Throwaway05
3hr ago
A couple of things are happening here.
Part of it is the decline the secretary - it used to be that most of these people would be one capable secretary, those women now work "real" jobs and much of the duties have been outsourced onto doctors, outlook, and other similar stuff. Some of the job remains, but the talent pool is...lower.
Healthcare often actually involves razor thin margins, immense government subsidy, unions or government employees and all kinds of other crap. Someone has to man the phones and officially do the job. Usually they don't, so you hire more people hoping that enough women at the desk creates some function.
It doesn't. During training usually I did my job and the front desk's job.
I find this conversation so triggering so I'm a bit disorganized here but other poster's have noted an element of claims and other things, usually the people sitting at the front desk are the front desk staff and do front desk things, but it's not necessarily going to be obvious if it isn't also an MA workstation, or someone who does insurance stuff, it just seems like a homogeneous pile of women.
Throwaway05
20hr ago
different ex-girlfriend story drop a few weeks ago in the NYT, but the take was "She's a conservative just doing politics, so we can ignore her allegations".
Importantly - it seems like they knew about this and didn't publish so that they could spin that narrative.
Throwaway05
21hr ago
that one angry woman with accusations of sacrilege is enough to render any random politician un-electable,
okay, good, because that isn't what happened here.
The guy has MULTIPLE (and credible) accusations of various types of sexual malfeasance. Including things he has admitted to.
He appears to have issues with alcoholism, drunk driving, and poor impulse control.
He has expressed interest in violence, murder, and rape and taken steps to potentially participate in these things.
He has endorsed abhorrent policy (as defined by me - ex: socialism).
The whole Nazi thing.
Ideally he would have been disqualified long prior to this point but if this is the straw then so be it.
Throwaway05
22hr ago
Okay so do you assert all the complaints about this guy are false (so he should be elected anyway)?
What about the stuff he and his supporters have admitted to, is that false?
Or do you think this stuff is real and that it is usually not false?
I'm confused.
Throwaway05
23hr ago
Let's make sure I got this right - you don't care how bad a person he is, even if he was Hitler you'd fine with that because you want someone to survive a sexual assault scandal regardless of how abominable or real it is, did I get that right?
I'd assert that this may be satisfying and at the same time the opposite of what you'd want to do if your plan was to alter how the electorate responds to these things.
Throwaway05
23hr ago
I defend this guy because I want a candidate (who has politics I don't even agree with) to win an election regardless of how much female-privilege-associated (re: "consent violations") dirt appears, so that people stop listening to women when they invoke it.
I mean you realize you are supporting a guy who supposedly said he would love an excuse to rape men, right?
Throwaway05
1d ago
Two things can be true at the same time.
MeToo involved a bunch of bullshit.
This guy is by his own uncontested words a huge shit bag in multiple ways, including in ways that would make you think he's the likely sort to commit sexual assault.
The contested stuff is just a cherry on top.
Additional process information includes the fact that this stuff was out their for months and then held back by various individuals, it wasn't fabricated right now, and the fact that the people who vetted him found and knew about a lot of this and admitted it.
It's blowing my mind that people are defending this guy.
Throwaway05
1d ago
The Dems presumably have access to a good-sized professional network of lobby organizations, activists, and businesses. There are also many political positions that are much less visible to the public.
Usually but this guy was an outsider they wanted to get rid of.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Shocked? No.
But Trump is vulgar, being a sex pest makes sense, rapist maybe less so but not shocking. This guy is HEINOUS. He bragged about having thoughts of raping men for dominance, like it makes more sense than not!
Vague, nebulous post-hoc signs are a problems but this guy is not that!
If you had to make a most Sus guy in a lab it would look like this guy.
Throwaway05
1d ago
It is so weird.
Throwaway05
1d ago
This guy is probably the most obvious sexual assaulter we've had in recent memory, even more obvious than some of the people who have previously down weird sex stuff.
The guy has posted about fantasizing about raping and killing people...and joined the military to do that (in how own words!), claimed to be a huge WWII buff but got a Nazi tattoo, has significant infidelity problems that aren't contested, and I'm not even sure that's all of it.
Hearing that he was a rapist or a sex pest is more unsurprising than anything.
Throwaway05
1d ago
If we're being conspiratorial though why leak this stuff after the primary, but before the deadline for changing the ballot line.
The post-mortem on this is going to be interesting if it ever becomes publicly available, the number of people I've seen on the left and the right in the establishment who note that everyone knew about this stuff (including the NYT) is unreal.
Throwaway05
1d ago
It's so weird, why are people defending this.
Is it a j00 poster thing? I hate that that is my first thought.
Throwaway05
2d ago
I mean I don't know for sure, it sounds like they may have additional sex crime allegations of various kinds. I was hearing from journalists months ago that "everyone" knew about these accusations and that some of them were being held onto or quashed (in the case of the NYT).
Most of the people who were saying that are saying more stuff is left in the tank.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Unfortunately the euphemism treadmill does not allow that, see for example "IPV" (intimate partner violence).
Throwaway05
2d ago
Oh yeah, it's not a 100 percent thing by any means.
Throwaway05
3d ago
Thank you for making me do this google search.
Also, apparently the PC approved term is "Conflict-related Sexual Violence."
I will put that next to "non-domiciled."
Throwaway05
3d ago
Please don't do this, reacting like this just supports the arguments you disagree with.
Throwaway05
3d ago
The pundit class has been pretty significantly telegraphing that the guy is incredibly radioactive and that the republicans are just waiting for the filing deadline, and the NYT knew about this and suppressed it.
Supposedly the big thing that's being sat on is sexual warcrimes, which sounds absurd but this is a guy who said he wants his house to be robbed so he can rape the robbers*.
*Per one of his sexual assault victims.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I mean (American) football players are told to hide injury both on and off the field - margin guys and practice squad people need to seem fit and healthy otherwise they get cut.
The whole thing has a culture of anti-bitchery
Throwaway05
3d ago
I mean it's less common but it doesn't get enough censure because people are used to football players toughing things out.
Josh Allen being a human freight train when he wants to be and a granny with a broken hip when he wants to be is dumber than Neymar rolling around.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Diving for RTP calls mostly. Also Josh Allen is (to be technical) a little bitch.
Throwaway05
4d ago
The US was also using tricks with the Iranian team I recall, making them travel into and then quickly leave the country.
The US never played Iran, this is just normal immigration stuff that got signal boosted because "fuck the US" (related: Canada actually did much worse stuff but didn't get nearly as much bad press).
Throwaway05
4d ago
As someone who often is voted negative but rarely gets a mod warning, I find the voting feature rather useless.
I do find it useful in one small case - if I'm deep down thread talking to one person and im consistently getting one downvote I'll be more likely to bail, it seems rude and is highly correlated with poor productivity in my mind.
Yes. OB spends more on malpractice insurance than most people make in a year.
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