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re: Six arrested in R.I. on charges of child sex trafficking after sting operation
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:17 am to Madking
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:17 am to Madking
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So municipal and state police forces are “consolidating power” by recouping money lost on soft crime policies by having the media report on trafficking?
They are actively re-defining what "trafficking is".
Again, just ask yourself why this article (and OP) used the word "trafficking" when no trafficking occurred.
Where was the trafficking in this story?
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Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:21 am to SlowFlowPro
I’m not attacking your theory, I think it’s interesting. I don’t trust government at all so I’m willing to entertain the theory but I don’t see how it negates the fact that this stuff is going on in a big way?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:21 am to Bourre
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You downplaying child sex trafficking for your own selfish reasons is the real issue. Either everyone on this board is lying about your position, or maybe, your the one who can’t articulate your position without coming across as downplaying child sex trafficking
He talks down to people because he's an arrogant lawyer who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. Like most in his profession, he views himself as a deity and anyone who is not a lawyer is beneath him.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:22 am to Madking
I think he's saying the media has its own incentives for hyping it as a moral panic as they have with the war on drugs.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:23 am to SlowFlowPro
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What's not strangest how you rely on lies as the backbone of your "argument"
This isn't personal but since you value honesty and have thick skin, I'm just going to say it. People are interwebs punishing you for your lazy, hot-take opinions. You have reached auto-downvote status where people don't even read your posts before downvoting because you are boorish and repetitive and self-congratulatory and hopelessly autistic, and people just don't take you seriously like they once did.
Imma upvote you though, because you try.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:23 am to TigerDoc
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I think he's saying the media has its own incentives for hyping it as a moral panic as they have with the war on drugs.
Or they're at least influenced by it in similar ways. Media doesn't typically waste an opportunity to promote fear. If it bleeds, it leads.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:24 am to TigerDoc
I can see that in theory but in principal I’ve never known the media to expose something that disproportionately hurts the left.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:25 am to Madking
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but I don’t see how it negates the fact that this stuff is going on in a big way?
Well it would seem to be going on in a much bigger way if you expand the definition to include a lot more behaviors, right?
Again, why did the article (and OP) use the term trafficking when no trafficking was involved int his story (by your own definition, no less)? Why the colossal frickup on something so simple?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:25 am to Lsupimp
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and people just don't take you seriously like they once did.
I can't help brain rot or the expansion of idiots on this board.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:26 am to Madking
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but in principal I’ve never known the media to expose something that disproportionately hurts the left.
See now you're making it partisan.
The media will push whatever narrative they can to induce fear.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:26 am to Madking
the media's hype about the war on drugs was in large part a reaction against rising drug culture which was promoted by the left.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:27 am to SlowFlowPro
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Well it would seem to be going on in a much bigger way if you expand the definition to include a lot more behaviors, right?
Entrapped labor or services, including sex.
This is all so very simple for a muti page argument.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 9:29 am
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:28 am to SlowFlowPro
Ok but you altered what I said. I didn’t say it’s now going on in a much bigger way. That would suggest that I think this is a recent trend. It’s being exposed more and more high profile situations are being exposed but there are a lot of factors that could be resulting in this outside of media coverage.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:29 am to TigerDoc
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the media's hype about the war on drugs was in large part a reaction against rising drug culture which was promoted by the left.
Exactly.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:30 am to SlowFlowPro
I won’t go that far with you. The media won’t hurt big money leftists and give the right a hammer just to induce fear. If that was the case the left wing media would be pushing invasion at the boarder.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:32 am to Madking
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Ok but you altered what I said. I didn’t say it’s now going on in a much bigger way. T
If you expand what "sex trafficking" means, you're going to include more behaviors, so there will naturally be more "sex trafficking"
Normal prostitution among adults was not "sex trafficking" until very recently. Now, every time there is a bust, it's a "sex trafficking bust".
Read this story for a recent example of how this hypervigilance ensures innocent people who aren't even involved in prostitution
Look no further than this thread for how this expanded use of "sex trafficking" implicates non-trafficking scenarios and amplifies the perceived threat.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 9:34 am
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:34 am to TigerDoc
It’s a good parallel but there are known, aspects of the War on Drugs that we don’t have here. Mainly who the perpetrators were and just about everything in how they operated. There’s no face to this issue at least yet.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:35 am to Madking
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Mainly who the perpetrators were and just about everything in how they operated. There’s no face to this issue at least yet.
Imagine you're the FBI. Which is better for you: a directed target or a nameless, faceless enemy that can be anyone, including THAT GUY RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!!!!!
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:36 am to SlowFlowPro
You’re arguing semantics here and conflating issues. You have to separate your theory from public awareness.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 9:40 am to SlowFlowPro
That’s speculation, cmon now. This is how you lose the thread, we knew who Pablo, Cali and the cartels were because they were killing politicians and bombing cities. That made it easy for the government to pervert the operation into the larger thing you’re talking about. The opposite is happening here so how is it the same or even more effective? The very fact that you’re claiming it’s local law enforcement and not federal like the war on drugs shows it doesn’t have that kind of steam behind it.
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