The strawman is obvious. You asked me to label Trump’s DOJ action as good or bad, stripping away context and reframing it as endorsement of trafficking policy. That’s not my position, and you know it. You replaced my standard, evidence vs. conjecture, with your binary trap. That’s the strawman.
That is the strawman; you’ve reduced a DOJ decision with multiple moving parts into a yes/no morality test. That’s not argument, it’s a binary trap. If you think it’s that simple, then show me the conviction for pedophilia you’re relying on. Otherwise you’re collapsing categories to force a false binary.
You keep reducing this to a Hollywood script with good guys, bad guys, simple verdicts. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking, not pedophilia, and DOJ custody isn’t a morality play. It’s law, leverage, and procedure. If you want clarity, stop collapsing categories into movie-logic binaries.
How is anyone supposed to play your binary game if you keep reframing the terms every time it breaks? It isn’t an answer because your framing isn’t a valid question, you’ve collapsed charges, shifted categories, and demanded a yes/no. Until you hold your frame steady, there’s nothing to answer.
No. No one denies Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking minors. What I deny is your attempt to collapse that into “pro-pedo behavior,” then reframe it as DOJ housing policy, and now retreat to a conviction question. That narrowing proves my point—you had to abandon your original frame.
It’s morally abhorrent, I have no problem saying that. But you keep framing this like a fairy tale where decisions are either pure altruism or pure despotism. In reality, this is arbitration. Maxwell is abhorrent, but she’s also the only one with knowledge of the wider network. Without concessions, she has no incentive to talk. And if you just collapse the central node, you create a vacuum for another node to consolidate and expand the network. I want the network destroyed, not just swapped out.
You avoided the question. To extrapolate, if DOJ approached her again, it’s because this is part of a new or ongoing crime she was accessory to, meaning the investigation isn’t concluded. That makes leverage the only path forward, and you still haven’t answered how you dissolve a network without it.
You still haven’t shown it. And this isn’t even bad faith, it’s just clumsy at this point. You’re trying to use my strategy against me, but in doing so you’re latently conceding complexity over your own dichotomized frame. Your contradiction speaks louder than anything you’ve said. ♟️