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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Well, I AM a credentialed expert as a BPS Counselling Psychologist (not a counselor but actually a field that lies within the expert areas of Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists but without prescribing capacities). The harm is not enacted on the perpetrator but on the child. This approach dismisses the destruction of the child’s world view that it is fair, and adults will not harm me., known as shattered assumptions. This harm is also seen in physical abuse cases -note ABUSE. And abuse results in traumatic scarring (PTSD).

Dismissing paedephelia as simply another ‘choice’ disregards the impact on the child entirely. A child cannot consent as in ‘actions of two consensual ADULTS. Assuming that children have legal capacity turns our understanding of childhood on its head. We see children as ‘innocent’, unknowledgeable of impacts of actions and requiring protection from parents.

And where will this ‘reframing’ lead? See the grooming gangs in Britain where police dismissed family and victims by saying a 12 year old can give consent. Or see the Programmes of Sex education down to 3 year olds in Wales and across many US States.

Paedephelia and cannibalism are the last taboos from Judeo Christian ethics. They’ve been reframing what is ethical for some time such as all the C19 decisions that an individual does not have bodily autonomy. And if this is carried forward into society, children will know from an early age that they too have no rights to what happens to their bodies.

What of rape? I do wonder how this counselor would reframe it. ‘Someone who likes to physically or mentally overpower another to force sex’? It has been somewhat decriminalised through it’s parcity of prosecutions in the grooming scandals that involved both minor attraction and rape. So let’s just say it’s ok.

Not.

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Superb.

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Aug 12, 2022·edited Aug 12, 2022

Ok so what I got out of this is 1) you are into lifeguards, (which is totally fine. I’m not judging you.. unless it’s David Hasselhof) and 2) #MicroMerrick is a weenie.

Our country has been taken over by mentally ill people, weenies, and their highly credentialed enablers.

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We no longer have Rule of Law, we instead have Rule of Sophistry.

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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

"You couldn't possibly understand" is right up there with "do the work", "do better", and "be kind", all of which get an automatic response of "fuck you".

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What a devastating and spot-on critique! One needs to watch out for these semantic tricks in all mainstream plandemic-related 'news' and statements, like you suggest. I would only add that the contemptible Merrick Garland never mentions Donald Trump by name---Trump is depersonalized as "the former president" over and over, a giveaway sign of Garland's hatred and contempt for former President Donald Trump.

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Aug 12, 2022·edited Aug 12, 2022

Sadly some are experts on 'minor attracted persons' having been their victims. Someone who suffers from diabetes is more of an expert than a doctor. A farmer and a gardener are more of an expert on growing food than any agribusiness employee or green lobbyist. Julian Assange and Steven Donziger and numerous whistleblowers know more about how governments no longer serve the people or justice but their own self interest....there are experts and the qualified - sometimes the two are not the same.

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Aug 12, 2022·edited May 28, 2023

remember the good old days of NAMBLA? for those of you who missed it: the North American Man Boy Love Association lobbying at the time to get the age of consent lowered to like 3 or something unthinkable. of course they were empowering their "members" to be fully actualized and feel no shame for their predilections. they were a purely homosexual group. the minor attracted persons, i guess, can be anyone.

i remember thinking at the time that a little shame was probably a good thing and that the internet had enabled these perverse old men, who thought they were alone and felt deep shame that for the most part kept their base desires in check. here they were in a group- strength in numbers- where they realized that they were not alone, that there were others like them and that they could be proud to lust after toddlers.

it seems anyone can get a license for anything these days. would you pay that "woman"- if that's how she identifies- for advice? not in a million years!!!!

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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I am fully credentialed and have decades of experience diagnosing bullshit.

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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Apt comparison Chris!

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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Anyone saying pedophilia is ok and just misunderstood turns my stomach.

Good essay on the language of those who redefine and speak pompously.

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Once you see this maneuver . . .

You will never unsee it and you will spend the rest of your life trying to open the eyes of the deliberately blind, which is roughly as comfortable as repeatedly banging your head against a chunk of concrete, and about as effective.

I know I'm making light of what is an enraging and frustrating situation that could easily destroy what it has taken 250 years to build, but it's a coping mechanism. I've noticed much the same thing, but I don't think I've seen it so eloquently summarized and connected, so thank you.

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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I wish I was still teaching logic. I'd use this column as a great dissection of common fallacies. It is strange how we've gone from "don't trust the man" to "trust the man" so quickly.

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Now it does not surprise me at all that Obama wanted this guy to be on the supreme court. Safeguarding Americans you say? Gee, I thought this was sending the message that if we can search the home of a former POTUS we can search anybody for any reason. It was Obama after all who declared the POTUS could kill Americans without a trial, and did. And he still is defacto godfather of the Party.

As for normalizing child rape, isn't that complicity? What say you, Garland? Are you paedophelia adjacent too?

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Aug 12, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Self-Sealing Argument: The Self-Sealing Argument Fallacy occurs when an argument is made that no evidence can possibly refute, and yet there is no evidence that proves that the conclusion is true.

This can be accomplished several ways. One is to claim that the other person has some insurmountable deficit that prevents him/her from being able to understand the argument. Another way this is accomplished is by making the proof and the conclusion say the same thing. Another way is to rationalize away any evidence that conflicts with the argument, often, with just-so stories.

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Garland: "Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy."

What a perfect summation of the clusterf*ck we call the southern "border." (Or is it "line in the sand?") No, wait. Methinks it's actually justification for enforcing adherence to the legalized rules of robbery with new 87k IRS goons. No, wait. That's why they raided Hunter Biden's place and gathered even more evidence of selling influence at the highest levels of government. And more crack pipes. Oops, more porn. No, wait. That's not appropriate and we have to wait to have "appropriateness" redefined to support a motive. No, wait...

It just goes on and on and on. No wonder we have unwavering faith in government.

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