I do appreciate the good faith take on the situation, and I’ll tentatively agree that being a victim of such an act should maybe not be immediately disqualifying, certainly scrutinized for trauma/blackmail purposes, HOWEVER with everything we know about the horrific shit people named in the epstein files have done who are currently in government or are directly connected with people in government, there is a non-zero chance that the FBI may in fact be training dogs to rape people.

I wish I could take the “this is just updating some outdated rules” defense at face value but I can’t, it really genuinely cannot take a single word any of the fascists in power say at face value. Everything that both Trump administrations have done has, in some way, hurt the common person, even the ostensibly positive changes like no tax on tips or no tax on overtime were not what was promised AND were used to push people off of assistance programs and into the donut gap between getting assistance and actually affording basic needs.