• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Protect the children is basically always cover for something sinister. If there were easy gains to be made protecting children without sacrificing some critical personal liberties like privacy, I think those gains would have already been made.

    Anyway I agree with you that everything is really bad, especially for queer people who are now a scapegoat. Or, just a target of hate with no particular scape in mind, I guess. But it’s rather detrimental to make stuff up (i.e. about this specific law) to make things look worse than they are. You have already shown you have dozens of actual established facts with the links you’ve posted, that show things are really bad and getting worse. If you want to speculate that the death penalty is coming, that’s fine, just please be clear that it’s an inference, not present-day reality.

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      3 days ago

      In the case of capital punishment, I don’t think the intent is for them to actually use the death penalty on us, but to use it as a scare tactic to push us closer to full erasure from public life. To say “look what we could possibly do to you” sort of thing.

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        Possible, but they’ll probably have to actually try somebody for a capital offense before people are legitimately scared of capital punishment.