Her response: "I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip,” she said in the informal, selfie-style video where she paced along a road. “No marriage is perfect, and I don’t want a perfect marriage, I want my marriage.”
My biggest fear is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“The white liberal must honestly ask himself why he supported the movement in the first place. If he supported it for the right reasons, he will continue to support it in spite of the confusions of the present moment. But if he supported the movement for the wrong reasons, he will find every available excuse to withdraw from it now, and he will discover that he was inoculated with so mild a form of commitment that he was immune to the genuine moral article.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Did you mistake Lemmy for a mirror?
Are you one of the folks who said we shouldn’t vote for Bernie because he wrote a New York Times best seller and became a millionaire, so he’s not working class?
Haha
Not at all. I was for Bernie. He doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo, hasn’t served in the infantry, doesn’t like killing people, hasn’t had multiple deployments, nor became a mercenary. He wasn’t perfect, but he was more perfect than Platner.
I don’t really know how you think that supports your argument? That is kinda my fear with Platner, that his service will not be true to his words, and he will fail to live up to his commitments.
That is unless that MLK quote was aimed at me? In that case… I’m not white, and I’m not a liberal.
In this metaphor the white liberal is someone who supports progressive values in theory, but when it comes time to make the change they get cold feet in favor of the status quo.
You don’t have to be white to be a white liberal. You just have to keep using disingenuous cable news talking points.
Again… This is my fear about Platner. I would love to be wrong about it. I just don’t see any evidence in his background that assuages my fears.
What cable news is talking about his class history and his voluntary service to maintain the hegemony?
Again.
I unapologetically endorse someone who claims to be against the Israeli terrorist regime, versus someone who has endorsed it dozens of times.
There’s nothing to debate. If you support the status quo and Israel, you’re a terrorist fascist sympathizer.
Which skull tattoo did he have that he removed? What has Israel removed other than the genocidal cleansing they are currently and ongoing engaging in.
Stop with your cable news media talking points. Just stop.
Do you have an issue with reading comprehension? This isn’t a debate about whether or not he’s a better candidate than Susan Collins. I was simply talking about how I think if he wins his actual tenure will be disappointing compared to what most people are expecting out of him.
Ahh yes, doubting the sincerity of a senatorial candidate that I can’t even vote for automatically makes me complicit in a genocide. Sound and logical rhetoric…
The topic I said I didn’t care about…?
And what does that no sequitur have to do with believing in the sincerity of his political beliefs?
Once again… What cable news organizations are talking about his voluntary service to the hegemony and his family’s economic class?
Would you be interested for once in actually talking about the points Ive actually brought up, or are you determined to keep swinging away at the strawman arguments you’ve poorly constructed?
This whole post is a strawman.
I mean… That’s an oddly specific fear? Besides that, am I wrong in any particular way? Is there anything that gives you confidence he is sincere in his beliefs?
I would love to be wrong about the guy, but we really don’t have anything to work with besides his history.
I’ve met plenty of vets who went left because of their time in the service, and I don’t hold that against them. I can’t say the same about a military contractor though. And most of the guys I know who went left after their service didn’t need to do multiple tours while enlisted, and then another in the guard to come up with that opinion.
I think the point is the primary is over and there is no way he will be worse than Collins. Hemming and hawing at this point just carries water for the establishment.
So the answer to my question is no, nothing I said is inaccurate. You have nothing but faith that he will live up to his commitments, or that he is genuine in any way.
And I’m sure you were totally reasonable about validating your faith before the primaries…
I can speak my mind whenever I want. Telling people to just operate on faith alone is how the DNC keeps getting stuck with people like simea and fetterman. Your unfounded faith deserves criticism at all times.
FYI am not OP… Just guessing at their sentiment.
Ahh, my bad.
No worries, I didn’t even realize the primary hasn’t happened yet. Like are they not going to run anyone against him now that Mills is out?
Nah, after mills dropped it was pretty much done with.
Maine primary voting date is June 9th.
My bad, they made it sound like it was over. So… is anyone running against him now? If not, why?
There are multiple people still running against him, although he is the heavy favorite and is the only one talked about by the media. I’ve seen people pushing for David Costello, who supports M4A as well as much if not all of the same progressive policies as Platner while not being 80 red flags in a trenchcoat.
TIL. I wonder why Platner is being pushed so hard. I am obviously not from the state, but him and Mills are literally the only ones the media talks about. I thought it was an oh well, gotta vote for the ex (maybe) Nazi mercenary dude because Collins votes 100% with the grand ole pedophiles anyway type of situation.
Looking into Costello, he sounds better experienced and a better pick. Although I didn’t see any stance on AIPAC, which is worrisome.
The media absolutely loves Platner, and for the same reasons they love Trump. He is a rich white male who elicits incredibly strong pisitive/negative reactions, with a long history of controversies and who makes bombastic statements. Generally speaking, he’s great for their ratings.
I guess, but I meant more like NPR, the Pod Save guys, tiktok, etc.
I guess the other option is to vote for the senator who has been there 29 years and spit in the face of progressive values and agenda, the working class, and supports the Israeli fascist regime and endless stupid wars.
You’re using disingenuous talking points of cable news
Edit: facts
First of all… Did I tell anyone to vote for Collins? Are we not supposed to critically think about candidates?
Pretty sure I said " I don’t think he’s going to be a worse option than Collins, but I fear there’s going to be a lot of people on the left are going to be disappointed in his tenure if he wins."
Secondly, how is anything I said disingenuous? Besides that, nothing I said is mirroring mainstream news, who are mainly focusing on his tattoo or his infidelity, which I don’t really care about.
I’m talking about his class history.