• Victor@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I just feel like after a public rapist becomes president, twice, there’s no hope for Americans. It really is hopeless by now.

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      2 hours ago

      Think about it this way, if you disqualified politicians who engaged in some kind of sexual assault there would not be many left to govern.

      It is accepted and now normalized. If you are rich you can rape and do whatever you want.

      The problem for me is I grew up in a country that I thought was beyond that. I was apparently wrong.

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        there would not be many left to govern

        Good. There is not that many positions to fill anyway.

        It’s not normal that a criminal record that would make it almost impossible to find an entry-level grocery packer job is completely OK for a politician.

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          37 minutes ago

          a criminal record that would make it almost impossible to find an entry-level grocery packer job is completely OK for a politician fucking president of a huge country

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        2 hours ago

        I refuse to think about it that way lol. Quantity does not equal acceptance for me. We have to hold our countries’ representatives to a higher standard than being outright criminals, guilty of many, serious offenses. If there are only a handful of politicians left after such a sift, then so be it.

        Thank God I’m not in the USA. But it’s not like this doesn’t fuck over the rest of the world too.