Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick...
minorkeys@lemmy.world 21 hours agoBlackmail definitely isn’t unique to this situation. The US has specific provisions for conflicts of interest to safeguard against this kind of blackmail because they know it happens. MAGA simply ignore it all and was allowed to. Power finds a way and blackmail is as old as politics.
hector@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
I am sure it’s not unique, do we have any more historical examples we can point to though? All I have is the borgia pope.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Examples of blackmail in politics? Seriously?
hector@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
Yeah what you have a lot of them on the tip of your tongue? I can’t think of any that have been exposed as such, not off the top of my head.