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by Gigachad 15 days ago
What if pedophiles were sent to jail instead of elected.

Technical tricks like IPFS can’t prevent even 1% of the damage caused by giving criminals this much power over society.
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titzer 15 days ago
The media in the US is utterly feckless and broken.
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tstrimple 15 days ago
It is owned by capital and doing what they bought it to do. Working as designed.
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NortySpock 15 days ago
It's difficult to make money if you have to spend all the money on defense lawyers.

Once Trump dies of natural causes I assume some intrepid journalists will go through the mountain of evidence and dig out some exciting snippets of what went on behind closed doors. Maybe a few more people will have to resign because of it.

I'd be interested to hear the contrast between what the Trump Presidential Library considers his greatest accomplishments and what, say, Bob Woodward writes.

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budsniffer952 15 days ago
Remember when the "crazy far right" went on and on about pedophile conspiracies and the left laughed at them? Good times.
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krapp 15 days ago
No.

I do remember when they went on and on about how the Democrats and Jews were all Satanic pedophiles and then they elected the King of all pedophiles to stop it. And then they objectively interfered with good faith efforts to police sex abuse for years with false flags and conspiracy nonsense like trying to find a secret entrance to Hillary Clinton's child sex slave dungeon under a pizzeria with a shotgun, and declaring all transgender people "groomers."

A broken clock may be right twice a day, but when it is, it doesn't deserve credit for being a good clock.

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thereforegrin 15 days ago
wasn't the "dungeon under a pizzeria with a shotgun" stunt a classic red herring as the accusations were actually leveled against the store next door?

I vaguely remember it being along those lines.

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krapp 15 days ago
I don't think so, but even if that were the case there wasn't a secret Democratic black mass child sex dungeon next door either.

The MAGA folks are trying desperately to say they were right all along when the only pedophiles they didn't see were the ones that were actually real.

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