Miliano Xolotli 🐢

Inquisitive, Weird, working-CLASS, former reactionary McCain supporter radicalized to a Leftist, Gay y Orgullosamente Mexicano 🇲🇽

[Miliano Xolotli 🐢 @1MiLiAn0]

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[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

The Graham Platner debate/condemnation overlooks a glaring truth. The alleged victim herself ties his violence to drinking and PTSD yet these are predictable outcomes of combat deployment. Soldiers routinely return with substance abuse and heightened aggression, disproportionately directed at their partners, including higher rates of physical assault and rape. This is the direct consequence of U.S. military imperialism: commit atrocities abroad, provide grossly insufficient care for vets, and leave American society, especially families, to bear the domestic burden.

But instead of confronting this systemic logic, US individualizes it. US media/people/society grafts onto each person as a personal moral failing. "PTSD (or fill in the blank) is not an excuse" becomes the reflexive mantra because it lets the U.S. dodge accountability. That's how America (not) solves everything: pathologically individualizing systemic problems to avoid reckoning with its own imperialist machinery.

It’s only very American that Platner allegedly wanted to fix the structural devastation of war and its domestic fallout. Yet he was deemed morally unacceptable and condemned, forced to drop out of the political race not because he deviated from the American system, but precisely because he embodied the violence and substance abuse adapted into him.

At the end of the day, someone who’s never been to war will happily support going to another war, and they’ll never have to pay for its consequences. They won’t be the millions of Iraqi, Afghan, Iran, Palestinian who dies at the hands of US soldiers and US weapons or the partners who will face the violence of the soldiers returning home.

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

Of course they don’t. Rape is a very serious crime. If they really cared and wanted justice, they’d be calling for a criminal investigation and charges against Platner. What are they doing? Calling for him to drop out because the goal was to end his campaign. That’s why I will never participate in a media trial. It’s not a place where people seek justice; it’s a place where bad faith actors take down their political enemies. You never hear about the women again once the goal is accomplished.

[Matt Orfalea @0rf]

Serious question.

Is this the new definition of rape?

A woman "complying" to have sex, absent any threat or physical force from the man?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I'm as shocked ayone, but the most journalistically solid and adversarial interview about the Platner allegations was conducted by Mika Brzezinski; her questions to the POLITICO reporter showed how thin their evidence was.

Now some of the best analysis on Maine is here, too:

[Miliano Xolotli 🐢 @1MiLiAn0]

@FireFactory42 @grahamformaine @TroyJackson207 Who said that SHT?

[Amigos de los Salgado @amigosdesalgado]

We are friends of the Salgado family. We do not speak for them, but we are in contact with them.

We call on Houstonians and the nation to march with us.

#SomosLorenzo

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Oh grow up, Katz did Tom Steyer’s mediocre $200 million losing campaign. Was that charity?

The knives were out for Platner because he actually threatened oligarchy, and Katz stuck one in.

[Jon Kent @jonkentcomrade]

If you replace Platner with a corporate shill it will be a guaranteed loss and you guys will blame the left.

[MrK @IndyyProg]

This is why I never take leftists seriously when they complain about the prison industrial complex and talk about our mass incarceration rates, and then go on to say people should be imprisoned without trial based on mere accusations.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Alternate perspective on Morris Katz: He was able to steer an inexperienced, baggage laden, seemingly incompetent candidate to a 53 point primary win and respectable polls against Susan Collins. The other campaigns that employed him were massively successful. He’s still just 27.

[Israel is definitely gonna use a nvke @basspankai]

Like clockwork once they were done with Platner, now they are going after Abdul. These DNC parasites need to be thrown to the trash where they belong

[Miliano Xolotli 🐢 @1MiLiAn0]

The best F*CK YOU we can do AGAINST the establishment is writing his name in and then ranking @TroyJackson207 second. I'm so sad as someone who donated to his campaign, I feel like crying but he did the right thing here.

[Eric @Ericrse37986]

It’s disappointing that a great man like Al Green is going to be replaced by an empty suite backbenchwarmer next year.

[Miliano Xolotli 🐢 @1MiLiAn0]

@EoinHiggins_ His political depth or retribution is very common among working-CLASS voters. If this is the first you've ever encountered such a scenario, you haven't ever block walked for a campaign. People must not only agree with politicians, but they must find them COMPELLING!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This McCarthyist insanity has to be condemned. Going after small donors to Platner?

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I honestly hate that we've normalized the idea that all opinions are valid. I think we should get back to telling people that they are ill informed & ignorant

[System Update @systemupdate_]

‼️ "I don't believe ANYBODY—without evidence."

Glenn Greenwald slams the opportunists who are reviving the MeToo-era ethos "Believe Women."

"Empowering people to destroy somebody else, simply by ACCUSING THEM of something, is way too much of a potent power to avoid abuse."

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

Joe and Brzezinski said they were “scratching their heads” as they received calls about “Platner needing to be off the ballot.” They received calls consistently for two weeks from Democrats in Maine about getting Platner off the ballot. The establishment and their media hit squad even had interviews ready to go. I’m not calling anyone a liar, but if you don’t question the timing of the allegation, then you are gullible.

[Miliano Xolotli 🐢 @1MiLiAn0]

@DannyKPolitics Try tagging, it works! @ryangrim @EmmaVigeland @krystalball

[DannyKPolitics @DannyKPolitics]

Progressive liberals like Emma Vigeland, Ryan Grim & Krystal Ball are being tested. Are you folks progressives, or liberal reformists? The line is drawn in the sand. You can no longer obfuscate. You see how society abuses power asymmetry. You see censorship. How will you react?

[Miliano Xolotli 🐢 @1MiLiAn0]

@bhatt_kalindi @grahamformaine I thought you just write them in???