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Tony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前

The State Department guts its office combating human trafficking

www.motherjones.com

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The State Department guts its office combating human trafficking

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Tony Bark@pawb.social to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前
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The cuts come as Trump reels from MAGA anger over sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    Hmm, so who are they protecting by doing that?

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    Makes sense if your country is being run by child rapists.

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      Call your legislators office asking about this and Epstein while pretending to be conservative

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    The thing here though to note is, they’re not legalizing human trafficking, they’re just massively weakening it so they can’t investigate people making a lot of money on it.

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      De facto decriminalization. Coming to a trafficker near you (like, really near you - probably in a hotel within 5 minutes of your house)

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        Tbh, it’s been that way ever since I’ve lived here. Dboyz hook them in, they can’t pay the bills. One told me he was a “bodyguard.” I guess if you look at it a certain way, they guard bodies they “own.” This is a minimum wage, "right to work” state.

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          Dboyz?

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
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            Drug dealers

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      And yet, with the massive surveillance initiatives they have right now with companies like Meta, Pallentier, and the Miliatry they will be more equipped than ever to catch them. I guess only fall guys and outsiders will get caught.

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      Im not sure what other way this headline could be interpreted.

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      And since it is decriminalized, it creates a constituency to make sure it stays decriminalized.

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    The pedophile party making life easier for pedophiles once again.

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    But Trump is the anointed one who will expose all the adrenochrone-swilling pedophile democrats.

    Right?

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      Yes. Spot on. Exactly. Correct.

      …
      Or maybe, just maybeeeee, he’s the one involved in a paedo trafficking ring and he is covering his tracks?
      His actions pretty much explain which is the easiest to believe. So judge him on his actions…

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    I could have sworn that “human trafficking” was the cudgel that conservatives were using to justify their ban on porn.

    Or is this a situation where they get rid of the department so that the administration alone can define what human trafficking is?

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      And it battles illegal immigration. You’d think they want to stop that, too???

      Oh wait, that kind of trafficking hurts brown people so it can stay.

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    Epstein who?

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    Are you still talking about Epstein? /s

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    It’s almost like they dont want to oppose it.

    Republicans: The pro-life pro sex trafficking “conservative” party.

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    Our government is being run by pedos.

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      Always has been.

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    I mean that would be against the interest of Epstein and his buddies.

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      Buddies = governments, mega corporations, ultrarich

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    “LOOKS LIKE MEATS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS” – some rich tech-bro probably

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    I do find this a bit odd, though. Because there’s no better way to do whatever you want than to piggyback it on a “save the children” narrative. Seems like these departments could have played a key role in their authoritarian overreach strategies.

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    Of course they do

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    More evidence that someone is spinning up a new business with a certain client list that “doesn’t exist”.

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