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Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior [Gift link - get it while it's hot. And r*pe of men but "not in a gay way" quote snippet inside] (www.nytimes.com)

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Ms. Fifield also recalled that Mr. Platner’s displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.

She said he kept an AR-15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill, and would sharpen an ax — a relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines — while watching television.

He had what she described as a “warrior ethos” and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat, she said. She said he told her thatremoved was about power.

It was something that stuck with her through the years, Ms. Fifield said.

“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I wouldremoved them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”

“He was like, I wouldremoved them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.

Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them. A friend who knew Mr. Platner and Ms. Fifield during that period said the comments sounded out of character.

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[–] SwitchyandWitchy@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We should be able to recognize and call out obvious smear campaigns rather than signal boosting them. It's important for the credibility of our own criticisms, as well as knowing how to recognize it and respond effectively when these same tactics are used against our comrades.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

My concern is there's a real problem with people actually defending Graham "we should stop fighting stupid wars that don't benefit us" Platner as the harm reduction candidate. Even with their different positions on Gaza (and he's running for a Zionist party, remember! No way his position survives election, unless he doesn't get elected until after we reach "one day everyone will have been against this") there's nothing his opponent has done or could ever do to inflict more violence and misery on the global south than he has, and he clearly doesn't regret anything about it except the part where he thinks he should've been paid better. He's running on building more ships and increasing military wages! That is to say, growing the American military. I'm not saying he would necessarily be worse in office (no way to tell), just that this is a clear 99% Hitler situation and I thought we were agreed that voting for Hitler is bad.

Sorry, that's got little to do with this being an obvious hit piece but I am really disgusted by seeing people here, in an ostensibly anti imperialist space, defending the dude. I wish this had just been reported as propaganda and pulled down rather than even the very mild defense of saying "the dude sucks but this is just a hit piece".

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, the only reason we even know about his nazi tattoo is precisely an "obvious smear campaign".