• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    You think prior to 2016 nepotism hasn’t been an issue in US politics?

    And someone agree with that and upvoted it?

    Because I said:

    I’m not gonna list a lot of examples, but it feels like nepotism being big in politics was accepted fact decades ago…

    Now there’s an autocorrect error in there, but I meant the last couple decades.

    I mean, for fucks sake you think GW Bush became president on his own merits?

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      26 days ago

      No, nepotism has definitely been a thing. Your original text made it seem like there’s been a long history of the Democrats having spouses (a singular instance for either party) or a VP (less concerning) being the candidate. It also made it seem like you considered it nepotism. VPs aren’t nepotism.

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        25 days ago

        Only if you ignore the period that stopped the first sentence and move it to the command in the middle of the next sentence and then stopped reading…