#superbowl I'm celebrating a big F you to Robert Kraft tonight.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

#superbowl I'm celebrating a big F you to Robert Kraft tonight. I can't stand sports ball, but knowing that a Friend of #Epstein MAGA asshole who's been credibly accused of sexual exploitation suffered a big loss made watching part of that game worthwhile.

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@dnkboston Don't forget the time he was caught in a sting at a brothel, and they threw out the charges against him but prosecuted the women for the prostitution for him So love to see a rich sex pest fail.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@growfediverse I didn't realize they'd prosecuted the women. That's past "good lawyer"; that's a corrupted justice system.

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@dnkboston Yup. It really pissed me off because how can you be prosecuted for sex that the court already dismissed as not happening? Like who'd they perform the sex work on then, a fucking ghost? 🤪

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@growfediverse I don't think sex workers should be prosecuted, only customers and traffickers.

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@dnkboston @growfediverse

I think it should be regulated, but there's enough risk involved to warrant health checks etc. All respect to sex workers, but yeah.

[dnkboston@apobangpo.space]

@tuban_muzuru Make free health-care available instead. @growfediverse

[growfediverse@dillyofapickle.com]

@dnkboston @tuban_muzuru Exactly. Every sex worker I've personally known did not start doing it for the Joy of Sex, but to survive due to egregious lacks of social safety nets, and economic policy that punishes workers while rewarding fat cat misery profiteers. There are genuinely people who enjoy the work, and a safe co-op / unionized environment would be great, but we can't ignore how often people come to the work due to regressive policies that ransom people out of doing what they love into doing whatever hazards they can just to survive. Sex work isnt the only profession where this happens - people putting their bodies on the line to make ends meet on pain of slow death - and the conditions that make this kind of exploitation thrive need to be dealt with. For example: Make the rich pay their damn taxes.