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Do you mean the movie that's founder was just caught kidnapping a child? Is that the movie you're concerned about people smearing?
Yeah 'he was a FoUNdeR" lol do a little research the guy donated $501 to get his name in the credits along with nearly 7000 other people and he's not convicted of child trafficking he's convicted of accessory to child kidnapping which if you care to read the details about the case is such a non issue when compared to child trafficking. He broke the law, lock him up let him serve his time, the fact that anyone is using some fucking nobody that donated $500 and calling him a founder to discredit the real issue of child trafficking is astonishing and disgusting.
Think about what the "journalist/reporter" went through to obtain this information, they cross checked legal cases with all nearly 7k donation of $500 and up (so they could run the headline that he/she was a founder of the movie) and found a case with child kidnapping and ran with it and you bozos are eating it up. How about team red or team blue we fucking agree child trafficking is bad and that we should castrate and kill the people trafficking them and the pedophiles buying them?
The issue isn't with political partisanship. I think both sides all agree child trafficking is abhorrent, and you'd be hard pressed to find anybody on either side claiming otherwise.
The problem is QAnon believers reject evidence that doesn't support their world view and are politically biased. They aren't making an educational public awareness movie, they're making propaganda based on misinformed beliefs.
I'm not really concerned with Qanon tbh and I've not kept up with their craziness for some time, I guess that's what confuses me about the sensationalist title calling this a Qanon adjacent film, just screams smear campaign. What's your thoughts on California failing to pass SB-14?
I have a simpler theory. He got arrested and journalists checked his socials when trying to write a story. He talked about this very subject online. Hey, look! No sinister motives needed1
Your version has journalists cross checking a list, trying their very best to discredit people involved in exposing the truth. That's a sign that you're not coming at this with clear thinking.
You are right, mainstream media definitely isn't stretching the title and article my mistake they are completely unbiased and there is no issue with child trafficking.
Child trafficking happens predominantly via someone the child already knows (family or family-adjacent). It's very rarely in the form that this film projects with random people snatching children off the street. The film depicts an almost fictional version of the issue. This is regardless of whatever good intent the backers may have had. But you have revealed yourself to be deeply enmeshed in your perception of the issue and I'm replying to point this out to others rather than to you.
You seem to really care about this movie