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I'll probably be downvoted for this—and it is pretty provocative to be fair—but I'd rather have a (potential) rapist than a liberal. Now being a rapist is a pretty handy indicator that someone is a piece of shit, but so is pushing to support Israel.
PS: I'm comparing with Janet Mills here because obviously letting Susan Collins win is out of the question.
So basically you don't want to win, right? It's much more important to 'own the libs' than to win and govern? Progressive rapist will never win.
How about progressives start vetting their candidates first before handing them their full support?
Yeah Maine progressives should've just read his mind to know about this (still not substantiated) accusation that makes perfect sense.
That aside, even if the accusations are true he could probably win by just denying them, and that'd still be better than Janet Mills getting the job.
It’s not like there weren’t warning signs about the kind of man Platner is before this. Don’t pretend he was the perfect candidate and we had no idea he wrote comments like “rape victims were asking for it”. We knew.
I mean I disagree, but also that has nothing to do with what I said?
We didn’t need to read his mind. We already had his comments and his past actions.
Oh my bad I somehow thought this was a reply to something else. That aside Platner's whole thing was "I sucked but I'm better now;" making edgy comments on Reddit is specifically something he acknowledges and claims he grew from. That's the fundamental assumption behind backing him, so dredging up more dirt on him from the time period where he acknowledges he was a dipshit isn't exactly convincing.
His comments were along the lines of blaming rape victims for being raped. This story right here shows that he didn't grow from it, these are the things he actually believes.
I mean maybe but also that's not the point? As I said, this accusation (still not proven) came after he won the primary. It's not something anyone could've known before that, so using it as a gotcha against progressive who got him the nomination doesn't make sense.
This isn't the first accusation, he has an extensive history of commenting things like rape victims are to blame for being raped, and worked as a mercenary in Afghanistan.
Don't tell me this is something no one could have known about.
That's what we have in the presidency right now.
We should be real careful about what we're willing to accept in order to gain power.
I mean Trump wasn't just accused; it was 100% established fact that he was a rapist, and either way it's not like he ever pretended to be anything he's not. Or well he did do some superficial pretending, but he never really tried to hide the core shittiness of his personality if that makes sense.
Fair point, and this would be a pretty good reason to stop batting for him publicly (though I'd wait for the accusations to be somehow substantiated first). But that doesn't preclude voting for him on election day, because he's still the best of the viable options.
Do you think it’s better or worse that Platner and the people around him tried to hide his rapist past?
I'd rather have a democrat win against Collins and then when those accusations have more evidence he resigns.
Just out of curiosity, (and it is, I've stopped being pro Planter explicitly since the Nazi tattoo, though not anti-Platner.) Is the rape allegation more or less disqualifying than the explicitly accepted enlistment goal being to personally murder brown people?
I had my misgivings about this guy from the start. The mercenary stint was really unsettling.
There was a lot of pushback and a lot of accusations of purity testing. I stopped talking about it because what’s the point? Everyone was saying his social media comments about rape victims asking for it and his tattoo and his military background were in his past and we have to allow people to grow.
I’ve never liked him as a candidate and I’ve been disappointed by the support those on the left have shown him.