That's because "class analysis" on the left as an isolated activity is only done by dudebros (derogatory). Everyone else understands that class cannot be isolated from the things those dudes call "identity politics" and reject from consideration. Holistic analysis is hard, but the only way forward.

I'm an expert and I'm open at all times to interview about the sexual assault of men by men during war, which your candidate seems to endorse

I never thought I’d be in politics either. And you know what I’ve been up to? Working in a local food bank, making art for nonprofit auctions, and volunteering on a board for homelessness relief.

for every graham platner, there's dozens of just as capable women you could be investing in who don't have nazi tattoos or abusive pasts you just don't want to expand your class analysis to encompass gender

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

Sometimes, I like to wash down my ONE mid-day meal with a night full of various increasingly ill-advised snacks.

I understand those who are torn between voting for a piece of shit vs letting Trumpublicans retain control of the Senate. I don’t understand those who can’t at least admit that he’s a piece of shit.

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

Next, do the swastika and the iron cross. You really think you ate with this mansplained "history," huh.

Anyways, it’s almost like a Nazi tattoo is a huge warning sign that a lot more awfulness is hidden beneath, or something.

I don't like men who abuse women. I think they are failures as men. I don't care what their excuse is, and I certainly don't buy this "PTSD" bullshit that Platner fans are offering up, given that he happily chose to keep going back to kill people for fun. He's scum. His supporters are scum.

“Regular” people with nazi tattoos SHOULD be afraid to run for office, yeah.

Yes Hasan, it’s all about Israel. Every last single thing. That’s why graham platner is a terrible person.

I literally had a friend message me yesterday to say she'd been banned from twitter (I'm not using the dipshit's new dipshit name for it, ever) for running something to identify and filter out bots. So, I mean, IDK. I'll take 10% of the users when the users over there include bots and nazis any day.

Hi! That's not how any of this works. We're totally capable of innate growth and civility without external "calming". If a man is a violent asshole, it's because he's a violent asshole, not because a loving family failed to shape him. It's okay to have him be responsible for his own actions.

A thread I'd post to tell people I'd been kidnapped

"...Thom Tillis is, once again, just not telling the truth about what will actually decide his Senate vote." 😂 No mention of the oyster nazi so far, but I'm glad I tuned in to hear THAT tone mention Unwashed Thom.

I am, once again, asking why I don't live in NYC. Because, like, WHAT DO YOU MEAN Madonna did a pop-up concert in Times Square??? (Also: They have the super bagels and egg creams there. Important.)

At this point, I would urge Maine voters to write in those fucking THINGS that come out of the forest at night in FROM over that guy.

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

Embarrassing for y'all to continue to prop this fucking nazi up.

US politics is just going to converge on extremely online populism where candidates on right and left prove their "authenticity" "outsider bona fides" and how "the establishment" is out to get them by how many people they offend and how many bad stories come out about them.

What Adam said - I blocked & reported Joe over here, but some of y'all are following him. Please reflect on yourself if you think (((people))) oppose him because he criticizes Israel... NOT because -he has a Nazi tattoo -seems to be a pathological liar -is a misogynist & a racist &&&&&&&&

Is Lawrence going to defend this fuck or drag him? I need to know at 10:00.

Someone pay me thousands of dollars to do campaign strategy because I can understand basic shit

Being anti-Israel or anti-Netanyahu regime is often conflated with antisemitism. Neither are, but they can be overlapping. This post 👇, however, is antisemitism. It is the belief that if you oppose Israel the media and the monied interests will tear you down. Nazi tattoo also equals antisemitic.

The jooz are behind his desire to rape intruders…. Hey Democratic Socialists, one of you got loose and is on the streets

Heh, heh, everybody does a little domestic violence while drunk, everyone is morbidly obsessed with proving their manhood through rape (well, maybe broads aren't), it's only when someone opposes Israel that people pretend to think locking your girlfriend in a bedroom is bad! 🤓

When that article came out and you still proudly tell on yourself.

Spot on. If these are the things that have been revealed about this man so far, what do you think is going to happen when the Republicans step in with real opposition research to save the candidacy of the woman who allows them to pretend they consider or care about things.

"They were insane for this," and it's just Meloni and Hargitay doing things that, for them and their spouses laughing in the background, is...normal. Apparently.

Let's just be honest, the Nazi tattoo wasn't immediately disqualifying because y'all don't think of Jews as actual people.

Actually, don't take the beat. Show us your true face and your true colors. Don't pause, don't formulate a response, don't spin, tell us your immediate first reaction.

Seven months. Seven months we've been telling you that if someone puts the logo a Nazi death squad over their heart they're not someone who should be trusted with anything let alone the US Senate. SEVEN MONTHS. And it had to come to this less than a week out and it still won't be enough.

The AR-15 he had in his DC apartment that was mentioned briefly before his weird comments about raping burglars was also illegal, because that’s been illegal there since about 2008. Trump’s DOJ actually sued about it in December. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

No one should have need the NY Times of all places to do some exclusive on how Graham is terrible. All of these senators defending him could have done some basic research and known this over six months ago.

Jesus Christ. Even if I was suspicious of the source, that’s an incredibly callous way to phrase it….especially since the Platner campaign didn’t deny some of the other stuff like him talking about raping burglars.

Dramatic footage from a truck-driving preacher's dashboard camera captured what appears to be a kidnapping attempt.

Weird coming from someone who presided over a set with Timothy Busfield, but I'm sure it's just a coinkydink

Physically forcing your partner into a room and then physically preventing them from leaving for the night is a crime and intentional tort called false imprisonment, the article here includes a very classical description of an occurrence of domestic violence

No, we're risking the entire Senate and future of democracy on a guy pushed by the same people who pushed Fetterman, who has ZERO legislative or governing experience, ZERO history of working for progressive causes, an untrustworthy grifting fraud and failson with a thousand red-flacks.... WHY?!?

Me reading the news out of Maine:

We told those folks he knew that shit was a Nazi tattoo. Yes the ex-girlfriend is a republican but she has the receipts from before he acknowledged & tried to pretend he didn’t know. He announced on 8/19 & she sent the messages on 8/20.

Hey man, in your opinion, how many women does someone have to threaten and physically restrain from leaving (a crime! that is a crime!) before it's ok to think that he might be a bad dude.

Thank you for telling on yourself.

Men like Marshall telling women we are not safe in their presence. 😬

Makes sense

“This is a lifelong G.O.P. operative” is also not “these allegations are false”.

Clearly, this is better than the woman of a certain age, amirite.

Oooof, this didn't age well 😬