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.”

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    "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.”

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

        just have to keep using disingenuous cable news talking points.

        What cable news is talking about his class history and his voluntary service to maintain the hegemony?

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          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.

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            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.

            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.

            There’s nothing to debate. If you support the status quo and Israel, you’re a terrorist fascist sympathizer.

            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…

            Which skull tattoo did he have that he removed?

            The topic I said I didn’t care about…?

            What has Israel removed other than the genocidal cleansing they are currently and ongoing engaging in.

            And what does that no sequitur have to do with believing in the sincerity of his political beliefs?

            Stop with your cable news media talking points. Just stop.

            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?