• BlameThePeacock
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    So is child marriage in many states.

    The US is not as progressive as some people like to think.

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        Americans seem to think so. They’re busy condemning the rest of the world for things that they’re still doing themselves.

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      Many things you’d think should be illegal aren’t just because the problem rarely ever arises.

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        300k minors have been married over theast 20 years, 86% of those were minor girls and adult males. 13 years old was the youngest.

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    We all know white collar crininals aren’t the ones who are forced to work, just petty crimes and people caught up in the racist war on drugs.

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    Yuup. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude EXCEPT as punishment for crime

    We’re gonna abolish this and put an except IMMEDIATELY AFTER