Just now, Dave Moss said:

Remember when you guys went all in on Pizzagate??

Libertarians were not in on Pizzagate, oh wait you are talking about TEW

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/business/media/new-york-post-hunter-biden.html

 

7 minutes ago, birdgang said:

pedophile ring may include many names which could come out in coming days

Why are republicans fixated on pedophiles?  Pizzagate, Qanon and whatever this nonsense is?   Must be projecting.  

Just now, Dave Moss said:

Remember when you guys went all in on Pizzagate??

Wrong guy dumb dumb.  I actually live like 15 minutes from Comet pizza.  Have had it several times (overrated tbh).  Literally said the owners and TV crew should do a walkthrough to dispel the idiocy. Chalk up yet another L for the Dave Moss life story!

1 minute ago, caesar said:

Why are republicans fixated on pedophiles?  Pizzagate, Qanon and whatever this nonsense is?   Must be projecting.  

Seems like it should be a non-partisan enemy? Why the objection, pervert?

1 minute ago, TEW said:

Wrong guy dumb dumb.  I actually live like 15 minutes from Comet pizza.  Have had it several times (overrated tbh).  Literally said the owners and TV crew should do a walkthrough to dispel the idiocy. Chalk up yet another L for the Dave Moss life story!

That’s not quite how I remember it...

2 minutes ago, TEW said:

Seems like it should be a non-partisan enemy? Why the objection, pervert?

Cause its clearly hysterical nonsense.  I don't think high level gov't officials would risk their careers on a "pedophile ring" (whatever that is), when they know every inch of what they do is scrutinized by the opposition.   That's just absurd conspiracy Qanon thinking.  Oh, and Obama was born in Kenya and is a muslim  (really, are republicans that dumb)?

7 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

That’s not quite how I remember it...

That's because your recollection is as faulty as your cognition.

5 minutes ago, TEW said:

Seems like it should be a non-partisan enemy? Why the objection, pervert?

Why do conservatives periodically become fixated on elaborate conspiracy theories involving the rape and torture of children? The details of the QAnon narrative don’t bear any relation to the way that child sexual abuse actually happens. The Q believers are correct that the sexual abuse of minors is much more common than many assume, but any relation between their beliefs and fact ends there.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, about one in four girls and one in 13 boys experience sexual abuse sometime in childhood – an alarmingly high number. A sizable minority of those abuses are committed by other children. The prevalence of children being sexually abused by adults is about one in nine girls and one in 53 boys, according to Rainn – a lower but still alarming number. By and large, the adults who sexually abuse children are not strangers or traffickers (or national Democratic politicians). Instead, they tend to be men – and overwhelmingly it is men who sexually abuse children – whom the abused child knows. Ninety-three per-cent of child molesters are known to their victims. fifty-nine per-cent are acquaintances or family friends, and 34% are family members.

This reality does not lend itself to splashy headlines. It does not suggest a predator lurking in the shadows, let alone a dark network of nefarious liberals waiting to steal your children. It is less sensational, and it is also sadder. Acknowledging the real ways that children are sexually abused would mean confronting the ways that families and communities can keep dark secrets and enable harm to the most vulnerable. It would mean confronting the fact that for those it happens to, child sexual abuse is not only a matter of sexual violation but also of betrayal by someone they trusted.

None of these facts are helpful for conservatives, so they disregard them. But that does not change the psychological purpose that QAnon serves for its adherents. When conservatives take up the mantle of child sexual abuse with conspiracy theories and disinformation, they are assuming a moral position that is usually occupied by liberals: defending the powerless, the voiceless, the disenfranchised. It’s not dissimilar to the psychological function of conservative opposition to abortion rights – it’s about conservatives’ need to see themselves not as the inflictors of pain and needless suffering, but as defenders of the innocent. But as in the abortion debate, the innocent victims in the QAnon conspiracy theory only exist in conservatives’ minds.

QAnon is an elaborate fiction dreamed up by Trump fans to meet the psychological needs of those who cannot allow themselves to admit what is plain as day to everyone else: that the man they voted for and support is mendacious, narcissistic, incompetent, corrupt and horrifically unfit, both morally and intellectually, for his office. He is so ostentatiously unfit to be president that the only way even his most ardent supporters can justify his position is to elevate their own denial into a baroque theology in which his opponents are Satanic pedophiles, and he is the defender of the children.

This delusion has already endangered innocent people and taken lives: one supporter of QAnon famously arrived at Comet Ping Pong with a rifle that he shot into the air, and another QAnon believer assassinated an alleged mob boss on Staten Island whom he reportedly believed was involved in the pedophile ring. If the delusion continues to fester and spread, the violence is sure to continue.

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2 minutes ago, TEW said:

That's because you're recollection is as faulty as your cognition.

I remember you and Solzhenitsyn being pretty into it.

Just now, Dave Moss said:

I remember you and Solzhenitsyn being pretty into it.

And I remember you defending pedophiles.  The difference is what I remember is correct and what you remember is wrong.

6 minutes ago, caesar said:

Cause its clearly hysterical nonsense.  I don't think high level gov't officials would risk their careers on a "pedophile ring" (whatever that is), when they know every inch of what they do is scrutinized by the opposition.   That's just absurd conspiracy Qanon thinking.  Oh, and Obama was born in Kenya and is a muslim  (really, are republicans that dumb)?

There's this guy named Epstein. Maybe you've heard of him?

Just now, TEW said:

And I remember you defending pedophiles.  The difference is what I remember is correct and what you remember is wrong.

Which group of imaginary pedophiles was I defending in your recollection?

1 minute ago, Dave Moss said:

Which group of imaginary pedophiles was I defending in your recollection?

You just wanted an excuse to post pictures of half naked dudes, well done, **** sexuality is very libertarianish, good job

 

5 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

You just wanted an excuse to post pictures of half naked dudes, well done, **** sexuality is very libertarianish, good job

It's just part of my cover. 

5 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

 

These people are sad, they will do anything

 

10 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

 

28 minutes ago, TEW said:

And I remember you defending pedophiles.  The difference is what I remember is correct and what you remember is wrong.

There's this guy named Epstein. Maybe you've heard of him?

Yeah, and they caught him and put him in jail where he killed himself (and BTW, I believe Epstein was technically not considered a pedophile - but someone who liked young girls -- past puberty though - and there is apparently a distinction).  And he hung out with this guy a bunch -- so what's your point again?:

 

 

 

LOL!   Dude - you can't win.

The GOP only needs this story to last 16 more days.

Just now, caesar said:

Yeah, and they caught him and put him in jail where he killed himself (and BTW, I believe Epstein was technically not considered a pedophile - but someone who liked young girls -- past puberty though - and there is apparently a distinction).  And he hung out with this guy a bunch -- so what's your point again?:

 

Look at the pedo defender defending pedos.

22 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

 

I definitely am NOT voting for Hunter Biden now.

3 minutes ago, TEW said:

Look at the pedo defender defending pedos.

I'm pointing out he hung with Trump -- what's your point?  I see you deleted the trump/epstein pics in your response.  Why?  A conspiracy I suppose?

2 minutes ago, caesar said:

 

I'm pointing out he hung with Trump -- what's your point?

No, before that you pointed out he wasn't a pedophile.  What's with the technicalities to defend a child Fer?

5 minutes ago, TEW said:

No, before that you pointed out he wasn't a pedophile.  What's with the technicalities to defend a child Fer?

Cause all liberals are part of satanic pedophile rings -- don't you know that?  Is that why you live 15 minutes from the Comet?