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It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.
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37 “Then those who are righteous will reply to him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? 38 When did we see you as a stranger and welcome you, or naked and give you clothes to wear? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
40 “Then the king will reply to them, ‘I assure you that when you have done it for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you have done it for me.’
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A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers. Advocates for the immigrant families conducted site visits at the detention centers in Dilley and Karnes, Texas. Families shared testimony detailing medical failures, dirty drinking water, and the psychological effects on their children of prolonged detention. The court filing made Friday evening is attempting to persuade a federal court not to terminate a 90s era policy that requires safe and sanitary conditions for immigrant children in federal custody.
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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... 🥳
@mattsheffield 100% true, and you brought receipts.
It's the same reason they're so furious about legal abortion bc they *want* young women to get pregnant and then be effectively stuck with whatever man did it.
It's the same reason they're furious about queer people *existing* bc they represent a path out of patriarchal marriage structures.
It's the same reason they hate divorce, bc it's a practical way to escape from those patriarchal marriages.
@OrionKidder Agreed.
Everything they think boils down to trying to force what they perceive to be "natural" onto everyone else.
The entire point of society and technology is to avoid the state of nature, of course, so this philosophy is deeply anti-human.
And it's incredibly wrong on the science as well since humans' conscious control over sexual expression is one of our greatest advancements over other animals.
@mattsheffield Why would you link the age of consent to the age of marriage*? Age of consent varies all over the world, throughout most of the western world, it's at low as 15 or 16, yet only America seems to have this widespread child marriage issue.
*Why would you even think in that direction - that you would even contemplate sex and marriage being inherently linked kindof shows what an effective mental prison American Culture, and it's inherent Taliban-level religiosity, tends to produce.
Republican billionaires funded opposition to the ratification of the ERA & bought the Dobbs decision to keep kids & women vulnerable to their predation.
https://msmagazine.com/2023/04/11/anti-abortion-groups-era-equal-rights-amendment/
Opposition needs to happen more often
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/05/01/charles-koch-protest-cato-award-speech/
This is the 56th installment in the list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers who contribute to rape culture. These are people who abused their power or defended the abuse of power. These are not folks caught in consensual scandals...
USA population 331,449,281 (Wikipedia)
USA police [1] 324,951 = 0.1%
11k × 0.1% = 11 expected,
Actual is 301, 27×over represented!
Trans population 0.5% -1.6%
Using worst case* 0.5%, 11k → 55 people,
Actual is 5, 0.1× represented (11× under rep.)
27 ÷ 0.1 = 270
Police are 270× more likely than trans people to be child sexual abusers in the USA.
does this maths look right?
*for this argument
and this:
Browde, through meticulous research, has compiled a comprehensive database spanning all fifty states in the United States. Her objective was clear: to identify which demographic poses the most significant threat to children in terms of sexual offenses. The results are startling and upend the conventional narrative peddled by right-wing voices.
TikTok lawyer Kristen Browde continues her crusade to expose the inconvenient truth that Right-wing Republicans/Religious are the ones who are a danger to our children. The inconvenient truth about the real perverts. Watch Politics Done Right T.V....
"67% of politicians accused or convicted of child abuse nationwide were Republicans."
When I saw that, my first reaction was, "THAT'S IT!?!"
Then I saw the pie chart and realized another 17% were Libertarians.
That makes more sense.
We do not do as many crimes as our moral compass tells us not to.
There is no higher authority that will judge us earliest after death. We do not have the convenience of "confessing" in church and then be done with it and live happily.
Guilt sticks with us, so we avoid causing any.
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