This means he can be replaced with another Democrat
Graham Platner can be replaced as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine if he withdraws from the race by next Monday, and state law would then give the state Democratic Party until July 27 to name a replacement.
No, insisting you know someone’s gender more than they do themselves and insisting they’re lying shows you don’t respect people at all.
Don’t you worry, I’ve got all sorts of rape statistics to share momentarily. With sources.
Nearly half of women and more than 1 in 6 men experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetimes.
More than 1 in 5 women and 1 in 31 men have experienced completed or attempted rape in their lifetimes.
98% of perpetrators walk free. For every 1000 sexual assaults, 50 reports lead to arrests, 28 cases lead to felony convictions, and only 25 perpetrators are sentenced to incarceration.
1 in 3 victims report sexual assault to law enforcement—that’s 310 out of every 1,000 survivors.
The majority of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse is committed by someone the victim knows — a family member, intimate partner, coworker, classmate, or acquaintance.4
None of that demonstrates guilt in any individual case. You can cite statistics all you want, but that doesn’t give you license to go out in public, spin around three times, point to a man and yell “he raped me!”
That’s not what this woman did and you’re spreading misinformation in order to discredit her.
It’s a bit hyperbolistic in order to show the gaping hole in your logic. It’s called a reductio ad absurdum, look it up.
You’re discrediting a victim to serve your own interests.
She’s not a victim.
What interest am I serving other than removing republicans’ senate majority?
What interests are you serving?
Victims.
If you cared about victims you would encourage them to go to the ER and get a forensics panel done alongside testing for transmissible diseases. If you were so concerned with getting justice for the victims that’s what you would do.
Clearly that’s not your goal here, and all you want to do is normalize being able to destroy men’s lives over mere allegations.
Rape is an evil and despicable thing to do. Accusing an innocent person of rape is also despicable. And there’s no cognitive dissonance in saying both of those things.
There’s evidence. The only person who “destroyed lives” (not being able to run for Senate is not a life destroyed, btw) is Platner himself.