Daily Dot: Representative Jesse Edwards, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, called teens “ripe” and “fertile” when speaking against a bill that would raise the state’s minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18. Despite his remarks, the bill passed in the state’s House of Representatives.

Representative Jesse Edwards, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, called teens “ripe” and “fertile” when speaking against a bill that would raise the state’s minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18. Despite his remarks, the bill passed in the state’s House of Representatives.

New Hampshire lawmaker calls teens 'ripe' and 'fertile' while speaking out against bill that would ban child marriagewww.dailydot.com Representative Jesse Edwards, a Republican New Hampshire State Representative, called teens "ripe" and "fertile" when speaking against a bill that would

“Presumptive Pedophile, Representative Jesse Edwards…”

"I'll have you know the correct word is 'ephebophile'," said the representative. /s

We go to him now Live. Representative?

the fact that the rest of the people in the room didn't swarm him and drag him outside is baffling to me

if you're familiar with the layout of the chamber, it becomes a lot clearer why that isn't really feasible

So true...

Also because they didn't want to drag him out; they liked what he said and voted for it

well, the Republicans immediately around him, at least

Does it lack windows? Have you heard of a place called Prague?

The windows don't open if I recall.

All windows open. Not all windows close after they’re opened.

- he made it from the well on the GOP side of the room, so most people in his immediate vicinity agreed w/him - the chairs are packed so tightly together, you can't really get out unless everyone in your row btwn you & the aisle agrees - there are 400 reps, which would lead to a crush at the exits

also, if we dragged people out every time someone made a stupid remark, we wouldn't have much time for doing any actual voting.

cool man good stuff

Darn it. Not those trusty Russian windows that seem to be deadly even when in the basement.

Wow, IN SPITE OF HIS COMMENTS! Who'd have thought.

Uncle Jesse needs to chill tf out

Yet again, #NotaDragQueen

Someone please check his hard drives and get his daughters alone and safe.

I think V for Vendetta is an unrepentantly toxic movie, but I also think the V character should visit this guy

I'd love to know your thoughts here. I first read the Graphic Novel and I love the movie...

Okay. In my perhaps unpopular opinion, I think V for Vendetta is utterly toxic. Our “hero” is a vigilante, no better than the things he says he hates, and unaware of the irony. He infantilizes, sexualizes, and tortures Natalie Portman’s character for no sane purpose, and I don’t enjoy it. (1)

I will compare V for Vendetta with Watchmen, which (while hardly a perfect film) to me argues that if there were superheroes, they would probably be awful fascists. But this film ends still championing the “hero”, adulation voiced by his still-gaslit victim. I find that sick.

Add in that the government plot to give us a disease and sell us the cure is now a central Covid-denier conspiracy theory, and the whole thing is utterly distasteful. There’s no element of satire to the film. I watched it last year to see if I was being too harsh in my memory, and still hated it.

V is straight up insane. He's Chaotic Neutral *at best* and is on nothing short of a revenge fueled rampage. Not super surprising given Vendetta is right there in the title. He's so messed up he has no rational foundation to interact with the world. The same is true for the "villains" in the story.

My take, again like Watchmen, is that this is anti-capitalist and very anti-right wing. This isn't about denying diseases. The pharma company created a virus and the cure in order to 1. false flag a terror attack it then used to grab absolute power and 2. make all of its party elite very rich.

First off, both graphic novels are written by the same guy. So, he is making the same sort of points. And as someone points out below, V is not the hero and he is quite insane.

Lastly, you can view what he did to Evey as making him just as bad as Norsefire. He did what he thought needed to be done. He became insane. She got Stockholm Syndrome. Both results are equivalent. I think it is a masterpiece on morality and modern times. But...

I will point out that in the original comic book v is absolutely an monster and is not someone to be lauded. I always felt like the movie made V out to be waymore heroic than he was in the book.

V isn't supposed to be a hero, though.

Let’s check his browser history

I wish I could say the things this man deserves

You can still think it; that's its own special fun. :)

Part of my liveskeet thread where that happened: bsky.app/profile/egal...

So apparently tweeting about #PedoconTheory from the House floor is "inappropriate", yet Rep. Edwards gets to double down on his weirdness about how "fertile" 16 year olds are...

He made similar remarks in 2021: cooljeanius.github.io/my_tweetback... (I misidentified him as Jason Osborne at first, but corrected a few tweets later)

cooljeanius’s Twitter Archive—№ 51,058cooljeanius.github.io uh... what was that Rep. Osborne about to say?

i would have moved to expel him for bringing discredit to the chamber, and just ewwww

the chamber's default state is kinda already in the "discredit" state anyways, so...

Dood is grody.

said in the Vincent D’Onofrio “sugar water” voice

Fucken gross.

They call queer people groomers and then go on to say this shit Every accusation they make is just projection and admission of their own guilt

grubby little pervert

They should vote to hang him next

i just threw my phone after reading the headline. these men must be stopped

Voting is so yesterday...

true, they should hang him regardless

Huh, he wasn’t kidding. The GOP truly is the party of fertilization.

I nearly typed GOO

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