re: I don't get why so many of you think a pedo ring is so far fetched and crazy

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It's not far fetched, but we're going to need this new thing called "evidence" - credible evidence that can be weighed and examined against countervailing evidence.

Otherwise it is baseless allegations/accusations (and I'm not saying those are always wrong - but as long as they remain baseless, it's going to be difficult to convince critical thinkers.)

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we already had an era of this shite in the 80s/90s with the Satanic Panic

people went to jail for false allegations (that the victims truly thought were true)

this meme always comes up every few years in different angles. it could theoretically be true, but as a society we've already been legit burned by this once and i don't get why people are so willing to buy into it knowing that fact.