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Came here to make this point.

You can be sure that when a person like DeSantis says "death to pediohiles" they're thinking of trans people, not Trump.

There really shouldn't be any death penalty at all.

Any sort of "death to X, no exception" is pure rhetoric btw. It's scary how strong that rhetoric is and how both voters & people with a lot of power support it, but afaik no rule of law knows any such thing.

Of course, the USA is this 🤏 close to tyranny, but not yet!

Nicer link btw:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/45c407a0-332b-4226-9176-1bd2658bfc45.webp

I don't have a Tumblr post, but I do have this.

Edit: Project 2025, page 5:
"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

I buy that argument. Because as soon as you criminalize one sexual orientation, which we know are determined to be genetic in nature, like pedophilia, then you can criminalize any sexual orientation, like homosexuality.

This is exactly it. Death penalties are dangerous because words are ultimately meaningless, and as we've seen in the misinformation age, people of a particular political party (in the US) can call people pedophiles in name when there is no actual evidence that's the case. Truth has gone by the way side.

What we really need is due process for figuring this shit out, as well as a properly funded remediation program so people can learn why what they did was wrong.

I know there's Godwin's Law. And yes, I always tried very hard not to bring up Hitler and not to compare Trump with him.

But as a historically inclined German I would like to point out that I simply cannot help but constantly find parallels between Trump / magaworld and the Nazis.

They keep hating on a small, completely innocent and harmless minority. They threaten their lives. It is truly shocking to me.

To anyone who still says "No, you can't compare Trump to Hitler", I say: Look at this list and tell me Trump isn't a vile, disgusting demagogue.

The only difference to Hitler being (thank fuck!) he's not hellbent on waging war on the entire world.

she should be in charge of her own sexual decisions

Not if she decides to use contraceptives, get an abortion, or have sex because she wants to. Obviously. But if she's forced into something then that's on her.

Nominative determinism?

More like Jamie Paedoson. Amirite?

On a more serious note, why is this guy not fearing for his life?

Do you have a source on that? I tried googling his name but all I got was that 13+ year olds have a right to privacy for their mental health treatments, not having to notify their parents.

People only bring up this argument to distract from the fact that their real motivation is primitive revenge.

I got a brilliant idea. Lets make being homeless a crime punishable by death! We can solve the homeless problem by deterring homelessness!

Reminds me the most of when discussing corporal punishment with a friend of mine with regards to raising kids. He was up and down talking about how his dad had to beat the crap out of him to keep him in line, and of course with a few examples, I'd follow up with "did you do that again?", "well yeah, I got beat for doing that over and over".

and of course that's ignoring the bigger part. Even giving the "punishment deters"... really it only goes in 2 forms.

It's often ineffective because it hasn't hit yet. AKA you haven't got punished, therefore you know the punishment doesn't apply to you.

Or you have been punished, and well you can handle it again.

Course death penalty is a one time issue obviously. But obviously also has the follow up where, it can be even worse because people are more hesetant to charge in the less obviously wrong scenerios. IE anyone with half a heart or a concern to protect kids will throw the book at a 50 year old diddling a 10 year old.

Laws generally have exceptions when a 19 year old has sex with a 17 year old. Somewhere out there though is greyer areas where most people would say it's wrong, but it's on the fence.

Yup. A lot of republicans are about to get super creepy on definitions.

It's truly amazing to me that somehow Republicans think democrats will see pedophiles on their side and then suddenly think it doesn't matter. I guess because that's what they're planning to do. Another case of every accusation is an admission.

Yeah seriously, aren't Trump and DeSatan mortal enemies?