They’d also be more famous and considered anti-heros, like the punisher, instead of cold blooded child murderers no better than the Epstein class.

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    That really relies on their ability to accurately identify a pedo. The moral panic in which people are being called pedos for anything and nothing is still going on even though we have learned that the Epstein conspiracy was huge and horrible.

    Now if they only targeted the people heavily present in the files, yeah probably they’d be seen as heroic

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      Maybe we can meet halfway and target billionaires instead?

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        I’m all for returning fire in the class war, I just really don’t want everyone the populist right accuses of pedophilia to get attacked, because that’s everyone.

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      Just decide that anyone with a net worth over a certain amount is a pedo, and if they don’t want to be labeled and hunted as such, they need to publicly denounce the other rich pedos.

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        Anyone over a certain networth is evil of some kind anyway, so pedo or not it’s still a safe bet.

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        Also donate all personal wealth in excess of $50,000,000 to The Sovereign Fund for Humanities Poor.

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        Most MAGA are just dumbfucks who would change their “values” 180-degrees if given the right emotional narrative to follow, they’re literally just children themselves, clad in machismo and vile rhetoric.

        The evil pedo-aligned people who need to be targeted (with legal repercussions) are the grifters and pipers all over youtube, twitter, cable news and radio.

        We really need to be careful about this "kill all pedos’ narrative while living in a climate where they are working feverishly to label basically anyone they don’t like but especially LGBTQ+ people as “pedophiles.”

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          MAGAs are all Pedophiles. I won’t pretend otherwise because you’re afraid of what they MIGHT do in response. Surrendering in advance is what got us here.

          ALL MAGAs are Pedophiles, and it’s time to get on board with it. I’m really, really sick of this Liberal obsession with being POLITE to literally the most evil people on our planet. They are psychotic, they hate us irrationally over their own fantasy bullshit, and they literally want to KILL US ALL!

          Stop demanding that we be polite to them. GET ANGRY!

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            Stop demanding that we be polite to them

            This is entirely projection about what I said, I am not a liberal nor advocating for being “polite” I am simply warning you that these “All X’s are pedophiles” is dangerous rhetoric that is just black-and-white as their rhetoric so beware. There are very good reasons we need to be smarter than them. Re-read what I said exactly and take a breather. I know how frustrating it is, but this isn’t a tit-for-tat game or we end up in ruin and violence and without a “good guy” side to fall back on.

            Whatever happens, we still have to live next to millions and millions of people who you might label so casually so we need better solutions and not dividing lines. If Trump dies tomorrow, all of these people will be desperate for a new narrative, and we can USE that energy to push them in the right direction and get actual movement to attack forces of capital… or we can get vindictive and stuck in the trenches arguing about fucking words with a group of people who won’t remember your argument tomorrow. Let’s be smart.

            History should be a very glaring example of how this can go bad if you think with your feelings instead of thinking about your feelings.

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        Now now, let’s not use the tactics of the vulgar and immoral in a moral war.

        Some of them are just really fucking stupid.

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          Hard No. If you support, defend, protect, and vote for Pedos, you’re a Pedo. You don’t get to say, “I was too stupid.” Pedos are Pedos, no matter how stupid they are. That’s part of the problem, evil smart people think it’s okay to be Pedos, because they’re smarter, richer, and better than everybody else.

          If you’re MAGA, you’re a Pedophile.

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            No. Literally, some are just fucking stupid being swayed by propaganda and a lack of insight on what’s actually happening. (yes, it is incredibly stupid of them, but last I checked, being a moron wasn’t a crime punishable by death)

            When everyone is out to find enemies, the last thing you should want is to appear just as bull-headed and judgemental as the Nazis trying to paint entire other groups as bad.

            To other ignorant morons that aren’t supporting MAGA, you make it harder to distinguish who the good guys are when you are doing just as much guilt by association.

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              This is sooo easy, but Liberals are sooo weak. They support, defend, deny, and VOTE FOR people they know are pedophiles. Whether they do it out of stupidity or as willful supporters isn’t relevant.

              If you have an active pedophile in your house, and you know they are bringing home children to molest under your roof, and you deny it, support them, make excuses for them, etc. You are aiding and abetting their pedophilia, and you are a pedophile yourself. Maybe you aren’t actively molesting them, but you are helping it happen, and maybe THAT’S your perversion. Either way you are part of that world.

              Being stupid doesn’t get you off the hook for supporting pedophilia, or every MAGA will just plead ignorance.

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                You’re still making far too many assumptions. Most of the truly stupid ones do not know who is in the Epstein files, except maybe Bill Gates and Clinton.

                Why? Because their pathetic level of media consumption of Fox and Newsmax only tell them the ‘enemies’ who are in there.

                Also nowhere did I say they are wholly innocent. Ignorance to such a degree should be a crime itself, and the people who intentionally keep them that way should be guilty of far worse.

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          Stop giving them any benefit of the doubt, stop pretending they’re innocent little children that don’t know any better. They are full grown adults who are culpable in their associations, and choices.

          Republicans have chosen to associate with rapists and child rapists. Has chosen to defend them, and give them shelter.

          Republicans/maga are child rapists.

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            Oh I’m not. It was two things:

            1. A joke to call them fucking stupid, which they are.

            2. A plea to not use the same exact logic a fucking stupid person does. When the Paradox of Tolerance is in full swing, the last thing you want to do is appear to be no different than a Nazi with blanket judgement to a dumbass third party.

            There is a reason there were Nuremberg trials and not just mass executions of Nazis.