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Definitely not the impression I got from everything I've read. The whole sleeping in the same bed with kids, keeping books with naked pictures of children, showing porn to kids (perhaps the most common method predators use to try to groom children), and the whole thing with setting up an alarm around his bedroom.

Keep in mind that a lot of the information I've seen was from a Wordpress blog bent on defending Jackson in any and every way possible, and yet I still think the case they make is not really convincing. The author speculates about what "true grooming" looks like, and why MJ's actions supposedly don't fit their personal expectations of grooming. They also try to justify him keeping those books with pictures of naked kids as if that was a normal thing to do.

Maybe if it was just one of these things it could still be justified as MJ just being weird. But it's all off these things, a clear pattern of behavior and accusations for which the simplest explanation is that MJ was indeed a predator. What I can say is that if these accusations were directed at some random dude down the road I definitely wouldn't want my kids going near him.

Imagine caring about more than one issue at a time. I only care about how inflation is going to affect the price of my chicken nuggets.

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I guess if you're a hostage cops can just kill you and blame the criminal then

As someone who's never read/watched the Hobbit & LOTR universes I frankly have no clue wtf this is supposed to mean

But godspeed to you, little rat

Don't forget to add a bit of lead for seasoning

Consider:

I remember seeing a tweet of hers where she doubled down on this by linking to some right-wing blog that claimed Khelif has XY chromosomes. Not sure if she's changed course ever since the lawsuit or if she decided to triple down.

Edit: Looks like she was still tweeting about Khelif 6 days ago, but hasn't tweeted since.

Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this, that was a mistake 🙄

A lot of people seem to hate her for whatever reason, she was far from perfect, but all things considered I think she did fine as CEO and I never got the hate. It can't be easy to manage a company as big and complex as YouTube.

This guy also has a whole post on Substack complaining that the left is too wary of age gaps in relationships and that this is an "attack on heterosexuality" or whatever. It's kind of funny how these "anti woke" types will decry that queer people are all groomers and yet proclaim that age gaps and adults dating teenagers is part of heterosexual culture under the same breath.

A year ago or so I would have said Clash Royale. But now... nah.

You'll find plenty of videos that explain this better than I can, but at this point the devs clearly hate the community, the game is more pay to win than ever, evolutions are completely broken and the devs barely care to balance the game anymore.

It's pretty obvious that right now they just want to squeeze as much money as possible from the game before it completely dies out.

What’s the Y axis for the middle graph?

That's the percentage of kids who've reported some kind of sexual violence.

Also only having 3 data points in such a brief window doesn’t really say much.

I disagree because it's not really just about these YRBS surveys, it's the whole pattern. When we consider how conservatives are the only ones voting in favor of child marriage, and how pundits and randos on the internet will defend teen pregnancy, even if it was just one survey that showed a difference between red and blue states that would just be confirmation of a pattern that's already pretty obvious, and we should seriously ask why their ideology leads to this kind of stuff, and how to remedy it. Even if it's just a 2% point increase, this means that hundreds of thousands of children could be saved from abuse if conservatism was less prevalent.

Finally the grouping metric of “won majority of presidential elections from 2000 to 2020” isn’t clear and isn’t necessarily reflexive of policy. A more appropriate metric might be the party of the governor or the majority parties of their chambers.

There's really no definitive metric for "red" vs. "blue" states, so while presidential election results will obviously reflect the politics of the people in that state, I do agree that it's not a thorough measure - but this same pattern holds even when using other measures of political affiliation.

I say this because I have some additional context here, as these graphs are part of an article I'm writing about the "pedocon" theory, and I can tell you that this same pattern shows up regardless of how we measure politics or CSA. Whether it's polling on how many people identify as Republicans vs. Democrats, or liberals vs. conservatives, or left-wing vs. right-wing, this correlation is still there. Looking at governor or chambers specifically could be an interesting addition, but I fully expect the same pattern to hold.