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[-] Catoblepas 200 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 1 points 6 months ago

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 19 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago
[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fun fact: many of the founding fathers of the United states and its 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]

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Decade?? My brother in Christ, it has been 75 years or more

[-] Catoblepas 1 points 6 months ago

The groomer slur specifically took off around 2015, I think Julia Serano has done some writing about that but I’m not positive. If you look at it on Google Ngrams you can see the usage spike right around then and just keep going up until the present.

Obviously the idea that gay people groom children didn’t originate 10 years ago. But thanks for clearing that up for anyone who was confused.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago

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

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 50 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 40 points 6 months ago

No, no, no. It's not going to be used on actual pedophiles, it's going to be used on shit like people who dare to teach teens about birth control. This is Project 2025.

[-] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

Their goal is to brand all trans and gay people as pedophiles so they can justify killing LGBT people

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

It is that time...

There's only one thing the gop loves more than LOUD projection and that's abusing kids. The party of the grand ol' pedophiles


[-] Corigan@lemm.ee 29 points 6 months ago

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

[-] belastend@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 months ago

Fuck the death penalty.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

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 11 points 6 months ago

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)

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 16 points 6 months ago

Even though I'm a European, I don't find this funny at all. These two dots are too close not to be connected:

  • All those woke weirdos and democrats are secretly pedofiles that want no good for this country!
  • Let's sentence pedofiles to capital punishment.
[-] L3mmyW1nks@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah probably one of the shortest ways to use capital punishment on dissidents.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Redfox8@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

A new black hole forms. Eventually all existence will be consumed.

[-] alexc@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

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

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

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

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 months ago

Catholic Church is trembling in fear.

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago
[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

No, no, no, silly -- only the pedophiles they don't like will be executed

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