One case is too many.

Mmm, your entire point can be negated by acknowledging that politicians and elections are usually bought out.

Do you think Congress represents the will of the people? Do you think it should?

I feel like you didn’t pay attention to anything I said and decided to double-down on exactly what I called out on.

Oh well.

I’m not talking about convicting the perpetrator. Please stop assuming, lol.

Legally speaking, there is no ambiguity.

But in reality, there is. If you can’t understand that, it’s probably because you don’t want to.

I don’t see why you think the constituency would routinely make worse decisions than the people they put in power.

Fact is a large portion of the population has no problem voting incompetently and/or under the influence of malicious talking heads.

What makes you think politicians are exempt from this?

I totally agree. I have mad respect for Linus for the work he’s done and the immense amount of retardation he’s had to sift and fight his way through.

I have very little respect for the people critiquing his behavior while contributing nothing of value themselves.

Prolly cause your boss doesn’t have half the responsibilities Linus did or had to deal with as many retards.

I think he knows that but is cleverly pretending that you meant something else.

I don’t think this is a bad thing.

I miss when people had higher standards.

So just vote for the issues that matter to you.

Either way, you get more control than having someone else make the decisions for you.

Okay. Have a nice day.

Don’t you dare put those words in my mouth. That’s not at all what I said.

Really? You seem to only care about what the law says. So you admit that it’s possible for the law to be incorrect about consent? Is it okay to have sex with 16 year olds if the law says so? At what point do you draw the line between what you find acceptable and what the law finds acceptable? Your entire argument in this entire thread chain has been “it’s illegal” when I’ve said time and time again I’m not referring to the law.

None of those involve other people’s consent and are all victimless crimes. Dear lord how are you this dense.

Yeah, me having sex at 17 with a 20 year old was a victimless crime. However, I think you’re delusional and patronizing enough to ignore this fact.

You know what’s traumatizing? Being raped. My years of therapy agree.

I mean, that applies to you. Not me. Why would I avoid having sex at 17 because of what happened to you? Lol.

It seems your letting your own experiences dictate what everyone else should experience. Hopefully with time you will come to realize that’s just not the world we live in. Everyone is different, and most people are cool with having sex at 17 even if it’s illegal.

That’s pretty dumb logic, but I can see Italians going for it.

I frankly don’t care how your relationship turned out.

Okay. Then why should I care about your input on such relationships?

Legally, she raped you.

Legally, I don’t really care. Legally, smoking weed was against the law but I did it anyways. So is piracy. So is jaywalking.

You clearly only care about what is and isn’t illegal. In your mind, it’s okay to have sex with 14 year olds under the right jurisdiction. In my mind, it’s not okay even if the law says otherwise.

I’d say my experience is more the norm than an exception, at least for males. I’m glad I don’t let people like you influence me. I’d say that would be way more traumatizing, lol.

I wasn’t talking about the law.

I had sex at 17 with an adult and have 0 regrets. It’s pretty normal. I think I would’ve had more regrets if I refrained from doing it because people like you think that’s what I should do, lol.

To put things into perspective and why it’s always good to talk specifics, I was 17 and she was 20. I guess she’s a shitty person who raped me and should be in prison, lol. We ended up being together for years, it was a great relationship :)

But I guess from your ‘logic’, if this occurred in a different jurisdiction (or if I had waited 2 months for my 18th birthday,) then she would be off the hook for any and all judgement.

It’s funny watching you people always pivot to the law as though every law is just and people are good based on how well they obey laws.

I think going outside would help you understand better.

Maybe it’s just me, but I thought the residents were always disrespectful of the city.

Something like Venice having the filthiest water of any city because the residents just dump their trash into it.

I dunno, I never really understood the reverence for Italian culture 🤷

They always seem to put the shittiest people on top while good people go unnoticed.

Fun fact: there is always a divided congress because the ruling class just adjusts its spending on elections to ensure nothing ever gets done in our favor.

As soon as we start voting more/for better candidates, they start spending more. They haven’t even scratched the surface of how much they can spend to control the government; they don’t need to yet.

As the disparity in wealth continues to grow, they’ll just have even more money to ensure their grip for generations.

Direct voting is the future.

We’re not ready for it yet. Everyone still bitches about corrupt politicians but still thinks direct voting is a bad idea, lol.

Rubes.

I’m sure they’ll have plenty of democrats helping, too.