,Sanction human rights watch! … and do Amnesty also if you’re at it" ~ some orange probably /s

That’s a part of the problem… also this ‘protective’ approach labels prostiutes per se as victims and denys them autonomy.

Here are two intersting reads about ‘the nordic model’ :

https://www.academia.edu/50493737/The_Nordic_Model_in_Europe_Prostitution_Trafficking_and_Neo_Abolitionism

https://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2025&q=nordic+model+of+prostitution&hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5#d=gs_qabs&t=1770060948847&u=%23p%3Db8BF5LYTIuwJ

Over all it seems like ‘the nordic model’ doesn’t make prostiution disappear but reduces its general visibility… rather to the worse for men and women working (or being forced to worked) in this profession.

Imho: This was forceable… declaring things illegal doesn’t make them disappear, being it postitution (for which the efffort was made many times in history) or e.g. alcohol.

Given the current ‘success’ of protests against Trump Inc. I highly doubt there will be a point in the near future were enough Americans can be mobilized to actually achieve something even if the elections are skipped… they’ll come for the active opposition leads (identifiable by the stock pile of data they process) first framing them as terrorists. The remains will have to wait till this admin as inevitably turned the whole country so shitty a majority is actually ready to leave their comfort zone.

Currently protest are as effective as ‘strongly worded letters’ as both rely on the addressee to actually give a fuck about the sender.

I know I’m being pessimistic here, and God knows I hope I’m wrong… but the last few months, watching the “land of the free, home of the brave” turn into a hyper-corrupt dictatorship without any significant resistance, have made me very sober.

To this end, many dissidents have been and continue to be persecuted and imprisoned, even in socialist states.

The whole issue is not black and white.

Ministry of truth at work…

Some aspects that come to my mind:

1. Is the safety of Sigapore exclusively liked to strict drug regulation or aren’t there many other confunding factors which might have an even bigger influence?
2. Given we see this approach as successful and therefore legitime (assuming that in 1 the policy is the main/only driving factor): Would this be applicable to other countries? Singapore is a verry wealthy city state… comparing it to a country like Britain with more area, less population desity and also lower ecomonic performance per area seems missleading. Prosecution becomes more difficult and costly the bigger the area gets I guess.

All-in-all if the approach is sucessful for Singapore: Excellent! Accunsing other countries with different prerequisites of failing on this basis seems to be nonsense as comparing countries and societies in a single aspect while ignoring the gaszillion other factors at play itself is a pointless approach besides populism.

I think the US way beyond the point of peaceful protest. You have 40% (which also happen to be the better armed portion of the population) approving of a dictator turning your democracy into a dictatorship.

Trump (and his much more dangerous puppet masters) have made it evidently clear that they ignore both congress and judges at their will. Congress and senate at the same time are filled with representatives presenting the elites profiting from Trumps coup, not you.

Short of system change I don’t think you’ll get out of this.

,You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up."

It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message…

I have the same question: If they refuse to contribute to their community and/or to the absolute legal minimum they can’t find a loophole for… what’s the point of wanting to make them stay?

But did you use AI for this post? … otherwise your English is pretty sound (to me as a non-native speaker) :D