i'm tired man

If you’re going to imply that a woman is lying about a rape accusation you should have to sit in front of an assembly of rape victims and explain why you think a woman would go on the record and give intimate details about a completely fictional event, plunging themselves into months of scrutiny

I actually thought he was going to wait a few days before being this whiny

I try to make a conscious effort to call it X because it really is a new site primarily for chuds now, but the rebrand was so shitty that I still regularly call it Twitter and get to the site by typing “twitter” in my browser

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In pedagogy we call this a “flipped classrooooooooooooooooo-

Mitch McConnell has died in a freak waterskiing accident.

A fantastic piece that has given me much to think about. Please, when you give up long-form reading, know what it is that you're sacrificing.

😂 I guess I see why he liked Mamdani!

At this point these men are simply telling on themselves. It doesn’t matter if she texted Platner “I need to get laid” as long as she then told him no!!!

The realization that about 20% of Americans do about 80% of deep reading is uh. Uh. Well it does explain a lot and it doesn’t make me feel good

October vs. Today

Comparing this piece by @marisakabas.bsky.social to Ken Klippenstein’s glib dismissal is a real nuclear bomb/coughing baby moment. As she implies in the piece, these guys view apologies only as surrenders, something to be avoided rather than a normal thing adults do when they were wrong.

Long past time for any left-of-center person still actively using twitter to admit that it melts your brain. Platner should erase any lingering doubt. Twitter Platner supporters (who ran the gamut of left-of-center ideologies) assured everyone they were the normal ones and it blew up horribly.

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Normal people: I guess it's possible that he drunkenly got a Nazi tattoo and has remained ignorant to what it means but that's probably not a guy we want in the Senate Weird leftie politibros: Oh so you're saying making mistakes is illegal? You're saying anybody who makes a mistake should be killed

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neither canadian leaders nor the canadian people will ever trust the united states again and they absolutely shouldn’t

Idk if it's my least favourite, but every time there's a scene in a bathroom and the character opens up the mirrored medicine cabinet door, I just sigh and prepare for the inevitable jumpscare when they close the door again

This fucking ghouls

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There are people insisting that if we want to appeal to men, we need to be able to look past stuff like cheating, roughing up girlfriends, assault, etc. These people have low opinions of men! The best thing we can do for men is to start treating them like grown-ups whose actions have consequences.

Resurrecting this old thread defending Platner in the name of appealing to more men, I just want to say that you can believe we need to allow men to redeem themselves AND that a Nazi chest tattoo, even a supposedly accidental one, is disqualifying for US senate

I'm not really worried that the backlash to Platner is going to endanger our ability to give folks second chances, because at no point did that man seem like he earnestly felt he was on his second chance. He made it pretty clear at every turn he thought he was still living large on his first one.

Not eating in a calorie deficit anymore kicks so much ass. I just ate a cinnamon raisin bagel with peanut butter and I feel like I could lift a car

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Another Platner scandal

Ken Klippenstein:

Weird. Have they tried incessantly suggesting this amazing feature in every window of the OS? Pointlessly shoehorning it into situations it doesn't belong in?

I'm here talking to my good friend Mitch McConnell,

Rape isn’t something to be glib about. Learning the candidate you supported has been credibly accused of sexual violence is not an opportunity to thumb your nose at your critics. I’m so tired.

People (or maybe this was all one person) said they liked Platner because he wasn't "smoothgroined" and he was fighting back against HR ladies, and now are like aw man, I didn't know he was a rapist. Yes you did. That's what you liked about him.

I cannot get over what a fucking weasel Ken Klippenstein is, to go from bullying people who were concerned about nominating a guy with a Nazi tattoo to this indignant “well SORRY I’m not a clairvoyant!” shtick as soon as other stuff comes out

I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning. He is doing fantastic. He actually demonstrated an old parlour trick he would use to entertain us in the capitol, where he flawlessly imitates the steady beep of an EKG monitor

in the witness-examining industry, this is the kind of small slip we listen for:

Exactly, this is semantic sleight of hand in service of deceiving the public unless we see evidence of otherwise

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I just flat out don’t believe this. No statement drafted? No information? I think there is some sort of semantic sleight of hand going on mixed with outright lies at this point.

I will save you the trouble: Ken Klippenstejn does not properly apologize in this piece, nor does he acknowledge any wrongdoing or poor judgement on his part.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

lol

God DAMN lmao. Feminism most vindicated social movement in history?

Realistically the Maine senate race is fucked, but if it’s any consolation Platner would’ve probably lost even if this horrible rape scandal never came out. Collins won in a blue wave year that sent 60 Democrats to the senate. She was going to kick his ass

This is the correct way to handle it. Good job.

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

See how easy it is to admit when you were wrong about something

One of the most unintentionally funny politicians I have ever seen