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Chud Life Baby 😎
Yes, let’s legalize and give protections to all the sex workers.
Chuds: No, not like that!!
The fact that the article leads with “SKETCH” makes me think it’s satire.
FFS he is not in trouble for paying for sex. He is in trouble for paying hush money using campaign funds. Good lord, conservatives are so brainwashed
Just like Clinton wasn't in trouble for the blowjob. He was in trouble for lying about it under oath. But everyone who talks about it now says he got impeached for a blowjob.
Exactly. He got impeached for lying about questioning unrelated to the investigation on him after the actual subject of the investigation bore no fruit.
I just had this argument with a friend of mine. It’s even legal to pay someone to sign an NDA. The charges are “Falsifying business records in the first degree.”
It’s not a “hush-money trial” it’s “criminal business fraud.”
Just like Jesus from his pedestal... Let whoever amungst us hasn't paid for sex throw the first felony.
Actually Jesus said "Let whoever among us who hasn't falsified business records throw the first felony."
The paying for sex was a mistranslation.
It's an easy mistranslation to make, especially when you had a large group of scholars reading hundreds of accounts of stuff that happened hundreds of years earlier written in several different languages and deciding which stories were "real" and worth putting in one book. Then a thousand years later you had another group of people translating THAT.
I'm surprised there aren't more stories about Jesus falsifying his business records after trying to cover up a sex scandal.
They're mad that they had to pay for sex because they expect to get their wee-wees wet for free.
Well, let’s legalize prostitution. Regulate it, tax it, legitimize it.
Conservatives: hell no, we can’t have that depravity and vice. We need to punish women for sex outside of marriage. Oh, yeah…and no abortions for them either. (Unless it’s my daughter or mistress)
Also conservatives: Yeah, we still pay for sex. Rules only apply to other people.
Oh yeah, and make it more difficult for those trapped in their situation to get out of it.
Gotta keep women in their place and under control, even if we say it’s the wrong place. It’s all about control and restricting their autonomy.
hey producing more slave class is important to. its not just about the women.
Isn't that a crime in the US? Did these people just confess to crimes? But of course they're "conservatives" so it's OK.
Not everywhere. Prostitution is legal in Nevada (just not within the city limits of Vegas).
Not if you film it.
What an amazing little carveout, and since almost everyone has a phone with a camera...
Not a crime everywhere in the US, cat houses are still around in Nevada. I’m assuming the gentlemen making these statements frequented a couple cities in that state to come to this assumption.
TBF, I wouldn't want people to be persecuted just for saying out loud that they did a crime. Imagine if I went outside today and shouted, "My house doesn't have a secondary fire escape and is therefore outside building regulations!". Should I then be investigated for committing a crime, or should someone just tell me to shut up and stop shouting in the middle of the road?
Oddly specific, weird example
Haha definitely not relevant to me 😅
I was just struggling to think of an example of a crime which wouldn't warrant investigation. Flying Squid has a good example further down of confessing to a murder which had just happened, which would need to be investigated probably
Maybe this person should be investigated
Haha yeah you'd expect an example to be something somewhat close to a thing that people would actually say.
Home ownership be like
I would say it depends on the type of crime and the amount of detail. If you say out loud, "I murdered John Smith last Tuesday" and John Smith had been murdered last Tuesday, I think you should probably get investigated for the murder of John Smith.
If you say "I've had sex with a prostitute" but don't go further than that in terms of any details, definitely not.
Hence why I picked such a banal example :)
Slow down, I think nuance might not be well understood by this person.
It's just locker room talk
If you're rich, they let you do it.
I'm not so sure that the author wasn't taken in by a Yes Men style prank. Because honestly, that sounds like satire and the satire wasn't coming from the author of the article.
Reality has become indistinguishable from satire.
I agree, but I think there are hints here and there.
For example-
“What do you think I do in Thailand, just sit in a chair?” he asked, incredulously. “That’s what we do as men, you know?”
Thailand isn't really famous for it's ciswomen prostitutes...
Thailand isn't really famous for it's ciswomen prostitutes...
Uhh, what? Yes it is.
That doesn’t refute my point. Thailand has ladyboys, sure, but there are easily 10x the number of female sex workers. It’s one of the most well known cis sex tourism destinations.
I think you're confused. I'm not talking about the reality, I'm talking about why I think this is a hint that it's satire.