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3w ago

Lindsey Graham Dead at 71

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 3w ago

Rest in piss, bozo

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Regardless of there being any police investigations, rape reports, arraignments, trials, convictions, and incarcerations or not, Platner should have made his skeletons public ahead of the primaries.

Regardless of if the allegations are true or not, Platner should have disclosed these bad times in his life because the DNC and Israel would have absolutely used them against Platner anyways.

But that didn't happen and now we're here, and Mainers are starting to shift perspective away from Platner in recent polls.

Optics are essential for politics, unfortunately.

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Moral consideration includes whether the person has attractive morals to be considered a leader.

Anybody that commits a crime, that rehabilitates and demonstrates social behavior and not a social behavior, should be given the chance to run for public office. Lifetime bans from public office can be abused.

ICE agents that change their minds, leave the force, and show rehabilitated behaviors should absolutely be considered for public office.

None of what I'm saying that we should pick these folks over others that have the same policy views WITHOUT this same baggage. In my view the baggage shouldn't be deal breakers, because baggage is nuanced and deserves contextual understanding.

People demonstrate whether they've learned about their past wrongs through their actions. Speaking truth to power is an action, and it's better than nothing when the political parties in USA are rotten to the core. Maybe you Euroids and third worldists have better choices in political candidates. In the US, our choices for some races are Zionists, rapists, white supremacists, etc. The best we can do (in certain areas of USA) in the big dystopian 226 is rally behind people who do say the right things. Until someone better shows up, which wasn't the case in Maine until this Platner rape crisis and the alternative, Troy Jackson.

Who is Platner's campaign manager? Who is Bernie's? Zohran's? AOC's? I have no fucking clue because I'm not a political autist masking as an ML.

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

So all veterans, if they want to redeem themselves in the eyes of MLs, must do what's the equivalent of community service in dissuading the youth from joining the military, providing mutual aide for other veterans, and maybe 10-20 other things before they get moral consideration from the left.

Any veterans that don't immediately do that after leaving military service after as little as 1 tour and instead go on to do other normal economic things with their time like oyster farming, trucking, construction, whatever makes their living is not good enough for doing anything associated with political office.

Do these same purity tests apply to normal folks, the peasantry class, that have no military experience? What if some of those peasants do crimes like arson or domestic violence or murder? Do they also get banned from political office forever, even if they give back to their communities? How much do they have to give back? Are the requirements in years? Or should we measure people's emotions and cognitions to see if they've really learned their lesson? Do all leaders need to be pure, untainted lab rats grown into wealthy families that see no hardship?

Purity tests are the cancer of the left. There needs to be space for people to recognize their wrongs, and try to do better about it. Saying whether HOW they do better is right or wrong is arbitrary. Veterans that see how bad the MIC is would be best suited to know how to dismantle it. Former inmates that see how bad the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is would be best suited to know how to dismantle it.

Obviously it's better if vets, former inmates, etc. do all of the above. But I don't think we should rule out people if they don't, especially if there's no better alternative. The best thing to do in these dilemmas is find better candidates and support them. Without that, viability and policies is the only way forward.

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Sadly I don't think eyes and ears defeat propaganda for all people. I'm happy you believe that. But it might not be a realistic perspective.

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

My point was about propaganda prevailing over people's eyes and ears. That is a fact that happens for many. Not everyone has the privilege to act on their moral instincts like you. That's what I'm saying.

Veganism is an example from another context that underpins what I'm saying. Same can be said for veterans and new recruits. Hell, most Americans still see military people as heroes. Not saying I do, but that's a fact.

4w ago

Context is for people that read US news

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Show me where he said he enjoyed killing people.

All I've seen since the late 2010s is Platner denouncing his involvement with the MIC, and MIC as a whole.

Otherwise, you sound like another ML ultra that sees veterans as a monolith and has no room in the revolution for vets that have come around to leftist ideas.

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

How do veterans make people's lives better in the grand scheme? Lead soup kitchens? Set up mutual aide networks?

Is mass change through the state apparatus not an effective way of achieving the same goals?

Doesn't mean Platner can't do both, of course. And he hasn't.

4w ago

Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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Resonosity @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4w ago

Propaganda can take longer for some if they choose to ignore reality.

Not a lot of leftists are vegans in this regard. If they saw how gas chambers, pistols to the head, knives to the throat are used to kill animals and get them prepped for people's chicken nuggets and jalapen poppers, you'd think they'd change and stop eating meat, but to them the speciesist propaganda that humans are better persists.