@Knight_of_the_First_State While still real, the whole exploiting children problem is seriously blown out of proportion by exact same people to sway public opinion the way they want. Most throw their critical thinking aside when children are involved.
@m0xee @Knight_of_the_First_State So, you're saying ~25% of kids having at least one experience with sexual abuse during their formative years is not a real problem to you?
@SirPaulCouture
Your words: "…is not a real problem to you"
My words: "While still real…"
Isn't something slightly off with how you perceive my post? 🤔
What I stated was: children are often used as a justification for all sorts of wrong things. Something might be wrong or at least considered controversial, but if it's for the kids — it's alright. Thought isn't exactly new, yet it still holds.
@Knight_of_the_First_State
@SirPaulCouture @m0xee Your personal perceptions of the problem vs. the actual quantified problem is irrelevant.
The FBI clearly used their unconstitutional privileges to attack wrongthink and not real problems. If they went too far to violate the constitution but they arrested the top 10 on Epstein's client list, we might celebrate and then slap the fed on the wrist for procedural violations.
@Knight_of_the_First_State @SirPaulCouture
Exactly! Would arresting those on the Epstein list justify access to Twitter and political censorship? No! Would it solve the "~25% of kids have experience with sexual abuse"? Again no! According to what I know it happens mostly in domestic setting — it's either family members or close friends, whom kids know well.
These are three separate problems, lumping them together solves neither. And pointing this out doesn't make me a supporter of child abuse.
@m0xee @SirPaulCouture What else has the FBI done with their Twitter backdoor access than go after political dissidents?
@Knight_of_the_First_State @m0xee Bombed the WTC in 1993 when their informant and bomb maker requested he make the bomb inoperable among others.
@Knight_of_the_First_State
You think I'm going to defend the FBI? Never!
No such cases that I know of, but I bet, stuff like that is reserved for some very special occasions that never make it into news anyway. Once you do it and everyone knows how it was done, all hell breaks loose and you can never use that again.
But you know with corrupt shit it's always "We can never do that, but if you really-really-really want to… fine!"
@SirPaulCouture
@m0xee @Knight_of_the_First_State I'm kind of tired of the comparison to "won't someone think of the children" hysteria when the topic being discussed is actual pedophiles with power fucking kids.