• dumdum666@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I really don’t understand the way the US works in regards to „bought“ sex… on the one hand prostitution is illegal (with the exception of Las Vegas) and as soon as you point a camera on the paid fucking it is called PORN and it is still a multi billion dollar industry.

    You guys are weird

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      11 months ago

      There are porn producers who do such a crappy job that I’d swear they only film so they have legal access to prostitution.

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      11 months ago

      Prostitution isn’t legal in Vegas. Parts of Nevada yes, but in Clark county where Las Vegas is located prostitution is illegal.

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      11 months ago

      It started a few centuries ago when this annoying group of people known as Puritans were expelled from their home country and sailed to north America.

      The natives saved them from starvation and today still impose their beliefs and values on everybody. These hypocritical laws is but one example

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        They were not expelled for anywhere. They wanted to impose their religious doctrine on everyone else but every government keep telling them to fuck off.

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          It’s easy to get confused because a lot of people who left England did so because they had no other prospects or no other choice, in the case of criminals or financial delinquents.

          Reading up on the founding of the US is a doozy. Essentially, all the rejects of England sailed to the ‘New World’ because there was more opportunity for them there than at home.

          The ones who had it good stayed in England.

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    11 months ago

    I’m assuming they’re arresting the sex workers and not the politicians and military officials?

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      11 months ago

      They’d probably have to confirm identities to arrest those folks, and also prove they aren’t just getting name-dropped.

      Just grabbing the pimps and workers is a lot easier and less case intense

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      11 months ago

      Hopefully neither, and they’ll arrest the organizers/pimps/etc.

      sex workers and clients should be the lowest priority.

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        11 months ago

        You know what they say about hoping, you can hope in one hand and bang an escort in the other hand and see which hand fills up quicker.

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    11 months ago

    The client list will likely go in the same vault as Epstein’s. They’re all assets now.

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      11 months ago

      They’re all assets now.

      In the age of Trump, are those really assets anymore?

      Seems like they’re moreso assets of a bygone era.

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      11 months ago

      It’s because when people in highly-sensitive positions of power do things that they want to keep secret, they become a security risk by opening themselves up to the threat of blackmail.

      Whether or not they should want to keep their whoring secret is a different matter between them and their families and their voters. I don’t have a censorious take on that, I’m just telling you why it’s a security risk and is newsworthy.

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    11 months ago

    Regular reminder that we know of a wealthy elite pedophile ring, who ran it and at least one person who was victimized by it, but not one of the wealthy elite pedophiles who patronized it has even been formally accused. This information is available. It exists. We have chosen as a society to give these child rapists a pass on their child rape.