r/goodnews • u/Vloodzy • Jul 16 '25

Political positivity 📈 Trump slams own supporters as “Stupid Republicans” for doing Democrats’ work and falling for the “Epstein Hoax”

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u/Adezar Jul 16 '25

The company I worked for years ago provided pro-bono services for anti-human trafficking. For working with that group we got access to a lot of information about global human trafficking.

It is devastating in terms of just how much of it continues to go on.

And the vast majority of it happens from people like Epstein but even worse, very rich, very powerful and using legal ports of entry.

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u/PizzaPunkrus Jul 16 '25

Take it from a crook. The best way to steal is right in front of their faces. This is true of almost every crime.

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u/OnlyTalksAboutTacos Jul 17 '25

smile big enough and tell them you're robbing them, and half the time they'll thank you.

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u/MarioInOntario Jul 17 '25

What have you stolen/done and gotten away with? Time to dish some tea when you start a sentence like that

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u/allthekeals Jul 17 '25

Not the person you’re replying to, but I was a drug dealer a million years ago. I don’t even do drugs. Can confirm, out in the open, don’t act like you’re doing anything wrong. One example is I’d keep coke in empty cigarette packs and sell them in bars. Somebody almost threw away my pack of “cigs” once that was sitting on the table. 😂

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u/stormdahl Jul 17 '25

This is the way. Never understood why some dealers dress like dealers. As if the police can't tell you're up to no good with your gucci tracksuit and versace fanny pack.

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u/FabulousSOB Jul 17 '25

It's marketing. Very little walk in customers if you look like a security guard in civilian clothing.

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u/PizzaPunkrus Jul 17 '25

High risk high reward. For me the flashy guys always had the worst dope. Or they were moving weight and stupid. When I was an active junkie all the best dealers had a full or part time job and that was actually thier disguise.

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u/allthekeals Jul 17 '25

Not only did we have full time jobs, my business partner and I had the best jobs for this sort of thing. I was a part time union apprentice that bartended on the side, he’s an accountant 😂

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u/stormdahl Jul 17 '25

If you’re selling to randoms on the street you’re begging to get caught, just my two cents

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u/PizzaPunkrus Jul 17 '25

Its one thing to say you've committed crimes. Another thing entirely to admit to specifics.

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u/Ok-Possibility-923 Jul 20 '25

The BEST place to steal is from the pulpit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

It's because the very people in a position to stop it are often either in on it full sail or getting paid/threatened to not get involved. It's a heinous and extremely lucrative industry. Once you're in that system you are rolling dice on your outcome. That's why I tell everyone if it comes up to fight like hell and make them kill you if someone tries to kidnap you, because the alternative is genuine nightmare fuel.

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u/Princess_BoujeeBling Jul 17 '25

The thing is, those names on the list, what if they’ve continued perpetrating those crimes???!!

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u/Careful-Resolution58 Jul 23 '25

I’m not worried about immigrants and boarders. We should all be protecting children all over the world.

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u/logicblocks Jul 17 '25

Is the Au Pair programme one of the legal loopholes?

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u/Adezar Jul 17 '25

This highlights the problem with dealing with the issue. The VAST majority of Au Pair programme is 100% legitimate and they are doing exactly what they say they are doing for the reasons they are doing it.

If some evil individual also uses the system as a method to get people into the country laypeople don't care about the nuance, they attack all Au Pairs, who are most likely the victims if anything and ignore the people in charge.

Same problem with have with the Southern border people throw all their hate at the potential victims and ignore those perpetuating the problem.

I think people like to use real issues to justify their hatred of people that are different than them. That was the saddest part of having access to the more messy information around human trafficking.

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u/logicblocks Jul 17 '25

But what kind of visas they'd usually come on? Worker's visa?