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Trump supporters gather outside courthouse and ask: Who among us hasn’t paid for sex?
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Isn't that a crime in the US? Did these people just confess to crimes? But of course they're "conservatives" so it's OK.
TBF, I wouldn't want people to be persecuted just for saying out loud that they did a crime. Imagine if I went outside today and shouted, "My house doesn't have a secondary fire escape and is therefore outside building regulations!". Should I then be investigated for committing a crime, or should someone just tell me to shut up and stop shouting in the middle of the road?
Oddly specific, weird example
Maybe this person should be investigated
Haha yeah you'd expect an example to be something somewhat close to a thing that people would actually say.
Home ownership be like
Haha definitely not relevant to me 😅
I was just struggling to think of an example of a crime which wouldn't warrant investigation. Flying Squid has a good example further down of confessing to a murder which had just happened, which would need to be investigated probably
I would say it depends on the type of crime and the amount of detail. If you say out loud, "I murdered John Smith last Tuesday" and John Smith had been murdered last Tuesday, I think you should probably get investigated for the murder of John Smith.
If you say "I've had sex with a prostitute" but don't go further than that in terms of any details, definitely not.
Hence why I picked such a banal example :)
Slow down, I think nuance might not be well understood by this person.
Not if you film it.
What an amazing little carveout, and since almost everyone has a phone with a camera...
This was the plot of an episode of Boston Legal. I wouldn't assume it would actually hold up in court. In the story a professor of sex studies had paid a prostitute to answer some interview questions for a study, and he "got carried away". But he was filming it, so they argued that he was actually making a pornographic film, which is protected speech.
IIRC, the person who owns the production company can't be the one getting it on. Even that's probably not enforced much.
Not a crime everywhere in the US, cat houses are still around in Nevada. I’m assuming the gentlemen making these statements frequented a couple cities in that state to come to this assumption.
Not everywhere. Prostitution is legal in Nevada (just not within the city limits of Vegas).
It's just locker room talk
If you're rich, they let you do it.
It's actually fully legal in some areas. Vegas comes to mind.
Actually, prostitution is not legal in Clark County (where Las Vegas is). It is legal in the rest of Nevada, though. The sex workers that advertise in Vegas are based just outside of the county lines and travel into the city when called. The cops pretty much just look the other way so it seems legal there.