• Nougat@fedia.io
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    20 days ago

    When Daily Mail reports on what Republicans say, does the combination of lying about lies make it the truth?

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    While yes Republicans have more pedos, the objective of this kind of stuff is only secondarily to kill pedos. The prime objective is to target LGBT people, who have been relentlessly targeted as “groomers” for the past decade or so.

    Any time Republicans talk about sexual crimes, you need to remember that they consider being queer a sexual crime and a grown man fucking a teenager to be normal. Interpret everything they say through that lens.

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      I have said it before and I will say it again.

      I oppose the death penalty because I don’t want the government to have the power to execute people.

      Any other reason you have for or against, I don’t fucking care. If it’s a power you wouldn’t trust in the hands of your political rivals, you shouldn’t trust it in the hands of the people you support.

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        We are indeed past the point where material scarcity is a thing. Feel like keeping people alive in American prison is worse than killing them so? If we wanna “punish” them we shouldn’t be killing em. With how often pedos get diddled themselves in prison once word spreads of their crimes, seems like karma.

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          The issue is that we execute a LOT of possibly innocent people. Unlike life imprisonment, you cannot “make it right” if it turns out you accidentally killed the wrong guy in your commission of justice.

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            Ya? Go tell that to the prison lobby. Maybe check out what happens in turkish prisons. Some people do not deserve life. Having an innocent person imprisoned is awful, however we live in the era of mass surveillance. the mask is off anyway, we have pretty advanced detection algorithms, might as well have no mercy ala Japan style. Of course, for the executions it’s gotta be air tight evidence. Or something.

            It’s.2025 we should just have an executioner vibe check and thumbs down or up. Problem solved

    • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world
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      And that was all laid out in project 2025. But people kept insisting that saying they would do that was just fear mongering. Like how saying they’d overturn Roe v Wade was. This shit is what they’re planning and people need to finally fucking acknowledge that it’s not fear mongering when you’re talking about they’re literal plan.

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          Fun fact: many of the founding fathers of the United states and it’s constitution viewed the second amendment as a means to allow the people to have a check against their government.

          I used to think that there was no way people could form an effective insurgency against the US military, but… [gestures at Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, etc]

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            The boxcars are always full of people who dont understand what “be ungovernable” means and who think that invoking the 2A means that citizens with AR-15s line up in a field against the entire US military.

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    Don’t worry all the Republican pedophiles are exempt. Trump, gaetz, probably musk and to many I can recall

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    We’ve done this before.

    Last time we used the word terrorist.

    It’s a word whose definition will change to suit whoever it has been decided needs to be dealt with.

    It makes extrajudicial assassination of US Citizens legal for the government to do. Fun times.

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    Great, kill pedophiles. But like, your friends that are pedophiles too. Your next birthday party is gonna be pretty fucking lonely.

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    Unfortunately Republicans define pedos as LGBTQ+ people according to Project 2025. So this is yet another Nazi bill.

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      I remember shortly after I voted Fidesz, I had to learn the hard way that the right doesn’t actually care about protecting children, but persecuting gays. Hungary had (and still has) an epidemic of teen girls being groomed en masse by older and rich men. However, Fidesz claims those girls are “being saved from poverty”, while for the same “crime” (unfortunately not legally, as our AoC is 14), gay people get called out, and unfortunately their whole community get shunned for daring to request that kids should be taught sex ed.

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    I care a lot more about whether somebody does fuck kids, than whether they want to and then don’t because they know it isn’t cool.

    “Pedophile” is the word for “wants to”, not “does”.

    • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      True, although usually when people talk about punishing pedophiles they mean punishing people who have done terrible things to children (and in this case, Republicans are talking about neither, the main objective of this is to target queer people)

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    This will only take place in states that haven’t lowered the age of consent to nine. You know, the blue ones.

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    I at least hope they mean child predators, and not pedophiles.

    Edit: a secure connection isn’t possible with daily mail, apparently.

    Edit2: IA to the rescue. Life to death for CP charges. Which is wildly different then being a pedo lol.

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    Exactly. It’s not to hold themselves accountable. It’s a sword to be wielded toward people they deem the true pedophiles.