these are the types of stories we need to hold when we push for medicare care, housing, food for ALL
Hold in what way?
Oh yeah, there’s another one for sure. These people are just fucked
I have nothing against sex work, but this was not sex work; this was a goddan tragedy created by a bunch of monsters who created the current situation in which this can happen in the first place.
Just one more reason why they want to keep you poor. So they can do shit like that. And worse.
This is a category of sex work. There is sex work in which adults choose that it’s labor they’d prefer to participate in, I support that sex work. Then there’s a long spectrum that ends in places like this. You can’t criminalize this stuff away. When minors are so desperate they’re selling sex you need to look at the material root causes
There are recordings of an interview with a historian in which Sylvia Rivera talks about how she got into sex work as a child. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating and more than anything it’s a condemnation of the circumstances in which she lived.
had sex withwas raped byFTFY
Not how rapes work but okay. Not trying to be contrarian here, Gaetz is a POS. Just think sex work has a place and isn’t rape.
I know you’re getting down voted to oblivion but I know what idea you’re trying to get across. She was underage so at the very least it was statutory. But even if she wasn’t underage it was coerced and she was being manipulated to do something she likely didn’t want to do to pay for something she desperately needed. Now if she wasn’t underage it technically still was prostitution but significantly different than a rape if it was indeed consensual but who knows.
Illegal or not it was wrong and these douchebags can get away with anything which boils my backside.
Daaaamn, I have never seen anyone get NO upvotes at all on Lemmy
I’d imagine being underaged and unable to consent makes it rape
Oh missed that part, yeah it’s rape
^*ladies and gentlemen, the result of the rape culture we live in.
A powerful, older man took advantage of a young, desperate woman, but because he did not physically assault her, it’s not rape.
Rape is about POWER, not sex.
Yup, just because she might have said yes doesn’t mean it was ok. The whole situation is just slimy.
Setting aside that statutory rape is still rape… sex work for 17-year olds has a place? WTF…
The fact that these cases always seem to end with “DOJ declined to bring charges” or some similar fate is disgusting
That explains why the US has no proper health care system…
Not sure if you’re joking but yes. The profit of deprivation is exploitation.
That poor girl, so desperate that she had sex with someone who looks like a cephalopod.
had sex withwas raped byFixed that for you.
Ahhhh so this is why they want to make everyone poor
This is one of the reasons, unironically.
If that doesn’t appeal to you then you can work in a restaurant like the one Quiet and her brother work in Twisted Metal.
Or sent to clean up nuclear waste like in Handmaid’s Tale
Everyone pay attention to how quickly nothing is done about this.
But the headline says “devastating.” Surely there will be devastation.
For once I would like to see the powerful people feel devastated
Such devastation will not be self-inflicted. It can be dealt only by the oppressed.
Yet another beautiful story about how a young person has to sell their youth in order to afford medical care in America.
Deeply /s
Wait till you hear what the biggest attraction of the US Military is…
if you yourself need the medical care, you don’t get in.
It’s to get the hell out of middle of nowhere dead end towns. At least that was the draw when I was in, as well as my cousins, and father.
If your father did it and you ended up joining for that reason… then maybe it wasn’t really effective?
He got the hell out of Marietta Georgia, and managed to buy land in Indiana. We also have a history of being in the Navy since well before the country was founded.
Are you saying one of your ancestors was a turncoat?
Technically yes. Rev. David Rice. He sold most of The Virginia Colony and raised 1.5 million pounds of silver, which he gave to his good friends Tom, Ben, and Jim to help fund the US Army and US Navy. IIRC the exchange rate at the time was 4 or 5 British Pounds to a pound of silver.
I’m certain the British consider him a traitor to the crown.
I think it’s very nifty to have a familial connection like that to notable historical events.
Maybe if someone enlisted long enough to get the GI bill for education and used it things would be different, but if one only does short military time and leaves with no further self-improvement the odds of being better off financially probably aren’t great.
When all else fails, become a mercenary. I get it.
I really do miss Tricare. Not worth being married though. I decided I’ll just die lol.
Yes US healthcare sucks. And this particular story sucks. And Matt Gaetz sucks. But I just want to mention that many other countries with superior healthcare systems also suck when it comes to dental care. Despite the fact that a bad dental situation can have devastating health consequences for the whole body.
Having teeth is a luxury for the rich.
That’s nice, good job muddying the waters.
In how many of those other countries are minors tempted to perform sexual acts on government officials to receive said shitty dental care?
Like I said I’m not excusing either Gaetz or the US. I also wonder whether she would have been more comfortable leaving her teeth crooked if she weren’t in the US, unless it caused health or eating issues.
But it’s here on Lemmy, and in years past on the other place, where I have heard people’s frustration about teeth being separated as “luxury bones” under even the best healthcare systems. It goes back through history, separate schools, but the more we learn the more obvious it seems that dental care is healthcare.
From what I’ve read and heard, many poor people just don’t get any dental care, whatever country they’re in.
I wish for her sake she’d been able to find an orthodontia school where she could have gotten her braces from a student under the supervision of a professor.
Sorry, but talking about how dental care sucks in other places too, in a post about dental services being rendered in exchange for statutory rape, sure does sound like making excuses.
Well of course it’s not, there’s no excuse. Gaetz is a predator who exploited and raped her, full stop.
You say /s, but there is a lot of truth to this.
Everyday, innocent women & girls sell their bodies to the highest bidder. It’s disgusting.
What’s disgusting is that this girl was forced to do it due to her circumstances.
No she wasn’t.
Yes she was. Look up consent laws.
Perhaps coerced fits your mental map better?
Every job involves selling your body to the highest bidder. Your attitude only serves to harm people in the sex industry.
Sex work is legitimate work. It’s only exploitative and dangerous because it’s (mostly) illegal, not the other way around.
Sex trafficking, OTOH, is absolutely vile. It’s basically sexual slavery. But it wouldn’t happen if sex work was legalized and regulated!
EDIT: this guy thinks AI child pr0n is “just trolling”. Fucking ewww
Did you missed the part in the title that says she was UNDERAGE and HOMELESS?
Btw, that is a rethorical question. Feel free to answer if you do, but I’m not going to reply.
What’s exploitative and dangerous was that this girl was forced to do it due to her circumstances. Whether or not sex work should be legal is irrelevant.
I remember a time in 2010 or 2011 (I dont remember when exactly) that they said that sex was the last remaining thing that can ruin a politician’s career.
That hasn’t been the case since Trump even started running for office in 2015. The level of debauchery is just disgusting. Even if Pete Hegseth was discovered to have made sex videos and they were leaked on porn hub, and then he responded by posting more sex videos he made more recently… this would probably do nothing to harm his career.
People generalize this topic too much.
If Pete Hegseth posted his sex tape it’d be wildly unprofessional, but ultimately who cares (and why should they?)
If Pete hegseth posted the sex tape of an unwilling participant that he surprise donkeypunched while she was underage in exchange for money to get her tonsils out, that’s a bit of a different thing.
America has taught too many people to cower at “what the LORD might think” and accept the word of their leaders as though it was handed down as such.
So when they hear “SEX” they shut down and they go “only the DEVIL would make such accusations at the brave men who deliver our LORDS message to us!”
It’s literally brainwashing.
Infidelity does demonstrate a lack of morals that imo should matter to the electorate. If someone is single or in an open relationship, sure. Otherwise, if someone is willing to betray their spouse, how can we expect them to respect us, a bunch of strangers?
Yeah, sleeping with a multiple people isn’t the problem. It’s the lying and willingness to hurt someone they allegedly care about. Why would you trust that person with any power?
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https://youtu.be/Ji1XoTsd4DU
(Start to 1:08)https://youtu.be/h5Ug9r4AxpM?t=31
(Start time pre-set at 31 seconds, watch until 1:32 or the end)Trump isn’t nearly as charming or as honest as this guy. Also the sex appears to be consensual among adults. Trump is such a fucking pedo it isn’t funny.
It was more a response to what you said about Hegseth:
Even if Pete Hegseth was discovered to have made sex videos and they were leaked on porn hub, and then he responded by posting more sex videos he made more recently… this would probably do nothing to harm his career.
“Hes literally reading this, he actually wrote this out”
“It’s not like it was an 8-year old”
- Megyn Kelly
FYI megyn has a 14 year old daughter.
There is no bottom to these people.
secret
I hid one post, I’m a fraud
Always knew this sanctimonious douchebag was a creep. Now it looks like he’s a criminal one.
Is anyone surprised?
It’s not a crime if you’re a politician bro with pale skin.
We don’t even talk about him adopting a 14 year old boy when he was 25. Normal , right?
As normal as a 15 year old dating a 39 year old then becoming President of France. Normal.
the magic 24 year marker, same age difference as Donald and Melania. But that’s true love.
Both were well into adulthood when they met. And also not her teacher. Try again.
I mean we already knew that, too. But victimizing a homeless girl is a whole new level of creep.
There have been reports of this asshole being a pedo for years. But ever since covid, I honestly couldn’t tell you if it was during the early Biden administration or a decade ago
I just assumed that he’d always been rapng children.
He used to rape children. He still does, but he used to too
Unfortunately this will only make him more likeable by Republican voters, seeing as they support pedophiles.
Let’s be fair. Some of his voters are already convicted sex offenders and are no longer eligible to vote.
I expect that ICE will escort such convicts to the polls.
They just get pardons and then join ICE.
Don’t worry, I’m sure someone will SLAM him for it and then we will see some real consequences.
I’m hoping he gets SLAMMED and then GRILLED. That’ll show 'em.
I lived in Okaloosa county for five years. It’s an area ripe for exploitation and Gaetz has been doing so most of his life thanks to his daddy.
Who CARES? If there’s Grass on the Field PLAY BALL!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
its more like “if there’s a hole go for the goal” to them
“If you’re upper-middle class, get in that ass”
Brb, updating my grindr profile…
Calm down Don Corneo.
Megyn Kelly*
He would have been your Attorney General!!! Yes!!! Trump’s “Finest, best people”.
