• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    This all seems pretty suspicious.

    I hate to say this, but the accuser sure picked an interesting time to come forward.

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      12 days ago

      She didn’t pick this time…

      I forget which article it was because they seem to be posting them constantly, but in one of them they quote the accuser as saying the NYT approached her months ago for the primary hit piece and that she didn’t want to say anything more then she did back then or have her name made public, that’s what the recent emails to her therapist was about.

      But NYT pushed her not just to do more interviews.publicly, but pushed her to follow the same “one week before deadline” timeline they did when they tried this in the primary.

      Shes being manipulated just like Lewinsky was, that doesn’t mean she’s lying. But a lot of “journalists” who work for pro-genocide oligarchs have spent months setting this up for the sole goal of getting Platner to drop out of the race.

      They don’t give a shit about if he would be held accountable if guilty, or justice for any actual victim(s).

      The sole motivation of the people at NYT and Politico pushing this is to stop a progressive that’s against Israel from making it to the Senate. They’d rather slide a Fettermen in last minute.

      If he drops out, they’ll never be an investigation and people will assume he’s guilty, they already are to disappointing extents.

      The whole thing is fucked and it’s concerning so many seem to be falling for it.

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      12 days ago

      I hate to say this, but the accuser sure picked an interesting time to come forward.

      She came out with enough time for another candidate to be chosen. It was now or never.

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        12 days ago

        Now or never or… during the primary when people could have had time to choose a new candidate.

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          She has explained why she hesitated to come forward.

          “One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”

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            12 days ago

            She explained why she was reticent to come forward. That’s not an answer about why not earlier. She had other options and ended up at a very specific political window.

            It could be simple avoidance of an unpleasant task until the last possible moment or it could be in response to the Republican’s accusation not taking off or it could be she was intentionally pressured to release when establishment politicians could insert their own choice. But this wasn’t the only option and its timing may impact millions of lives.

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              12 days ago

              simple avoidance of an unpleasant task

              You reducing reporting rape down to this is…inaccurate.

              But this wasn’t the only option and its timing may impact millions of lives.

              It was going to impact many lives regardless because Platner decided to run knowing he had all of this in his past.

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                12 days ago

                Going to the public and recounting a traumatic event is an unpleasant task. Fuck off with these stylistic gotchas like there would be some magic words that you’d accept to describe a basic human response to something they don’t want to do.

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                  12 days ago

                  It’s traumatic but ok. I was willing to level with you here and have a conversation but clearly you just want to be rude.

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                    12 days ago

                    Fuck off. I don’t think you’ve been looking to have a conversation since this story broke. You’ve decided there’s only one acceptable response, which based on the “he’s a secret Nazi” responses seems like it was already in place before the new allegations, and anyone else with other concerns in a breaking story impacting the entire nation must be a rape apologist.