45 minutes ago, long-time user Rondomi posted a topic on the Comradeship space titled “On Paraphilia”.
This will be the only surviving trace of that thread which has been scrubbed away, a single screenshot that instantly gives away what their topic is really about (and proves that this topic did exist):
In this long screed that we will not be copying from (and that you won’t be either, just in case you saw that thread and what was in it), they make the defense of pedophilia under semi-clinical terms wielded like a wobbly club.
They conflate terms like “paraphilia”, which is a blanket clinical term used by therapists to determine how to help their patients, with pedophilia itself. We don’t have any illusions about engaging with their blatant defense of pedophilia, so that is where we will leave our argumentation. There is no argumentation to be had and there is no need to engage with the argument.
Suffice to say, Rondomi was not making a “what if” thought experiment or trying to engage with the idea. Rather, as was made evident by the content of their post, they were trying to create acceptance of pedophilia within Lemmygrad by abusing communist language, clinical language, and finally using pro-pedophile language that they no doubt learned from such groups which they seem to be spending time in. This wasn’t just an off the cuff moment, this was planned, elaborated, and carefully typed.
In other words, if you are in contact with Rondomi, we highly advise banning them from every space you share with them and blocking off all contact with them.
That is the only point of this thread.
The other point is that we will keep comments open for a few moments. If you wish to go off on Rondomi, you can do it here. But just in case this needs to be said, be aware what happened to their account when you do so.
I already cut off ties with Ron.
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I suppose the one good thing about standard anticommunists/reactionaries is that they carry a stench that is easy to smell, I still remember that one GenUSA infiltrator that got booted out within a day. Something from this angle is much easier to smuggle in.
create acceptance of pedophilia within Lemmygrad by abusing communist language
This is very bad. There is a reason why it falls under the term “paraphilia”, such things should never be defended.
And this person is obviously dangerous. Because bad things happened once to me when I was a child, I read more about it and also from a manual for therapist how they have to be treated, when I went through therapy. The first thing was to make it clear, that nothing about it is normal or OK. There were several pages describing which arguments some use to defend it and why it is wrong - It is so much important to point it out. But if someone having it and starts finding it normal by making excuses (They bring historical things, which are all wrong) and so on, then this is a problem. It means, that such person can do a bad thing.
It is sad to see, how someone even tried to use marxist terms to defend it. One thing should always be clear: There is no objectively reason, why this should be OK.
Thank you administrators for finding, banning it and most importantly warning other users. You did something very good and maybe saved other people. I wish you a nice day!
Appreciate how you handled this. Recently came out that a student in my university department is a pedophile and possessed CSAM. We were all blindsided but came to a simple conclusion: we won’t attempt any vigilante violence but that person is never welcome on campus again, enrolled or not, and we can enforce that ourselves if it ever comes to it. But this person has not been seen since the local news article dropped.
Now you’re making me wonder if we should report it to authorities. I’ll talk about it with the rest of the admins and see if we can do something safely. I’d rather not bring attention from the feds on lemmygrad. Maybe we’ll think of something.
Please don’t. It’s not worth elevating fed attention and nothing will come of it sadly.
There are so, so many pedophiles openly breaking the law online that police never interact with. It’s a sickening reminder of the priorities of a bourgeois state. Just think of those pedo lemmy instances still online I presume.
Since they’ve been banned there’s nothing you can give them but an IP address and it’s not enough for a warrant if they’re in most of the Anglo zone so it’ll die there (assuming it was just justifications in text and not admissions of specific acts). But if they see what our site is about, well they’ll suddenly have resources for /that/. You’ve done what you can and I know the community is grateful you’re keeping us safe.
Oh God, I thought I hallucinated that post.
Note that there are also crackers that deliberately conflate LGBT with pedophilia to spread hate
Thank you for your service o7
Thanks for the swift action. I wouldn’t know this happened without this post.
It’s better not to give too much attention to the content but we did need to make a post warning people not to associate with them, especially since some of our users are minors.
handled super professionally and honestly moderation like this is WHY we moved to the fediverse. Keep the good work going and you’ll only continue to earn respect and trust.
This is really bad. It’s the kind of ammunition transphobic chuds would kill for.
it’s seriously gross that they had a trans flag in their name when they posted this. No, I don’t believe they were lying about this (as in pretending to be trans and then post a pro-pedophilia rant – I think they were sincere and thought we would be too dumb to see it for what it is). But it goes to show where their allegiance lies. And to try to get this community on board with it too.
The grossest thing was that the post did raise a few legitimate points, only to use them to smuggle in lots of sinister shit, so it’s good that the admins were able to see through it.
thank mods for your quick action, i didn’t even notice this happened until this post.
We debated making a post because overall the original post seems to have been mostly invisible, but we also wanted to warn anyone who may be associating with that user off lemmygrad just in case. Especially our minor users.
not my community but i think this was handled expertly and with care
I saw it and it was horrible.
As some of you may know, I invited more people to the Lemmygrad website, (not this person, though, of course) but now I wonder if I cast too wide a net, which can also net in some ne’er-do-wells to our community. Next time, I will be careful, and basically handpick carefully some of the subreddits I cross-post to on Reddit as well as make sure that nobody is following me on Bluesky and Twitter / X that might mean harm.
Anyway, be careful with who y’all invite to Lemmygrad or Hexbear, folks, is what I’m trying to say.
Damn… Y eso que ni siquiera lo llegué a leer.
Admito que hace años caí en leer doujinshi NFSW que involucraba menores de edad, muy posiblemente producto de una fuerte distorsión de algún deseo mío de querer ser madre en un futuro.
Pero jamás se me ocurriría defender la pedófila ni querer hacer daño a alguien menor.
En los últimos años llevo esforzándome por no volver a caer en esos pensamientos asquerosos y distorsionados. Quiero ser un buen ejemplo como madre, especialmente siendo yo trans, y gente como Rondomi no ayuda para nada con esto.
Si acabo en un camino o forma de pensar así, jamás me perdonaría a mí misma por eso.
I do want to add that the qotes attributed to the two comrades by Rondomi very probably do not mean that said comrades share the same thoughts, so please do not target them. They were merely cherry picked from an old thread.
I didn’t even click the links and thought the comments had been taken from somewhere else (I didn’t even read them, just skimmed over 5 words). We can change the screenshot if there’s something else that would be more fitting.
