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[–] 32 points 1 month ago

Patel said the change allows applications from people who have been victims of these crimes to be considered. Before the shift, Patel said, people who were "on either side" of crimes including "prostitution, bestiality and trafficking" were "automatically disqualified."

"Whose side of what, the bestiality?" Kennedy asked. "So you disqualified the animal?"

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"Why would you even get into bestiality?" Kennedy asked. He added: "If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal, but as the human, don't you think he ought to be disqualified?"

"If he voluntarily did it, sure," Patel said...

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    [–] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Okay, this is the second time I've heard about this. What the fuck is going on?

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    I feel like there's other bars that could be lowered instead of that one first

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    What's next? Pedos?

    Oh wait....

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Wow I actually laughed out loud at this one

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    technically they're not wrong in that if you were sex trafficed even as a minor you likely have been convicted of sex crimes because apparently our legal system is designed to arrest and charge the person performing sex acts and not the person buying the sex act or the person who chained a minor to a bed to be raped for their source of income, but the neater solution would be to stop arresting and charging minors who are being sex trafficed with a crime.

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