This has “they aren’t bi, they’re just going through a phase” energy

There are plenty of asexuals who aren’t sex repulsed, the two are not the same thing. Yes, asexuals can enjoy sex, and doing so doesn’t mean they aren’t asexual.

The way our urban design influences society and community, and how the loss of third spaces and the dominance of cars in Western society has led to the loneliness epidemic and influence bubbles. I would talk about the movement to reclaim main street and encourage “traditional development”, and how that leads to the micro-encounters that help people feel like they belong somewhere. How parks, plazas and pedestrian areas create third places where people can casually encounter diverse individuals and create friends and community connections. Also with a hearty side about public transportation and how efficient it is, and what a better neighbor a tram rail is than a road of similar passenger load. This speech is pretty much 30 seconds away from coming out of me during any conversation anyway and it’s a conscious effort to stop myself. Would be nice to let it out.

Nope, corsets were not anywhere near the hazard people like to characterize them as. They were essentially a combined shapewear and bra, and most women achieved those exaggerated silhouettes with padding, not tightening things. The materials corsets were made of back then (whale balleen, paper, reeds, ribbons, cording and sometimes a wooden busk) weren’t puncturing anyone’s lungs. It was just a popular past time of men in the day to ridicule and belittle women for their fashion choices, a time honored tradition that continues to this day.

Do you honestly just absorb everything you read on the internet with no regard to who said it or where it came from? Do I really need to explain to you why it matters who is saying it and why?

Expecting better evidence when the motives are highly suspect is hardly some imposition. This accusation is coming at an extremely politically convenient time from a source that is extremely pro-Israel (Politico). Their parent company has already profited directly from the genocide in Gaza and Platner has taken a strong stance against it. So yes I will be skeptical to say the least.

Considering this whole story came from a source who is literally making a profit off of the settler colonialism in Israel, I wouldn’t put anything past them

I think Platner has 48 hours to research to find if AIPAC or outside groups (not including Cheyenne Hunt & Reckoning Action, Racicot reached out to them supposedly) have unduly influenced the details or timing of this

Politico, the website that published the story originally, is owned by unapologetic pro-Israel billionaires

This is just funny and I would recommend the same to you. Time to do a little research into Politico

Maybe not, maybe he did something stupid, but at this point the fact that AIPAC is dredging whatever they can up against him is more of an endorsement than a condemnation. If people who are actively cheering on the atrocities being committed in Gaza are telling me to be wary of Graham, that’s not the nail in the coffin they think it is.

I’ve just been on the internet too long to automatically believe everything I read, especially when it comes from a very motivated source

There’s a lot riding on discrediting Graham. He is the most promising progressive candidate in the northeast right now and is aggressively anti-billionaire and anti-establishment. He has over ten thousand volunteers and has the oligarchy scared. Yes I am dubious of this extremely conveniently timed account that has extremely scant hard evidence, being reported from a website who has only painted Graham in extremely critical ways.

The owners of Politico are openly libertarian zionists. Consider the source.

Interesting that that’s what you say when someone is asking questions

Am I saying anything about her personally?

This is serious and has serious implications, however ignoring the timing and choices made here is beyond naive. Politico in particular has had it out for Graham since October 2025

Saying “believe women” is not a magic mind control spell

Read the article carefully

There’s a story from the accuser, and a mention of recent emails between her and her therapist that have no specifics. All corroborating people associated are choosing to be anonymous (so might be made up entirely for all we know.) All direct evidence mentioning specifics has been “deleted”

The most compelling evidence presented in the Politico is this chat conversation with another anonymous person with no time stamps

https://static.politico.com/ed/f5/4412f6b44946866944ef85fd8a96/platner-screenshot-1.JPG

https://static.politico.com/61/c2/67b004f844f291369865043ed027/platner-screenshot-4.JPG

So let’s assume the chat is real, and happened when claimed, which is giving a lot of grace at this point. It says he is “consensually careless” when drunk. Is that how you would describe your rapist? Interestingly, if there was a response to the direct question of "does he force himself on people " it’s cut off from the chat. Weird.

Everyone saying it’s more credible than the last accusation, when the bar was on the floor for the last one. A woman is coming forward at the absolute most politically expedient time for the billionaires (not when he started his campaign, not when he started getting national attention) who voluntarily deleted all evidence of the incident herself but obliquely mentioned some vaguely troublesome things to some people who will all remain anonymous.

Ah yes truly we must all be fools for taking this with a grain of salt.

The books in that series all seemed to follow the same pattern of something weird, interesting and mysterious happening, having no idea what was going on, spending the whole book getting a slightly better picture of it only for something else totally incomprehensible to happen and the cycle started again. I wanted to like it but I got sick of the antics. Really interesting world though

He’s not, people scraped his reddit history and the worst they found was some typical ex-military grunt angst and some meat head talk. Nothing anywhere close to nazi-ism. The tattoo was a bad choice but it’s very obvious to anyone who does even 5 minutes of research into him that he’s not. He’s pro-LGBT, believes in supporting minorities, is anti-authoritarian and wants to cut military spending. But leftists hate nazis so the billionaire media is paying big bucks to get leftists to hate him.

I take my young kid to go see fireworks. We go to a beautiful place and he gets to stay up late. Last night he kept turning to me going “whoa! Mommy did you see that?”

Who says a collection has to be material or unused?