Throwaway05
6hr 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
6hr 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
6hr ago
It is so weird.
Throwaway05
7hr 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
7hr 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
17hr 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
1d 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
1d ago
Unfortunately the euphemism treadmill does not allow that, see for example "IPV" (intimate partner violence).
Throwaway05
1d ago
Oh yeah, it's not a 100 percent thing by any means.
Throwaway05
1d 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
2d ago
Please don't do this, reacting like this just supports the arguments you disagree with.
Throwaway05
2d 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
2d 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
2d 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
2d ago
Diving for RTP calls mostly. Also Josh Allen is (to be technical) a little bitch.
Throwaway05
3d 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
3d 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.
Throwaway05
3d ago
I mean he's a huge sports fan of all kinds.
Throwaway05
3d ago
*My solution to diving, which I find distasteful and unaesthetic: harshly penalize extravagantly showing pain on the field, regardless of whether there was a foul or not. Soccer players aren't inherently more effeminate than any other athletes, they're just trained and socialized to show pain, where other athletes are trained and socialized to shrug it off. The "don't be a bitch" rule will fix the problem.
Can we start by fixing basketball and QB play?
Throwaway05
3d ago
We were always the bad guy, this has just given the hatred a locus.
Throwaway05
5d ago
Yep. It's impossible not to change - when every single person you restrain shouts "I can't breath" (and all of them can breath just find) it's nearly impossible to stop listening when people shout that.
This expands into everything.
Throwaway05
5d ago
This is why progressives used to love Jon Stewart, so much that he eventually cooked their brains.
The funny part is that he more or less got one of the biggest political shows of all time cancelled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart%27s_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire
Throwaway05
5d ago
And this takes as back to "a democracy can't function if people don't believe its a real democracy"
Throwaway05
6d ago
I'm going to stop you there, and I think this indicates a bit of juggling with a hidden agenda.
We need to stop assuming hidden agenda on this topic.
Like it or not lots of people can't distinguish between:
17 year old female with 25 year old male (lets say a college drop out guitarist in a band and a high school senior).
18 year old female with a 48 year old male (lets say a sleazy manager at a bar who sleeps with college waitresses for better shifts).
8 year old male with a 53 year old male (literal raping priest).
These are all wildly different but the dismissive rhetoric results in people failing to acknowledge that and putting everyone in the same bucket.
For an example of where this might be relevant - 27 year old guy goes to a club, assumes the girl he meets is over 21, but oops she used a fake ID and now he's a rapist. To me (and perhaps most of the posters here) this guy is obviously not a pedophile, but to say my mom "he should have known better, he must be a pedophile" is the obvious interpretation, and trying to engage results in a complete collapse.
Assume a poster has ill intent makes it much harder to actually engage with the substance.
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.
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