• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    You think no investigation happened at all?

    Look, there’s room to talk about the best way forward and it sucks, this really, really sucks that Platner couldn’t live up to what we all had hoped. But we can have those discussions without victim blaming and indulging in conspiracy theories too much.

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      You think no investigation happened at all?

      I, for on, don’t have a bottomless well of trust for pro-Israel establishment media.

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        I, for one, don’t have a bottomless well of trust for men with admitted alcohol problems and violent tendencies and a history of victim blaming.

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        I wanted Platner to be the guy because I do think in this moment, he would have won.

        But I know first hand how traditional newspaper legal sourcing and corroboration works (yes, for all they are hateable for other reasons, that includes the NYT). Once you know how careful they are with sources, because the potential exists for even a single defamation lawsuit to utterly bankrupt the company, then you know the details in that article are both credible and passing those checks would not have been fakeable without an incredibly elaborate conspiracy.

        That doesn’t mean the allegations are true, but I believe it’s likely they are true.