No, Oyster Boy isn't an innocent smol bean whose head got filled with power fantasy by those big bad DC Consultants. I mean, he did get his head filled like that, but he actually did all the stuff that built into his implosion. This is not a single point of failure tale.

Given the movement I'm with values the targeted over the people doing the targeting, he's never be in. The minimum level of humanity towards the people having done terrible things is not building institutional injustice systems against them. Which, none of the marginalized HAVE POWER to do so.

I need certain white leftists/liberals to realize that it is not "just" white Jews who are at risk from Nazis, and it is not "only" white Jews who object to giving power to people with Nazi tattoos.

There *are* guys saying this, and I hope it puts fear in the pit of the stomachs of men who defend people like Platner. I hope they are able to believe that Society is capable of expelling them from itself.

I think Still Wancil vastly underestimates how dearly I would like to count him out of "my" movement.

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Leftism is a political philosophy you can use to locate other people who likely have significant overlap with your personal values and work with them to get the public sphere to reflect and support those values. Stop treating it like a religion.

I think people think due process is “a mysterious amount of evidence that exonerates people I like”

So many leftist men think that just by recognizing conservative misogyny means they’ll be celebrated. They want to be seen like Joss Whedon… ya know… before. Or Neil Gaiman… ya know… before… anyways, they want to be seen as feminists simply for being able to point at the most obvious of sexism.

This tunnel vision of 'Leftists preach anti-bigotry ergo I'm not a bigots cause I'm a leftist" will never not astound Bigotry isn't in of itself ideology. It's a collection of biases and assumption accumulated through your life. Your personal politics doesn't automatically exempt you from them

Who else is tired of the master class we’re getting in the intersection of misogyny and antisemitism?

We were giving you warnings about this shit stain for 10 months So yeah I fucking told you so

As this all comes out, it's increasingly vital to understand the degree to which these people view "the left" as a market for whom they are manufacturing a product.

If you want to effectively combat right wing narratives regarding trans people, especially regarding athletics, then you need need need to stop uncritically accepting their premises and realize that this shit is more complex than what you learned abput "biological sex" in 7th grade

Even if the rape accusation hadn’t come out, you can’t run candidates who have platner’s attitudes toward women and toward sexual assault because you can’t trust their answers about their sexual history. A person who doesn’t understand consent can’t assure you they’ve always had it

Yup. This has been incredibly gaslighting and frustrating to (leftist!) Jews who’ve been trying to say: hey, the online left sure is adopting a lot of Nazi memes and rhetoric about Jews and get told “you’re lying/Zionists because bigotry is incompatible with leftism.” It’s giving “real Christians”

Exactlyy... in what world is someone like Ryan Grim a "leftist"? I'm not even trying to make a No True Scotsman here, I don't consider any of his ideas to be "left." From his apologia of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to him constantly blaming identity politics for the failures of Sanders.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Yes. I reject any framing of the Platner story as "progressive vs establishment" or "left vs center." The opposition to him has always been "he's obviously an unrepentant liar and a bad human being." His claimed policy positions were irrelevant, and he had no track record of believing them anyway.

Y'all. Saying Platner is a fake leftist or cosplaying or a liberal in disguise or any other cope is A LOGICAL FALLACY. It assumes only Good people can be "real" leftists, because if they're Bad then they're not a "real" leftist. This is the same shit Christians do when someone tarnishes their PR.

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Answer to Platner has been clear all along: @andrealaflamme.bsky.social has a career in progressive work. Through the primary to now, she isn't giving up. Center her in your conversations. I work for a stint every fall in Maine. My next book is set there! I love the state & want the best for it! 💙

Everyone talking about Maine in my timeline BETTER START talking about her:

Closing out the campaign by railing against a conspiracy of (((media elites))) who stabbed him in the back is a nice way to once again confirm the totenkopf wasn’t a random mistake.

Platner's fanboys keep pretending that the rape allegation was a bolt from the blue, but the reality is the opposite. It was the last straw after months of bad acts, bad comms, bad faith, and bad polls. Even before this week, Platner entered July with no real allies left. And that's on him.

The allegations against Platner are like beat-for-beat an interaction I had with an anarchist man with anarchist tattoos, a black bloc true believer. We don’t get to “no true Scotsman” this guy. It’s actually fucking exhausting how many comrades are also rapists. Fucking exhausting.

this is another SUPER SUPER important point that often gets lost as we overcorrect for how sex-negative society is: there is no meaningful "yes" in a world where everyone isn't completely free to say "no" and not just "no not right now" but "no thank you, not my thing ever"

Absolutely fascinating tactical choice for this man to go with “You’re not supposed to say no to me once you’ve already said yes, but I guess I’ll have to stop anyway because I’m being ‘cancelled’” as a resignation speech. I feel like this was not his attorney’s advice!

Say it with me folks: “NO NAZIS”. Let’s all remember and not try this shit again.

Hilarious bumper sticker down the shore.

The Platner controversy imo is a good example of where more cohesion between groups would have helped push a different result earlier. Thinking especially about Black-Jewish coalitions, which have really fallen apart. If we had more power together, it would have made a difference imo.

this is obviously not the worst thing about it, but the most personally annoying thing about "AIPAC" being used as a general dogwhistle for the Jews is that I hated AIPAC before any of you goyish leftists had ever heard of it, and for better reasons than you

Periodic reminder that Al Franken had at least 8 accusers and that he stepped down the day they were going to begin the investigation he initially demanded. "What happened to Al Franken" is exactly the bare minimum that should have happened to Al Franken.

am i going to copy & paste another thread from the bird app? no, because a lot of the tweets got deleted but i am going to cobble together a thread based on what's left.

There does not exist a man who *secretly* respects women as equal human beings with the right to define their own boundaries of consent, but capes for rapists anyway in order to please his woman-hating audience. That is an entirely fictional kind of person.

The thing is that the argument always boils down to "Chuck Schumer made me support Platner by opposing him" it's basically an admission that you're being ruled by negative polarization.

I mean, no matter what you think of Franken this is clearly fireable behavior. Yes, Dem HR Ladies would be like “security, please escort this man out of the building, we will mail his personal items” AND THATS A GOOD THING. You just shouldn’t feel free to act like that in your workplace. Not ever.

And I’m glad that at least rape is a red line, but maybe it was better when we used to have higher standards as a society. I definitely don’t feel like this implicit idea that any kind of assault is politically survivable up until penetration makes for a safer world.

I’m not here to say he’s the worst but he resigned because it was an escalating situation with multiple accusers. The way it was remembered, as no big deal, is emblematic of how Platner was treated up until this week. It’s like a decision was made after this that all abuse is fine unless it’s rape.

From here:

I keep seeing defenses of Al Franken whenever the news highlights sexual assault by D politicians (Swalwell, Platner), the idea being that Franken is an example of someone who was unfairly treated and CLEARLY we memory holed that entire controversy. This was his SEVENTH accuser, a Democratic aide:

Once again : What women on the left already knew before the Epstein files + Platner is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

Imagine someone so antisemitic that he thinks Hitler was contaminated and compromised via exposure to Jewish ideas.

Platner's people accusing Platner's victims of hurting The Movement. I hope someone is keeping track of who's been on his team.

Even better … SUMMER LEE LEFT THE DSA OVER DISAGREEMENTS with the Pittsburgh chapter and booted him from this campaign But hey when we say noticing misogynoir might save yall some problems !!!!!!

Racists online saw this photo, doxxed her, and found out she had a previous arrest (the charge later being dismissed). Meanwhile she is a mentally disabled working mom minding her business. If someone can put me in contact, I’m happy to offer her a housing relief stipend thurmanperryfoundation.org

What would happen if we treated people who treated Black people inhumanly or as a voting block with no options except labor extraction ( which would get a lot of people who are Black / left etc because anti Blackness global) As fundamentally suspect We wouldn’t have the systemic problems

The whole Graham Platner debacle serves as a reminder that one of our greatest societal taboos remains telling a white man he's not qualified for a job.

DAMN, son. Folks forget Zelenskyy was a satirist prior to his current job.