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Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
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So are we saying our preferred outcome is for Susan Collins to retain her seat? I have a hard time landing on that as the morally correct choice no matter what is on the other side of the table. I think what does the most good for the most people in this situation is for her to be out of office.
We don't need more rapists in office. It shouldn't be that hard to find a candidate that doesn't rape people.
Platner should drop out and they should coalesce around Troy Jackson if he wants to run. Appeal to the base that wanted Platner in the first place and focus on forcing that old corpse Collins out no matter what.
Who is Troy Jackson? I am not from New England so I don't know much about any state politics there.
https://ballotpedia.org/Troy_Dale_Jackson
If platner had a long track record of community organizing and working towards the things he has claimed on his platform? I would still not be able to say "Let's support the rapist nazi" but I would at least understand the logic.
He has no political or leadership track record. He said a few things you want to hear and that is it.
What he DOES have a track record of is lying. Whether it be blatant lies about a "military history buff" reddit user having no idea what Mitchell and Webb's totenkopf is or, ya know, all the rape?
So we have a wildcard candidate where the only thing we know about him is that he is a rapist nazi. MAYBE it is worth getting someone else on that ticket?
I don't give two shits about Platner. I care about unseating Susan Collins. Platner seems to have the best chance at accomplishing that, as far as I can tell.
Stopping, or at least slowing down, Trump is the ultimate goal. We know Susan Collins won't do that. All her replacement needs to do is vote with Trump less than 90% of the time for it to be a significant win.
If there's a way to get there without Platner I'm all ears, but all I hear right now is talk of letting Republicans keep the seat and that seems like the worst case scenario to me.
HAD the best chance.
Regardless of if the allegations are true or not, Platner has no shot at this point. This will deflate any momentum he had. It is going to disillusion too many that he will not have the enthusastic support needed to beat Collins. His campaign is just too toxic at this point, people arent going to show.
So either we huff copium, and deny that reality until he gets defeated later OR we pivot now while we still have any shot.
Voting against people is what’s given conservatives disguised as centrists power all around the world. Stop being so proudly stupid and actually demand real change. It can be done, but carrying on like you are only adds barriers to progress.
It's impressive how stupid this comment was, given that most of it was you loudly professing to be smarter than everyone else.
Woof.
And how does electing more nazis and more rapists help with slowing down trump?
Well... the first step is to do what we should have done back during the primaries and get the nazi mercenary off the ticket and put someone else up there. From what I've seen, Troy Jackson seems like a great candidate. Very similar platform, good Union boy, and has a strong track record of actually trying to follow through on his campaign promises at the state level.