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Epstein's Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]
No mercy for pedos, let em rot
Once again we learn that it's much safer to leave your kids with a drag queen or king than right wing nutjobs.
I think I’d feel safer leaving my kids with a polar bear carrying a grenade launcher than a Republican.
The polar bear with the grenade launcher is probably an avatar of the bear god Ursan, upside your child will be the bane of chaos downside they are now an alcoholic because Kislev.
It's always the ones you most suspect.
These are the people we should really protect kids from
He wants to protect your kids from getting diddled by foreigners
Ironically, there are no kiddie-diddling jobs left for foreigners. GOPers took them all.
Just the way they like it.
Wonder if this fuck will deport himself?
Of course not, he thinks he's the hero of his story, and will do mental gymnastics to defend his actions.
every time someone screams "but think of the children!" , i think that things would be better if that person thought about children less.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
Here are your winnings, commissioner...
Well not that shocked.
it's always projection with these people, isn't it?
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project
Its unfortunately an effective strategy to hide their crimes. They speak vocally about harsh treatment of the people that do their type of harm and slowly escalate with their victims.
People see them being real close friends with a member of their church, then dismiss it because they know their public opinion on predators. After a while they start seeing their victims outside of church or whatever it happens to be. Other parents think it's weird but dismiss it again because of the predators' outspoken opinions and it's not too much further than their interactions with the victim in church. They're boiling the frog. The last step is getting so close with the victim that the victim begins to see them as one of their closest friends and helps bring others into the abuse either through photos or physically.
Abusers always try to hide in plain sight. The type of abuse doesn't matter. And they try to surround themselves in a cloak of protection from what they are.
It's the same thing fascists do, wrap themselves in the flag and "protect" from the "others", projecting power through violence, as a threat.
I mean, they literally join the clergy and protect each other.
projection or a convenient disguise?
Slow castration with hot oil is in order for the sick worthless turd.
I heard some official on the news talking about how they're arresting all the dangerous sex offenders and I was like "when are you arresting Trump then"
Color me shocked.
I'm really curious. Has there been any research on this yet? Those shouting the loudest about pedophilia always seem to care the least or even be complicit themselves. They shout for surveillance, death penalties, castration, etc.
What's with the reactionary fixation on pedophilia?
Cw: non-specific discussion of CSA, discussion of dismissal of victims and mental illness
Its worth noting that nothing they demand would help children in any way. Child abuse overwhelmingly happens at home, from family members. To protect more children from abuse the entire system needs to be restructured to actually prioritize child welfare. Better funded better educated households generally correlate with better outcomes for children. I mean abusive parents exist no matter household income of course, but a lot of child abuse and neglect is correlated with parents and family members who are stressed, mentally unwell and struggling to make ends meet. If child and family welfare was actually a priority in any way they would be funding social services and social assistance, as well as ensuring that good public services exist to support people and ensure good, and free, access to mental health care. They don't do any of these things.
In the context of CSA specifically, believing children who come forward would be a good start. I've met a lot of people who weren't believed when they came forward. Who's family members actually protected their abusers and consistently dismissed that the abuse was happening at all, even when parts of it were happening in plain sight. Another crucial and extremely important part would be properly educating children about abuse. In order to know that youre being abused you have to understand what is happening to you. Comprehensive and early sex education gives children the language and understanding to explain what's happening to them. It is legitimately proven to be correlated, poorer sex education correlates with higher rates of abuse and lower reporting.
Republicans oppose both of those things. They actually apply disgusting levels of dismissal to all victims of sexual abuse, child or adult. They entirely dismiss that adult female predators exist and that boys can and do fall victim to them. They treat the whole concept of CSA as something that happens in dark alleys, far away from god fearing nuclear families. But the reality is that sexual abuse in the majority of circumstances happens at home with people who are well known to the victim. Republicans are entirely unconcerned with those victims though, and are only interested in the ones they can exploit to further their white supremacist agenda. Hence they are very likely to dismiss victims of CSA by saying that theyre lying, especially if the perpetrators are politically useful to them.
They also oppose sex education of any kind. Its sickening honestly. They are aware of how important it is. They do not care if more children will suffer silently because of this decision. They're at best indifferent and at worst see this as a benefit of the policy.
Given all that I stated above, you can see that attacking migrants doesnt do anything to protect child welfare. Nor does attacking queer people. Nor does vigilante style pedophile catchers. Policy change and systemic restructuring is what would help children. Caring about their welfare would help them. Republicans just know that "protect the children" can give them cart blanche to do whatever they want to whoever they want.
To add to that, there's the notion that children and women are property. I grew up in a "children should be seen, not heard" household. Sadly not an uncommon mentality, even now. And the manosphere podcast world is perpetuating that type of mentality today.
Its the externalization of their fight against urges they lose internally. Deep down they know they are bad ppl and that they did bad things but they cannot cope with that so they fight what makes them bad outside of themselves.
They also often assume other people are fighting the same forbidden demons and are very vocal about it. That way you get closet gay being the biggest gay haters in public.
Very interesting explanation, makes sense
Feels like "I'm not bad because they're even worse!" except they're convicted pedophiles, so they can't go much lower than themselves.
The only thing I can think of is that the rate of pedophilia amongst Catholic priests is approximately 2%, much higher than the general population. I would like to see more studies honestly (selfishly to confirm my biases and wave the number in right wingers’ faces)
Reaction Formation is a psych term that might interest you to read about. It's one of Freud's terms and has mixed evidence, but if memory serves is viewed as plausible as a defense mechanism.
Shocking, just incredible, unbelievable even...
Yeah, obviously he doesn't want any filthy aliens to fuck his kids. After all, virgin kids are best.
EVERY FUCKING TIME!
God: lol, got em again! 🤣
You could fill a bunch of socks with nickles which we could then beat the pedophiles with.
If I have a nickel every time...
You could fill a bunch of socks with nickles which we could then use to beat the pedophiles.
The voters don't mind.
wow, what a surprise.
A lot of very fine pedos here! 🫲🍊🫱
I thought this was that ex Amish guy in tiktok. Who am I kidding, it probably still is.
"I know phile means lover but this ain't it bruh, I think you better go home"