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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Remember when Billy Clinton admitted he smoked pot in college, but "didn't inhale"? That's when accusations of drug use amongst political candidates became useless for ending their career. Everyone stopped caring about drug use, not to mention adultery, and a whole raft of other vices that would have been a death sentence just 10 or 15 years earlier.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah but yelling WHOOO! remained off limits for quite some time, while being racist af remained totally okay. Weird, eh?

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be fair, it was more like a BYAHHHHHHH