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moate on Dec 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old d...

It will be. We always move the goalposts of what "polite society" should look like.

Trump got elected despite having his past (or because of?). People with visible tattoos are CEOs. Elon smoked weed on camera. You think that shit would have flown in the 1940s?

ams6110 on Dec 19, 2018 [–]

Politicians have pretty much always been that way. The press ignored it/didn't report it back then. JFK and LBJ were flagrant womanizers.

moate on Dec 20, 2018 | [–]

Exactly my point. OP was saying he doesn't think we'll be able to get past the mistakes someone made in the past. Culturally in the US, we do it all the time.

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