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I have now watched this an unreasonable number of times. Making mental list of chef friends to send it to. Fearing the consequences.

Git his asss

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

oh thank god finally a pausa de hidratación i haven't had any water for two solid days

men will really go on the public internet and show more sympathy for a guy who got exposed for being a rapist and domestic abuser than for literally any of his victims

It is truly incredible how some of these male leftists who correctly criticize the police and court system will turn around and say a rape allegation can’t be taken seriously unless it passes through the cops and courts

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

you have a nazi phase you should get nazi results

I will take back every rude thing I have ever said about England if Count Binface beats Nigel Farage in the by-election

This, and connected threads again have me thinking - as a new teacher - about the loss for kids who only access and explore very current new digital media- no reruns, no outdated references. The loss of background knowledge is enormous.

Heart breaking for this family.

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.

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

there needs to be a tinker tailor soldier spy level mole hunt into the “dem strategists” who discovered platner

The reason Platner has gotten roughly 10x the discussion of any of the panoply of rapists & sexual harassers in prominent positions on the right is that everyone - left, right, center, media, *everyone* - has internalized that conservatives just don't care and so there's no point talking about it.

The death of regional accents will be an incalculable cultural loss. We must fight to preserve and en-weirden them at all costs.

Me Too did not go far enough.

one thing not happening here that i’m learning is happening on The Everything App is that brazilians have blamed their NT’s world cup performance and its general downfall on protestantism and evangelical christianity

Graham Platner Clarifies He Covered Penis With Tattoo After Learning About Its Troubling History

I find this particularly reprehensible because Ryan specifically and intentionally built Dropsite on coverage of the Palestinian Genocide and not only is he firing journalists for disagreeing with him (@recolston.bsky.social), he has mobilized the credibility he earned from that to defend rapists

having a braindead and extremely hysterical punditry is a telltale sign of a soccer nation. this is good! now the next step is to give a special name to the crushing Belgium loss to mark and honor it as a historical event. my proposal is the Shame of Seattle.

Ok, gotta ignore the the horros for a bit and continue to go all in learning about various sporting events. This is amaaaaaazing!! Is this more data that women are weirdly good at endurance shit?

These white men aren't defending another white man. They are defending themselves.

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

“the establishment is trying to use these allegations to take platner down” yeah and it’s working because this dude sucks

According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.

I dont think this is all that unusual outside the US - we just have a phenomenally servile press?

Yep. I said this last year and I think it still holds.

American reporters watching this, shaking their heads in horror, no, no, you can’t ask this, no

I just saw someone say that hindsight is 20/20 on Graham Platner, and let me just say that if you did not see this coming, your vision for such things needs to be checked.

not an original thought but it's wild to read so much excellent historical scholarship that relies on newspaper archives and realize historians of the future will be stuck with, uh, whatever this current news landscape is

Look, there’s a reason we keep saying it. The misogyny is real. Most American men are completely oblivious to what we actually even mean by this. It’s all around you in the news you read everyday. If you aren’t aware of it, maybe think what that means.

And none of these people could take a little selfie with Mitch to reassure the public?

Graham Platner really fucked up my plan here.

what today has taught me is that for many men, a certain amount of abuse of women is always acceptable. sure, there's an amount that isn't, but that's up to them to decide, and if you try to question them, well you're just a crazy fucking bitch aren't you.

Saying, correctly, that not all men are rapists isn't letting men off the hook, it's presenting rape as a choice men make not a thing men are

The other side of the radfem "all men are rapists" coin is "well of course all men are rapists and if you have a problem with rape than I guess you have a problem with men" All men are not rapists. Too many are, but not all of them. And it's actually good to say this and hold them to that standard

IT DIDN'T FAIL. CHRIST ALMIGHTY

Judy has thoughts, but they're poorly articulated and blame victims for their own assaults.

Maybe NOW you will all listen to me when I say that you do not need left-wing men to perform masculinity, you need them to be a good person.

If your explanation for how abusive shitty men like Platner get laid is "a lot of women have bad taste" you are NOT FUCKING HELPING. Seeing WAY too much of this. Educate yourselves on abuse people, DO BETTER.

It's Men....the bar is low.

People really wanna believe that women who end up with abusers are stupid or have bad taste and while they themselves of course would spot the “rancid vibes” as if people like Platner aren’t running around right now in your workplace, friend group and family and you have no fucking clue.

If you wanna understand how abusive men get away with it you MUST understand that they can 100% be charming, fun, engaging, attractive & would fool you too. OTHERWISE you are walking yourself into concluding that these women must’ve been stupid, desperate, drunk, etc See comments here already.