• Nalivai@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Not really, it’s just it turned out that while we’re focusing on him getting a blowjob from a consenting adult almost 30 years ago, we don’t focus on politician that are currently in power, and which were and are doing heinous shit to literal children. Priorities, you know.

        • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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          7 hours ago

          Trump was impeached twice in his first term and if the Democrats gain a majority this year I’m sure he’ll be impeached again. Turns if you let one party get a stranglehold on all 3 branches the whole checks and balances thing kind of falls apart.

          Maybe if Clinton had been held accountable back then it would be easier to hold the president accountable now. Precedent and all that.

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        15 hours ago

        The perjury charge was a stretch due to a perjury trap set up be the Republicans, which is why 10 Republicans in the Senate rejected it along with the Dems.

        However, the blowjob was the bigger issue. It’s unethical for a retail manager to get a blowjob from a floor associate because consent is more complicatedwhen there’s a power imbalance. I don’t understand how people can defend the President of the United States getting oral sex from an intern.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      20 hours ago

      About 1/3 will believe whatever they’re told as long as that person shows they’re on the “right” team first.

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        19 hours ago

        another 1/3 will believe what they see online as long as it is repeated confidently and by enough people. A couple studies show this pretty well. The best way to change that 1/3 of peoples opinions who are not die hards is to show that you’re strong by being unmovable and by reading the same opinion over and over and over again. It rewires the brain.

        Which is good because the left has a very strong presence on social media and they actively contest this government by challenge it in the space that the government puts all it’s eggs in. Because if your enemy is putting all this effort into an area, it would be dumb to let them set up in that area. You’d have to be dumb as shit to just concede that area because it’s “too hard to deal with”