So we have to let them literally fuck us to get anything out of our politicians.
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.
Pretty much. The rich want to be able to grab a rando off the streets and abuse them as they see fit.
That poor girl, so desperate that she had sex with someone who looks like a cephalopod.
had sex withwas raped byFixed that for you.
As much as I hate this MAGA slimeball … the girl lied about her age. Yes, he took advantage of a young woman. Yes, it is grotesque to force people into poverty just to take advantage of them … but she lied and said she was 18.
Have you had mistakenly payed for having sex with an underage girl? No? Me neither. Nor did literally anyone I know. See how easy it is to avoid?
Doesn’t really matter, at least not morally and probably not legally.
If you pay for sex you’re a sleazeball. If you pay someone who says they just turned 18 you’re a moron. In addition to being a pedophile.
If you pay for sex you’re a sleazeball.
Do you mind giving a little more feedback on why you feel that way?
Taken at face value, as stated, it sounds like you’re 100% against prostitution and making a value judgement against people who hire sex workers.
Keep in mind, I have never paid for sex, and I’m not coming at you because of your opinion. Just curious, is all, since I’m more of the opinion that what consenting adults do in their own privacy is their own business as long as it’s not hurting anybody. And I do understand that a lot of times, sex workers are being exploited. But then I also think about situations like the disabled guy (IIRC it was something terminal) who hired sex workers because he felt he couldn’t/wouldn’t find a willing partner otherwise due to the circumstances of his disability. Plus, I’m a bit biased, as I lived with a sex worker as a roommate for a couple of years, and while nobody’s perfect, he was a much nicer and better person that a lot of random folks I know.
I swear the people downvoting this haven’t read the article at all. She lied about her age and signed up to a website specifically for sugar daddy type hook ups. Sex for money is what she was seeking and it is what she found.
I trust that as much as I trust “Are you 18” barriers on a porn site.
Less, honestly, because that doesn’t actually harm kids and he was definitely trying to fuck kids which is why it keeps happening.
Americans and their age of consent laws, as if 14 or 18 matters when an older man forces her into prostitution. This idea that 18 year old girls are open season is fucked.
Is there any country that doesn’t work like that?
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
It’s always the ones you most suspect.
He would have been your Attorney General!!! Yes!!! Trump’s “Finest, best people”.
Just add it to the pile of sexual predators in the GOP.
Always knew this sanctimonious douchebag was a creep. Now it looks like he’s a criminal one.
Is anyone surprised?
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
I mean we already knew that, too. But victimizing a homeless girl is a whole new level of creep.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not a crime if you’re a politician bro with pale skin.
Who CARES? If there’s Grass on the Field PLAY BALL!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
Calm down Don Corneo.
Megyn Kelly*
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…
But, they supposedly couldn’t find a reason to actually prosecute this fucker? Give me a break.
“It’s not like it was an 8-year old”
- Megyn Kelly
secret
I hid one post, I’m a fraud
FYI megyn has a 14 year old daughter.
There is no bottom to these people.
the headline always picks the most sensational adjectives to put in….
he’s still a creep and all, but he didn’t go down some alley looking for homeless children. didn’t know she was 17.
nuance:she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for ‘companionship’ with young women looking to make money.”.
According to the report by the House Ethics Committee, the girl signed up with a “sugar dating”website that arranged “mutually beneficial relationships,” usually with younger women and older men. That’s when she met Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg who allegedly paid her $400.i mean, he would still be obligated to see her ID, if he’s having sex with what he thinks is a
barely legal
nearly illegal aged young woman.
definitely exploiting impoverished women with his money… taking them to drug parties is even worse….
but the headline sounds like he offered her braces for sex…There are always people defending these creeps who seek out the youngest most vulnerable sexual partners they can legally fuck. You don’t realise that in saying “he didn’t know she was 17” you’re claiming this behaviour is otherwise okay.
An old man, fucking an 18 year old is like a fast food boss paying his employees minimum wage: if you could legally get away with less you would. Finding these creeps “accidentally” fucking children is like the manager “accidentally” entering fewer hours on your timesheet every week. You have to be a real dope to believe it was an accident.
there’s a difference between something being wrong and illegal, and something being much more wrong and much more illegal….
legally i don’t think “but i thought she was 18” counts. not that he was prosecuted anyways.
….
i don’t know who’s defending him, personally i’m just talking about exaggerated headlines and accuracy.
for all i know, he knew she was 17 and required her to make a profile saying she was 18 and pretend to meet him through there so he can have plausible deniability…. actually i’d say that more likely, but i don’t know
Can’t say I’m shocked that pointing out clickbait and misleading elements in the headline led to a bunch of downvotes. He’s on the Wrong Team, you see, so if you do anything but swallow the headline whole, reading not a single word past it, with absolutely zero scrutiny, you’re defending him, defending child molestation, and basically a pedophile yourself, you know. /s
i still think a lot of it is vote manipulation.
if leftist online spaces always scream at rational discussion and promote irrational ones, it’ll seem like that’s how they all are and drive them away.
irl leftists are way way more considerate and go out of their way to respect other people….
they love debating minutiae….
but with 10 bots per human these places will always get fucked with like this.one dead giveaway is i’ll have -22 votes but the highest vote count is 10….
and with the way Lemmy sorts comments, once i hit -5 it’s collapsed and buried at the bottom… so if that were real, way way more people are skipping every other comment and just going to the bottom to downvote people.
or only downvoting and not upvoting a single comment….i mean, chuds come in and try to troll and they don’t get downvoted like someone reasonably discussing a couple of points….
Yea, it’s an honest mistake that could happen to anyone! I mean, who among us HASN’T ordered an online prostitute who we thought was barely legal that turned out to be underage? There’s no way to avoid it!
if anyone’s a victim here, it’s clearly gaetz… he was defrauded by this imposter….
surely he wasn’t seeking out the youngest looking girls on the website or anything….
poor guyI love how earlier you said you weren’t defending gaetz and here you are, defending gaetz
i refuse to believe that you’re too dense to recognize that as sarcasm.
….
so why be a troll? there are many much more fulfilling hobbies.Based on your shit takes early about him poes law is in full effect. Not being a troll lol
“lol”
dude we’re talking about a guy who manipulates and has sex with underage girls…
it’s not funny and you should not be having a fun time with it.
such a weak, stupid troll… just disgustingAnd for such a serious subject you “tried” to be sarcastic. You clearly think it’s funny enough to do so. So maybe practice what you preach. What a sad example of a human you are, I pity you
The headline:
Devastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz For Money to Buy Braces
She was literally underage. She needed money for braces. It’s not a misleading headline AT ALL and wanting to put nuance on a headline about a guy treating a child like a prostitute is not a good look for you.
oh go find someone else to pretend like they’re on gaetz’s side… you can get super mad at them and yell at them while having an imaginary argument where they’re suddenly a Matt Gaetz sympathizer….
maybe go punch a pillow or something, i’m not the one you’re upset with.
he’s a horrible person, this is one of the many reasons why…
he didn’t buy her braces for sex.
he had sex with an underage girl, for money, gave her drugs….
her being homeless or needing dental care was far from his mind, i’m sure….Your only remaining reason to pointlessly criticise the headline is that you missed the distinction between the role of subject and object in a sentence? What a hill to die on!
Devastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz For Money to Buy Braces
Reread it.
you’re a moron
Sounds like you still don’t understand and it’s making you cross. I’ll explain.
Devastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl…
The girl is the subject in the sentence. The sentence is about what she did.
Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz is the object of the sentence. He is who she did it with.
For Money to Buy Braces
And this says why she did it. NOT why he did it.
So the headline was accurate because that’s exactly what she alleges. Getting all hissy about how he might have had no idea she needed braces is silly because no claim about that was made.
Spending all day objecting to the wording of the headline, in particular objecting that Matt Gaetz might not have known she was underage made you come across as defending a rich and powerful pedo offender, which, as I said, is not a good look for you.
A middle aged man having sex with a teenager for money and buying her drugs is starkly immoral even if he claims he didn’t know she was underaged.
Calling her “barely legal” as you did, when she was not “legal” suggests you’re watching the wrong kind of porn and you think that stuff is fine and take the porn site’s word that it’s legal despite them warning you that it’s on the fringe.
Maybe you has a more intelligent point to make, but “you’re a moron” didn’t communicate it very effectively.
i care so much about your opinion at this point!
you betcha i’m going to read that novel chatgpt wrote for you… tooootally interested in learning from you.
thanks so much i’m hanging on your every word.It’s not on opinion, it’s just how grammar works in English.
Also, hot news! Some people are capable of authoring content without an LLM!
Maybe try it sometime.
Also consider whether you might come across as defending pedophiles before you argue too long and too hard over how a headline criticising their child sex abuse is unfair because of some technicality that neither excuses the abuse nor is actually claimed by the headline.
He has a history with underage girls. Don’t defend this pedo. You can’t keep claiming ignorance when it keeps happening.
He has a history with underage girls.
He has enough history that we can judge him for all of it. We don’t need to abandon integrity & accuracy.
You can’t keep claiming ignorance when it keeps happening.
They weren’t.
i’m not defending him in any way shape or form
I don’t think something like that would happen here. It’s an extremely professional workplace and Matt’s a really good guy. Can I go? Matt’s birthday’s starting and bunch of Mets are here.
Pfff… Devastating… Par for the course, you mean.
