ANSC Ag said:

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Heavy stuff. It's a couple years old, but relevant.

The world of child trafficking can hide in plain sight because it's so evil that it doesn't even register with the normal citizen because they can't comprehend that type of world existing.

2 million kids currently are sex slaves. The US is the number 1 consumer. Think about that. We're number one. If the only thing evil needs to succeed if for good men to do nothing, they are they really that good of men?

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ANSC Ag said:

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The context is that if individuals are aware this happens, why do they allow it to happen?

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ANSC Ag said:

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I don't understand your post. You think it doesn't exist or think there's nothing you can really do?

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ANSC Ag said:

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aggiebrad94 said:

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ANSC Ag said:

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The context is that if individuals are aware this happens, why do they allow it to happen?

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I'm aware. So how do I quit allowing it to happen? I've never seen or known a slave owner or a slave but I know it is out there.

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I understand you're trying to act helpless because you're not directly involved. Maybe that's all it takes. People to just say not my problem. However, I'd bet your sporting a mask and social distancing because the government told you a virus was evil and was everywhere. It's just interesting what people will and will not do and what governments do and don't allow.

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The idea, in a nutshell, is to create a groundswell of concern by flooding social media with posts about human trafficking, joining parenting Facebook groups and glomming on to hashtag campaigns like #SaveTheChildren, which began as a legitimate fund-raising campaign for the Save the Children charity. Then followers can shift the conversation to baseless theories about who they believe is doing the trafficking: a cabal of nefarious elites that includes Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Pope Francis.

Part of the strategy's perverse brilliance is that child sex trafficking is a real, horrible thing, and some politically connected people, including the financier Jeffrey Epstein, have been credibly accused of exploiting underage girls. And speaking out against child exploitation, no matter your politics, is far from an objectionable stance.

"It's probably one of the key things that's attractive about QAnon," said Marc-Andr Argentino, a doctoral student at Concordia University who studies QAnon's social media presence. "Everyone agrees that child trafficking is very bad, and the argument QAnon makes is, 'If you're against us talking about this, you're in favor of child trafficking.'"
Sometimes, QAnon followers spin factual information in a way that serves their aims. Last week, an Associated Press article about a $35 million Trump administration grant to organizations that house trafficking survivors became one of the most-shared stories on Facebook, after QAnon groups picked it up and cited it as evidence that President Trump's secret crusade against elite pedophiles was underway.

Other times, the strategy involves latching on to conspiracy theories and inserting QAnon talking points. Weeks ago, influencers on TikTok and Instagram began speculating about baseless allegations that Wayfair, an online furniture site, was trafficking children under the guise of selling expensive cabinets. The conspiracy theory went viral, and QAnon believers began sprinkling in their own supposedly incriminating details. They claimed, falsely, that a Wayfair employee had once been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been charged with recruiting underage girls for Mr. Epstein.

These allegations merged in the popular imagination, and soon unsuspecting people were sharing wild conspiracy theories that came straight from QAnon orthodoxy.

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ANSC Ag said:

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the only thing evil needs to succeed if for good men to do nothing, they are they really that good of men?

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ANSC Ag said:

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I'd agree brushing off the idea of child trafficking is weird.

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