• Lorfan@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Am I the only person that doesn’t care about this? The age of consent in most other countries is 14/15 anyway. Even in the US there are states where what they did wouldn’t be a crime. I’d rather the government focus on real issues like student loan debt forgiveness and the unemployment crisis.

    • subversive_dev@lemmy.ml
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      21 days ago

      Is this just trolling or do you not really comprehend the horrors of sex trafficking anyone, let alone these minor victims?

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        21 days ago

        They are just a shocking number of pedophile apologists on Lemmy. When they come out they come out strong. Unfortunately that comment is not a surprise to me in the least.

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      21 days ago

      Gonna ignore your little pedophile red flags, but just wanted to say you DO know that those are different departments right? The FBI going after these people would have zero effect on unemployment or debt forgiveness.

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        21 days ago

        Yeah but the media circus around this issue takes away from time we could be spent focusing on issues that I’m interested in talking about.

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          21 days ago

          That YOU are interested in? Well fuck all the victims I guess, random Internet guy isn’t “interested”

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      21 days ago

      Age of consent in some places can be low, but then it carries a stipulation of the number of years older the other party can be. I.e. at 14 a person could consent to somebody 2 years older, but not 3 etc.

      Traffic children’s across state lines or countries for sex is also a crime.

      In the unredacted version of the redacted files, epstein was also being charged with threatening victims if they spoke of it.

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      21 days ago

      Do you even know the meaning of consent? Age aside, trafficked people are not consenting. It’s called rape.