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List of right-wingers who made the news for crimes against children in the USA for the month of October (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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I chose this community because this isn't a link to an article and I'm not going to make links to every story here. This is also not exhaustive, just the notable ones. A page I follow on other social media is posting these monthly, and also posting these stores that happen.

Considering that these fucking people centred everything around calling trans people predators (while voting for a known pedophile), I think it's only fair that it gets made clear that statistically, the last person that you should ever leave your child around is a white cisgender male christian American.

Editing to at least name and shame:

  1. Pete Bardunias
  2. Teagan Leblanc
  3. Cory Cumings
  4. Vincent Battiloro
  5. Matthew Blum
  6. Anton Lazzaro
  7. Jeff Smerer
  8. Ozzie Spears
  9. James Marshall-Sadler
  10. Jordan Cardinal
  11. Damien Doming
  12. Derek Collins
  13. Douglas Hess
  14. Kim Harlon Harris
  15. Kevin Curtis Jones
  16. Ryan J. Rampton
  17. Aaron Gorham
  18. Alvaro Rios
  19. Michael Lee Absher (On the August list as well. Charged with more crimes in October)
  20. Timothy Jaekel
  21. Silas Shelton
  22. Christopher Root
  23. Kristopher Gellenbeck
  24. Andrew Palmore
  25. Jeremy Cordial
  26. Charles May
  27. Albert Desander
  28. Jeremy Amburn
  29. Walter Shadoin
  30. Roy E. Stearns
  31. Austin Cohee
  32. Nolan Nance
  33. Ian Tatro
  34. Joseph Beckley
  35. Bobby Millsaps
  36. Tony Christopher Long
  37. Jason Klimp
  38. Brian Cox
  39. John Harrell
  40. Dillon Bates
  41. Sierra Fortner
  42. Travis Marcum
  43. Jonathan Peternel
  44. James Neujahr
  45. Ronald Chilson
  46. Trey Taunton
  47. Tyrone Cliff
  48. Joshua Kemper
  49. Shane Dodson
  50. Stephen Speed
  51. Adyn Vickers
  52. Charles Stidham
  53. Robert Morris
  54. Stephen Hayes
  55. Robin Atkinson
  56. Tayler Difrencesco

Credit to 'Reich Wing Watch'

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[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 39 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Here's also the tally for September:

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  1. Brooks Turnbow
  2. Blake Bowser
  3. Ronald Duane Kirby
  4. Candon Dean Dahle
  5. James Taylor
  6. Dwight Merrell
  7. Quentin Andrew Whaley
  8. Lance Larkin
  9. Travis Olson
  10. Nicholas Bain
  11. Steve Sumner
  12. Randy D. Patrick
  13. Jason D. Holwager
  14. Ricky Horton
  15. Angela Amburn
  16. Jeremy Amburn
  17. Elzie Rhodes
  18. Larry Tennison
  19. Gretchen Tennison
  20. John White
  21. Terry Black
  22. Austin Rounds
  23. Bobby Raney
  24. David Roberts
  25. Mason Halliburton
  26. Wayne Sands
  27. Kyle Brenchley
  28. Jennifer Aree Myers
  29. Benjamin Geoffrey Myers
  30. Jackie Allred
  31. Timothy Hart
  32. John Paul Sheptock
  33. Kelly Lee Selzer
  34. Justin T. Weimer
  35. Jon Reep
  36. Chase Eubanks
  37. Harliegh Hoffman
  38. Jordon Hoffman
  39. James B. Gosnell, Jr.
  40. Jeffry Clain
  41. Herbert Durwood Duhon
  42. Austin Maddox

This has been going on much longer and I wish I had saved previous months. But I'm going to share this shit here each month from now on.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago

They are all obviously undercover Democrats. And if not the gays made them do it. And if not they were framed by illegal immigrants.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Right wing nuts doing sex crimes on children is normal. The GOP is a pedophile political party.

[–] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

group of pedophiles? the GOP? sounds right!! LoL

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Repedocan party

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 18 points 13 hours ago

Meme is great but details are better. Daily Kos has been maintaining a list of Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers for quite a while now. It includes links to articles for each one.

Here is a direct link to Part 58, the most current diary .

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

And other than one butterface, they are all white men. You know what? I'm OK with white boys throwing the whole black men are more violent statistics to flout their superiority at me (black man here) because I would rather my stereotype be weed smoking thugs than a bunch of child rapers.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

But but but -- that can't be right! Elon musk said it's all brown people doing that! Surely elon musk would never lie to us like that!

https://lemmy.world/post/38366241

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I tell people, can't trust somebody that lies about his video game skill. FFS he's fucking aber heard in the mouth as she wears cosplay. He can't be happy being a sub par gamer? That's fucked...

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Jeez, I wonder if it has anything to do with the president being a pedo and also giving out pardons to anyone who supports him like it's the candy from a white van.

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Hmm. No trans folks or drag performers there. Have the rightwing been lying to us?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 18 hours ago

they all look related to each other.

[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 12 hours ago

You could also go and check out the Reddit subs "not a drag queen" and "still not a drag queen" for documented cases going years back. You could just use your fucking memories of how far back the stories of priests diddling kids go, and how the USA south has a particular reputation for this. None if this is fucking new. Including the pedophile president that these fucking people all love.

Tired of 'debating' reality with debate bros that only have room in their heads for the last podcast they listened to.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This is great for preaching to the choir and reinforcing beliefs people already have. However, to convince people that need convincing, this kind of thing needs to be backed up with evidence.

I can't just send this image to Uncle Joe. He's going to instantly dismiss it as lefty propaganda, and laugh at me for credulously believing it.

I need to also send a link to a web page that lists the people with each name linked to a news article from a reputable source. The individual news articles would need to make it clear that this person was both A) a Trump supporter, and B) convicted of the crime.

As near as I can tell, Reich Wing Watch doesn't even have their own website. The closest I can find is an Instagram account. Neither Uncle Joe or I have Instagram accounts, so even if RWW backs up the details in each image with verifiable links, Uncle Joe is NOT going to sign up for Instagram just to go see.

From what's visible on the Instagram account without logging in, it appears that they're including people who have simply been arrested. Uncle Joe is going to justifiably play the "innocent until proven guilty" card.

Sure, a majority of those arrested will likely be found guilty. But, if true, that means that for every month that you have 40-50 trumpets arrested for this crime, you'll have about the same number of other trumpets convicted as well. Focus on those people and keep the arrested people on the back burner until they're convicted, and you slam the door on the "innocent until proven guilty" rebuttal.

In summary, to be affective for anything more than reinforcing the beliefs of those that don't need to be convinced..

  1. RWW needs their own website where people can see what they have without needing an account to log into.
  2. Every one of thier images like the one posted above needs a dedicated page listing each person with links to reputable news articles.
  3. The news articles need to make it clear that the person was A. Convicted B. A Right Winger
  4. Each image needs to include a short, easy to type in, url to the specific page for that image.

Without that, right wingers will just see this as easily dismissible Lefty propaganda and "proof" that we're all gullible and brainwashed.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 3 points 12 hours ago

As near as I can tell, Reich Wing Watch doesn’t even have their own website.

You are correct. Just as an FYI, RWW is actually a youtube channel, though they also have Instagram and Facebook pages. I am not terribly familiar with them because I prefer to read articles rather than watch videos to get my information. RWW also comes across as a bit over the top to me. Perfect for preaching to the choir but unlikely to get any converts. On the other hand, the whole Trump/GOP situation in the USA right now is over the top too so maybe that's appropriate.

[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

this kind of thing needs to be backed up with evidence

I don't know about Instagram but going by their Facebook profile, you would have to be deliberately stupid to think that they're just posting about random people being arrested.

There are 56 names on this list, as well as the individual articles about all of these individuals on this profile. Expecting someone to spoon feed you 56 different links, or more if you're too much of a 'skeptic' to trust just one source for each of them, is a bit much. I'm sure you know how to use Google based on the information here.

And even if you don't have a Facebook account and can't see that content, and won't make one, or any effort to see for yourself before declaring "both sides", I'm sure that your Uncle Joe has a Facebook account.

And he sees this shit too, these pedo president worshipping pieces of shit are all over left wing and feminist pages letting everyone know clearly just what they think. They just don't fucking care. Or they call it "fake news".

So this isn't for Uncle Joe, who would've voted for a turd fresh out of Donald Trump's ass, with lips painted on, as long it gives him any excuse to use the N word and call trans people "predators" online. Feelings don't care about facts for these fkn clowns.

This is for the people who aren't ignorant, mouth breathing bigots, and who are capable of a little bit of their own initiative, in order to be armed with knowledge.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

before declaring “both sides”

I'm absolutely not declaring "both sides" and it's disingenuous of you to imply that I am. For that, kindly fuck off.

What I'm saying is that, as posted, this kind of content comes across as baseless propaganda.

The group compiling this are clearly doing a lot of work. Why? I would hope it's to convince people that are reachable but need convincing.

You say that there's a Facebook page with details on each one. Great. Then the image just needs a little fine print at the bottom, "See our Facebook page for sources."

But they're still leaving the "innocent until proven guilty" door wide open. They should definitely close that.

[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I do not work with them nor am I associated with them in any way. I just shared this here and left more than enough details for people to verify for themselves if they still doubt the fact that religious right wingers tend to be scum with issues around children and with projecting their own actions and guilt onto others.

This isn't some new groundbreaking revelation. That's why the clutching at pearls over trans people was such a fucking joke. Because they've been turning a blind eye to kiddie fiddling priests and right wing politicians for decades now. And proved that christianity is a religion of conformity, not morality.

This is literally just more information for the people who have actually been awake at any point in their lives and aren't just finding out today that right wingers are disproportionately involved in child abuse. So that they can know to keep children away from the man with the maga hat and tell their friends. So that the heat can be on the right target.

It's why I'm being a bit hostile here. This to me isn't really a conversation in good faith. It's debating the validity of something that has been a problem for at least as long as I've been alive, almost four decades.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I do not work with them nor am I associated with them in any way.

I didn't think you were. That's why my critique was directed at them, not you.

You're preaching to the choir, here.

20 some years ago I ran a blog with this exact kind of content. I had saved Google searches that would find news articles that I would verify before posting. I limited them to people convicted of any crime, not simply arrested or charged, where their religion was somehow relevant to the story, and still averaged about one a day. The overwhelming majority were religious authority figures (predominantly Christian) commiting sex crimes against children in their care. It was fucking exhausting and depressing and drained my mental health, which is why I quit.

People already aware of this problem don't need to be flooded with reminders of it. What they need is the ammunition to take these reminders to those close to them that somehow aren't aware.

RWW has already done 99% of the work. All I'm suggesting is that they do the extra 1% so that anybody that doesn't have the time or energy to go dig up this stuff themselves can just forward it to Aunt June and know that Aunt June won't be able to rebut any of it. They don't want to waste time debating Aunt Jane. They've got their own shit to do. What they want is for want Aunt Jane to STFU about how "Pastor Bob is so good with the kids."

[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ah I definitely understand the "preaching to the choir" sentiment, particularly here on Lemmy. I think that's also partly why I'm fucking with mainstream social media right now.

But I mean in that case, might as well not share any political content here. Personally I wasn't sharing it here to preach to anyone here. I think that sharing content here is more for showing things to like minded people. Maybe a reminder sometimes. Or something for them to look up or share to their social media or whatever.

I could've been a little less defensive, so I apologize. The platform where I got this from is a shit show where certain people literally defend this shit. Need to remind myself that I don't need to automatically fight when I'm here.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No need to apologize, and I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't have posted. It's good to know people are out there fighting the good fight. I look forward to similar posts in future months and hope someday RWW will start producing images that I can forward to my proverbial Uncle Joe that can start to break his shell and doesn't just give him a toe hold to start a pointless debate and dig in further into his beliefs.

ETA:

The platform where I got this from is a shit show where certain people literally defend this shit.

Maybe I'm being too optimistic about what will convince Uncle Joe.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

It's like the same four penis-looking guys spread across 56 different penii.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

This entire debacle is rooted in the incel's big feelings. Our daughters are not safe.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip -3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I hate to say, but I assume in the span of a month you could find 60 “left wingers” also accused of crimes against children.

[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 12 hours ago

Ok find them.

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 10 points 13 hours ago

Very odd that no one ever does, then.