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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They really believe that the public will believes their excuses

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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"

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

People still defend him lying under oath because "just a blowjob"

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, because current administration fucking loves precedents and upholding a law. They literally gave the president absolute immunity, the fuck a precedent about a democrat from 30 years ago will do

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Give a significant amount of people a reminder that the president is accountable to the law, thereby changing the culture that Trump was elected into.

No president has ever been thrown out of office. No president has ever been jailed. If you think it wouldn't be at least a little bit easier for a country that had done that to do it again, you're dumb.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you fucking insane? You watch how the current clique shits on the constitutions, invents rules out of nothing, governs by bullying, speedruns autocracy with basically an approval from most of the country, and you think something will change if a president was thrown out of the office 30 years ago? You think all that inert mass, who does nothing when autocrat's personal army executes people on the street, will react somehow different if only we'd jail an already unpopular president three decades ago? What a braindead take, it's unreal.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if only we'd jail an already unpopular president three decades ago

Clinton was incredibly popular. So popular that people still defend him today. You're clearly too young to remember that era and are pulling this nonsense directly out of your ass.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now. Both clintons are wildly unpopular and irrelevant now. It's now we're talking about. Ask the nurse to give you your medicine, you're spacing out

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

idc what you think. Go play Roblox you fetus.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course you don't. Your life would be so much better and you will be so much less insufferable if you did care every once in a while

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

P narcissistic to believe that listening to you of all people would improve my life somehow

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't think that if you learned a therapy word it makes you smart all of the sudden. It only shows that you need to listen to other people more.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I listen to plenty of people. Children who soapbox about things they don't know anything about it are not on that list.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Evidence show the opposite. You might think you listen to plenty of people, but there is no way to tell which of those people are real and which are the symptoms of growing dementia. And not of an early onset variety.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How about both at the same time?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

"Public" can't focus on both at the same time. There is rarely enough attention to focus on one issue, asking for two is just asking for none.