dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 3 days agoUS congressman refuses to resign after allegations of affair with stafferwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down11
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minus-squareapftwb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 days ago consentual Media is sanewashing this. Self-immolation is involved. (edit: Not blaming commenter/OP. The media is reporting this as an afair which are typically consentual)
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoI was just pointing Republican hypocrisy. made the original coment conditional, because I don’t have the time and energy to deep dive on this, I hope he falls and faces real consequences.
minus-squareapftwb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoTbh I do agree that affairs happen, everyone clutches their pearls, and its usually a coin-flip if someone resigns. This is definitely not that.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days agoafter hearing more about the case, I’m now also angry at the press for calling it an affair instead of rape or sexual assault
Media is sanewashing this. Self-immolation is involved.
(edit: Not blaming commenter/OP. The media is reporting this as an afair which are typically consentual)
I was just pointing Republican hypocrisy. made the original coment conditional, because I don’t have the time and energy to deep dive on this, I hope he falls and faces real consequences.
Tbh I do agree that affairs happen, everyone clutches their pearls, and its usually a coin-flip if someone resigns. This is definitely not that.
after hearing more about the case, I’m now also angry at the press for calling it an affair instead of rape or sexual assault