I’d be fine if we get embroiled in a war with Russia, martial law gets declared and, oops, guess we can’t transfer power.
paddirn
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Hopefully the doublecross comes soon and they hang him out to dry before they get into office.
“We acted like garbage people, and then got treated like garbage, that’s antisemitic!”
In that context, that paints a very different picture of your Dad than what I read originally. Apart from general "issues" with prostitution as a business, I'm not sure I could say your Dad was really doing anything "wrong", apart from facilitating an illegal business, but from what you're describing, he seemed to do it in a relatively fair way (assuming whatever %'s they were operating under wasn't exploitative, but I don't even know what the cut-off is). It's kind of a morally ambiguous crime based on what you've written (also assuming no trafficking or coercion or anything like).
Had it been my Dad, I don't know that it'd be the sort of thing I'd disown him over, but I'm a guy with lenient views of prostitution anyways, so you may feel quite differently about it. Hopefully he's able to stay out of trouble and transition to more legal ventures, I know how hard it can be for people to get out of the legal system once you start getting caught up with all sorts of restrictive conditions and such. Oftentimes it seems like the legal system is design to keep people spiraling around the drain more than it is trying to help people get better.
No idea about the particulars of the business or anything about your Dad, but sounds like he got caught because maybe he wasn't ruthless or abusive, which I guess is a good thing in his favor (?). I could easily see that woman's argument turning out much worse for her had your Dad been a different person and resorted to other negotiation methods. Did he just provide protection services or did he sort of manage the transactions from start to finish, almost like a temp agency... just for prostitutes? I'm always curious about how black market businesses operate outside of "normal" business environments.
I mean, tens of thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people are deported from the country every year already, whether Democrat or Republican presidents are in office, deportations (or "repatriations") actually went up since 2020 when Biden took office. They've been on their way down though back to "normal" pre-Covid levels, but it's hard to say what would happen under Trump. From 2016 to 2020 they actually fell to a low of 27k for at least a little bit.
Well, that doesn't sound nice. Had you been exposed to that part of his life, or are you that close with your Dad? I should think part of the danger of being around somebody like that is that they could potentially bring you into that, which may not be so great for women involved with that. That he has a suspended sentence makes it sound like he's still out free, he just has to keep to whatever conditions they set for him, so I guess he still has a chance to avoid jail.
Part of me thinks that Prostitution should be legalized (though heavily regulated), but there's instances like this where I'm not so sure women wouldn't just be taken advantage of (thus the need for heavy regulation). It's been an ongoing trade for 1000's of years, women shouldn't be punished for providing something that men clearly value. Maybe it should be punishable to be a pimp or a madam, but the women themselves shouldn't be punished. But on the other hand, is exploitation, even self-imposed exploitation due to economic hardships from a cruel and unjust system ever really justified? I say that women should have a choice in the matter, but do they really have a choice?
Part of me thinks that this proposal will end up the same as his "Wall" that Mexico was going to pay for. Either incompetence or apathy will make this part of his proposal quietly go away. There will be some token deportations of illegals that were going to be deported anyways, but they'll make a bigger deal about it, then it'll just sort of slink away and somehow not be as big of a problem as it was made out to be for the past year or so.
Or we go full-scale with the concentration camps. It's kind of a toss-up at this point. The only thing working in our favor is Trump's general incompetence and chaotic headspace, he's his own biggest enemy sometimes.
Wait… you’re not suggesting that voting for the lesser of two evils would’ve somehow helped the Palestinians somehow (or at least lessened the negative impacts)? Everyone knows that you either get everything you want or you just let the worst possible result happen, there is no middle ground.
His own father lived til he was 93, so we may be waiting awhile, though Trump doesn’t exercise and eats like shit, so who knows.
Time to start stockpiling.
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Bananas, pickles, onions, mustard. Now it’s like, “Whatever, just shove it down my throat.”