Exclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer says
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An attorney tells ABC News that one of his clients told the House Ethics Committee that she witnessed then-Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz having sex with a minor.
  • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    74·
    8 days ago

    You’re doing that thing again where you secretly have a bit of hope that justice will prevail. Headlines like this give you that little hit of dopamine, don’t they.

  • Aaron@lemmy.nz
    51·
    8 days ago

    Oops, looks like this editor missed it too. It’s spelled r-a-p-e. Easy mistake to make apparently.

        • theherk@lemmy.world
          4·
          8 days ago

          I did and I actually get that you were essentially making the same joke to which I replied. I still thought it was funny that the wording matched.

          • AmidFuror@fedia.io
            2·
            8 days ago

            Got it.

            Yeah, this one landed very badly. I try to find balance between too obvious and too cryptic. I figured I would get knee jerk reactions but it seems even when pointing the second part out readers don’t get it.

            If almost everyone is confused by your joke, you didn’t tell it well.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    332·
    8 days ago

    Well, actually, a minor is not a kid. Charles Darwin hypothesized that during the evolution of our species, people would tend to cue a fight they anticipated would happen in hopes it would then not happen.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 days ago

      Tell us exactly when a teenager stops being a child, because mine is two years into it and she’s definitely still a kid.

          • phar@lemmy.ml
            22·
            7 days ago

            Read the Charles Darwin bit a few times till it seeps in?

            • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              I don’t get it at all… My best guess is that because OP once heard Darwin say “people tend to cue fights they anticipate in hopes it will deter the fight”, that OP somehow hoped by saying “a minor is not a child”, no one would have a fight regarding if a minor is a child?

              But like, obviously it would cause the fight, so that can’t be it. And it leaves me with so many questions…

              A minor is of an age that they are incapable of giving consent, so everything after is just linguistic debates pushed by pedos right?

              What does Charles Darwin have to do with this at all?

              How, in this case, are evolution and fight prevention related?

              How is evolutionary based fight prevention and the definition of “a minor” related?

              Can a joke be funny, even if no one gets it?

              Edit: Shit, just got it.

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
        25·
        8 days ago

        I see that people didn’t see the comment by Charles Darwin and/or didn’t read my entire comment.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          10·
          8 days ago

          I read your entire comment. I’ve read it again. I have no idea why that means you are refusing to answer my question. Especially when you said “Well, actually, a minor is not a kid.” Not Charles Darwin. Nothing to do with fighting.

          So, I will ask you again, exactly when does a teenager stop being a child?

          • AmidFuror@fedia.io
            12·
            8 days ago

            I think people are kids into their 20s. Or colloquially, your children stay your kids their whole lives.

            Cue someone writing, “Well actually, the comment was referencing the user CharlesDarwin and not the theologian turned naturalist.”