The Dutch beach volleyball player who served time in prison after he was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in England has won his second match at the Paris Olympics.

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@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1510·
      5 months ago

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

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
        118·
        5 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@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          1012·
          5 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            46·
            5 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@lemmy.worldMEnglish
              94·
              5 months ago

              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@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                5 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@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                  42·
                  5 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?

                  • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    5 months ago

                    Some kind of institution with final decision making ability for disputes is needed, yes.

                    How would I have it structured? Something along these lines:

                    • The body itself is entirely transparent with all meetings and matters of discussion open to the public
                    • The body makes decisions by consensus
                    • The body is created to deal with a single issue and immediately disbanded thereafter.
                    • No single person can serve on such a body more than once.
                    • The members of the body are chosen by some kind of open, democratic process.
                    • There are otherwise no restrictions, requirements, or limitations upon the capacity of who can be on such a body (e.g. no age requirements, no citizenship requirements, etc.)

                    I’m not an expert and these aren’t exhaustive or anything, just a few ideas. Obviously the rules shouldn’t be decided by a single person, they should be decided by consensus.