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Progressives are defending this guy because Platner's just the top image in hello_human_resources.jpg
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.
We are not the same.
(What your mind is being blown by are conservatives who don't understand this, so they're all busy debating whether it was or wasn't consensual because that's the framework they use to Protect Women. They don't understand that the entire concept of "consent" was destructive from the start and that women don't need that protection in an equal world.)
I mean you realize you are supporting a guy who supposedly said he would love an excuse to rape men, right?
Yes?
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.
Oh no, "alter" isn't really the right word here.
You can't alter how the electorate responds (re: Boomers), you can just out-vote the concerns of that sector, doesn't matter what they think after that. Altering how the electorate responds is much like how the scientific community alters its consensus- one funeral at a time.
You misunderstand: this is the reform I support, because right now they're all false, and I want the people who are too stupid to realize that (and/or think it's good that sex assault scandals are valid heckler's vetoes) to lose.
So I guess that means I think those people are... literally worse than Hitler.
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.
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