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    16 hours ago

    We have a different sort of bar here I suppose hah. Then again, she was judged extra hard for being a young woman in that position.

    But it also genuinely wasn’t appropriate behaviour (to be videotaped doing) for a PM.

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      15 hours ago

      Nah the appropriateness or lack of it was invented. Worst she’s done is join the Tony Blair Institute, just another capitalist

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        I don’t know what you mean by invented. A lot of people thought partying drunk on video wasn’t really appropriate behaviour for the PM. People don’t mind (at least as much) if it happens behind closed doors, but Marin unfortunately had shitty enough friends that they posted that stuff online. That sort of stuff eroded a lot of respect for her and it was already an uphill battle since she was a young woman, she had to fight double as hard as a middle aged man in her position would’ve had to.

        I didn’t really mind her partying and stuff, but it was just a bad look. Her fooling the voters later on was much worse imo than just being drunk on camera. That later thing really soured me on her.

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          14 hours ago

          I mean how you said

          she was judged extra hard for being a young woman in that position

          none of the topics, breakfast, dancing, etc were issues in any other case. Yeah younger generations live with phones and might have stupid friends. It’s not a national crisis without being forced to be one

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            13 hours ago

            It would’ve been a scandal with any pm if you have a drunken party on video, with the accusations of drugs and extramarital affairs.

            She just got it harder because she was a young woman pm. But it’s wasn’t a thing just because of that

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                13 hours ago

                The parliament was convened during summer break for a special session to vote on whether the government still has the confidence of the parliament. That’s pretty big. And it’s been the main topic in news for a while now. And it’s not like the corruption investigation and the ripples from that are over.

                Marin got shit from those videos and accusations, but it didn’t really become a huge parliamentary deal same way as this corruption case has. Tbf they’re two very different sort of scandals

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                  13 hours ago

                  both are in a sense trumpian/post-truth. the current one being swept under the rug and pretending nothing happened, and the marin case pretending something more happened than did

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                    12 hours ago

                    This corruption case has had a parliamentary vote about confidence in the government during the summer break in a special session and has been by far the biggest thing in the news for a while now, being talked about constantly. And the thing isn’t even over yet…

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      It depends on the culture I guess. It would be less of a problem in France (source : am French).