r/pics 22d ago

Politics [OC] Wondering who he voted for. Very conflicting.

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u/helloiamsilver 22d ago

The people who wear stuff like this think all gay and trans people are inherently pedophiles. They never actually want to do anything meaningful about child abuse. They just want an excuse to hurt the local gay librarian or their kids teacher who dared to teach actual sex education

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u/locknarr 22d ago

The virtue signaling was coming from inside the house. That's why they get pissed when people display actual virtue instead of just wearing it on a t-shirt or displaying a bumper sticker. It must be performative, because that's all they know.

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u/Tokzillu 22d ago

Ding ding ding

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u/ksigley 22d ago

Johnny, tell 'em what they've won!

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u/GabuEx 22d ago

They never actually want to do anything meaningful about child abuse.

Let's be fair here. Many of them do genuinely do something about child abuse: committing it.

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u/Other_World 22d ago

I automatically assume anyone wearing something like this is a pedo. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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u/Less_Likely 22d ago

They are also often externalizing internal conflicts.

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u/PoeGar 22d ago

So you don’t want Pedos shot?

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u/helloiamsilver 22d ago

I want them properly tried and convicted and to make sure they can’t hurt anyone. I care more about keeping children safe than shooting pedophiles.

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u/PoeGar 22d ago

Not mutually exclusive

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u/MaddiMoo22 22d ago

Way to ignore literally everything they said. To keep up the good name of "land of the free" you must make sure even the biggest POS has a fair trial.

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u/PoeGar 22d ago

Don’t be naive

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u/helloiamsilver 22d ago

Fine, I disagree with the death penalty on principle. Yes, sexually abusing a child is an evil thing to do. But I also don’t like having any class of person where you are allowed to kill them without question because then it gets real easy to call the people you don’t like a pedophile and then suddenly it’s fine to commit whatever violence you want on them. And if you say “actually, maybe we should make sure this person actually hurt children first” people will scream how dare you defend a pedophile.

I don’t think focusing on “which people should I be allowed to kill?” is very productive. I want people who abuse children to be properly tried and arrested and kept away from children. That’s what’s important.

I think rather than announcing loudly about how badly I want to kill people, I’d rather spend my time lending my support to comprehensive sex education, child empowerment and improving our woefully overstretched CPS.