I am aware of how aging works, yes. I’m also aware that you are not guaranteed to turn into a conservative once you’re past 60 and not everyone’s cognitive decline happens exactly the same at the exact same ages

Because I wasn’t responding to this original comment, dude, it’s a new conversation. I am so sorry you were weirded out by that.

Who’s now endorsed by the DSA, which probably isn’t good enough for you I’m guessing

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYCyrEbkfIn/

He’s 58 dude. Guess we can’t elect anyone progressive over the age of 50 out of fear they might turn conservative. Chris Van Hollen’s gonna turn into Reagan reincarnated any minute now

He’s been a Democrat for over 20 years and endorsed Bernie each presidential campaign he ran and was actually endorsed by the DSA, unlike Platner. These are not ‘new’ beliefs. So odd we get these ‘people can’t change’ opinions about politicians while leftists (assuming you’re one too) also believe in prison abolition/reform. You can’t have both.

You also just don’t seem to know what Patriotic Millionaires is

That’s not a good comparison at all. People don’t vote for speakers at conventions, and Bill is very unpopular and would get decimated in any election right now even if he was 20 years younger

Denial (cope?) stage. Give it a day or two, I hope

You are asking Democratic voters to overlook a credible rape allegation, we are not Republicans. It’s not going to happen, Platner is not going to win after this.

I don’t know how the Maine DSC works, but it’s not a given they’ll shit out Mills depending how they work. In my state, delegates from each caucus would vote for it, and our delegates this year were HEAVILY left-leaning (a midwestern state).

Platner just isn’t going to win after this unless it’s roundly debunked. Would I still vote for him over Collins in November if I lived in Maine? Probably, but I wouldn’t be pumped about it at all anymore.

Best case scenario is he drops out and the Maine DSC nominates a new candidate who isn’t Mills.

No real winning outcome on this. A guy with a credible SA allegation doesn’t deserve to be a Senator, we don’t deserve another term of Susan Collins or a Republican majority in Congress. I just don’t think a replacement for Platner is beating Collins

Well this seems a lot more believable than everything in the NYT story. I was all in on Platner and still have some skepticism of this just due to the sheer amount of political ratfuckery in this country, but yeah this probably could end his campaign unless some other evidence against it comes out fast.

The timing of this, seeing some random people on Threads/Twitter say another accusation against him is coming a few hours ago, articles about how to replace a candidate in Maine ready to go right away etc., is definitely really suspicious too. This whole thing fucking sucks dude.

So vandalism should be met with a 50 year prison sentence?

Who the fuck knows what’s going to happen anymore, but I don’t really think they’re going to be able to not deliver mail-in ballots. The Postal Workers Union has already said they do not care what the Postmaster General or anyone else says, they will be delivering ballots. States run their elections, if the states also tell Washington to kick rocks, there’s not much they can do besides firing all the postal workers and good fucking luck canning an incredibly powerful union with multiple additional legal protections that other unions don’t have

DAC is definitely pretty leftist, agreed with the other two (DAC>Valdez>Lander). I still like Lander and aren’t gonna freak out over him unless he just shits the bed (he was a DSA member since 87 so he’s definitely not fake), but his comment (yesterday? today?) saying he’s looking forward to voting for Hakeem as the House Majority leader spooked me.

Get where he’s coming from to not just say, “fuck everyone else in the party, our way or the highway” cause you can’t just do that when you’ve only got 20 or so squad-type House members right now, but please don’t capitulate to the establishment

The only districts a DSA candidate couldn’t win in are districts like whatever the Hamptons and Nantucket are in, and who gives a fuck about them.

This was a primary to be fair, and I don’t think a DSA candidate would suddenly be able to win in most rural districts in the South, but I’d bet if the DSA started running a challenger in each and every district in 2030, we’d win more than half of the primaries if not more.

I appreciate they’re taking it relatively slowly with the races they’re going for, showing their candidates walk the talk and their shit works instead of just going all out right away and potentially dying

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Thanks for another irrelevant Wikipedia article.

What are you talking about, shut up dude. Yeah, the Americas were colonized and shouldn’t have. What does that have to do with fucking anything about this

Oh shut the fuck up.

What?