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Ocelot II

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7. Q Anon and MAGA have been obsessed with pedophilia for a long time
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:04 PM
Jul 25

and I'm not sure where it came from. Of course everyone regards pedophilia as a heinous crime, and the many instances of coverups, notably but not exclusively by the Catholic Church, have made people understandably suspicious of institutions and situations that allow sexual predators to abuse children. During the '80s this concern led to many false accusations of molestation and even Satanic rituals against day-care providers. I suppose the naturally clandestine nature of institutional child abuse makes conspiracy theories like Pizzagate inevitable, but it's interesting that a legitimate concern for the safety of children has become an obsession of the MAGA crowd, to the point where they've created irrational fears of drag queens, trans people, anyone outside the presumed norm of gender appearance - assuming all such people must be pedophiles, which of course they are not. I suspect the psychological underpinnings of a lot of this fear is similar to those which gave rise to the day care panic of 30 years ago. But the actual, real, documented pedophilia of Epstein and Maxwell is a different matter altogether, and adding Trump to that mix is probably creating some serious cognitive dissonance - and maybe that's why the GOP is now in disarray and had to take an Epstein Recess so they could decide how they are supposed to reconcile their horror of pedophilia with their love of Trump.

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