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.
Hit job remorse am I hearing for being so staunchly AGAINST his very own "Peace Plan?" Lol...Netanyahu definitely did signal something nefarious "so full of life!"
@mtracey Hitjob remorse am I hearing for being so staunchly AGAINST his very own "Peace Plan?" Lol...Netanyahu definitely did signal something nefarious "so full of life!"
@d3structo_@PollTracker2024@AbdulElSayed@DemSocialists I don't wanna be asked about something within the doctrine that I simply don't know or don't care for...I like capitalism, I just think it needs to be STRONGLY regulated and begrudgingly agree that's what makes America, America.
@d3structo_@PollTracker2024 Not anymore but I'm with @AbdulElSayed. I'm happy when they get @DemSocialists support because I love the coalition partnership for a common cause. But I'm not a socialist either. People call me a communist, IDGAF anymore and don't even respond but if necessary I'm not. Because-
WOW: Drop Site News ***DELETED*** its post reporting the fact that Platner's accuser said she texted him "about needing a glute massage" the night of the alleged incident.
This is cowardly self-censorship bowing to a mob that claims the factual reporting justifies rape.
It would seem like the governor of Kentucky should be able to find out how and where McConnell is pretty quickly. I mean, he is the governor after all. I don’t understand why Dems are just twiddling their thumbs over this.
Look, I’m not from Maine so what do I know…but my guess is the cause of defeating Susan Collins wouldn't be helped by Dem elites & online liberal know-it-alls smugly insinuating that 150,000 Mainers who voted for Platner are all credulous rubes, Nazis and/or misogynists whose policy preferences should be ignored/mocked in the selection of a new Democratic Senate nominee.
But again, I’m not from Maine, so what do I know…
The fact that "moderate Democrats" like Beshear won't do these basic tactical maneuvers that McConnell himself would certainly have done is exactly what's wrong with that clownass party.