• sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Is it really that hard to refrain from SAing someone? Or at bare minimum, not running for office if you have? The audacity of these candidates is mind-blowing.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah it’s frustrating as fuck.

      At the same time, there were so many massive red flags. And I was excoriated here for mentioning them.

    • Asafum@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      It’s really really infuriating that it seems to be an almost universal law that if someone is running for office they are exactly the wrong kind of person and should never be allowed to hold office.

      Douglas Adams puts it in a more humorous way:

      The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

      To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

      To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

    • lemongarlic@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I think the disturbing reality is just that rape and SA is much more common than people think it is

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      16 hours ago

      Charismatic people are good at running for office and good at avoiding responsibility for things throughout their lives. We select for a trait that let’s people get away with stuff.

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      17 hours ago

      When we take into account the fact that 1 in 4 women in the US have been sexually assaulted and 1 in every 6 women have been raped, then yes, it really appears to be hard to refrain from sexually assaulting people.

      It would’ve been great if we hadn’t rug swept this guy’s past so hard.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Is it really that hard to refrain from [sexually assaulting] someone?

      Yes.

      Is it easy to accuse someone? Yes. Does that mean the person did it? No. Does it mean they didn’t? No.