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  • Hawke@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That didn’t happen.
    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.<— we are here.
    And if it is, that’s not my fault.
    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
    And if I did, you deserved it.

    • BussyGyatt@feddit.org
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      I always wonder seeing this old chestnut, what’s the difference between “not that bad” and “not a big deal”

      • Hawke@lemmy.world
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        I take it to mean the distinction between downplaying how much of the bad thing happened (in this case how many people were raped) and how terrible of a problem that is (in this case how old they were)

  • ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineOP
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    This is incredible.

    They went from angrily demanding we protect the kids, to pinning Epstein with Clinton, to defending Epstein.

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      They will lower the legal age of consent next, mark my words.

      Because not matter how you slice it, it was still rape.

      • fonix232@fedia.io
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        Didn’t multiple Republicunts try to reduce or abolish age of consent laws in a number of states?

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          Oklahoma let several bills concerning child marriage die in committee this year. Pedophilia is legal if you marry them after.

          Butler said she had a turbulent childhood living with her mother in southeast Oklahoma City. A family friend started paying attention to Butler when she was a young teenager, giving her the love and affection she says she always craved but rarely received as a child.

          By the time Butler was 14, the man was sleeping in her bedroom, Butler said.

          Butler became pregnant and said family members told her she needed to get married or else she and her baby could be placed into foster care.

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          The marriage was unhappy, Butler said. She stayed at home to care for her newborn child and never finished the 9th grade. She also sometimes looked after her husband’s two other children from a previous relationship, she said.

          Butler said it took her 12 years to become financially independent enough to file for divorce.

          Her ex-husband said drug use clouded his judgment and that he tried to do the right thing by marrying the mother of his child.

          He said marriage was necessary to keep authorities from investigating the situation.

          “Everybody involved would have been incarcerated,” he said.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
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      He was into the type our people really want to legalise. That makes it okay, right?

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Maybe he was, and it’s gross and there’s nothing we can do about it because he’s dead.

    But trump is still alive regrettably and definitely was into underage “types”.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    She means barely illegal. The “marijuana” of underage girls, if you will.

    Wait aren’t they trying to prosecute people for that shit, too? And throw them out of the country over civil paperwork infractions? I don’t get it. Are they zero tolerance or not?