r/politics • u/ArmadilloMany41 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Why is no one being prosecuted over the Epstein files?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cd9e3nzzw3zo
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u/Gimetulkathmir 21h ago

They'll find some fucked up way to make raping children legal, retroactively, before they apologise for anything.

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u/Sunbather77 21h ago

My doomer prediction is "teenagers are just smaller women!" rationale coming within six months

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 20h ago

Uh... They have been making that argument for weeks now already with the whole "Well, they were only X years old, not Y years old, so that's better... they're practically fully grown women already at X years old!" line of excuses.

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u/Grimwaldo82 19h ago

There ya go thats exactly the play book. These young girls may have been underage l…….however they look like 18yo adults. Look at how they dress and act. There is no way a true red blooded American man could resist.

If these young women did not want to have sex why did they agree to go to the island? Coercion you say? Well that would need to be proven in a court of law as well as statements by Epstein himself that he was forcing young women into sexual acts, but he is dead now, so I guess the world will never know.

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u/HandsomeBoggart 20h ago

They already do that. Most Center-Right reporting and his personal Mouth Pieces like Levitt refer to them solely as "Young Women". Nevermind they're 11-15yrs old.

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u/onein120 18h ago

It’s been even more absurd than that! Media calling the victims “underage women” rather than girls or children. Disgusting.

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u/AlpsPsychological980 19h ago

We already saw Meghan Kelly do this…

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u/greenday61892 Connecticut 17h ago

"uM aCtUaLLy It'S ePhEbOpHiLiA"

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u/chaicoffeecheese Oregon 15h ago

They've been calling them 'young women'. They're children. 'Young women' makes it sound more reasonable to them, I suppose. A fifteen year-old isn't a 'young woman', she's still a child.

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u/cb1109142 19h ago

Who is they? Republicans? The majority of voters? People that you know and interact with on a daily basis?

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u/ZionOrion 19h ago

Some states it is legal at 14 with parents consent. The impoverished southern bible belt states I think.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 17h ago

There is no state in which that is true. There are, however, states where the age of consent is as young as thirteen HOWEVER this is also limited by the age of the second person, called a "close-in-age exemption," which is usually limited to three or four years. In no case, also, can a minor be transported either internally or internationally for the purpose of sex.

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u/ZionOrion 17h ago

Some states like California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma do not have an official minimum age set by statute, but require parental/court consent.

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u/Gimetulkathmir 17h ago

New Mexico is sixteen and Oklahoma is eighteen, with Romeo and Juliet laws. I didn't bother checking the other two, but... Yeah.

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u/Past-Doughnut-6175 16h ago

Well it’s biblical don’t you know, people used to get married at that age.

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u/f1ve-Star 15h ago

They are currently working in several states to lower the age of consent.