Kenny doubles down on Graham

  • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    The “actually credible” victim only came forward because the “not credible” victim wasn’t being believed. Shame on these fuckers.

    (And that’s not even touching on all that other stuff that should’ve been “disqualifying” from day one. Fucking Totally Normal Marine Things To Do™saul-stare

  • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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    8 days ago

    “But there were so many red flags,” the argument goes, pointing to the sexting, tattoo, and Reddit posts. Think about that argument for a moment: it means that people should be disqualified from public office for things there isn’t evidence they actually did, just “red flags” from which they can supposedly be divined. Ruling out anyone with Reddit post-level flaws bars millions of otherwise decent people from politics.

    We’re just skipping past the whole war crimes thing???

    • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      Repeating what I said before:

      Doing the thing where they frame it in the vaguest terms possible because they know the details are extremely damning. It’s the equivalent of “this SNOWFLAKE got offended because I voiced a non-mainstream opinion” and then it turns out the “non-mainstream opinion” was some shit like Holocaust denial.

  • Monk3brain3 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    fuk all the graham platner boosters. Clowns and sell serving sellouts

    also ryan grim weirds me out. Dude has the energy of a CIA agent. Absolutely soulless

  • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    I’m now choosing that these last ride or dies for this guy who are willing to burn their reputation did something sketchy as fuck, or at least something they feel extremely guilty over. Maybe it’s a podcast where they said slurs, maybe they were a creep to a coworker, maybe something far worse. I don’t see why else you would fight doggedly constantly returning to ‘can’t a nazi murderer change their ways?!’

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      I mean, some people do sincerely believe that bad people can become better people and I think that much is true (even if that’s separate from the pragmatic question of if such people should be let near levers of power, which they probably shouldn’t be), the issue is that there is literally no reason to believe Platner has remotely become a better person and in fact we have been given no shortage of evidence that he is just as bad as he ever was, if not worse.

      Edit: Also OOP is glossing over or outright denying bad things Platner did to begin with, so it’s really a separate question. I think these people are just miserable chauvinists trying to use leftish rhetoric for their own careers.

      • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        8 days ago

        it is a mix of this and the classic “lesser evilism” that people who still believe in bourgeois electoralism have to subscribe to. since voting is required to them, they have to pick someone, and in this race it was between a zionist and platner who claimed a lot of positions that are more progressive than his opponent. if his platform was everything you went off of, he was clearly the more progressive candidate, so they have to support that because someone has to run in their eyes