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      Do you honestly not know this?

      AI:

      “Brigitte Macron and Emmanuel Macron first met in 1993 at La Providence, a Jesuit high school in Amiens, France. • Ages at the time: Brigitte was 39 years old and working as a teacher, while Emmanuel was a 15-year-old student.”

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    Lol, bad timing on that one. Which country elected a pedophile again?

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    Rape is barely even illegal in the US. In our culture, if a man gets raped, that’s funny, if a girl gets raped, no she didn’t; that bitch is lying.

    As far as creeping on underage people, others have pointed out the hypocrisy there.

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      Rape is a crime no matter what gender did it. If a man rapes a woman he should be put to jail. But it is also a fact that so many girls willingly sleeps with a man then calls it rape because she feels guilty. I feel awful for actual rape victims but also for so many men wrongfully accused of rape. We should have a gender neutral middle ground.

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        The number of men who claim innocence and the number of men who are actually innocent are two different things. Don’t let a real, but otherwise statistical anomaly, distract you from the actual harm done. A male victim and a female victim have equal rights to justice but a woman and a man do not have equal chances of experiencing sexual assault. Which cause deserves your attention?

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        Where are your “so many men” statistics?

        I’m a dude that was falsely accused but everything I’ve seen shows I’m a very small statistic, especially compared to women who are raped w/o consequences for their rapist and many slut shamed. It’s terrible and life-altering to be falsely accused, but so is being raped and that happens far more often.

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    TIL

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Macron

    It was at the after-school drama club of Lycée la Providence where she and Emmanuel Macron first met.[13] She was in charge of the after-school theater club he attended when he was 15 alongside her own daughter Laurence who was in his class.[14] Their relationship has attracted controversy, as she is his senior by close to 25 years, and he was a minor; Macron has described it as “a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself”.

    In 1993, at the age of 39, she met the 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron in Lycée la Providence,[40][41] where she was a teacher and he was a student and a classmate of her daughter.[42] Brigitte divorced Auzière in January 2006 and married Macron on 20 October 2007.

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      Am I the only person that doesn’t see a problem here?

      I mean sure it’s weird. People do weird things. It’s definitely weird enough to gossip about and make memes about.

      Has anyone been harmed though? Is there a power imbalance?

      Daughter might not be thrilled but it’s not abusive.

      It’s fine to have narrow ideas about who you might have a relationship with, but let others do as they wish provided they’re not harming anyone.

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        From the Wikipedia article it’s not clear if she waited until he was an adult to pursue the relationship or not.

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          They had some kind of relationship while he was at school. It’s not clear whether it was sexual.

          Age of consent in France is 15. So he was already an adult in this context.

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              I only know this from a Quebecois perspective, I believe 16 is the age of consent in Quebec, but I doubt any of my cousins were still virgins by the time they were 14. I’m not sure on the logistics of this, but they were very promiscuous even at that age.

              So absolutely none of this is shocking to me. This is just the way French people are.

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        I wonder if the daughter liked him at the time too.

        Imagine having a high school crush and before you can make a move, your mother becomes a pedophile and gets there first.

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          I wonder what the daughter thought about him.

          Or what if he used to bully the daughter to get the mom’s attention, and the daughter actually hates him?

          The guy that bullies me is now my step dad?!

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    It doesn’t seem “truthy” what with all non-investigations of the Trump/Epstein rapes staring us in the face. It is a teacher however and they aren’t very valued by the current american administration. /s

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    A loving relationship where the woman is older than the man, oh the horror.

    Everyone knows real power is from geriatric men marrying children who were trafficked just for them.

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    Yeah, you just have to be a lecherous con man with lots of stolen money used to get private access to innocent victims to become leader of America.

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        Holy shit, did Clinton fuck kids? Regularly? Repeatedly? Mercilessly? Or are you trying to create a false equivalence between being a child rapist and being a swinger?

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          Bare minimum facts we know: 1) Bill Clinton definitely had sexual relations with a white house intern while he was president 2) Bill Clinton had some relationship with notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstien resulting in multiple pictures taken of them together

          What we assume from these facts is up to us. I’m not certain he’s a pedo, but I am certain I don’t trust his judgment, especially in sexual matters.

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          Regularly? Seriously? Once in a while is excusable? WTF ARE YOU SAYING?!??!??

          Why would he fly on the Lolita Express? Why would he even hang out with a known child pimp?

          Dude already has rape accusations going back to Governor of Arkansas.

          Yes, I ZERO doubts Bill Clinton raped kids.