• ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineOP
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    Didn’t she accuse someone of SA when she was underage? Yes, when she was 17, so her comment about girls even younger is insane.

    But that gets to the heart of Azealia Banks. She’s insane. She’s part of the lgbtq+ community and her sibling is trans, but she supports JK Rawlings and belittles trans women and has likened the lgbtq community to the KKK.

    She believes that African Americans should be paid reparations for the crime of slavery, which zero republicans would ever grant.

    She flip flopped her endorsement of Trump in 2016. Despite saying women’s issues were too important to vote for him, she celebrated his win. She then did the same basic thing in 2025, but for who knows what reasons.

    She’s pro Russia as hell as well as a Zionist.

    I’m not sure how we get it to happen, but she needs to put up her brain for scientific studies. The neurons are firing in ways rarely seen in humans.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/comments/1macphs/comment/n5dqgn6/

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      Her ability to find the most wrong take possible on just about everything is genuinely unearthly. You could generally set a pretty reliable moral compass for yourself by just adopting the exact opposite of her beliefs.

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    Even if you bent over backwards to agree with this tweet, just look at the facts of the Epstein case. These girls were sex trafficked. Epstein and Maxwell sought out vulnerable girls and took advantage of them. They were not girls in a traditional mindset trying to find a husband and have kids.

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    By even debating this idea of ‘at what age is having sex with children OK’, you fall into the trap. We already have laws defining age of consent for a reason.

    The trap is to distract you from trump’s sex crimes. They need to normalize statutory rape as acceptable, because more and more stuff is going to be coming out about his doing that. His base is horrified by pedophilia, but not by misogyny.

    This is how they prep the base to be just fine with crimes trump did (in this case rape) when more info comes out. Keep their thinking in black-and-white: ‘pedophilia is evil, but trump didn’t do that, so he’s not evil! He’s still our Daddy.’ So they’ll ignore his rapes of under-age girls just like they already ignore his rapes of adult women. So by saying,

    “Sure, why wouldn’t anyone be attracted to a girl whose body is developed even if she’s ‘technically’ under age – it’s not like it’s pedophilia or anything, which would be wrong!”. As long as they’re 13+ it’s fine!"

    they are saying statutory rape is OK as long as the girl is at least 13. No, that’s just how the new Christian Nationalist theocracy wants it to be. The crap about “it was acceptable back in his day, only taboo since the '90’s” is of course bullshit. I’m surprised they didn’t claim it was only made taboo by the ‘woke left’.

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    I’m starting to get a vibe of: “I didn’t understand consent when I was that age and had sex and no one did anything, why should we now?”

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      Reminds me of shit saying I heard when I was 14. “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed”. Even then that was a fucked up thing to say. But I heard it a lot as a teenager. Mostly from other teen boys who didn’t know shit about sex.

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    When you try to suggest that something is normal based upon your own experience, but everyone just looks at you with concern and pity in their eyes.

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      Exactly. It’s a trauma response. Sweeping it under the rug. My parents beat me when I was a child and I turned out fine.

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    She’s right about one thing. This shit was prolific back in the sixties, seventies and eighties. Operation Yewtree blew the lid on just how rife paedophilia was amongst celebrities and how the (British) establishment had been covering it up for decades.

    The Epstein files should have been a similar watershed moment for the US, but unfortunately some very powerful people are on that list.

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      Exactly. I didn’t even hear the word “paedophile” until 2000 when Sarah Payne was murdered.

      In school in the 90s there were always 13 and 14 year old girls with older boyfriends, like we’re talking 19 or 20 with cars and they could buy them cigarettes and booze.

      We never really thought much of it.

      They had very much made this shit normal, and I’m glad we now don’t.

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        Until a few years ago, the age of consent in my country was 14. There weren’t just 13 and 14 year olds with 19 or 20 year old boyfriends, even 14 and 25-27 was a pretty common combo. Guy I went to middle school with was such an immature dumbass, he HAD to work 14 year olds to get laid at 19. Because a 15 year old would see through him already. Think he’s changed now, but of course he had to father a child with a 15 year old first.

        But this isn’t the 80s or 90s. No, I grew up in the '00s and '10s. This is my experience with my peers in late 00s and even early 10s.

        I don’t know any teenagers anymore, but there’s a podcast about sex and standup comedy (they wanna talk about standup comedy since they’re both comedians, but since they named it “pussy eaters”, they only get emails about sex) and holy hell, one girl out of every 4 seems hell-bent on talking about how they lost their virginity as a teenager to an older guy. Another girl out of every four is talking about how she either got raped or almost got raped (as an adult usually, not that it makes things much better). They just stopped reading emails from their listeners.

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    As an old guy I can say this is true. It was no big deal back then as people matured more quickly. My wife was already raising her younger brothers by that age. Cooking dinners, cleaning the barns, looking after things for a week while they traveled. People now don’t seem to mature until they are in their twenties. If ever.