Honestly this could be extended to just why are people online so obsessed with pedophilia, cause Q nerds are obsessed with that shit also. But I've worked with my local Food not Bombs chapter, I've worked with my local DSA chapter, I've worked with my local SRA chapter, I've never heard pedophilia come up doing any of those things. But then I get online and its pedo this Epstein that. I get Q nerds being obsessed with this shit cause they have no material analysis, so they have to create some Satan worshipping pedophile cult to criticize the ruling classes. But why is the online left so obsessed with this stuff?

I'm not against talking about this stuff, it just seems like it often tends towards lib conspiracy brain with no material analysis. Honestly, its one of the few connective tissues I still see between this place and places like redscarepod, stupidpol, some of the old fellow travelers of the chapo sub. My friend sends me these horrible twitter accounts that I can only imagine are what Red Scare listeners are like - ostensibly left, but really just reactionary garbage - and its ALL pedo shit.

Is it the effect of being terminally online and a lot of the online left being radicalized at the same time as the whole pizzagate thing? Because I feel like before 2016 the only people who would regularly talk about pedophilia were libertarians, and mostly just to try and say that they're not actually pedophiles.

Is it the influence of TrueAnon? I feel like this stuff rarely leaves the online sphere. I've never had an actual conversation about pedophilia in irl left spaces. whywhywhywhywhy is everyone so obsessed with pedophilia online?

  • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I think it's been years since I've had a real world relationship with someone (left or right) that didn't assume every fabulously rich person was a pedophile. Maybe my peers are more insane than yours.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      3 years ago

      I slum it with chuds, hogs, libs, working apoliticals, PMC types, and all of them to some degree believe we're ruled by pedos. Of course each of them think their guy is spotless and it's the other side that does satanic child sacrifices.

      That said I think part of it is a mix of being a collective cultural joke and being a serious belief, with the scale of from humor to ideology is a sliding scale corresponding to how politically plugged in you are into American politics without having an extensive understanding of historical materialism