• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    Do you think it’s better or worse that Platner and the people around him tried to hide his rapist past?

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      11 days ago

      I’d rather have a democrat win against Collins and then when those accusations have more evidence he resigns.

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      11 days ago

      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?

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        11 days ago

        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.