, I just don’t want to make up how certain genders or races or whatever get away with it.
Because we know who gets away with it : the rich and powerful.
nice job blindly taking the comment at face value while completely ignoring the context.
Maybe people i want to align with should stop using poisoned narratives so my causes don’t get screwed over
The bar is so low, yet the US keeps effortlessly limboing under it
YES! Exactly like that!
Why are you Libtards up in Arms about THIS? Being a Pedophile is as American as Apple Pie!
-Republicans who show up ARMED to Children’s Hospitals to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!
Sadly, as much as it’s a joke in this commentary, it is.
We went from Lawrence King and his ring in the 80’s and early 90’s to Epstein in the 90’s and 00’s, and both were publicly and evidently connected to the highest levels of the US government. King’s ring also had mysterious deaths, including the lead investigator and his son being killed in a plane crash.
Good thing Epstein and Ghislaine were caught and all that nonsense is over with. Yep. Definitely not happening anymore.
Willing to put a month’s wages down on which party he’s affiliated with.
Really either one honestly. The dems are just better at hiding it.
lmao
literal pedo president started a war to distract from his pedo files and your response is both sides same
We’re just gonna pretend the Clintons weren’t part of the pedo files?
tell you what, Trump can release the full unredacted Epstein files and we can find out together
Agreed! However, Biden also could’ve released the files.
Any current senator, or from the past 5 years, could release the full unredacted files but are actively choosing not to.
sure and if Biden was currently president I’d be on board caring about it right now
hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges are possible after but I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment
single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further, worrying about anything else is like trying to diagnose cancer while the patient is bleeding out from a gut wound
even if the Epstein files were not a thing that would still be true, there are so many other ways he has destroyed this country for the foreseeable future
he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone, literal traitor for profit during war time
He didn’t need to know. It’s a knee-jerk politician reaction to not release ingo if it may hurt anyone in thier party… or the oligarchy.
hell if we can prove he knew and hid it I’m even fine exploring if charges
We can though. They’ve all had the full unredacted files since 2019 and have had plenty of partial evidence since 2008.
I’m sure as fuck not wasting any effort caring about that this very moment
You should because until you do everything will continue to get worse.
single biggest issue is getting Trump to stop fucking this country up further,
The tail doesn’t wag the dog, Trump is a symptom not the root cause. The issue with your metaphor is that the cancer and bleeding out are unrelated.
he should hang for the highest top secret leaks alone
That and so much more! It’s never going to happen though without severe political upheaval because almost anyone who would order that execution has hands which are similarly bloody.
While your statement is popular, my response was to a bet that the subject of this post was a republican because he is inappropriate with minors.
My response to trump in general would probably get me banned.saying dems are the same as repubs just better at hiding it is some silly shit in 2026
individual examples exist but anyone with eyes can tell the difference in trend
do you remember Al Fraken? dude didn’t even do anything wrong
Democrats and Republicans are really the same underneath. The mental illness that drives both to seek power and influence is the core of why they choose that profession. That same mental illness is what drives the type of pedophilia they commonly have. Democrats have learned to be more discreet because it will affect their success more. Republicans have learned the opposite. It probably even helps Republicans success in some cases.
trump got elected twice
eric swawell
the obsession some people have with trying to justify their bad choices is lol
anyone that can’t tell the difference is a fucking moron
What are you even saying?
No one was talking about justifying anything. Pretty sure we were talking about betting on which party a guy was from based on his inappropriate comments to a minor.
Nah son as willing as I am to bash Dems at every available opportunity, only Republicans are consistently pedophilic
Hm. You wanna fact check that? https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1
Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues
Hahah wow these sources you linked to are so trustworthy! /s
Read the list of dems. Someone who clearly is biased against dems did the work of looking that all up to support their biased opinion. But that doesn’t mean the data is wrong. Their conclusions from it are not the same as the data.
democratic donor and billionaire, Jeffrey Epstein
LM fucking AO
Epstein was an equal opportunity scumbag. This is already well known. He donated to both sides, and had clients from both sides. And all of them should go down no matter what party they are from.
This is hilarious omg
Bothsiding pedophilia.
Huh…what stage of denial is that again?
Both sides are https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1 And both should be punished. I used “punished” because my real opinion is probably against some rule.
Shill or troll? Because you can’t possibly be this fucking dumb
Its reasonable to assume there is a ‘good’ party if youre not from here, but you dont understand american culture. We kill our heroes here.
Theres less baroque monsters and absolutely unbelievable monsters.
Dumb is assuming that because one side is really bad, that the other side is angels.
https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1And wait, who would I be shilling for? I said nothing positive about anyone.
Oh, just fuck off…
I’d like to downvote and say no that’s wrong.
But I don’t know that’s wrong, I’d really like to think it and belive it because the VAST majority of history has put them on the right. But that could just be confirmation bias.
The right certain has their share of horrible people.
Sadly, it isn’t wrong. I’m pretty solidly anti-politician. We need better people making important decisions. https://groups.google.com/g/can.politics/c/6iODV2wYtE0?pli=1
There are links to Britebart and fucking Newsmax in there and you’re posting that stupid link everywhere.
Stop being a moron.
You can fact check the relevant parts and skip the rest. Or you can pretend that just because some of the information in their is clearly biased, and the intent of the poster is clearly biased, that all of the information is wrong. Kinda sounds like the average fox news viewer claiming fake news at anything coming from a left leaning source.
“The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” --Lt. Gen. David Morrison, former head of Australian Army.
Amusingly he was talking about a situation where male soldiers were sexually assaulting female soldiers, while a larger group of servicemembers knew this was happening but did nothing to stop or report or prevent it.
He’s 100% right though. The standard this school board walks past, and thus the standard they accept, is one of their own sexually harassing a teenage girl.
Every one of them that laughed or snickered or whatever should be removed.
We’ve been “walking past” this since at least 1961. Americans excell at ignoring our check engine lights.
You had genocide and slavery sitting right there and you went with economics for your dashboard analogy, a bold choice.
We’ve been walking past an awful lot for very long. We got comfortable. We got lazy. The Framers set up a pretty good system for us and after WWII and Vietnam and the civil rights movement, we basically all decided that we had fixed our society and government and we could sit back and crack open a cold one.
After WWII a cabal of rich elites started plotting to undo everything FDRs New Deal had done.
The citizenry aren’t blameless but it’s important to understand why we’re in this spot.
No it’s okay everyone, because that one school board guy is going to pray about it, and that’ll fix everything! /s
What a fucking joke. This is the third time the guy has done this. He, and the entire board, should be fired.
why would he be removed? he goes to church on Sunday.
also, bring back punching people in the face in public
I seriously wonder how far away the US is from stoning women and girls to death for not being virgins…
I think stoning is too closely associated with Islam/Arabic nations, whipping or nailing to a cross would be more appropriate for the US
No, the Old Testament definitely advocates for stoning. That was what the whole “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” thing in the New Testament is referring to. Jesus was stopping a stoning. But many conservative Christians conveniently forget that the New Testament is a thing, and refer almost exclusively to the Old Testament for their teachings.
You’re absolutely correct! But do you expect the average American to have read the Bible? let alone the old testament?
But do you expect the average American to have read
There’s not one man in that entire city who is willing to do thirty days in jail to kick this guy’s ass?
Not one bored retiree with honor?
Curious, when’s the last time you took a misdemeanor to kick some guy’s ass in jail?
About ten-eleven years ago, I hit a guy in a grocery store because I saw him bitch-slap his preschool aged daughter who had asked for cheerios.
It was crazy because his wife stepped to me after that. I have never hit a woman, but that mouthy trashmonster was almost my first. I was a lot more naive than I am now, because I honestly thought she’d be appreciative of the fact that the guy bleeding on the floor was no longer assaulting her 3 or 4 year old sweetheart. Instead, she got in my face and started screaming.
I said some choice words that I will not repeat as they were offensive and, at times, misogynistic.
Anyway, I left before any cops got called so I didn’t get arrested or face any consequences. Left my cart in the aisle and shopped across town later than night.
Would happily do it again.
Respect. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.
Sadly, he probably didn’t change the situation for that poor kid.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
Love that copy pasta lol
Solid
So your are saying there are no conditions where you would ever take a charge? Like if a woman or child is being harmed in public, you wouldn’t defend them? In self defense there is always the chance of having a assault and battery charge.
Tennessee…
I’m a dentist and we get summaries of the disciplinary actions taken by our board. A few years ago, there was a male dentist who finally lost his licence for grabbing patients’ and staff’s breasts. The summary read that he had been disciplined for this five times already and they were only just waking up to the fact that he should no longer be licensed to practice.
Personally, I’d let my dentist grope me if he had a high enough success rate. I did some research a while ago, and a dentist whose work consistently fails will probably never lose his license. The patient won’t be able to successfully sue them and there probably won’t be an investigation. It’s a “buyer beware” scenario.
Are you ok?
Aside from the hole in my tooth, I’m fine. I’m speaking as someone who is currently making the transition from a negligent dentist. Since losing a tooth is a cosmetic issue, failing to identify a problem that can be clearly seen on an x-ray for over a year doesn’t meet the standard of harm necessary for consequences. The selective failure of recent filling might have happened regardless.
…at this point, I’d have been less upset if this dude groped me. I’d let Satan work on me if he was a competent dentist.
I’m sorry you’re going through that, and can only imagine how much anger you would have towards someone you paid for care, who provided care below the standard you expected, and you have no recourse. Physical pain blows, too. Weird take to welcome sexual assault, but it’s clear how frustrated you are.
Judging from the post history we can be fairly sure that nope.
Wheres all the ‘kill your local pedophile’ talk now?
Are you making a call for action while sitting behind a keyboard? Are you asking for help with your own “extrajudicial plans”, or are you simply “asking questions”? What’s the point of your comment?
Fuck pedophiles and all, but what the shit are you doing about it, that you’re just gonna call out into the void with “tough speak”, asking why nobody’s killing people?
Why are violent-instagations often coming from like day old accounts? It’s like someone wants to stoke radicalization through violent rhetoric
Lemmy unironically is worse about moderation in literally every way compared to reddit. Calls to violence, obvious propaganda, and bots are all way more rampant. The only reason I use it at all is because it surfaces news articles I’d otherwise never see.
Lemmy unironically is worse about moderation in literally every way compared to reddit.
No! Bad. Bad!!!
Reddit is bottom-of-the-barrel moderation, away with you
p.s. what’s wrong with propaganda? I can’t even
I wish I didn’t have to struggle against Poe’s Law :(
Don’t be sad, every joke is improved with a “straight man” reaction, don’t you think?
I’m gay though :'(
Honestly, I kinda enjoy the “critical thinking” aspect of it. Knowing full well that I’m going to see more propaganda material, because of less moderation… I get a chance to see obvious social engineering, and I think it helps me to spot it in the wild
It kinda forces me to form my own opinions, if that makes sense? There’s so many hardline opinions around here, that it helps me to see the extremes. Idk, I often find it engaging
It is an eye-opening experience, for sure. But the most important thing to keep in mind is “You Are Not Immune To Propaganda.” There is an entire category of propaganda engineered to be seen just because it pushes people in the opposite direction. Nations like Russia deliberately support every potential “direction” of radicalization for the sole and specific purpose of fragmentation. Or, in the words of Abraham Lincoln: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
You’re absolutely correct. I usually try to ground myself in “love not anger” type thing, but I know I’m not special and will still fall victim to propaganda. So I try to keep an open mind, and just learn while checking my bias as much as I can. It’s not perfect by any means, but like a muscle that has to be exercised
The most powerful groups are united, and I’d love to see a day where that united group is simply “human”. A hopeless optimist I guess
justastranger-- so it seems like your options are to file a lawsuit and get it taken care of, or take your crybaby whining elsewhere. Free speech rules apply here and those are legally gated by incitement tests you can read about and act upon as needed. Its all laid out for you, so go take care of it and let us know how it goes. And thanks for standing up for this poor poor school board member.
How cute, a strawman. So which are you?
e: either a bot or psychotic, their comment history doesn’t make a lick of sense
Their comment to you doesn’t even make sense. It’s literally just inciteful nonsense, as if they’re responding to the wrong person… except they specifically mentioned you. What the fuck ever lol
Yeah im totally a cop, and not referencing this guy’ party’s big queerphobic slander-slogan now that applies explicitly to him.
Go home bot, you’re drunk
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Well, look, not strangling the children a school board member rapes is just unreasonable. It adds intimidation of victims as an entire extra step! The school board is ready to talk when you have a seripus proposal to present.
What if we fired a dozen teachers to hire a full-time victim intimidator for each board member?
Dude’s electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.
Absofuckinglutely
Oh yay, my hometown
There’s a petition you can sign to remove him. I saw it yesterday.
Same
At least we’re not Erwin…
My next kobold will also loathe someone called “Erwin”. They sound like a real twit.
🤣
Erwin TN is a little town off the Appalachian Trail. It’s kinda notorious as a sundown town and Klan hotbed. Also they hanged an elephant once.
So, please do 🤣
Was that the time they were electrocuting elephants for science & lols? (fucking Edison) 🤮🤬
Nah, it was an escaped circus elephant that had killed someone. They brought in a crane and hanged it.
TBF, that was the “most humane” way they seemed to be able to think of, back then. Not excusing any of it in the slightest. Just let that sit for a minute, is all.
At that moment in time, a sufficient number of people aware of this standard were ok with said bullshit —despite everything about it screaming no-effort Americana-brand snow-job (or simply couldn’t be arsed to GAF, sure).
FWIW: Edison filmed a fucking documentary of Topsy’s 1903 electrocution, the absolute psychopath. 😱🤮😭🤮🤬
(CW: animal abuse, murder, etc. Please be aware that it is gut-wrenching, and will likely stick with you. Proceed at your discretion.)
Once again, this was a sundown town in the Jim Crow South. They did all this while lynchings took place not far away.
Im not inclined to sympathize with those who hanged the elephant.
Im not saying youre wrong. Im just saying fuck Erwin
Oh yeah and was the site of Impact Plastics, the company that killed 4 women during Hurricane Helene by waiting until the parking lot was under 3 feet of water to evacuate the building.
Yup, that’s Erwin alright!
if you still live there, you have a moral obligation to go egg this guy’s house
Think about what it’s said and done when cameras are off.
