RedditsuxDevastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz For Money to Buy Braces
RememberTheApollo_Yet another beautiful story about how a young person has to sell their youth in order to afford medical care in America.
Deeply /s
You say /s, but there is a lot of truth to this.
Everyday, innocent women & girls sell their bodies to the highest bidder. It’s disgusting.
Every job involves selling your body to the highest bidder. Your attitude only serves to harm people in the sex industry.
Sex work is legitimate work. It’s only exploitative and dangerous because it’s (mostly) illegal, not the other way around.
Sex trafficking, OTOH, is absolutely vile. It’s basically sexual slavery. But it wouldn’t happen if sex work was legalized and regulated!
Did you missed the part in the title that says she was UNDERAGE and HOMELESS?
Btw, that is a rethorical question. Feel free to answer if you do, but I’m not going to reply.
bthestWait till you hear what the biggest attraction of the US Military is…
It’s to get the hell out of middle of nowhere dead end towns. At least that was the draw when I was in, as well as my cousins, and father.
When all else fails, become a mercenary. I get it.
If your father did it and you ended up joining for that reason… then maybe it wasn’t really effective?
Maybe if someone enlisted long enough to get the GI bill for education and used it things would be different, but if one only does short military time and leaves with no further self-improvement the odds of being better off financially probably aren’t great.
He got the hell out of Marietta Georgia, and managed to buy land in Indiana. We also have a history of being in the Navy since well before the country was founded.
Technically yes. Rev. David Rice. He sold most of The Virginia Colony and raised 1.5 million pounds of silver, which he gave to his good friends Tom, Ben, and Jim to help fund the US Army and US Navy.
BeesbeesbeesI really do miss Tricare.
Not worth being married though. I decided I’ll just die lol.
MinnesotaGoddamif you yourself need the medical care, you don’t get in.
Yes US healthcare sucks. And this particular story sucks. And Matt Gaetz sucks. But I just want to mention that many other countries with superior healthcare systems also suck when it comes to dental care. Despite the fact that a bad dental situation can have devastating health consequences for the whole body.
That’s nice, good job muddying the waters.
In how many of those other countries are minors tempted to perform sexual acts on government officials to receive said shitty dental care?
Like I said I’m not excusing either Gaetz or the US. I also wonder whether she would have been more comfortable leaving her teeth crooked if she weren’t in the US, unless it caused health or eating issues.
But it’s here on Lemmy, and in years past on the other place, where I have heard people’s frustration about teeth being separated as “luxury bones” under even the best healthcare systems. It goes back through history, separate schools, but the more we learn the more obvious it seems that dental care is healthcare.
From what I’ve read and heard, many poor people just don’t get any dental care, whatever country they’re in.
I wish for her sake she’d been able to find an orthodontia school where she could have gotten her braces from a student under the supervision of a professor.
Sorry, but talking about how dental care sucks in other places too, in a post about dental services being rendered in exchange for statutory rape sure does sound like making excuses.
Well of course it’s not, there’s no excuse. Gaetz is a predator who exploited and raped her, full stop.
ShaggySnacksHaving teeth is a luxury for the rich.
Sassinake!@Mouselemming @RememberTheApollo_
Here in Canada, we just got a national dental plan this year.
meanwhile, Quebec's healthcare system is being destroyed by the provincial govt caving in to private interests.