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ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

100%.

There is an old trope about arsonists, they either become criminals or they become firefighters.

At least with firefighters, we don’t have to worry about if the firefighter is going to get the fire in a room alone later.

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afronaut@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
There are cases of arsonist fire fighters which is an even stronger analogy.

Those who claim to fight fires are often the ones setting them, so they can be seen as the heroes who extinguish them.

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- ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Really good point and in cases like this we should all be a lot more concerned with people who seem obsessive about a given subject. It’s not a coincidence that so many crackpot Q-anon “save the children from the demon vampires” nutcases were actually themselves pedos who were caught, or that Q-anon STARTED on a pedophile message board.
  
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  - frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    or that Q-anon STARTED on a pedophile message board.
    
    Come again now?
    
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    ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    8-chan was a “less moderated” version of 4-chan where the founders of Q-anon got started, it was a notorious forum for trading child abuse material.
    
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- Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Fuck the Fire Department!
  
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