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[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Lemmy is an echo chamber but I'll say if for those rare republicans in the back:

If a prominent democrat has skeletons like this in their closet, they deserve the same scrutiny / disrepute as any republican.

Party means nothing

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (8 children)

"bOtH sIDEs aRe BaD!"

Seriously one side is objectively worse.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Not what I said at all. Try again.

This is about the common republican whataboutism, and clarifying that no political party is above scrutiny.

[–] grue 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read his comment as also being addressed to the Republicans in the back: a concurrence, not a rebuttal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So many people online take replies as contradictions when they're meant to be support. It's frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let's not get this twisted, there are likely zero Republicans on lemmy, and if there are, they can only be counted on one hand.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Heh there are conservative comms, they are bizarre.

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[–] SkyezOpen 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's why the democrats called for the immediate resignation of weiner, Adams, menenedez, and cuomo. Republicans circle wagons every time one of their own is credibly accused. Even bringing it up in the same context is disingenuous.

[–] randon31415 3 points 1 month ago

All you young whippersnappers should read up on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sing that song to Alan Franken. Then sing it again to Anthony Weiner.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago (2 children)

cheating, rape, and violence ARE conservative family values, as long as it's the men doing any of those things

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don’t forget incest. There’s a reason the south has billboards saying “she’s your daughter, not your date”. If the problem is so bad that people are paying to run anti-incest campaigns, there’s a real issue with the people living there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ready for some creepy AF handmaid's twilight tale zone dystopia shit?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/purity-ball-photos_n_5255904

edit: stumbledupon this too..https://abcnews.go.com/US/speaker-mike-johnson-daughter-profiled-attending-purity-ball/story?id=105785626

no, i don't see that there's any such similar thing for boys

[–] bradd 2 points 1 month ago

women doing the same would be progressive.

[–] madcaesar 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have never taken any moral criticism from the right seriously. They are corrupt immoral hypocritical assholes.

That said, I will call out any democrat doing unethical shit because I don't give a shit about party or celebrities. If you are a piece of shit, I don't care about the letter next to your name.

And if you have an R next to your name, I give zero shits about any of your opinions you morally bankrupt piece of crap.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can so I should, and if I did then it was right.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Nationalist Christian logic .... if I did bad things and God didn't punish me, then I was allowed by God to do these things and get away with it.

These are the reasons why I don't like Nationalist Christians and I don't believe in God ... any God that would allow this stupidity is in a universe I don't want to take part in. I would rather burn in hell rather than join some fanciful heaven filled with psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists.

Also I always liked the short form of calling them "Nat-Cs" ... Nationalist Christians

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

John Edwards' career-ending scandal is seeming pretty damn quaint these days

[–] zib 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Honestly, what even is a political scandal anymore? The goal post has been moved so far, I'm not sure it's even still in the same zip code.

[–] captainlezbian 7 points 1 month ago

It's when your party abandons you over it. Only democrats have them anymore, with the sole exception being when a republican goes against trump

[–] chiliedogg 5 points 1 month ago

Howard Dean would have been president, but he cheered weird that one time, so didn't get the nomination.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Spoiler: it’s not

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Rules for thee. But, not for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wonder how Elon’s “Kung Fu lessons” with Ghislaine Maxwell panned out.

I wonder if he “sparred” against 12 year old girls.

[–] NABDad 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even cheated on their kids!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't know what you mean by this and I may be better off not knowing

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[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Musk actually got two of the three mothers of his children to pretend it was all good and a big misunderstanding on their part.

His ex-wife still thinks he's an asshole though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

you dont have a trump bible? /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I feel like the whole 'Family Values' thing hasn't been a talking point from the republicans in a long time. Have any of these 3 actually lectured about family values?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like these things but would prefer them as a text post to politcal community or such so its searchable and because I tend to block meme communities. Basically im saying this is way to good to be a meme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tend to block meme communities

Which is why you are discussing here in the political meme community, right? Well, thanks for letting us know :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I tend to filter my all over time so it happens when it happens and new ones come up all the time with the fediverse. I block sports to its just I block and subscribe based on relative interest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Do what I say, not what I do

[–] Randelung 2 points 1 month ago

The conspiracy of prime numbers.

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