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Scientific American, the Atlantic, and Nature aren't pro-Trump publications but you are free to do your own searches. No one believes the sciences don't have a problem in that direction. Right, left, center, this year, last year, last decade, you'll find source after source reiterating that issue. If you care to look you'll also see that educators, a profession to which most of these scientists belong, have a molestation problem. Far more kids are molested by educators each year than by priests, and it isn't close.

The biggest difference between Mastodon and Twitter is that Mastodon is decentralized with no single entity having control over all the hosting servers. The fundamental architecture of Mastodon makes it impossible to remove child pornography which is why it flourishes there. By contrast, Twitter has control over the hosting servers and has the ability to police content. Twitter did have a child pornography problem and it wasn't because they lacked the technical ability to adequately police it but rather the team at Twitter responsible for implementing a solution made decisions that failed to curtail that traffic adequately. Maybe it was incompetence and maybe it was motivated. You'd have to ask Yoel Roth. Thankfully Elon Musk fired Yoel and that entire team.

Personally I don't see why wanting to protect kids is a political issue. I don't see why objecting to the sexual exploitation of children is all that is required to label me a Trumper but these are strange times I guess.
Its just weird because I never ever see child porn or pedophiles or anything like that, yet certain people seem to always know where that kind of stuff is to be found.
 
The issues are identical. They are both sexual pursuits with a disregard for getting consent.
The Venn diagram of the perpetrators has very little overlap, the behaviors involved are completely different (open hostility vs. secrecy, etc.), the end goal of the behavior is different (domination vs. illicit gratification). It's as if you have no understanding, at all, of the factors that drive these people.

I'm not clear on why you are trying to divide them
I don't have to divide Europe and Canada, the Atlantic Ocean does that for me.

but I do see your efforts at dismissing these types of behavior
I actually acknowledged the behavior and that it was an issue. You responded with a lie, because you can't deal with the truth.

... receiving up votes from those ...
I spent a long time in this forum as one of the least popular posters. You're not even close to what motivates me.

Meanwhile, your use of pedophilia de-stigmatizes it and makes it ordinary, instead of preserving the horrific abuse it should be taken as. How low will you sink, here?
 
exactly. You always know.
When you want to know how to grow a tomato, ask a farmer/gardener. When you want to know how to change your spark plugs ask an auto mechanic. When you want to know how to build a deck ask a carpenter.

When you want to know where to find child porn... who ya gonna call?
 
Scientific American, the Atlantic, and Nature aren't pro-Trump publications but you are free to do your own searches. No one believes the sciences don't have a problem in that direction. Right, left, center, this year, last year, last decade, you'll find source after source reiterating that issue. If you care to look you'll also see that educators, a profession to which most of these scientists belong, have a molestation problem. Far more kids are molested by educators each year than by priests, and it isn't close.
One thing I find somewhat ironic is that, on the one hand, you lash out at anyone mentioning QAnon, the conspiracy targeting elite Democrats as child molestors, you claimed QAnon “doesn’t interest anyone”, yet here you are focused on elites(in this case scientists and educators) molesting children, just as QAnon’s conspiracism thinking mode focuses on Democratic elites molesting children. QAnon paints with a broad brush, regarding child molestation, and you seem to be doing so as well. It’s like fishionjazz pointed out: you always know where to look, or you are at least willing to look and find it, if it suits your narrative. And, in this case, your anti-intellectual and anti-liberal educator bias zeros right in on sexual deviancy among scientists and educators, just as QAnon zeros in on sexual deviancy among certain political elites. Maybe you’re projecting when you lash out at the subject of QAnon? Just a thought.

You would have us think “child molestors” whenever the term “scientist” or “educator” is mentioned. Very QAnon-like. And that’s ironic….
 
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One thing I find somewhat ironic is that, on the one hand, you lash out at anyone mentioning QAnon, the conspiracy targeting elite Democrats as child molestors, you claimed QAnon “doesn’t interest anyone”, yet here you are focused on elites(in this case scientists and educators) molesting children, just as QAnon’s conspiracism thinking mode focuses on Democratic elites molesting children. QAnon paints with a broad brush, regarding child molestation, and you seem to be doing so as well. It’s like fishionjazz pointed out: you always know where to look, or you are at least willing to look and find it, if it suits your narrative. And, in this case, your anti-intellectual and anti-liberal educator bias zeros right in on sexual deviancy among scientists and educators, just as QAnon zeros in on sexual deviancy among certain political elites. Maybe you’re projecting when you lash out at the subject of QAnon? Just a thought.

You would have us think “child molestors” whenever the term “scientist” or “educator” is mentioned. Very QAnon-like. And that’s ironic….
That was quite a leap you took there to once again bring up your passion. I do find it humorous that you think educators are considered "elites". As for QAnon being about teachers molesting kids in their care, I'll take your word for it. I thought it was about someone secret inside the government claiming there was a plan to bring Trump back into power but will admit that I only learn about it second hand from people like you and The Thriller who worship Q.

While I don't follow other conspiracies either, I had thought the molesting kids conspiracies were associated with Jeffrey Epstein if the victims were underage girls, or James Alefantis if the victims were underage boys. If all conspiracies are now QAnon then I suppose it would fit the pattern. As far as I know The Thriller still believes there is only one person on JazzFanz who has opinions that disagree with his and I'm one of the many sock puppet accounts for that single disagreeing individual. You read that Mastodon has a child pornography problem and invoke QAnon because QAnon is answer to all topics. Apparently all things are one thing for those wrapped up in the Q obsessive worldview.
 
That was quite a leap you took there to once again bring up your passion. I do find it humorous that you think educators are considered "elites". As for QAnon being about teachers molesting kids in their care, I'll take your word for it. I thought it was about someone secret inside the government claiming there was a plan to bring Trump back into power but will admit that I only learn about it second hand from people like you and The Thriller who worship Q.

While I don't follow other conspiracies either, I had thought the molesting kids conspiracies were associated with Jeffrey Epstein if the victims were underage girls, or James Alefantis if the victims were underage boys. If all conspiracies are now QAnon then I suppose it would fit the pattern. As far as I know The Thriller still believes there is only one person on JazzFanz who has opinions that disagree with his and I'm one of the many sock puppet accounts for that single disagreeing individual. You read that Mastodon has a child pornography problem and invoke QAnon because QAnon is answer to all topics. Apparently all things are one thing for those wrapped up in the Q obsessive worldview.
Some masterful trollery here. Not only presenting a red herring, but wrapping it in a straw man as well. Accuse your opponent of making the statement that you, in fact, made to begin with. Impressive mental gymnastics there. Of course we all know you do not discuss any of this with even a modicum of intellectual honesty, as trolls are wont to do.
 
Some masterful trollery here. Not only presenting a red herring, but wrapping it in a straw man as well. Accuse your opponent of making the statement that you, in fact, made to begin with. Impressive mental gymnastics there. Of course we all know you do not discuss any of this with even a modicum of intellectual honesty, as trolls are wont to do.
Which part was a red herring and straw man? That Red yet again brought up QAnon? That Red considered educators to be elites?

... here you are focused on elites(in this case scientists and educators) molesting children….
 
Which part was a red herring and straw man? That Red yet again brought up QAnon? That Red considered educators to be elites?
Keep going. You can triple down on this if you play your cards right.
 
Not great but.....

 
You can justify so much when hatred is behind it. When the opposition is engaged in Slander and Treason, and is Godless and Guilty, why should you limited to telling the truth, or advise compromise to create a functioning government?
 
He is so calm, intelligent, logical, sensical, sincere, etc.
He would be an awesome president.
I would actually be EXCITED to vote for a candidate for literally the first time in my life if he were to get nominated.


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I still think he's too middle-of-the-road corporate for me, But with the shifting of the Overton window during the election and since then, he might be willing to mitigate some of that. And I'd still be happier voting for him than Biden, Hillary, Obama (2nd term, anyway), Kerry, Gore... OK, I liked Clinton, especially, again, 1st term.

And, yeah, he sure do talk purty.
 
He is so calm, intelligent, logical, sensical, sincere, etc.
He would be an awesome president.
I would actually be EXCITED to vote for a candidate for literally the first time in my life if he were to get nominated.


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Me too. Unfortunately, you know, gay. Are the economically anxious in Ohio, Florida, and other key battleground states ready to vote for a gay man to be president?

Thank god we have the electoral college, otherwise, candidates would only care about a handful of states... /s
 
Me too. Unfortunately, you know, gay. Are the economically anxious in Ohio, Florida, and other key battleground states ready to vote for a gay man to be president?
I would not consider Ohio and definitely not Florida a battleground state currently. Recently Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia would be considered more swing states. Two of those states have voted in LGBT senators.
Are you worried more about three states that will not vote a gay man into office? Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania? But even Michigan elected a LGBT attorney general.
 
I would not consider Ohio and definitely not Florida a battleground state currently. Recently Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia would be considered more swing states. Two of those states have voted in LGBT senators.
Are you worried more about three states that will not vote a gay man into office? Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania? But even Michigan elected a LGBT attorney general.
I don’t have confidence that the majority of voters in swing states in a presidential election will vote for a gay candidate. I’d love to be wrong on this. I’d by far be more comfortable if we based our elections for president on the popular vote. I am far more confident that a gay candidate would win an election where the popular majority throughout the nation decided decided the outcome.
 
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