Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold
by jameshart on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:33PM
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If you look at the recent history of scandals that have had zero to negative reputational impact on politicians and public figures in Western democracies - we’re talking Access Hollywood, tax fraud, undeclared gifts, gross nepotism, punching journalists, flouting public health laws, sexual impropriety, lying about your career and life story, mishandling of classified information, and just plain incompetence - what on earth do you think the harm could be of someone getting hold of someone’s old credit card bills?
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold
by courseofaction on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:21PM
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A resourced adversary relentlessly publicizing them?
Seems like it’s pretty tricky to make anything stick: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-...
Given how relentlessly (just to pick a particular example) Epstein's crimes, accomplices, and associated have been publicized, and the negligible impact, why do you think that would be impactful?
And literally nobody would care. Regardless of whether the accusations are true or not, the other side is already convinced the politician's in question is a baby-blood-drinking child abuser, while their side will be convinced its just a baseless smear campaign by done by butt-hurt losers.
Life isn't a song, nobody in politics these days actually faces the consequences just because they were a rapist/adulterer/wearing blackface/drag/doing felony fraud/etc.