I mean Trump wasn’t just accused; it was 100% established fact that he was a rapist, and either way it’s not like he ever pretended to be anything he’s not. Or well he did do some superficial pretending, but he never really tried to hide the core shittiness of his personality if that makes sense.
We should be real careful about what we’re willing to accept in order to gain power.
Fair point, and this would be a pretty good reason to stop batting for him publicly (though I’d wait for the accusations to be somehow substantiated first). But that doesn’t preclude voting for him on election day, because he’s still the best of the viable options.
Just out of curiosity, (and it is, I’ve stopped being pro Planter explicitly since the Nazi tattoo, though not anti-Platner.) Is the rape allegation more or less disqualifying than the explicitly accepted enlistment goal being to personally murder brown people?
I had my misgivings about this guy from the start. The mercenary stint was really unsettling.
There was a lot of pushback and a lot of accusations of purity testing. I stopped talking about it because what’s the point? Everyone was saying his social media comments about rape victims asking for it and his tattoo and his military background were in his past and we have to allow people to grow.
I’ve never liked him as a candidate and I’ve been disappointed by the support those on the left have shown him.
That’s what we have in the presidency right now.
We should be real careful about what we’re willing to accept in order to gain power.
I mean Trump wasn’t just accused; it was 100% established fact that he was a rapist, and either way it’s not like he ever pretended to be anything he’s not. Or well he did do some superficial pretending, but he never really tried to hide the core shittiness of his personality if that makes sense.
Fair point, and this would be a pretty good reason to stop batting for him publicly (though I’d wait for the accusations to be somehow substantiated first). But that doesn’t preclude voting for him on election day, because he’s still the best of the viable options.
Do you think it’s better or worse that Platner and the people around him tried to hide his rapist past?
Just out of curiosity, (and it is, I’ve stopped being pro Planter explicitly since the Nazi tattoo, though not anti-Platner.) Is the rape allegation more or less disqualifying than the explicitly accepted enlistment goal being to personally murder brown people?
I had my misgivings about this guy from the start. The mercenary stint was really unsettling.
There was a lot of pushback and a lot of accusations of purity testing. I stopped talking about it because what’s the point? Everyone was saying his social media comments about rape victims asking for it and his tattoo and his military background were in his past and we have to allow people to grow.
I’ve never liked him as a candidate and I’ve been disappointed by the support those on the left have shown him.
I’d rather have a democrat win against Collins and then when those accusations have more evidence he resigns.