https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/27/children-reaching-uk-in-small-boats-sent-to-jail-for-adult-sex-offenders

  • Tastysnack
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    10 months ago

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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    When Hunter S Thompson was alive, he used to have a list known as the "SWINE OF THE YEAR AWARDS."

    This goes nicely there. hst-pissed

  • djmarcone@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Being against human trafficking, especially sex trafficking, and doubly so for child sex trafficking, should not be a political issue.

    Yet when "sound of freedom" was making news it suddenly became a right wing conspiracy theory qanon adjacent anti Semitic movie.

    Whut?

    It's literally very closely based on true events.

    Its not even religious in any way.

    It mentions no political party.

    It was made before qanon was a thing.

    Maybe there are some vocal people who are in favor of child sex trafficking? It seems like it?

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      Hasn't the guy that the movie is about recently been charged with human trafficking? Because his method for saving these children was to go out to these child traffickers and buy the children off of them. Like how someone who wants to buy a child slave would.

      Here we go https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/sound-of-freedom-investor-sex-trafficking-b2388549.html kidnapping was the charge

      I think it's not that people are against trying to stop child sex trafficking, but that this guy's methods were extremely suspect and due to him buying these kids, actually encouraged the sex traffickers to traffic more children.

      I dunno. What do you think?

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          Well, there's a question. Are the kids being fucked? Not sure there's much of a paper trail. Where are these kids now?

          And let's be clear, they were giving child slavers money in exchange for slaves. They got paid to sell slaves, and we're allowed to continue selling slaves. They are still active now. And this organisation is still presumably giving them money in exchange for child slaves.

          The guy is probably straight up reselling kids into abusive situations.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      10 months ago

      it didn't "become" a right wing conspiracy theory, it was a right wing conspiracy theory. The right wing account of child abuse is completely imaginary, and its view of actual real world abuse of children is supportive, because it views kids as property first and foremost.