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    I have to see Trump’s fat ass in the news every day, can we get a criminal complaint about how that is harassment to our fucking eyes?

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        Oh, there are still people like you around? This is straight out of 2016, meaning you’re so dumb that you haven’t learned a single thing since then.

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          I think it was sarcasm, as in, it was Biden’s fault that trump had shit in his diaper. Like, Biden literally took a shit into trump’s diaper, because everything is Biden’s fault for the MAGat crowd

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    Ik this won’t be a popular take because, as evidenced by this very comment section even, critical thinking isn’t popular, but this is sexual harassment. Sending people porn non-consentually is sexual harassment. Yes, even when the person you’re sexually harassing a piece of shit themselves, is that seriously a hard concept to grasp?? This dude is a piece of shit too if he thinks it’s okay to send someone porn without consent.

    EDIT: Harassment not assault.

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      Did you read the linked article?

      If so, could you be so kind as to speak to why you disagree with its unusually thorough and detailed legal analysis of the matter at hand?

      The Shrek image may have been crude or vulgar. But in context, there is no serious argument Byrnes sent it to arouse anyone’s sexual interest, let alone that it satisfies the Miller test. Byrnes sent it to another adult, reportedly accompanied by political commentary describing Cirino as “Young Mussolini.” That’s protected political mockery, not obscenity.

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        Ha! People who can’t tell morals from ethics will argue with lawyers and claim the lawyers are fake, all day. No one knows more than a YouTube grad!

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          Wym?

          Morally, I’m neutral about the act of sending the photo. It’s crass but was sent to a GOP politician, so big shrug.

          Ethically, I think it violates the general principle of “don’t be a dick”, but see it as a nothingburger in the grand scheme of things.

          Semantically, I don’t think it’s sexual (*in the sense of anyone getting their rocks off) in any way, shape, or form, nor credibly assault. I don’t think the photo as shown in the article is remotely distressing to anyone imaginable except a deeply-repressed GOP closet case.

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        Look, I didn’t flash my dong to everyone in the train to arouse anyone’s sexual interest so there’s no serious argument it was obscene

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          Well, I did flash my dong to everyone in the gravy train explicitly to arouse sexual interest, which is the same reason I now turn the subject to testicular torsion. You’re gunna feel this. Brace yourself, and bless your heart!

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          Dicks are irrelevant. If you can genuinely look at the picture in that article and call it “porn” you’re even weirder than the fascist piece of shit it was sent to mock.

          It damn sure wouldn’t meet any legal definition.

          For someone who started off their diatribe by accusing everyone else of lacking critical thinking skills, you damn sure have t bothered to address any of the counterpoints or analysis anyone else has brought up. It’s almost like you lack critical thinking skills and are just reacting to vibes.

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            spreading rape apologia whether you know it or not.

            Kinda rich coming from someone whose definition of sexual assault is so broad (and thereby so cheapened) that it includes sending cartoon dicks to politicians.

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              I wonder how this person would qualify me touching my junk at the urinal. Since it involves touching an exposed penis, I suppose they would classify urinal usage as “public masturbation” and “sexual harassment” if anyone else is in the bathroom.

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      No, this is constitutionally protected political speech, as any court in the country will find when this winds up in front of them.

      Sending people porn non-consentually is sexual harassment.

      Questionable, but even granting that, public figures like politicians are a legally distinct kind of people who have to meet a much higher bar to claim communication is harassment, and this is a huge nothingburger. Larry Flynt is laughing from his grave.

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        These politicians have no idear what power mankind has at our fingertips. The ability to teleotransplace pornography into the enemy’s mind has been mastered by myself, as I am a top-secret American unit of protocol of the psychic variety, I stare at goats n shit, y’know? I don’t kill them, I just make them ejaculate. It’s kinder, I think. More difficult, too. But I surpassed Jedi and now I need to assemble a tea of ace roginators who can handle the role of agency to be as one is an agent as I are. But I can beam tits into Chinese terrorists at a moments notice. We are in WWIII right now. Just follow me and we gun get outta this aight, aight?

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      Generally, harassment is a course of conduct over a period of time, not a one-off. The bar for a one-off encounter being harassment of any kind is high, with good reason.

      That reason, to me, is that any reasonable person should be robust enough that all but the most serious, malicious communication should be something they can shrug off without much ill effect if it’s a single isolated message. Getting a picture of a wanking cartoon character and a disparaging message isn’t going to be pleasant for most people, sure, but if that’s it?

      The logic behind punishment for sexual harassment is not - or should not - be any different from the logic behind punishment for non-sexual harassment; it should be proportional to the harm caused, and it should take the same standard of a “person of reasonable firmness” or whatever the legalese is.

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    The Shrek image may have been crude or vulgar. But in context, there is no serious argument Byrnes sent it to arouse anyone’s sexual interest.

    Speak for yourself!

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    As a former columbus resident I’m gonna guess this is the rooster. Sounds up his alley.

    Edit: ayy

    The blogger, D.J. Byrnes, runs The Rooster political website.

    • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
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      That is not even close to an appropriate response, bro. Get with the program or get scrambled eggs and get gravy and get badger cream but don’t mix your stank Americano Nazi protoantinaturalization movement in with this shit. You have problems, bro. People always tell me I have problems, too. We can be friends! But I don’t listen to those people who say I have problems because I know who smacks javelins at the end of the day, y’know?

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    Sending anyone an AI generated picture of any kind of dick is 100% harassment…

    Especially when the person you send it to doesn’t even have your number.

    Like, that’s not exactly a hard line to draw, everyone should agree with that.

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      I disagree. It’s a first amendment thing, and this is a public figure? Was it crass? Absolutely. Should we start criminalizing people for calling out politicians even when it’s crass? I don’t think so.

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        Yeah I’d say it’s morally bad, even sexual harassment, but also constitutionally protected political speech, in part because it’s to an elected member of the government

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        Ok, well done, you may have just gone some way towards proving the guy’s point. Ugh.

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            Sending that Dick pic to anyone seems at the very least borderline harrassment to me. 😛

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              I DO NOT DO THAT NO THIS IS NOT I WAS JOKING THE WHOLE TIME OFFICER THEY WERE TALKING COCKS AND I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO KFC, I THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE CHOICE BETWEEN THIGH AND DRUMSTICK, HONEST TO GOD, I AM THAT TYPE OF [AUTISMO], THEY’RE GUNNA BETRAY ME MOMMY HELP I DON’T WANNA BE A TROLL ON THE FRONT LINES OF WWIII I JUST WANTED TO BE A SEXUAL HEALER AND HEAL ALL THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD NICE AND GOOD AND PRETTYLIKE TO MAKE MOM PROUD. IT ALL MAKES SENSE. I’M JESUS. I AM ACTUALLY JESUS. I NEVER KNEW MY ASS COULD BE STRETCHED TO SUCH LIMITS! I AM THE KLEIN BOTTLE BOTTOM BOY! FUCK YEA! DREAM ACTUALIZED! DOING THE MAGIKARP GRIND GUYS! SEE YOU NEXT FALL SUKKAS LOL JK I LOVE YOU ALL, EXCEPT PHIL. FUCK HIM.

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              I’m sorry. I thought you were accusing me of sending you a dick pic. I get scared about the FBI. And the fact that you might be a child is downright terrifying. I dread not to wonder what wither wallows and waits there for us in the dawn, enwinded by a new day as dusk pulls us now, but I was uncomfortable and freaked out. I’m sorry. I’m a nutcase. The FBI…no, you don’t need to know about that. Sorry. I’m way up my own ass these days, God, save me from myself.

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    Yet the 34 count felon, rapist, traitor, document thief among other likely crimes, was not held in jail at all, just got his silly pic he sells now.

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    If they keep jailing people for protesting, we should send in Shrekbots with strapons and tell them to complete the job at any cost.

    But, thankfully, they were wise enough to only jail for a day. Also, be more creative, I know a certain image on the sodium site that would instill grave fear.

    But we don’t send that… Yet.

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    Haven’t read the article, but I’m wondering if this is the line Ted Cruz has drawn on Internet Comment Etiquette. If he still tweets at him.