Spyke
lemmy.ca

Republicans, tell us again how it’s the trans people we should all be afraid of.

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lemmy.world

Not a Republican, but I think I've got it figured out.

See, they think everyone has these awful, sinful thoughts that they can't control. When they see trans people living their lives they feel like those trans people are giving into the nasty, sinful thoughts. Or gay people. Or people in interracial relationships. Or really anyone who's doing something they've been told is a naughty, sinful, deplorable thing that no one should do even if it feels good and hurts no one.

So when they see people accepting others who have dirty, naughty, sinful thoughts they assume we're okay with sin. The conflict arises because we have a different view of sin that is less self-interested. We're not about punishing people for doing things that feel good and hurts no one, we want to help the people doing things that feel bad, and let people do things that don't hurt others.

This makes their brains get hot and when their brains get hot they feel angry.

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Glidereply
lemmy.ca

Unironically, exactly right.

This is the same reason they see homosexuality as a sinful choice, and take issue with homosexuals just simply being alive. They struggled so hard to suppress their homosexual urges, and now these people are flaunting theirs, openly? And the rest of the world wants to celebrate this moral failure, despite it being something that everyone struggles with? I mean the mental gymnastics required to succeed in choosing to be heterosexual, while celebrating someone else who failed to do so is just absolutely insane.

You can see how this all logics together if you assume everyone feels the way you do, and you're fighting an urge to do something you see as morally wrong. Obviously, abusing your teenage daughters trust to give yourself a mild sexual release is morally wrong, but the point stands. These people play the moral high ground card because they struggle with these thoughts every single day.

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I feel a similar thing when I see people doing absolutely immoral things like denying health care coverage and making tons of money doing it. I've been taught all my life that if someone asks for help you help them, so seeing someone getting praised and paid for being an asshole pisses me off to no end.

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nickiwestreply
lemmy.world

The right-wingers who say that homosexuality is a choice are probably† outing themselves as bisexual. Who else sees their sexuality as a choice? Bi people are the ones who have options.

† Or just flat-out denying their true sexuality by hoping that if they make the "right" choices, it will work itself out. "Pray away the gay" and such.

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I'm convinced thats the case. They keep talking about the choice to be gay. Its not a choice. Maybe its possible to condition yourself a little in some way, but you are what you are, you get the hand you're dealt. The pray away the gay camps dont seem to work.

Gay people know its not a choice. Straight people know its not a choice. Bisexuals either accept they're bi or think its a choice.

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"Psychological projection" is a much shorter phrase and describes exactly that, and basically the entirety of right wing, fascist idiology.

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Oh, he definitely is. Those are the dirty, nasty, sinful thoughts he has. And he needs help for them because it's not right and he's hurting people.

But what he'll get is an overly-emotional testimony in a church where he "repents" and pushes those intrusive thoughts even deeper rather than dealing with them, where they'll fester and he'll probably do something worse than sniffing dirty underpants.

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lemmy.world

You should consider committing to reading an entire comment before chiming in, next time. Your comment was irrelevant and didn't really add much to the conversation. Yes, he's a pedo. No, that's not relevant to this comment thread, which is discussing the Republican party's projections.

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Yep, and that's why it's not just stuff like this, but also stuff like them being gay, or Alex Jones watching trans porn, or boebert getting caught giving a handy at a play.

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wampusreply
lemmy.ca

I'll take a stab at this rhetorical question, even though I'm not a right winger nor an American -- just been reading up on their 'theories' and wackiness a bit.

From their ideological perspective, I imagine that the more nuanced response (ie. not the base's "GAY BAD!"), would be that the issue of crime/outliers exist in any group, but that the existence of a trans-interest specific movement is dangerous to the broader community/stability. Do republican pedophile incestuous mayors exist? Yes. Are they lobbying to change how government treats them / trying to get more privileges and special treatment to support their pedophile incestuous mayor collective? No. So the 'risk' to society of a one off criminal, is far less than the risk of a collective movement intent on dismantling social norms in favour of norms specifically beneficial to their niche members, and generally detrimental to the interests of non-niche members.

It's similar to Dave Chappelle's comments, about how he knows/likes trans people he meets on an individual/personal level, but he hates the "trans community". It's the collective community that they take issue with, as it aims to dismantle what they consider the norms of social life / public interactions.

To try and frame their issue a bit differently using a recent example: most educated folks know about people with Tourette's, even if they don't fully understand the condition. But there's a significant difference between understanding it / tolerating it within a limited context, and inviting someone with Tourette's to sit within mic shot at the BAFTA's and pretending everyone should be comfortable with it just because it's a disability. Being at a black-tie type event, and hearing someone scream the N-word at a couple of black presenters is uncivilized, but it's "tolerated" under the guise of these niche special interest groups. Just like everyone's been forced to "tolerate" fent users collapsed all over the place in many metropolitan cities, under the guise of "drug user rights advocacy groups" -- do people understand folks are addicted? Yes. Does that understanding make seeing them flopped out, shitting in public etc, a "civilized" experience? Nah.

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hperrinreply
lemmy.ca

I’m just gonna say from my perspective, this take is wrong.

I understand where you were trying to go with this, but I completely disagree that that is what republicans are thinking when they hate on trans people. Most republicans who are transphobic hate the individual trans people too, not just the community. It’s pretty apparent with how they treat individual trans people in public. Even cis people, if they look just slightly “too androgynous” (read not exactly what the bigot expects a cis person to look like), are targets for these people.

And that also doesn’t touch on why republicans paint trans people as pedophiles, when the biggest pedophile operations are within the religious and political elite. AFAIK, there is no correlation between transgenderism and pedophilia. There is a high correlation between religiosity and pedophilia though.

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You may think the take is wrong, but it's basically what Posobiec and them attempt to argue in "Unhumans", a political ideology book that's been lauded by Vance, Trump Jr, Carlson and so on. It is rather overtly what their more "intellectual" (debatable!) contingent paint as the ideological justification for their actions. What they describe there also explains what they're "trying" to do with some of their other shenanigans, like the supreme courts overturning of women's rights -- or more specifically, why they wanted to push that down to the state level as part of their broader objectives.

That it gets implemented in a fear mongering way that attempts to rile up the uneducated common US idiot is a secondary 'thing' -- as is the common US idiots take on it in the "They gonna fuck our kids/jobs!". The ideology not matching the implementation isn't a 'new' phenomenon, nor is it restricted to fascists -- communism is an easy example on that front, where the 'ideology' rarely matches the implementation, even if you can 'see' elements of the ideology underpinning the movements justification for their actions.

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Wesley Dingus

He really lived up to his name! I can't imagine voting for a mayor whose last name was Dingus anyway.

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lemmy.world

Is there any chance he could have been a parole officer in Ohio at least if not more than 15 years ago?

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lemmy.world

Warning: Loud and profanity

I don't know how common that name is but I do know that video and the people involved are located around Columbus, Ohio which is about 65 miles away from Butler. The video first appeared online maybe about 20 years ago at most.

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lemmy.zip

Ready for the wave of conservatives telling on themselves by saying this is fine

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lemmy.world

According to the official report, the teenage girl explained that she had grown suspicious that Dingus had been entering her room without her permission. Seeking proof, she bought a small video camera and set it up in her bedroom.

Allegedly, on the morning of January 13, she left for school around 7 a.m. She said that about 15 minutes later, she received a motion alert from her camera. Upon reviewing the footage, she saw Dingus enter her room and smell her underwear.

The next day, she received another alert at 7:17 a.m., and the video again showed Dingus entering her room, smelling her worn underwear, and touching his groin area over his clothes. This evidence was handed over to law enforcement.

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chiliedoggreply
lemmy.world

Was hoping to open the article and find out that it was an exaggerated clickbait headline and he was just doing laundry.

I should never hope when it comes to Republicans.

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lemmy.world

Dingus was shown in photos attending the arraignment wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, standing next to his attorney, James Mayer III. He pleaded not guilty. Dingus, who is currently out on bond for an incident last summer after he "struck a suspect fleeing police" with his car, arrived to court fairly experienced with the process.

It wasn't Dingus' first time being arraigned. In August 2025, Dingus was in front of the judge to face numerous charges for allegedly "running over a man wanted for violating parole."

Dingus was indicted on four counts in that case, including aggravated assault, vehicular assault, falsification, and dereliction of duty. The first two charges are fourth-degree felonies.

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Conservatives rage at made up stories about Democrats.

Conservatives tend to be awfully quiet about videos of conservatives doing bad shit.

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That's not quite accurate either, it seems.

I always try to avoid absolute 'always'/'never' statements, because you set yourself up for an easy 'defeat' if a single contrary example is brought up.

It's much more effective to compare per-capita statistics, for example.

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Bazooglereply
lemmy.world

It is usually republicans, but when it's a democrat the stories don't gain as much traction on Lemmy.

Generally when it's a democrat, we are not defending it is the difference. Granted, the news stories don't gain as much traction on left biased social media platforms, but at least we aren't defending them and making them president.

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Snapzreply
lemmy.world

There is only one thing the gop loves more than LOUD projection and that's abusing kids. The party of the grand ol' pedophiles


  • NOTE: I'm probably reaching the character limit, so here's a website with a list with over 1000 of these republican shit stains on humanity.
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Bazooglereply
lemmy.world

To be clear, I said Republicans are worse offenders. I am simply pointing out the blindspot for democrats doing the same thing.

Second, I was avoiding any former elected officials, democratic candidates, and anything from more than a few years ago. I was strictly sharing a few recent active elected democtratic officials doing the same shit.

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Snapzreply
lemmy.world

All perpetrators of sexual assault should see consequences for their crimes.

The reason YOU FEEL there is a blindspot for perpetrators with involvement in the Democratic party is because it is so absolutely, devastatingly one sided to those in, around and otherwise adjacent to the GOP and, by extension, the church.

So make all the odd sub declarations you need to make, it's a waste of energy. The link off at the end of my post goes to literally 1000s more examples.

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Bazooglereply
lemmy.world

I am saying there is a blind spot for perpetrators in the Democratic party because those posts do not gain as much traction on left leaning social media platforms. That is to be expected, and I am not really trying to change anything. But this is not a feeling, I see it happen. I see things in the news about democrats, as a democrat myself, and recognize there is hardly any mention of it on here.

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I'll maintain it's a false premise on your part. The trump-epstein files are covered as a whole right now, parties aside, anyone committing crimes documented in there should be investigated and prosecuted. I've not seen any on the left who speak against that. Outside of the files, with even the appearance of impropriety, Democrats typically lose their whole careers, even when they are otherwise important to the movement, e.g.Al Franken.

This blind spot doesn't exist. What you're responding to is likely the combination of your own social algorithms and the general lack of major perpetrators on the Democratic side RELATIVE to the republicans that Chiron them out like on a factory line - that's speaking outside of this epstein moment, which again, no decent person has defended anyone in the files and especially not due to political affiliation.

Finally, any lack of clarity of information you feel is also just due to trump/bondi obfuscation of the files in the first place. If they were all released and could be analyzed and lists made, there would be no lack of discussion on all perpetrators. And you better bet that the rest I'd the three million files being withheld are predominately crimes of trump and republicans that they'll try so hard to continue hiding that they'll unilaterally start a way in the US' name without support of its people or Congress.

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lemmy.world

Was he a family values guy on the warpath against trans and drag queens though?

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lemmy.world

Well OBVIOUSLY! He was only sniffing her panties to check for trans germs, and make sure she isn't wearing drag clothes! God! Not everything has to be sexual!

(In case it's not coming through, I'm being highly sarcastic. This guys a creep, and hopefully his dick falls off from being too small)

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lemmy.world

hopefully his dick falls off from being too small

That's not something that happens right? Asking for a friend.

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"It's not about what he does, it's about what he says he does"

Or

"He made a small mistake and he paid for his crimes, you shouldn't drag an otherwise good man for one mistake."

Or

"He said he wouldn't do it again. He wasn't really hurting anybody anyway..."

They could go on and on.

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Just look at the current occupant of that office and it won't be that surprising

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lemmy.world

Key note missing in title is that she is a minor so he's also a pedo

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kbobabobreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

In the article it specified teenage minor. Likely under 18 as that is the age of consent in most places

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Blackmistreply
feddit.uk

This is why I always wait until my daughters are 18 before huffing their dirty undies.

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Missing in the post's title, but not the article's title. No ambiguity there:

Republican Mayor Wesley Dingus charged after 'sniffing underage girl’s underwear' on camera

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How the fuck am I supposed to play my game of is it a republican or democrat when they put it in the title?

I do pretty good in the game always guessing the same thing.

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lemmy.zip

What does Mrs. Dingus think of all this, that her husband is creeping on her daughter.

Hmmm. I see divorce in the future.

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fedia.io

I wonder what would have happened if had been his 14yo son's jock strap.

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That's why they say a sneeze is 1/8^th^ of an orgasm12.

Footnotes

  1. Don't hold me to that specific value for a wide variety of reasons. I chose 8 because 8-choose. Excuse me.

  2. Also, while reading up on this, I landed on the wiki page for sexually induced sneezing. Turns out there's erectile tissue in the nose (and not in a crude "your mother" joke temporary kind of way) so "nose boner" could be a way to describe one's response to a pleasant smell.

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You can’t make this shit up, if it weren’t about real life you’d think it’s one of those early 2000’s comedies alla American pie or a Gilbert Gottfried skit.

Wtf republicans 🤮 for all the hating these ghouls do… disgusting.

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Apparently not as hard as him?

Edit: or perhaps harder than him?? I'm not sure where I want to land with this comment yet.

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The amount of Drag Queens and Trans people getting caught doing stupid sexual suff to people:

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probably was before seen saying things like "but won't you think of the children" or "trans movement negatively influences our youth" etc

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lemy.lol

Florida of the North strikes again. This is the sort of shit I fully expect to come out of Ohio.

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Oh my, I've never heard Ohio called that, but it's pretty accurate. There's even a Miami University (Ohio). I live in Florida and I see the similarities.

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They are all so fundamentally twisted in their religions, these things probably happen more than gets noticed or reported

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lemmy.world

I'm fine with this guy sniffing panties, really. I don't want him to be sent to prison for it.

But nothing wrong with mocking him everywhere he goes, any time he tries to say anything "oh okay, panty sniffer, here, smell my junk" and chasing him around with your crap-smeared tighty whiteys, rubbing it in his face, you know, fun stuff

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I like it, but never giving him a moments peace is a lot of effort to expend. Prison is just easier.

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Yeah its not ok to sniff you daughters panties, ever, in any scenario.

Not sure if jailable offence, but at least automatically someone should speak to the daughter and make sure she's OK.

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The only thing that can save him now is if he offers his daughter up for trump's degenerate pleasure.

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Dasusreply
lemmy.world

I actually thought he looked liked Jimmy Carr

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Came to reply this exact same thing; this looks some alternative dimension shit where Jimmy chose abusing children instead of tax evasion as his crime of choice…

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sh.itjust.works

I can also see that. I just thought of Hovind because I watched some of the professor Dave video on Hovind he released recently.

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And I probably Jimmy Carr, because YouTube kept pushing his shorts.

I googled this Hovind fella and you're right, I can see that as well.

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lemmy.ca

I'm not sure 'Dingus' is the word I'd use to describe a pedophile that's interested in his own daughter... Almost makes it sound like a playful mistake

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piefed.world

The article doesn't even include the word "daughter"… OP, has it changed since you posted it?

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Guessing it’s an attempt to mask the girls identity. The article does make it pretty clear the accuser was an underaged girl who lived with him.

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Shit like this makes Edge of Darkness weird. Not saying it shouldn’t but really wish shit was clearer…

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0x0reply

Was probably just ensuring those were dirty panties so he could put them in the washer. Hims troking his junk is totally unrelated...

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Nice try nerd, I'm too busy playing football and making out with tons of chicks

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Zettareply
mander.xyz

The guy was charged with voyeurism. From my quick googling, it seems like the laws say to be charged you have to be spying on someone or recording/photographing them, so I still don't see how this is against the law, but it's obviously gross.

Edit, I guess this is probably the part that he's charged with so maybe makes sense.

"The elements of voyeurism under R.C. 2907.08 require proof beyond all reasonable doubt that the defendant:

(A) for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying the defendant committed trespass or surreptitiously invaded the privacy of another to spy or eavesdrop upon another person;"

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