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In reply to the discussion: My understanding about the whole child sex trafficking thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. [View all]Johnny2X2X
(24,172 posts)26. Disturbing
But that's where we are, a politial party has been taken over by Q Anon conspiracies. There are full fledged Q-Anon folk in Congress, and the GOP party leaders use Q-Anon conspiracy theories regualrly to try to gin up hate against their opponents.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
― Voltaire
That's where we are, the atrocities phase. It's why you're catching these people outside of the Obama's house, why they tried to overthrow the government, why they're increasingly openly talking about terrorism including strapping bombs to themselves. When you're leading people to believe your political opponents are murding and eating children, violence against those opponents is certain.
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My understanding about the whole child sex trafficking thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. [View all]
Tommy Carcetti
Jul 2023
OP
This article says that most victims of child sex trafficking know their traffickers.
Scrivener7
Jul 2023
#2
Meanwhile Trump loses track of around 1,000 kids and they could be anywhere.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2023
#4
Close but not quite. People think that sex trafficking is dramatic, involves kidnapping or
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#6
And to the extent they are true, 90%+ of it are committed by REPUBLICANS - I ga'ontee
peppertree
Jul 2023
#27
Real, but the Qanon slant is called "propaganda porn" by a DUer. CAVIEZEL, Mel GIBSON, VERASTEGUI
UTUSN
Jul 2023
#15
I must respectfully disagree based on data. Certainly your '1' and '2' above are quite true, BUT
PatrickforB
Jul 2023
#25
The vast majority of those kids are with someone they know when they "go missing."
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#28