I can’t believe a former US marine who joined specifically for Iraq would be violent towards women.

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    I would take one hundred Platners if it meant turning a swing state Blue. How much Nazi rape do you’ll think there will be in MAGA concentration camps if Republicans keep their majority until the end of Trump’s term?

    If Platner withdraws, we have until 5pm on July 27th to run a new progressive candidate. Remember how well that worked for Biden and Harris?

    I’ll take an unproven and lone rape allegation with a blurry tattoo over decades of past and future Republican violence against women any day of the week.

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      The rape allegation is pretty credible. Unless they’ve fabricated old texts and emails and gotten multiple people to lie about hearing her talk about it, it’s legit. I have been a staunch Platner supporter and fought through a lot of bullshit and bad-faith Astroturfing against him, but this one isn’t setting off my bullshit alarms. And it will kill his campaign.

      However, if he drops, there are three solid options. First is Troy Jackson, an older guy who will vote exactly the same but looks like he golfs instead of like he kills people. Or Janet Mills, which would be a little frustrating but honestly pretty good as old-guard Dems go. Forgot the name of the third, but she’s a young woman with progressive stances and would also be great. Odds are Platner will drop out and one of them will get the nomination by some emergency means, likely not a proper election.

      I hope it’s Troy Jackson. He did decently in the primary and is the best drop-in replacement for Platner.

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        Even if I did think Platner was a reformed or crypto-fascist Nazi, it sure would beat the open and proud and practiced Nazism of MAGA conservatives happening now.

        Of course, the Overton window has been shoved so far to the right that even modern progressives seem to the right of the Republican party before Regan. Hell, maybe there are some Democratic Nazis? But I don’t see very many of them.

        If a shitty tattoo and the Marine Corps make Platner a Nazi, then I’ve got some bad news for you buddy.

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          he was a blackwater Merc. who reminisced about killing brown people in interviews.

          you are still making excuses for a rapist with nazi tattoos.

          you don’t get to complain that trump is a rapist, or the Nazis in government if make excuses for that cunt.

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            Oh, so you like concentration camps and ICE thugs, and blowing up schools in Iran because you’d allow the MAGA steamroller to continue by refusing to allow a blue swing state senate candidate to even run?

            You don’t get to complain the Platner is a Nazi rapist when you’re allowing MAGA to continue unabated. You’re making excuses to let Trump control congress for another two years, you must really love rape and murder!

            See how that works?

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        Believing that the world is just black and white, good or evil is a really idiotic way of thinking.

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          Are realy going to “lets not think in absolutes” when it comes to allowing nazis into politics?

          Fucking Blue MAGA cult.

          You sound as if Trump ran for democrats with the exact same personality and policies you would have voted for him.

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            I’m saying all your choices suck but some suck a smidgen less. It’s what you get when you create a pile of shit full of brainless idiots who can barely read.

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              you’re still making excuses for a nazi.

              and it’s bullshit, is your conclusion is that everyone in main was a nazi merc?

              Blue MAGA is the same death cult as MAGA, it isn’t a fucking sport, the goal isn’t to get your team to win, but to manage a national. And nazis belong underground, not on the ballots.