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  • Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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  • People are crying for “average” people to be part of government, this is an average person we got from Maine and now many are getting upset. People who haven’t had anything happen that could be construed as scandalous from their high school prom to now, where a story like this could credibly be denied, are shut-ins like me who aren’t interested in dating and wouldn’t seriously think to run in politics, or are well-educated with above-average wealth.

    Your argument is that there are so many rapists amongst average people that we have no choice but to elect them?

    There are a lot of people who date and don't rape people.

    Jesus Christ.

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  • It's Platner's fault that there are scandals to be dug up at all.

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  • Platner only has himself to blame here. He wanted to be a champion of workers rights? He shouldn't have been in so many situations where he forced himself on women.

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  • Yeah, this woman magically knew that Platner was going to run for office years and years ago when she advised her friend to not set someone up with Platner because he doesn't respect consent.

    I've been on the internet long enough to know that the knee-jerk reaction is to not believe rape victims. People in general don't believe victims.

    And you want me to believe that a man with a history of mercenary work in Afghanistan, past comments that blame rape victims for being raped and talking about how much he enjoyed killing brown people, and other sexual assault accusations is completely innocent here?

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  • Yeah totally rational behavior when called out for victim blaming.

    Have a good one.

  • Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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  • You think those victims told no one but the courts first?

  • Democrats begin pulling Platner endorsements after Maine candidate faces sexual assault allegation

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  • Again, a rape victim not acting the way you expect or the way you would act doesn't mean they're lying.

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  • She's not just saying whatever the fuck she wants. She has evidence as well.

    Questioning the trauma a rape victim is enduring because she isn't acting the way YOU want her to is gross.

    Even the Epstein victims that got raped by multiple men went to court first.

    No they fucking did not.

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  • And claiming a rape victim is lying isn't a magic save-the-campaign motto.

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  • It says he is “consensually careless” when drunk. Is that how you would describe your rapist?

    When you're asking questions like this, yes, it makes you sound like a rapist.

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  • If shes willing to bring her face to the media why not at this point bring it to court? Or the emails with the therapist, why not show that? With message headers to prove they’re real.

    Platner should sue her at this point and persist.

    Gee whiz, why don't more rape victims come forward when supposed allies treat them like this?

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  • With all the vitriol in the comments on Lemmy alone, is it any wonder why these people want to stay anonymous?

    You're nitpicking a rape victim's phrasing about the rape she endured. YOU are part of the reason rape victims are afraid to come forward. Look at how you're talking about this.

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  • She did not delete all evidence. She deleted her messages to Platner. There's a difference and it's disgusting that you're pushing misinformation in order to prop up a rapist.

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    Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

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  • You're working hard in these comments to break down any standards the left claimed to have.

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  • She claims that a lot of evidence existed in the past, but that all of that evidence has been lost.

    This is a lie.

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  • Racicot was one of several women who spoke to the New York Times for a previous story in June about Platner’s “unsettling” behavior with women he dated.

    She told Politico she hesitated to make her claim public because she had a “huge moral conflict” between supporting Platner’s politics and not supporting him as a person. She also said she did not share the sexual assault claims with the New York Times for their story because she did not want to be known as a rape victim.

    Racicot told Politico she had previously had consensual relations with Platner, until a night in 2021 when he allegedly let himself into her unlocked house and forced himself on her. She said she repeatedly told him to stop and that she believed he was “almost blackout drunk”.

    According to Politico, Racicot accused Platner of having sex with her against her will and ejaculating inside her after she told him not to. There was no police report filed at the time.

    Believe women.

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  • That being said planter should have approached the his accuser prior to running or early in the campaign trail,

    She told him to never speak to her again. No, he shouldn't have pressured his rape victim before he ran for a government position. What is wrong with you?

    Probably gonna get hate for this but I am willing to work with pedos.

    Yeah, the hate is deserved.

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  • She deleted only the messages with Platner.

    Those other messages are not as ambiguous as those of you who want to support this rapist want to believe or push here.

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    Woman accuses Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual assault

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  • This isn't the first accusation, he has an extensive history of commenting things like rape victims are to blame for being raped, and worked as a mercenary in Afghanistan.

    Don't tell me this is something no one could have known about.