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After this latest spiral down in the degradation of politics I feel like that kind of information would nearly be a badge of honor. When your highest seat of t

After this latest spiral down in the degradation of politics I feel like that kind of information would nearly be a badge of honor. When your highest seat of the government does pr0n stars, well, the bar is pretty low.

ultrarunner 7y ago
Maybe for the type of person that ‘rises’ to political office, but regular people probably still care quite a bit.
- traderjane 7y ago
  Do regular people care with their words or with their votes? Because if it just words then how much care is there? As Mitch McConnell's office has stated recently, "Boys will be boys." Isn't that an informal assessment of American culture?
  - imesh 7y ago
    Certainly not of corporate culture. People get fired for stuff like that all the time. Johnah Friedland said the n-word and had to step down from Netflix and he didn't even use it in a racist context. He only said the word as he listed offensive words. Weird sex stuff can certainly be used to affect people in powerful corporate positions.
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  - gd1 7y ago
    'Mitch McConnell's office has stated recently, "Boys will be boys." ' No they fucking didn't. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/somehow-we-just-got-a-whole-news-cycle-about-something-mitch-mcconnell-never-said https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/somehow-we-just-g...
  - BarkMore 7y ago
    McConnell’s office did not state that. Search the web for “mcconnell fake quote” for info.
- Terr_ 7y ago
  > "You know the cream rises to the top!" > "So does the scum," said Vimes automatically -- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
  - Marsymars 7y ago
    My only real regret from reading Discworld was not keeping a set of notes of memorable quotes/thoughts.
BillyWilly 7y ago
Hell yea, take me back to when I could cheat on my wife in office!
RaceWon 7y ago
> When your highest seat of the government does pr0n stars, well, the bar is pretty low. So by that logic JFK and MLK were also pretty low? Oh wait--I'm not sure they were doing actual porn stars.
- redleggedfrog 7y ago
  No, not much different. Not sure what it is about politics and/or power that somehow makes it so difficult to keep it in your pants.
  - krapp 7y ago
    >Not sure what it is about politics and/or power that somehow makes it so difficult to keep it in your pants. Sexual aggression has been a virtue signal of male power and status since the days when kings compared the size of their slave harems. Modern men have been taught through all forms of commercial media that their value as people is directly proportional to the amount of casual sex they have. Culturally, power and sex have always been linked. When Trump said he could just grab women by the pussy and get away with it, of course, he was right. At that level of privilege one often doesn't need to keep it in their pants. Propriety and chastity are for lesser men to whom legal and social consequences can be applied.
    - redleggedfrog 7y ago
      Yes, the badge of honor I mentioned earlier. Still disappointing. You'd think we'd be better than this, by now.
      - krapp 7y ago
        Two steps forward, one step back, unfortunately. It's difficult to make progress when rape culture is a billion dollar industry and we're in the midst of an anti-progressive social backlash. At least every now and then a Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein gets raked over the coals. Maybe it's simply due to the existence of social media and an actual positive effect of "outrage culture" but a few decades ago such people would have been all but untouchable.
acdha 7y ago
I think most people who are concerned are bothered by the non-consensual activity. The people most likely to make public complaints about marital infidelity only do so for their political opponents and and voted for him by something like 90%.

ultrarunner 7y ago

Maybe for the type of person that ‘rises’ to political office, but regular people probably still care quite a bit.

traderjane 7y ago
Do regular people care with their words or with their votes? Because if it just words then how much care is there? As Mitch McConnell's office has stated recently, "Boys will be boys." Isn't that an informal assessment of American culture?
- imesh 7y ago
  Certainly not of corporate culture. People get fired for stuff like that all the time. Johnah Friedland said the n-word and had to step down from Netflix and he didn't even use it in a racist context. He only said the word as he listed offensive words. Weird sex stuff can certainly be used to affect people in powerful corporate positions.
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- gd1 7y ago
  'Mitch McConnell's office has stated recently, "Boys will be boys." ' No they fucking didn't. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/somehow-we-just-got-a-whole-news-cycle-about-something-mitch-mcconnell-never-said https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/somehow-we-just-g...
- BarkMore 7y ago
  McConnell’s office did not state that. Search the web for “mcconnell fake quote” for info.
Terr_ 7y ago
> "You know the cream rises to the top!" > "So does the scum," said Vimes automatically -- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
- Marsymars 7y ago
  My only real regret from reading Discworld was not keeping a set of notes of memorable quotes/thoughts.

BillyWilly 7y ago

Hell yea, take me back to when I could cheat on my wife in office!

RaceWon 7y ago

> When your highest seat of the government does pr0n stars, well, the bar is pretty low. So by that logic JFK and MLK were also pretty low? Oh wait--I'm not sure they were doing actual porn stars.

redleggedfrog 7y ago
No, not much different. Not sure what it is about politics and/or power that somehow makes it so difficult to keep it in your pants.
- krapp 7y ago
  >Not sure what it is about politics and/or power that somehow makes it so difficult to keep it in your pants. Sexual aggression has been a virtue signal of male power and status since the days when kings compared the size of their slave harems. Modern men have been taught through all forms of commercial media that their value as people is directly proportional to the amount of casual sex they have. Culturally, power and sex have always been linked. When Trump said he could just grab women by the pussy and get away with it, of course, he was right. At that level of privilege one often doesn't need to keep it in their pants. Propriety and chastity are for lesser men to whom legal and social consequences can be applied.
  - redleggedfrog 7y ago
    Yes, the badge of honor I mentioned earlier. Still disappointing. You'd think we'd be better than this, by now.
    - krapp 7y ago
      Two steps forward, one step back, unfortunately. It's difficult to make progress when rape culture is a billion dollar industry and we're in the midst of an anti-progressive social backlash. At least every now and then a Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein gets raked over the coals. Maybe it's simply due to the existence of social media and an actual positive effect of "outrage culture" but a few decades ago such people would have been all but untouchable.

acdha 7y ago

I think most people who are concerned are bothered by the non-consensual activity. The people most likely to make public complaints about marital infidelity only do so for their political opponents and and voted for him by something like 90%.