What makes me think it is not both?

Well lets take a step back and look at how many pedophiles there are in the population. While we do not know the exact numbers the educated guesses, from rather too few studies that we have, range from 1% to 5%, most putting it at around 3%. I do not really believe that a tiny minority holds such powers as to influence politics or we would not have an AOA in the first place.

In order to understand why there are people advocating for low ages of marriage i would do take a look in our younger past and ask, why WAS the age for marriage low? And the answer, while not much more pleasent, is much simpler than: we somehow have pedohiles leading the world in the shadows. It is much easier to secure marriages that way, because guess what, children have not much say in their lives. So a powerful or rich person can simply chose whom to marry, take a bunch of money and their victim has no power over the decision. It is terrible but it has not much to do with the sexuality of a minority.

So in short i would say occams razor tells us that it is rather unlikely that these policies are pushed by pedophiles, even if they might agree with the goal.

I can not really talk about Republican Senators but the reason why child abuse is rampant in the catholic chearch is because the instituational structures foster abuse. Abusers, in turn, tend to go for the easiest victims. Children sadly are not only easy victims, they are also in the care of those priests, leading to many cases of child abuse. I know it is not an easy pill to swallow, but most of these priests are simply put, predators that had children available to them. If they had to care for vulnerable adults, they might have had preferred those. If you are interested i can link you a study about how many perpetrators of child abuse are in fact not pedophiles.

I know it is easy to see children getting the short end of the stick and to cry out “DAMN PEDOPHILIA” but it is really not helpful. There need not be any pedophiles for children getting abused, sexually or not. Let us keep that in mind while we all fight for childrens rights.

This guy us a chad

Can we not conflate religion, control over peoples authority and pedophilia? This is not about diddling children, this is about shackling people before they really can have a say in the matter. Crying about pedophilia is what the other side does too. It wont open anyones eyes to the true motives.

I know that. Those are two different things the police does however. One i think is smart and catches predators the the other perpetrates the very thing they are sworn to destroy in order to get their cases.

Vegan, i aswell am btw.

Agnotology sounds interesting, i now know how i will spent some time on work tomorrow.

Wake me up when all billionares have lost so much money there are none left.

Posing as a child is not a criminal act. Posting cp however is. Not sure which of these two you mean so id say you are talking probably about the first.

Cops being criminal should not even be able to lead to an arrest but i guess the police does not exist to fight crime but to fill prisons.

First thing to do: Do not go on social media. Second thing to to: Consume less news.

Do not thank me later as it would require you to browse social media.

Also, do whatever if you feel fine.

Time to stop giving attention to that attention whore. He is nothing more. I never understood why people would jerk each other off over listening to some old, undereducated and ugly bastard. If thats what i wanted, there are more interesting stories and takes available under my local bridge. I do not even have to pay for it and listen to ads.

Fuck China. Tawain number one!

Your state spends a lot of money ln bycicle lanes? I really envy you…

Thanks. This video is gold. I watched it a year ago but this is something i should rewatch once in a while.

Disconnecting from the people around me does not sound healthy but you do you.

I have no problem with buying more expensive, high quality stuff. The problem is that the higher price often simply means meaningless features instead of good durability. The mouse i am using right now cost me 150€ and i hoped it was more durable but the right click is already not working properly. Garbage.

If i could trust companies to actually put out stuff that lasts a life time i would love to have it. This however simply sounds like another move to increase the companies value for its shareholders.

Clothing is a whole other matter and again as consumer it is really hard to know whether your money goes to quality or simply marketing and “good feeling”.

When everything you buy as a consumer tends to break fast they will have no real choice but to go for cheap crap.

So what they mean is we have received expensive garbage that had a short shelf life from the very beginning and they would now rather make a “quality” product and milk us dry for owning it? Sure sounds like a good idea for shareholders.

If i could choose one job it would be to fuck CEOs and shareholders with rusty razor blades.

Are you talking about people not wanting to be your friend because of you going/being vegan? I have yet to meet someone like this. Not sure i would try to befriend those people anyways, sounds like a special breed of intolerant prick.

This sad determinism is bullshit. While it is unlikely that i will find a partner, for reasons i would rather not talk about, it may happen very fast ‘out of the blue’. Nearly happened to me, but it did not work out in the end. Which was again pretty random and surprising. What i am trying to say is, do not beat yourself up about a future that is literally unpredictable and try to enjoy life as much as possible with what you have got.

They are not slumping enough. Shit food, for shitty prices.

Any people who believe they can not, i would recommend going to eat out at some vegan places from time to time in order to realize that you won’t really miss out on anything. The fomo is not warrented. Also you won’t lose friends. Or anything really. You will gain however a good feeling about what you eat. Can recommend.