• BertramDitore@lemmy.zip
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    28 days ago

    That’s straight up child exploitation, by the government. Blackmailing a parent with the safety of their child is one of the most villainously evil tropes around. This shit happens in movies all the time, and it’s almost always used as a big flashing “this person is bad and evil, and the villain of the movie” trope.

    There has been some incredibly fucked up and immoral treatment of human beings in this country, but this is next level evil.

    Problem is, it’s so evil that the brainwashed 40% of the population won’t believe it, so they’ll just go on about their business.

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      28 days ago

      They’ll blame the parents, seriously. For entering illegally and “creating the situation.”

      “The rule of law” and the people who carry it out are just forces of nature and have no free will or choice in the matter, let alone accountability, of course.

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      27 days ago

      Exploitation? It’s KIDNAPPING!

      If you have forcibly taken possession of my child without my or my wife’s permission, that’s kidnapping.