• Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Can we not make joke about Monica? She got horribly treated by the public while he is the only one who should have been punished.

    She is fighting bullying and she is pretty cool for that.

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      Neither of them should have been punished? The joke is that America lost its goddamnmotherfucking mind over this. America is the joke.

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        Neither of them should’ve been punished? He was her boss, and decades older than her. He should’ve kept his pants zipped up.

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          DNC types get super cagey when you admit that Bill Clinton is a serial adulterer who was in an extreme power imbalance relationship with a woman in her 20’s.

          I’m glad the party is willingly offering him up as a sacrifice to the republicans to get keep the Epstein probe going. Every time the GOP tries a burying tactic, they truss Bill up like a suckling pig, and I’m fine with that. Dude is and was a creep.

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          24 hours ago

          Yea it’s called consent. Not every power imbalance is automatically coercive. Society should be punished for being such prudes… they’d probably find they like it.

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            Not every power imbalance is coercive, but the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TALKING TO A 21 YEAR OLD STAFFER IS

            In case you didn’t consider that one

            Gross, dude

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              She was a grown ass woman dude. This whole gen-z infantilization of 20 something year olds is ridiculous.

              Like do you seriously not understand that women also find men attractive? /s

              If she came out and said it was non consensual than colour me incorrect. Otherwise you’re just being a prude like the rest of society that did the actual harm in this situation.

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                I love that you think it’s a generational thing.

                And you call people who call out DRASTIC POWER DYNAMICS as prudes. Dude. Do you remember being 20-22? You know she JUST got the right to drink, right? Even if there was a personal interest in Bill Clinton sexually, the dynamic makes any sexual contact inappropriate while he’s her boss. Don’t tell me you think all those stories of 20-something secretaries sleeping with their boss were all consensual love affairs?

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                  How do you not realize that your exact attitude is what the GOP exploited at the expense of Monica?

                  If y’all grew the fuck up she’d have zipped his pants and gone on to have a normal career.

                  People have sex. It’s a thing we do. If everyone involved is a consenting adult than you don’t get a say in it.

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                    Consent in an imbalanced power dynamic is not always recognized as consent.

                    Sure, the girls that Louis CK jerked off in front of didn’t scream and run out of the room, but they WERE placed in an inappropriate situation with someone who held the keys to their career. And what did we as a society do? We lambasted him for being weird and not understanding that dynamic, and his career has yet to really recover. He didn’t rape anybody, no, but he sure did abuse his power over those people. Are these similar situations, in your opinion?

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                It’s suspicious when someone has strong opinions about consent laws. But not as suspicious as someone who’d white-knight fucking Bill Clinton because, wait for it, their concern for young adults being treated with respect.

                That math doesn’t add up friend. Who do you think your fooling?

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                  lmao you sound like every time a 22 year old ever had sexual relations with a 49 year old you lost a neuron. And I don’t feel bad for calling you out as stupid cuz you are grasping way harder to paint me as a predator.

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        21 hours ago

        Remember Gary Hart? He had to drop out of politics because of a rumor of an affair.

        Meanwhile… Margaret Trudeau is doing blow with the Rolling Stones at Studio 52.

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          Yea cuz the majority of Canadians aren’t fucking prudes lmao. I upvoted you btw

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      Yeah, it took me a second to realize this was another juvenile joke at her expense to make fun of Bill Clinton who has committed a whole series of much worse offenses you can take aim at without involving a woman who already got the sharp end of the media stick for far too long.

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      I think it’s alright to hold both of them accountable for infidelity in a social sense. Clinton being the more responsible as the man in the marriage, but Monica knew he was married. I can’t see a moral argument to not hold her accountable for this as well (again, socially, not legally). They were both adults. I don’t think the age difference or power dynamic lets either of them off of the hook, even though it would make the then-President comparatively more in the wrong.

      I think it’s more alright to have punished Clinton for lying (under oath, right?). Even if I don’t think it made sense to ask him about sexual relations, he still lied about it. I don’t think there’s any legal issue with what Monica did.

      I’m glad she’s speaking up against bullying nowadays.

      I didn’t follow each update on this situation while it was going on, so if you think I missed an important point that would change my mind, I’m open to considering it.

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        You are missing the point where a man with the most powerful position on the planet, more than twice the woman’s age, made her feel special by the attention that he gave her at 22 years of age. The human brain is not fully matured until at least 25.

        Having that big of a power difference and age difference is huge.

        And you missed the point where he broke his promise to his wife and she broke no promise. You don’t know what bill told her what his deal with Hillary was. So why judge her for a crime that she didn’t commit?

        Edit: I forgot to mention, as the fucking president of a country, he has the responsibility to be a role model. He should display his good “christian” morals and not break the 10 commandments.

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      21 hours ago

      Why should he be punished? Nothing either one of them did was illegal. It was consensual private behavior that none of us should ever have heard about.