Ballard, Caviezel, and others of their ilk have primed the public to accept Sound of Freedom as a documentary rather than delusion by fomenting moral panic for years over this grossly exaggerated “epidemic” of child sex-trafficking, much of it funneling people into conspiracist rabbit holes and QAnon communities.

Weird.. I didn't write the above comment. But would broadly agree with it - and no, Chris, that doesn't mean I have a hard drive full of child porn, just that I can read and understand statistics.

I'm guessing you have a different opinion on the film Cuties, huh Phil?

Never watched it, I'm guessing you've been listening to too many right-wing podcasts: the *only* time I've seen Cuties referenced in the past few weeks is by right-wing types who think that "Sound of Freedom" is godly and left-wingers love "Cuties". I'm guessing neither exactly reflects reality.

Anyone who thinks that "Cuties" is pro-pedo must certainly secretly want it to be.

Anyone who thinks "Sound of Freedom" is connected to Qanon communities must certainly secretly want it to be.

@Arch Vile - maybe you should ask the person pretending to be me.. though Qanon types are pushing the movie: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188405402/qanon-supporters-are-promoting-sound-of-freedom-heres-why

Incidentally, what is your view of the movie "Cuties", seeing as you brought it up?

Do you misread on purpose, or are you simply incapable of presenting an argument that isn't a strawman? And inaccurate. And just plain stupid. Even trying to think down to your level gives me headaches.

Whats actually happening here is that people in the Anglosphere now inhabit two separate and parallel. You make reference to NPR as if it is some kind of unimpeachable source, and I'll respond that NPR, along with everyone else in the MSM has so thoroughly discredited itself that I dont accept anything it says as valid. So how can there be oany meeting of the minds here ...... Oh, and lets deal with this Qanon slander. I have read about 30 articles a day, every day on the net for the past 12 years or so. I would guess that perhaps 0.1% involved articles referencing Qanon. And once Qanon discredited itself in 2020, I have seen ZERO positive references to it. And the only clue you need that this is true is the fact that Leftists will insinuate that its the ONLY thing Righties read

We inhabit two separate and parallel UNIVERSES (eesh)

Thing is, CML, I can have confidence that the universe I inhabit is a lot closer to reality, for the following sorts of reasons: firstly, you dismiss the NPR link without reading anything - I *know* you didn't read it, because you go on to argue against things that neither that article nor I were saying (very much like Arch Vile in that respect) - you have your preconceptions of what I was going to say and take no notice of what I actually do; when you post links to back up your positions, I read these too - and quite often they don't support the views you suggest, which also suggests that *you* haven't read them, you have a version of reality you want to be true and go out of your way to ignore things that don't fit; also, the sources I use if they are shown to be wrong take it as a massive problem and try doing something to ensure their errors don't happen again (cf the Fox News attitude to being found out to be not just wrong but knowingly wrong and lying).

You still haven't told me from all those weeks/months ago why you consider Politifact to be a lying, untruthful source, so much so that it can be ignored without even looking at what they say. It still looks to me like they say things you don't like, so you pretend to yourself it isn't true. Prove me wrong.