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[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago

Was it Matt Gaetz again?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (5 children)

This is just political theater to make it seem like the Governor is doing something. Colombia, and much of Latin America, has a much larger issue being extremely wealthy countries with vastly poor populations.

These countries are being kept this way purposely so that they can be exploited by much wealthier nations(US, Spain, France, Netherlands, India). This breeds a culture of self regulation and minimal government intervention, riddled with corruption and a populace left to their own devices.

Prostitution in the touristic areas hasn’t been stopped at all, just pushed a little underground while the cops look the other way, because they are also customers.

Fixing this problem requires something that won’t occur in our lifetimes. Which is unfortunate as Colombia is one of the most beautiful and magical places on earth. Antioquia specifically is such an amazing place and the Paisa people are so unique and kind. Really beautiful when isolated cultures can survive this long.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It tracks that he went back to Florida.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It was matt gaetz wasn't it

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At a press conference, Mayor Federico Gutiérrez said that he would be signing two decrees: one, prohibiting sex work in the area of Medellín for six months, and another, the enforcement of a 1 a.m. closing time for bars in the area for a month.

So now people will not be able to make a living because of this scumbag. Were I a sex-worker in the area, I'd be pretty pissed off. I don't know a better way to address this, I'm just saying that this is why we can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

This doesn’t even address the problem. Literally doing nothing is a better solution than the one implemented.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A far better solution would be to get the sex workers to help with finding and stopping paedophiles & the pimps who support this horrific shit

Get the police to worth with, not against, sex workers.

I'd bet anything that sex workers would be able to help identify and track down under-age prostitution.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

Politicians are such fucking idiots. "We've got a pedophile problem" "Close the bars at 1 am, and make prostitution extra illegal"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

what does shutting down sex work and bars do unless children are at bars & doing sex work???? classic carceral thinking, making whatever processes/institutions that enabled this more oblique and underground than transparent

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These people are the scum of the earth and fucking disgusting to look at too. And before someone gets my ass on body shaming, actually come down to Latin America and observe the kiddy diddlers. None of them are attractive.

All the attractive foreign men who can easily get any woman they want either hire expensive escorts or use Tinder.

The plan itself is a ridiculous one and only looks to be an iron fist approach to something that isn’t going to be solved through aggressive measures like this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Trying to say that pedophiles are all explicitly unattractive is actually a terrible idea. Just like any other crime, body type has absolutely nothing to do with it. And pretending it does just makes it easier for attractive offenders to fly under the radar.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Passport Bros are a disgrace to human race.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

I was confused by reading it "after US citizen found with two girls at a hotel".

I think I was thinking about adult tiny woman. But now I realise where the problem is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Ban all crackers instead, bound to be more helpful than whatever the fuck this current plan is

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Better late than never I guess.

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