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Is it? You keep saying it's a child, I'm trying to stay objective, is it? Pictures of real hate crimes are bad. But plenty of shows and movies depict hate crimes and you don't seem to be fighting that fight, seems like inconsistent morals.

Yes yes, I get it, you're against CP, I am too. My point is this isn't CP, this isn't a child. This is a make believe spiritual being that you think looks like a child. Hell in the pic shown she clearly isn't a child. I mean if you take a kid and draw a picture of what you think they'd look like as an adult is that CP? The pic isn't a child. I mean, honest question.

Me making box mix cake that tastes like ass doesn't make me a baker. That's silly.

Sure, the same way video games normalize stealing cars. Or the same way movies normalize killing people. I mean at some point you gotta stop blaming media.

Is it a child? What age are they? I couldn't find it anywhere. Looking at the official image it's hard to say. She could be 7 or 30. The Internet is going to Internet.

But this "CP is CP" thing is a little odd. I mean without knowing her age you're just assuming. The C in CP is child, are they a child or are you just upset that you think they kinda look like one? It's also way weird, she's not real. Do you get upset about anime dogs being killed? Do you get upset about violence in anime? I mean what if it is some old being in a young body? Isn't CP wrong because they don't know better and are helpless victims to the F'd up thing. That's not the case here. I'm honestly just confused.

Legit sad

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not...

It won't happen online so just give up and ignore what's happening. This is so defeatist and exactly what corrupt politicians want, apathy.

No, truck bad. More read article.

Surely you can see tha difference between "conflict," which implies roughly equal power and moral responsibility

It does not imply that at all, that's a massive assumption on your end that you use as a point to press. Throughout history the term conflict has be used to talk about many wars/battles and not all of them were equal, at all.

I'm saying I'm a conflict there can be genocide. But if anything genocide doesn't even capture the full scale of what's happening beyond the pointless killings. Conflict is a much broader scope, including things like economic impact, infrastructure damage to the county, etc. It's not one or three other. I agree genocide is bad and this conflict is bad and you're arguing with me about how I'm not saying it's bad enough because I used a word you don't fully understand. What are you even doing?

You need to educate yourself on the terms being used and stop making assumptions then using those assumptions to label people. You're mindset, while focused on something different, is bordering on MAGA.

If America isn't a democracy why would you vote? Please tell me how that's mental gymnastics. What's mental gymnastics is declaring democracy doesn't exist because you don't like the candidates.

Yes, that is exactly what I am saying.

Got it, you think democracy doesn't exist but every citizen has the same power as the president. Lol, from a guy who uses the term mental gymnastics all the time, now I know how you became so familiar with the term.

Here's an exercise: why do you think fascism is rising in America? Is it ideas, or material conditions?

Because late stage capitalism is strangling the working class. So pro fascist leaders are using that to come into power. Just like every other before then, you blame all the problems on anyone standing in the way of your power and you tell people that you're the only one who can fix it. Which is exactly, literally, what Trump has done over and over.

Now how about this exercise. Tell me what democracy is, by definition, and how the US does not fit that definition.

I'm not down playing anything, it's you assuming and wanting to be extreme. Why don't you call it the murder of innocent children, are you trying to play it down by using a single word?

Jesus, it's not even about the issues with people like you, it's just an excuse to feel righteous and go after people.

Jesus, why am I even wasting my time. I've voted in local elections, I've seen laws get passed by voters. That is how democracy works. You're extreme view of "we can only vote for bad people" is beyond childish. The world is a fucked up place, we don't always have the choices we would want. But saying some stupid shit like America isn't a democracy is just ignorant and shows that you have no idea how or what a government is, let along are you equipped to have a conversation about it.