Please tell me i’m not the only one who still finds this ridiculous and believes that only a court of law can determine guilt?

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    34·
    23 days ago

    Nah Republicans are a different breed because they’ll keep supporting even after the court of law has been applied to establish guilt. I’m asking for people to at least let him get to court. Also what sources do you have to show people speaking on his character?

    • velma@sh.itjust.works
      62·
      23 days ago

      Also what sources do you have to show people speaking on his character?

      Oh you have no idea about Platner’s history at all but you’re going this hard against his victim?

    • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
      42·
      23 days ago

      Mr. Platner could be rough with her, Ms. Fifield said, particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid. In the interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences. She was quick to note that he “never hit me, he never punched me.”

      But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.

      During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html

      • velma@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        23 days ago

        There are people seriously pushing here that because this woman is conservative she must be lying.

        I believe her.

        • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
          31·
          23 days ago

          That’s such a weird line, like she planned this out a decade before Platner got into politics?

          It’s just so depressing. I get that folks can love his positions but goddamn, I also thought we had standards.

          • velma@sh.itjust.works
            31·
            23 days ago

            There’s some real conspiracy theory shit brewing here. Talk about the text messages being made up by Israel and whatnot. It’s a little much considering the most believable part of this story is that a man got drunk and forced himself on the woman he was seeing at the time.

            • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
              31·
              23 days ago

              Ugh.

              I guess, glass half full, it’s nice to see the Right doesn’t have a monopoly on “well, he’s our guy so everything else is a rigged conspiracy.”

              Depressing AF.

              • velma@sh.itjust.works
                31·
                23 days ago

                When the leftists are yelling about how both sides are the same, they really aren’t that far off. They just don’t realize fellow progressives are included.

            • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
              12·
              23 days ago

              Why is it crazy?

              Israel carried out an elaborately planned attack involving thousands of booby-trapped pagers that required setting up an entire secret production and logistic chain. Israel spycraft is so good that they literally stole the uranium they used to build their first nukes right out of US labs. They. Stole. Uranium. Weapons grade.

              You’re talking about a country with the best spies on the planet, and one that openly spends millions of dollars influencing US elections.

              You’re also talking about a country willing to accept massive collateral damage if it advances their interests. Those pagers for instance? They were smuggled in over years. Many ended up in pawn shops and later bought by random innocent people. Many innocent bystanders were harmed when Hezbollah members were blown up. You can’t set off thousands of explosions in a country at random locations without hurting a lot of innocent people.

              My point is that Israel has the means, motive, and opportunity to do this. Framing an innocent man for rape is not even on their radar in terms of acceptable levels of collateral damage.

              Do I actually think it’s an Israel conspiracy? I have no real evidence of that. But I also think it’s ridiculous to just dismiss the idea out of hand. You can find numerous incidents of blackmail committed by Israel against American victims.