My point is that if you want to win in a first-past-the-post voting system, if you can’t get everyone to vote for your candidate the next best thing is to stop your opposition from showing up. Common tactics are limiting who has access to polling places, purging people from voting rolls, adding barriers to registration, and sabotaging mail-in ballots, but you can also encourage apathy, purity testing or erode faith in the electoral system, all of which work to allow a party with a minority of supporters to win an election.

Friendly reminder that a common propaganda tactic is to discourage your opposition from voting

Wow, how did Google find out something they gave to Google? I’m perplexed!

It’s a good wake up call though for anyone that thought that anything you give them is private

Krita, definitely, though it’s still not as complete in capability it’s a much better analogue

Watch how real progressive candidates and actual normal human beings will get torn apart by the political machine. There is a huge industry in keeping the status quo and lots of money to be made ensuring progressive candidates don’t get momentum. They weren’t able to stop Mamdani, but billionaires can stamp out a lot of fires with hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into “centrist” politics.

Nope, corsets were not anywhere near the hazard people like to characterize them as. They were essentially a combined shapewear and bra, and most women achieved those exaggerated silhouettes with padding, not tightening things. The materials corsets were made of back then (whale balleen, paper, reeds, ribbons, cording and sometimes a wooden busk) weren’t puncturing anyone’s lungs. It was just a popular past time of men in the day to ridicule and belittle women for their fashion choices, a time honored tradition that continues to this day.

Do you honestly just absorb everything you read on the internet with no regard to who said it or where it came from? Do I really need to explain to you why it matters who is saying it and why?

Expecting better evidence when the motives are highly suspect is hardly some imposition. This accusation is coming at an extremely politically convenient time from a source that is extremely pro-Israel (Politico). Their parent company has already profited directly from the genocide in Gaza and Platner has taken a strong stance against it. So yes I will be skeptical to say the least.

Considering this whole story came from a source who is literally making a profit off of the settler colonialism in Israel, I wouldn’t put anything past them

I think Platner has 48 hours to research to find if AIPAC or outside groups (not including Cheyenne Hunt & Reckoning Action, Racicot reached out to them supposedly) have unduly influenced the details or timing of this

Politico, the website that published the story originally, is owned by unapologetic pro-Israel billionaires

This is just funny and I would recommend the same to you. Time to do a little research into Politico

Maybe not, maybe he did something stupid, but at this point the fact that AIPAC is dredging whatever they can up against him is more of an endorsement than a condemnation. If people who are actively cheering on the atrocities being committed in Gaza are telling me to be wary of Graham, that’s not the nail in the coffin they think it is.

I’ve just been on the internet too long to automatically believe everything I read, especially when it comes from a very motivated source

There’s a lot riding on discrediting Graham. He is the most promising progressive candidate in the northeast right now and is aggressively anti-billionaire and anti-establishment. He has over ten thousand volunteers and has the oligarchy scared. Yes I am dubious of this extremely conveniently timed account that has extremely scant hard evidence, being reported from a website who has only painted Graham in extremely critical ways.

The owners of Politico are openly libertarian zionists. Consider the source.

Interesting that that’s what you say when someone is asking questions

Am I saying anything about her personally?

This is serious and has serious implications, however ignoring the timing and choices made here is beyond naive. Politico in particular has had it out for Graham since October 2025

Saying “believe women” is not a magic mind control spell

Read the article carefully

There’s a story from the accuser, and a mention of recent emails between her and her therapist that have no specifics. All corroborating people associated are choosing to be anonymous (so might be made up entirely for all we know.) All direct evidence mentioning specifics has been “deleted”

The most compelling evidence presented in the Politico is this chat conversation with another anonymous person with no time stamps

https://static.politico.com/ed/f5/4412f6b44946866944ef85fd8a96/platner-screenshot-1.JPG

https://static.politico.com/61/c2/67b004f844f291369865043ed027/platner-screenshot-4.JPG

So let’s assume the chat is real, and happened when claimed, which is giving a lot of grace at this point. It says he is “consensually careless” when drunk. Is that how you would describe your rapist? Interestingly, if there was a response to the direct question of "does he force himself on people " it’s cut off from the chat. Weird.

Everyone saying it’s more credible than the last accusation, when the bar was on the floor for the last one. A woman is coming forward at the absolute most politically expedient time for the billionaires (not when he started his campaign, not when he started getting national attention) who voluntarily deleted all evidence of the incident herself but obliquely mentioned some vaguely troublesome things to some people who will all remain anonymous.

Ah yes truly we must all be fools for taking this with a grain of salt.

In my experience, talking about kids on dates is something you need to get out as soon as other basic compatibility is established. It’s an immediate dealbreaker for many, and it’s a critical component of a future relationship. If your date doesn’t want kids and you do, you basically skip GO and are straight to “okay well guess we’re just friends now” or “nice knowing you”.

Having a nap in a sunbeam