General Discussion

Seems a waste of my time. You have entrenched views about purity. So - one last time, one last response to you.

The Democratic exes (one being anonymous and a self-proclaimed Democrat) did not present any assertions of abuse. I don't mention them because I had hoped by now you'd agree that there is no "there there". The anyonymous one said she was collateral damage in a world that is his. That's it. She describes perfectly how I felt after a bad break-up with a non-abusive man. The other ex said Platner showed up drunk at her house but "declined to elaborate" if anything bad happened. She said that Platner's posts reminded her that he "disrespects women". Her opinion only, which we are to take at face value as she presented no examples, incidents, evidence.

I don't judge people based on Reddit posts 13 years ago during a dark period in their life and that I feel have been mischaracterized anyway and certainly don't translate that into how he's going to vote on issues affecting minorities and the vulnerable. I can't believe anyone would give more weight to them than to what he is saying today, after overcoming an addiction and receiving treatment for PTSD. I believe in redemption arcs, I've seen it for myself. Perhaps you don't or have not experienced it. But it seems to me insisting that people can't change is a pretty rigid view of human nature.

I don't bother with people's personal lives, it is between he and his wife and they seem to have worked it out.

If a Republican had a Totenkopf tattoo, I would wonder why any fascist Republican wouldn't just get a swastika instead. Not the case with Platner, who even in his Reddit days renounced fascism and called himself a "supersoldier for Antifa".

If rushing to call someone a racist, misogynist, rape apologist and a Nazi, anti-semite (I have seen all of these, on various threads) based on scant, misinterpreted or non-existent evidence is NOT character assassination, then I don't know what is.

I think we've reached the end of our exchanges. Primary is tomorrow and we will find out just how successful the attacks on him were. Either way, attacks on him will cease either because of the TOS or because they've accomplished what they set out to do.