Lauren Southern claims “you are being lied to by people who are stealing your money, defending sex traffickers, and covering up their crimes”

  • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.net
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    11 days ago

    The problem with that logic is that anyone can be let off the hook for immoral/illegal behaviour as long as they have said beforehand that they’ll do it.

    If I walk into a shop and tell the shopkeeper I’m going to rob them should I then get to take whatever I want with impunity?

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      11 days ago

      A more apt analogy would be an invite-only shop with a buzzer on the door, and the shopkeeper buzzing in the shoplifter having been told that this is Angus Strange, notorious thief, and he has brought with him a fast car and has no method of payment on his person other than a lead pipe.