Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who served time in prison after he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl, won his second match at the Paris Olympics and received an even harsher reaction from the crowd on Wednesday than for his first match.

  • Flying Squid
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    206 months ago

    What else should they be doing? Storming the court and dragging him to a lynching tree? I’m guessing the French wouldn’t be especially accommodating to such vigilantism.

    • @[email protected]
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      646 months ago

      They could have not invited a convicted child rapist to represent their country at the Olympics.

      • Flying Squid
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        146 months ago

        “They” are not the booing crowd.

    • @NABDad
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      546 months ago

      I’m guessing the French wouldn’t be especially accommodating to such vigilantism.

      You are absolutely correct!

      You’d need to use a guillotine.

    • @Squizzy
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      426 months ago

      Holding up signage, shouting rapist, turning their backs…there is a lot of room between booing and lynching.

    • @cley_faye
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      406 months ago

      Not putting him on a pedestal as a representative of your country would be a good start.

    • @Snowclone
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      196 months ago

      There’s SO many options between one year in prison and extra judicial killing. Like, in prison for 10 years, just off the top of my head.

      • Flying Squid
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        86 months ago

        I agree, but the booing crowd aren’t the ones that can put him in prison for 10 years.

    • @momocchi
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      146 months ago

      Stop putting words in their mouth, there are so many things to do other than booing that are non violent but you just immediately took the most extreme possible outcome and suggested that was what the person you are reply to meant.

      • @Paddzr
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        96 months ago

        This mod is notorious for this.

      • Flying Squid
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        -166 months ago

        I didn’t put words in their mouths, I asked a question.

        • @momocchi
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          146 months ago

          “What else should they do next?” Was the question, everything that came after was you putting words in their mouth as an answer

          • Flying Squid
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            -166 months ago

            Again, you are not psychic. You do not know what I meant by what I said because you didn’t ask.

        • @momocchi
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          76 months ago

          An incredibly leading question, yes

          • Flying Squid
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            -166 months ago

            You do not know my intentions. You are not psychic.

    • @boaratio
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      76 months ago

      Roman Polanski has entered the chat.

      • Flying Squid
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        -156 months ago

        Being against lynching means I’m a child rapist? Really?

        • @boaratio
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          No no no no. I was just pointing out that France won’t extradite a child rapist. Calm down friend.

          Edit: spelling

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      i think at the very least he deserves an ass whooping. not trying to get into vigilante wierdo justice here but it would be nice to see one less confirmed remorseless pedo in this world since the system has definitely failed in this case.

        • @[email protected]
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          06 months ago

          ya basically but im not trying to come off as a edgelord maniac saying its the responsibility of regular people to vigilante this guy. itd be cool if they did but i doubt that would make the person this piece of filth hurt feel any better. At the very least tho itd be cool to see him jumped and every bone broken in his body and him then turned into a vegetable thatd be cool.

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              l think its actually pretty reasonable to want a unrepentant pedophile rapist who has escaped justice to be served his just desserts. Im against the death penalty world wide because again justice isnt perfect and sometimes innocent people (especially in america and especially minorities) get executed. But in a rare case like this i think the gloves should be taken off a lil, but who knows maybe im just deranged.

      • Flying Squid
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        66 months ago

        Really? You want vigilantism and lynching? Do you think that might possibly go wrong at some point?

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months ago

          I think it’s a little different than typical vigilantism when he’s convicted and demonstrably used his privilege to get out of it, much less when he’s in the Olympics representing his nation (of child rapists, apparently, thus the government officials defending his right to get children drunk and rape them).

          You are right that France isn’t the place to do it though, the French pedophilic cabal that has infiltrated the government is their Supreme Court.

          • Flying Squid
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            -26 months ago

            “A little different.” This time. What about all the other times? What if it’s a member of the French supreme court that it turns out that, despite you thinking they’re a pedophile, they aren’t actually a pedophile?

            • @sandbox
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              -26 months ago

              I mean if they’re high in the judiciary they’re already guilty of something. It’s like billionaires, you know? Probably best to just get rid of the lot. Safer.

              • Flying Squid
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                Or are they one of the ones stopping the corruption from spreading, but the lynch mob was convinced by the corrupt one that they were the real pedophile?

                Also, black people were regularly accused of that in the U.S. during the era when lynchings were common.

                • @sandbox
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                  -16 months ago

                  If they’re in the supreme court, they are the corruption.

                  (BTW, I don’t agree with lynching alleged or sentenced pedophiles, just wanted to get in my little jabs at the court)

                  • Flying Squid
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                    26 months ago

                    Seems to me like a supreme court is kind of needed. So how do you have one if everyone on it is automatically corrupt?

    • nadram
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      06 months ago

      Maybe they can start by sitting on the court/field? 😏