dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 2 months agoUS congressman refuses to resign after allegations of affair with stafferwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down11
arrow-up178arrow-down1external-linkUS congressman refuses to resign after allegations of affair with stafferwww.theguardian.comdude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square29linkfedilink
minus-squareapftwb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 months 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-down1·2 months 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 months 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-up4·2 months 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