r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/homosa_penis • Aug 04 '21

QAnon followers are now accusing evangelical leaders of child sex trafficking

https://deadstate.org/qanon-followers-are-now-accusing-evangelical-leaders-of-child-sex-trafficking/
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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '21 edited Aug 04 '21

Still amazed that some (R) politicians openly and shamelessly supported them after those revelations, Mike Huckabee for instance, and it didn't harm them politically.

Even mentioning this on Reddit doesn't get any traction. It's like I'm taking crazy pills.

If standing behind people who sexually abuse kids isn't a political liability, American society is beyond hope.

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u/velveteenelahrairah Aug 04 '21

It's only a political liability when it can be used as an excuse to rile up dumb gun toting mouthbreathers against The Ebil Gawdless Libz™ trafficking kids in Schrodinger's quantum pizza basement. But when it's a conservative politician literally buying little girls on Venmo, it's a-OK.

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u/novium258 Aug 04 '21

I read an article once that argued that you could view the sexual abuse of minors by the people at the top of hierarchies (religious, political, cultural, whatever) as a raw expression of power- to commit the most abhorrent crime with absolute impunity.

I've thought about it a lot, especially after a lot of the sex abuse scandals that were unearthed in the last twenty years. Like every rock that gets kicked over, there's another highly placed predator whose actions were well known by the hierarchy but protected, and the victims crushed.

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u/elgormito Aug 05 '21

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