• gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    … had sex with an underage girl…

    So, rape? Underage people can’t consent, it’s rape. He’s a pedophile.

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      Yup. The report specifically found he violated FL statutory rape law, among other laws, but headlines continue to not call it what it is.

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        America’s willingness to elect pedophiles/rapists to the highest positions in their country is… baffling. To then have their news not even use those words just makes me worry so much for women in the US. Like seriously, ‘sex with underage girl,’ we have specific words for that. Embarrassing.

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          It is baffling, especially since this is the same country where people have been arrested for CP because they had photos of themselves.

          It’s the double standards in these laws that get me.

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          Just look at religion for answers to that puzzle. The entire schtick is a manual for giving yourself and your friends easy outs from your constant and consistent bad behaviour