I don’t think a 20 year old dating a 17 year old falls into that category but it would fall under the legal definition you’re referring to in many states. That’s the problem with drawing arbitrary lines, you usually end up labeling some things incorrectly. That doesn’t mean you get rid of the line but understanding the context is still important.

That being said, there is no amount of context that will lessen the creepiness of a 50+ year old man serially preying upon 15 year old girls. That’s disgusting and I find Megyn Kelly’s invocation of this defense to be indefensible. She should be ashamed of herself if she were capable of feeling shame.

Is she wrong about that last part? Clearly she’s deflecting and full of shit in general but Biden did have 4 years to do something about this. Why didn’t he?

I don’t think I would phrase it that way but if you make a career out of knowingly getting murderers off the hook then yeah, you deserve bad things. There’s lots of people who deserve things, both good and bad, that never get those things. Being deserving of something is not a guarantee that you will get it.

I don’t know, it seems pretty fair to me to say that if you prevent justice from being done for an act committed against someone else then you deserve to have that act directed at you, at least in general terms. That sort of consequential thinking is one of the first things we teach our kids. Why should the answer change just because the subject matter does? It seems pretty reasonable to assume that this lawyer did not genuinely believe Cuomo was innocent. Perhaps “deserve” isn’t quite the right word but I think “fuck around and find out” certainly applies, and when you summarize that phrase it expresses pretty much the same sentiment as the word deserving.

In what category?

It doesn’t improve your daily life any more than regular exercise does

Quit using drugs to min/max. Life isn’t a video game. Just go to the gym or do stuff outside. The rest is just capitalism doing what it does, trying to sell you shit you don’t need.

To do what, wear out one section of carpet faster than the rest of your house?

I hope they get to read this:

Suck my dick ICE. Get a real job you masked losers.