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by ianmcgowan 2358 days ago
Unfortunately the definition of "dirt" has drifted slowly to any moral lapse, which almost every person has at one time committed (at least, among my group of close friends who share that kind of thing, maybe things are more moral somewhere else). It's sort of a slippery slope though - unearthing information of Epstein/Moore type activities is more legitimately in the public interest than Trudeau blackface lapses (arguably). I think the millennial generation will be more forgiving of dumb things done in youth, simply because their dumb things are more thoroughly documented than the boomers/gen-x'ers.
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This is the country whose government held that sex with a subordinate is a worse offense than starting a war for personal profit.