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Someone has gone through and run the numbers on molestation crimes against children.
67% of politicians accused or convicted of child abuse nationwide were Republicans.
QAnon needs to look in the mirror.
Out of nearly 11,000 USA cases examined, just 1 offender was a drag queen. Only 5 were trans. 846 were religious figures. 301 were police.
Date range: February 10, 2023 through May 23, 2024
Source: https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators
2/ It's further worth noting that Republican-dominated states are the only states in the US with both: 1) lowered age of consent laws, and 2) lowered marriage age laws.
The Republican state of KS has a consent age of 15 and a marriage age of 16. California has an age of consent of 18 but no minimum marriage age. Mississippi has a 16 consent age and no marriage minimum.
Far-right Christians are infamous for grooming children (especially young girls) to become servant wives for much older men.
3/ The very easiest way to "protect the children" would be to support raising the marriage age to 18 and also having that be the age of consent. But right-wing Republicans constantly resist these simple reforms that absolutely do help children.
And we all know why.
Far-right Christians (men and women) want to enslave teen girls into marriages with older men.
This is why Republicans won't abolish child marriage.
4/ New Hampshire state rep Jess Edwards (R) stated the thinking very clearly last year, referring to girls as being "ripe fertile age."
The QAnon movement is an outgrowth of the "Satanic Panic" movement of the 1970s which began within reactionary Christian communities.
The Satanic Panic and QAnon are one of many instances of far-right Republicans blaming secular or left-wing people for their own culture's failures.
5/ Donald Trump won his elections by blaming Democrats for the problems that Republicans caused.
Democrats have been too weak-willed to point this out.
Very few Americans support the extremist and authoritarian policies of Donald Trump. But unfortunately, because the right spends literally BILLIONS of dollars a year on mass media, most Americans don't know what Republicans want to do to them.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/big-beautiful-bill-polling-analysis
@mattsheffield Well first off I do understand that coverage of that issue is extremely important, the actual news here is positive and the author is trying to an honest job with good intentions.
The sideswipe about CNN's shifty position was a general remark on the health of American news business. The time when bothsiders (and whitewashers) could be seen as harmless or even the 'good guys' is long gone. I thought it was worth a quip.
Now the actual polling data and its presentation... As a *non-Murican* I just found the piece a hard slog = uninviting to read, with (to me) obscure historical references immediately followed by a litany of various 'cross-section' polls using all different metrics while requiring some additional narrative.
I'm sure CNN's clientele are still largely the more educated somewhat familiar with the menu, but still.
"Hard slogs" tend to turn people off and I considered the subject matter important enough to... write a message. Bold!
Ideally one could encapsulate the key points into a flippant ten second tiktok clip complete with dancing, technobeat, some humour and captivating drama before injecting *that* into the eyeballs of the disinformed and the disinterested... 🥳
I am trying to find the rates of sexual assault against boys in men's public bathrooms. If anyone has seen such numbers, please reply to this message.
I suspect the rate of cis SA in public bathrooms will put other concerns into perspective.
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