sternfleck

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

Because I think he has about as much of a chance of being elected to the Senate as he does of being elected president of NOW, to me the real danger of Platner is five more months of political discourse where he refuses to drop out as progressively worse and worse stories about his past are released and his supporters continue to minimize the seriousness and harm of his actions. The country is already in a regressive backslide when it comes to popular sentiment on feminism, LGBTQ rights, racial equity, and the more we have even supposed progressives and leftists repeatedly declaring that it's not a big deal for someone to gleefully signed up to be a mercenary in the middle east because of how much he just loves killing people, to have minimized the seriousness of actual war crimes like pissing on the bodies of dead Afghanis, to have walked around with Nazi symbols tattooed on his body for two decades, to have repeatedly used violent and derogatory language and misogynistic/racist/ableist/otherwise bigoted opinions about everyone but white men, to have multiple accusations of violent and abusive behavior toward intimate partners that we already know about, because all of those things are less important than supporting a candidate who is willing to ape the appropriate aesthetic and rhetorical in-ground signals and you will never go broke shitting on the Democratic party... I just need people to realize that there are bells that can't be unrung, okay? And there are parts of ourselves and our identity and what we stand for that we can never get back if we're willing to give them up in exchange for electoral aspirations.