• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Yes yes, you’re on the record as being against marital infidelity. Such a brave and controversial stance 🙄

    Let me repeat one last time: his private affairs (double entendre not intended) are not relevant to his public life and as such is none of our business until they break relevant laws and/or otherwise influence the job.

    Or, to put it another way: as far as anything that actually matters that anyone not directly affected is concerned, he could have done the same things while not married or otherwise in a relationship and it would have been exactly as bad.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      15 days ago

      No it would have been better, because the point was he cheated on his significant other, betraying the trust of the one person who should be able to trust him more than anyone else. If he can do that to those closest to him, how can we trust him with the fate of faceless millions? This is nothing to do with “puritanism” and everything to do with his character

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        15 days ago

        the point was he cheated on his significant other

        It most certainly was not. The point was that he defrauded the people in order to gain power.

        If he can do that to those closest to him, how can we trust him with the fate of faceless millions

        Fun fact: millions of imperfect people who behave badly, sometimes even cruelly, towards those closest to them are excellent public servants. Trump never was, of course, but that’s nothing to do with his private life.

        Professional and personal lives are separate things and as such, one doesn’t automatically reflect the other.

        This is nothing to do with “puritanism” and everything to do with his character

        Maybe not puritanism, but definitely sensationalism and conflating separate parts of the garbage human that he is.

        Would I prefer that all politicians are both excellent public servants and kind and considerate in their private lives? Of course!

        Do I believe that failing the latter makes the former impossible? Hell no! That’s just not how people work!