• FatVegan@leminal.space
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    This is to me the weirdest thing that has been in a mainstream movie ever. I know people talk about it and also find it weird, but it’s one thing i can’t get over. There was no reason for it, they could make his daughter older or the guy younger. No problem at all. He could drive a car at 17. He could be a drift car driver at that age when he grew up in a race car family or whatever. He even turned out to be a nice guy as far as i remember. The point wasn’t that he was sleazy or weird, the point was: see, pedophiles can be nice, and it’s actuality legal sometimes. I get that that’s the message that Americans want to put out there and Americans crave apparently. But there wasn’t any pushback at all, and as far as i can tell, no one asked them what they were thinking and if they should raid nome hard drives

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      4 hours ago

      The people that like these films overlap with the people that do these things, significantly.

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      19 hours ago

      They wanted to add a scene to the franchaise so weird and out of place and gross that you would forget that Sam and his parents talked about Sam’s masturbation habits in the first movie.

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      17 hours ago

      Its like how literally every time you post about how common pedos are or some specific statistic about assaults, you end up with dudes popping up to clarify the difference between the various kinds of pedos and point out deficiencies in the stats and stuff. Some dudes are REALLY invested in normalizing this shit.