• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months 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”

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            2 months ago

            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

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              2 months ago

              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.

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                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.

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                  2 months ago

                  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.

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                    2 months ago

                    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

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            2 months 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.