(08-14-2023, 07:41 PM)copycat Wrote:

(08-14-2023, 02:56 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: When folks don't have a leg to stand on in a debate they often deflect.

Such is the nature of the recent focus on sex trafficking and related crimes from the right. 

"My side cares more about this particular horrible thing than your side does!" has got to be the weakest [BLEEP] flex ever.

(08-14-2023, 06:58 PM)mikesez Wrote: I agree.  Most Republicans are keeping child abuse in the proper context.  Most Republicans understand that it is always punished whenever it is known about. Unfortunately it often is not known about until years later.  The people who loudly insist that elite people are committing this terrible act and going unpunished, they're not just filling the Republican vs Democrat arena up with nonsense, they're also filling the Republican vs Republican debate up with nonsense.

Most people want to be a hero, or at least want to be one of the ones who supports the heroes of their time.  If there is no crisis demanding a hero, or if you would rather ignore the crisis that does exist, you make up a crisis so you can paint yourself as the hero of it.  Lies like this become very attractive.

Remember the Me Too movement?

Of course.  It took down some guys like Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, and Matt Lauer who definitely deserved it, but also took down some guys like Garrison Kieler, Louis CK, and Aziz Ansari who maybe didn't.  Every revolution has at least a modicum of just cause and a least a couple of modicums of overreaction.  The me too movement was better than most.  

Why do you ask?

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