• Fiye [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Glenn Greenwald1 hr ago Right, the proper term for an adult having sex with a 17-year-old even where it's illegal is not pedophilia, and I thought about making that point, but decided it wasn't worth it. But you're right.

    Sauce: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/due-process-adult-sexual-morality/comments#comment-1710756

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      👁️are we going to have to :brace-cowboy:

    • Kanna [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Hey, what's Glenn Greenwald up to? :squidward-nochill:

      Oh. :squidward-chill:

    • thoro [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Wow that whole exchange is a parody.

      Yikes at the guy who definitely understands european age of consent law and calls the US sexually repressed for not being allowed to fuck 14 year olds.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yikes at the guy who definitely understands european age of consent law

        It's kinda true though, you wouldn't go to jail for that however it's not unlikely that you'd be accused of some kind of manipulation by the family.

        Also yikes, this person is intentionally conflating kids having sex with other kids and adults seducing said kids.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Given all the other shit involved in this scandal, I'm mildly upset that "She wasn't quite 18 yet!" is the headline.

        The whole concept of Sugar Babies exposes such horrible rot in the American culture and economy. Like, shouldn't the existence of this service ring a bunch of alarm bells for anyone? And yet we're pretending the problem is the exact age of the girl involved and the fact that the guy is a Congressman rather than some random petite bourgeois used car dealer.