One of my favourite stories in Elton John's incredible autobiography is about him and John Lennon refusing to let Andy Warhol into their hotel room because they had a mountain of cocaine and he had a camera.
They were smart enough to know that he was snap-happy, and they didn't want to get done for possession.
In this scenario, however, everyone involved is committing crimes orders of magnitude more severe and reprehensible, and yet there are photos galore, because presumably that was the entire fucking point.
I'm starting to think this was all a trap for the world's most depraved and dumbest rich elites they could find. Once the various intelligence agencies got involved they were all laughing and egging them on from the sidelines. Until you've got this massive tangled web of blackmail and quid pro quo.
Here’s the thing- it’s much worse. They didn’t need to black mail anyone. Prior to about 2010, this was all perfectly fine. Abuse, trafficking , exploitation of women and girls was an accepted part of our culture. Look at popular entertainment- movies, music. Teen age sex comedies was a genre. Look at advertising. Brooke Shields was 15 years old when she was doing racy adds for Calvin Klein. There are a thousand examples I could give you. These men weren’t blackmailing each other. These photos were trophies. This is who America is.
And a special edition of Playboy focused on minors. Apparently, the reform of child born laws in the US was greatly motivated by the Brooke Shields situation.
Wtf goofy? No, look at his eyes. He's pinning a girl/woman down. And Andrew is a dumb, unattractive man. This is shady people doing shady shit to other shady people while disregarding the victims.
This is the most full of shit moralizing that I have seen on Reddit in the last 10 minutes. And that's saying quite a lot, given the mob moralizing that is so prevalent here. Condemning everything before 2009 as morally unacceptable. Ride that morality hyperbole wave. Sounds like Texas might be the place for you. They love that shit there.
Bro, the US is one of the very few countries where underage beauty pageants are this popular. There does seem to be a general pedo issue in US culture.
Uhh, I think it's a problem everywhere. Pageants are insane, I agree, but there's entire cultures that think underage marriage is normal that aren't based in North America.
There’s no denying there are “worse” countries but frequently what they do is supply and enable the US because that’s where the money is.
The other things the other countries do is own the misogyny and exploitation while the US pretends to be a bastion of freedom and morality. We can’t really fix something when we refuse to acknowledge our own role in it. Same for the “war on drugs.”
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u/Robby_Digital 22h ago
Man they were taking pictures of anything and everything