It feels like there is an active war between sane people who don’t want fucking cameras staring at them and looking them up on facebook and the revenge porn sites… and “content creators” who want to normalize wearing the thing they are getting sponsorships for because it makes it easier for them to record shopping spree videos (see, kiwi farms own, Linus Tech Tips).

It does bother me a bit since stuff like the xreal are getting caught in the crossfire. But, let’s be real, people were just watching porn on flights with those so it is PROBABLY not a great loss for the sickos who plugged those into their steam decks or gameboys.

Creating such blind admiration for the military that half the country will either look the other way or proudly support when troops when they’re turned on US citizens

And we already saw that happened. Just wait for the inevitable jackass coming in to say that of course the military didn’t stop a violent insurrection trying to murder congress: They aren’t supposed to fight off domestic threats so, really, they were just following orders and should get blowies as rewards.

Folk need to understand:

It isn’t just ICE. I think people are mostly starting to realize that cops aren’t just bastards, they are dipshits. They are an entire class of Farvas, not Stablers (and it says something that the ultra-violent thug is the “good” end).

But also… the obsession with “Thank you for your service” was a specifically crafted effort because soldiers were cranky that people weren’t giving them proper respect for murdering some brown kids in exchange for tuition. And you have not lived until you are watching someone lose their shit at the lowes/home depot greeter because all the veteran parking spots were full.

Nobody knows how January 2029 is going to play out (but a lot of us have nightmares about it…). But in the event the hellscape continues? You can bet there are folk who are tasked with giving ICE the Army/Marines makeover in the public eye. To the point that you are basically going to be forced to say “thank you for your service” to the thug trying to tear your driver’s license in half before they disappear you.

You assume they aren’t just straight up adding water.

Yeah. As an ACTUAL history buff (albeit, with enough stupid boy in me to also love military history), saying you are “a history buff” is a borderline dog whistle for “I like WW2 movies”. Saying you are a “military history buff” even moreso. And platner is of the age where that would basically mean “Watched the History Channel” at the peak of “The Hitler Channel”.

Folk will tell themselves whatever lies it takes to never have to admit they were wrong about a candidate they knew nothing about other than “white guy” and “said ‘medicare for all’ once”

He was also a guard at Abu Ghraib… during the torture and systematic sexual assaults. And then he joined up with blackwater because he hadn’t had enough killing.

But hey! Anti-establishment hero, amirite?!?!? Real shame there was a concentrated smear campaign run on a politician in an important race. Damn you secret establishment cabal!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_sexual_misconduct_allegation#Sexual_assault_allegation is a good write-up of things.

Mostly it comes down to… Biden was known to be creepy and inappropriate towards women for basically his entire career. Inappropriate touching was pretty par for the course, but allegations beyond a lingering hand or an unwanted “kiss on the cheek” are basically non-existent. Not at all okay but… anyone who is aware of joe “a clean and articulate gentleman” biden knew he was very much “born of a different time” and… yeah.

As for Reade? Nothing verifiable but plenty of people to come out of the woodwork and discredit her.

So my personal stance is… I intentionally don’t have one. If biden did it, he will never face justice. I don’t think Reade was a republican plant but I have also seen firsthand the mental toll that comes from an abuser being glorified by the community and how that can impact memories years later.

But I also don’t think for a second that the people who bring it up on the regular care about the woman. They just see it as ammunition for Their Team.

First and foremost: At the best of times, accusations of sexual assault and rape are “he said she said”. The defense is almost always “Well, she is a slut who told me she wanted it rough”. Because on the off chance the victim actually managed to get a rape kit done in time AND the chain of evidence was maintained… all that really says is that sexual activity occurred and that there may or may not be signs of physical trauma.

And when you factor in rapists being predators who tend to target victims where it is even easier to discredit them (high risk behaviors like drug use or… wearing a skirt)? And cops tending to be bastards who actively don’t want to investigate things?

This is why victims don’t come forward. The best they can hope for is a slap on the wrist for the rapist and their entire life to have been thrown under a microscope and attacked. So mostly they just try to recover and live a life in a society that has actively failed them.

But as for

My thoughts through this whole thing have just been that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions without properly investigating things.

That is exactly what everyone did when Lyndsey Fifield came forth. Basically everyone dismissed it because she is a republican. She was a slut. She deserved it. She is a lying bitch who just wants his sperm. Fucking whore was asking for it.

And that is why Jenny Racicot was brave enough to came forth and talked about platner violently raping her.

So… maybe educate yourself a bit more before you have any more “thoughts” that would make people think you are someone who is calling rape victims liars?

And yes, men are raped too but their reasons for not coming forward tend to be different. Although the societal abuse and shame aspects remain.

Sorry… are you claiming that the CIA are the ones who put a totenkopf on his chest for 20 years? And then covered it up with celtic imagery that is ALSO associated with white supremacy?

Because… I’mma be honest? I would totally invoke St Dril by giving them props for pulling that off.

Everything about Platner’s past and the media frenzy was he/said-she/said.

Actually, up until a few months ago (well, apparently much longer if you were in the women’s groups on facebook et al that warned about dangerous men), it was mostly “he said”. With the “he” being platner himself.

Or was that also the CIA?

Wait. Dog. IS PLATNER A ROBOT?!?!?!?!?! Is he like the mech suit from Men in Black 1 and if we flick his ear just right then we’ll see he is piloted by a tiny Christian Slater?

A… progressive nazi who worked for blackwater and rapes women?

… please say you are not suggesting he was going to violently rape republicans for you?

So… because there is a never ending string of horrible revelations about a guy with a nazi tattoo who joined up with blackwater… that is your evidence of some “AIPAC” conspiracy?

As opposed to him just being a piece of shit.

Got it. p-hustle was just so strong and mighty that they couldn’t even have thought of “he raped me” as an option until the 11th hour. Yup.

On an unrelated note: Anyone starting to feel like “AIPAC” is being used in the same way as “Soros”? Which is extra fucking shitty since that works into what makes AIPAC so strong to begin with.

And THEY chose to wait until the last minute to all but guarantee a loss? Rather than do this any time in the past since there had been plenty of facebook groups and the like that talked about platner being really dangerous and to never date him?

Folk also are too dumb to realize:

IF this was some evil campaign to make the Democrats lose… they would have just waited a week until platner couldn’t be replaced. Why run against anyone but the violent nazi mercenary who rapes people and who knows what else at this point?

Excuse me. That is an establishment Democrat conspiracy and p-hustle ACTUALLY only had a roman salute tattoo for those twenty years of ensuring the abuse of folk at Abu Ghraib, murdering folk for blackwater, and raping women left and right.

Hasn’t poor graham suffered enough?

So you have no defense for trying to push “he has changed so much” as an excuse other than tone policing, ad hominem, and continuing to link to a blog post that I am increasingly certain you haven’t actually read.

Oh reddit.

The totenkopf was literally the imagery used in the Mitchell and Webb “are we the baddies” skit. It is a VERY well known symbol of nazi germany and the SS in particular. And considering platner claimed to be a military history buff?

Which, to be clear, means he watched The History Channel. Which was regularly referred to as “The Hitler Channel” for how much it showed nazi related content.

No. I did read what you said. You made a claim that

(Platner) seemed to be sincerely evolved from majority of any demonstrated bad behaviors

I pointed out this is demonstrably false as recent as a month ago. If you choose to believe his latest non-apology then… I have a bridge to sell you.

platner is a rapist. platner had a nazi tattoo for 20 some odd years and a different white supremacy adjacent tattoo for however many months. platner was a guard at Abu Ghraib during the torture and sexual violence and that apparently made him want to sign up with blackwater as a merc.

He is a fucking monster. We have known this for… pretty much the entirety of his political career (all year or so of it…). But people continue to insist on giving him the benefit of the doubt because he is a handsome white guy who said “medicare for all” once.

And I am not fucking having that. If folk are gonna defend a rapist, I am gonna point out that they are defending a fucking rapist.

And as for all of this “It is a smear campaign”: Of fucking course it is. That is what happens in political campaigns. That is why you try not to have skeletons like “raped multiple women” in your closet.

And I don’t care if it is netanyahu and trump themselves coming up for air and saying it. It doesn’t change anything. platner is a rapist.

1. You have words. Use them. Don’t just link to a random blog post
2. He was accused of both physical and sexual assault at least a month prior. People just chose to ignore the accuser because she was the wrong party and, thus, deserved to be raped?