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German government to pay US Army employees amid US government shutdown : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)
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[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Please don't besmirch sexworkers like this, it's better to not use prostitute at all, find another metaphore

Faustian bargain is fitting

oh i just read the second sentence and youre complaining about the GDR, lol I'm sorry I tried to tell you to not be a misogynist, carry on

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's offensive to the women Germans can legally sexually assault to call them "sex workers" but go off

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://hexbear.net/post/3739639 Assuming you're going after this line of thinking:

There is, at the same time, an argument that all sex work is inherently assault, and as such to term it work is to ignore the reality of the sex trade's exploitative nature.

"Part of believing me when I say I have beenremovedd is believing me when I say I haven’t been." - Nikita, 2017 Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International UK.

"Prostitution is only a particular expression of the universal prostitution of the worker" - Karl Marx

[–] verdi@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

This guy doesn't like neoliberalism, he must be a nazi.

Brought to you by the same genius that doesn't know that in the English language "prostitute" has no gender...

i thought ml was better than this, I was wrong.