no, it’s just that calling me a pedophile for having mainstream views isn’t a convincing argument

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that’s exactly the exact opposite of what i was saying, if you would’ve bothered to read my replies in the thread you would’ve found that out

i’m aware, i have 30 downvotes on my first comment atp, definitely way past the point where people can assess my comments with a sound mind, so there’s no point in pulling out the silk gloves

yeah, true. it’s also i guess this issue being sensitive and people in these very online spaces not realizing they have an extremist view on this which is completely detached from the real world

it’s strange how some of y’all are getting upvoted while i got 18 downvotes and someone calling me a pedophile when i said the same thing

the dogpiling on this website is crazy, it’s just like reddit in that sense

everywhere except for the depths of hell on the internet

i don’t understand why i have 17 downvotes and you’re getting upvoted when that’s exactly what i’m advocating for

that’s the first time i’ve gotten a meme made out of me, i feel honoured

that’s a better reply than calling me a pedophile after i said a 2 year old age gap in your late teens isn’t rape and a 18 year old having sex with much older people is problematic

guess u couldn’t think of a good reply when i called out just how absurd saying that is

beneath a certain age

yeah so if the age gap is too large compared to the other party. if you go with these dictionary definitions, you’d have to argue for middle aged people being able to have sex with underage teenagers cus the age of consent is under 18 in most places which is fucked up

i’m literally advocating against large age gaps and you’re calling me a pedophile. wow.

i think i need a break from this website, this is so ridiculous

it’s crazy that you’re saying i need a therapist when i’m even more restrictive with this than most of the world, including my own country. like i implied earlier, i’d advocate for the age of consent to be increased to 18. it’s under that in most of the world

there’s these things called romeo and juliet laws.

there needs to be a strict border but it could be even higher imo, when combined with reasonable romeo and juliet laws.

the amount of downvotes on my comments has been a wake up call for me to how completely out of touch this website is. there’s not a single person i know that would call a 18 year old having sex with a 16 year old rape. this is just like the insanity ive seen on reddit, which is not surprising as this post is on reddit.world.

this response signals just how chronically online this place is. pretty much nobody in the world thinks this issue is as black and white as people here are making it seem.

why would i respond to a comment with a post?

is the question really that hard to answer?

i’m just curious because some of you guys think a 2 year age gap in a relationship in your later teens is rape while it’s not problematic at all when a freshly turned 18 year old dates or fucks someone decades older. for some people this is black and white to the point of ridiculousness, i’m not saying that particular user is like that, but that’s what the question is for

it’s not whataboutism, i’m not debating anything, i’m just curious about what that particular user believes

how do you feel about an 18 year old dating a 50 year old?

if you have a good adblocker, you can turn it off for sites that have responsible policies with privacy and advertising and are barely scraping by as it is.

if you can’t turn your adblocker for specific sites, get a better one. ublock origin is great.

in case you can’t stand ads and need an ethical search engine get something like kagi. you have to pay for it but these websites can’t operate for free. don’t leech off companies that are struggling.

i like e-books on an e-reader. i wouldn’t consider them enshittification, can read them offline and even get some drm free books

anyway my boomer and luddite habits and devices:

an e-book reader that’s always offline, with drm free books
gog games just like you (just hoarded plenty of older games yesterday from the sale hehe)
lemmy and mastodon instead of modern social media with addicting algorithms, invasive tracking and ads
a retro emulator handheld (anbernic rgsp) to play gameboy, gameboy classic and gameboy advance games offline. aux earbuds with it ofc if i use it in public
no ai usage
i use qwant instead of google cus it’s a lot closer to an old school search engine
youtube without algorithms (pipepipe, freetube) just like the way it used to be
pay with cash instead of card or google pay etc nonsense
no loyalty cards or loyalty apps even if i lose money monthly from groceries and such
avoid apps and usage of the smartphone in “smart ways” whenever possible
don’t play any games with a rootkit anticheat
no modern car, i use public transportation. i pay for my ticket without an app whenever possible
no consumption of short form content

turn off your adblocker

edit: lmao why so many downvotes? this is what qwant does when you use an adblocker

laughs in Qwant

i’m sure you can link an example of that, right?