• AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
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    That is every bit as dumb as someone saying “no, I wasn’t buying drugs! I only traded money for a hug, then got an eight ball for free!”

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      29 days ago

      This is how you buy weed in DC…

      Edit: No seriously, look it up. You can’t legally sell weed in DC the but you can possess. So the shops sell you $70 socks and then gift you devil’s lettuce.

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      I bought my girlfriend’s train tickets to see me because she was broke. Am I a pimp?

      Edit: I dunno. I had the wrong words.

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      Bro I once got pulled-over on christmas-eve-eve-eve-eve-eve-eve-eve and the cop didnt even let me off with a warning. It was basically christmas night

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    lol, he doesn’t refute the statutory rape or trafficking, just the prostitution part?

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    In its report, the Ethics Committee explained that “Representative Gaetz did not appear to have negotiated specific payment amounts prior to engaging in sexual activity with the women he paid. Instead, the women had a general expectation that they would typically receive some amount of money after each sexual encounter.”

    Where’s the boundary between prostitution and a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship which is not in itself illegal? This seems like the latter rather than the former to me. It’s still crazy that the attorney general nominee is claiming to be a sugar daddy in order to defend his character.

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    Preventing exchange of things that we’re as legally entitled to as our money and bodies is goddamn impossible.