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If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Hollywood missing a huge opportunity by not casting soccer and NBA players to play the guys in the background suffering incredible pain in war movies

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

it's official- we will be saying goodbye to the cat that taught me how to love cats today. gutted

“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.”

I don't think Platner is a plant. he's just your run-of-the-mill misogynistic, racist leftish dudebro.

Wonderwall as a victory song in the Azteca feels like a microaggression

continue to think that planter’s support with the lib/left male pundit class was not *in spite of* his various transgressions, but because of them, a frankly pathetic attempt to reassert dem masculinity through a man whose violent career they believed represented working class authenticity

RIP Old Cat 5th may 2007- 6th July 2026

once again reminding folks that police commit violence against women at a higher rate than the general population.

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

Sounds like the annoying and shrill pro-DEI ladies who said that perhaps running someone who in adulthood knowingly had Nazi tattoos inked to their body was not a great idea were right...

Their next statement: “whether he’s alive or dead, Senator McConnell looks forward to continuing his efforts to kill Americans”

a victim's statement is evidence.

People love a champion of the working class who just so happens to hate women and black people

what are we doing here? what is this?

Uh, they were wildly successful at stealing our social security numbers

McConnell is mainly responsible for the current fascist reality at the Federal level. I hope that people know this.

im losing it at 'the globalism world cup' like...the world...is a globe????

The military is shooting people in the American cities they’re occupying.

an election is a job interview to become one of the most powerful people in the country. he is “innocent until proven guilty” in that no one can throw him in jail without a trial. it doesn’t mean “you are legally obligated to give him the job he wants and he can’t ever face a single consequence”

I hope that the survivor has a soft place to land with lots of support.

I don't think it failed.

yeah nobody's ever letting any of this go lol

A 41-year-old Maine woman has accused Graham Platner of rape. Her account is corroborated by contemporaneous emails to her therapist, by a boyfriend she confided in about the alleged assault, and by messages she sent to another woman warning her about Platner. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

watched a Belgian fan say "we have been making beer centuries longer than they have been a country" and ykw, fair play

oh for the love of exhibit 39248320 why when someone has a Nazi tattoo, you don't need to wait and see what else is behind the tattoo!

Jordan Henderson with 0 minutes played one yellow card and a broken arm might be the single greatest statline in WC history

can't even say "let this be the end of the dirtbag left" because I don't really believe in the dirtbag left. it was just a way for some guys who wrote about Dem politics to describe some guys on some podcasts while ignoring the anarchists and socialists and feminists who made the left relevant again

Alright well good luck to the English fans leaving Azteca

Women’s World Cup is about 11 months away. FYI.

Black feminists have told everyone that all politics are identity politics. But that "charge" is levied only at the marginalized. Oh well...

Praying for Mexico to dig deep and win this match on the power of having better food

“Hydration break!” *looks at both teams* “Sunscreen break!”

One reason why working class voters were not supporting Platner? They saw him as lacking “character” and “moral values.”

the appearance of solidarity among these lib/left men thru an admiration for this kind of masculinity too is on my mind

you really don't have to post that you'd gladly vote for a racist rapist

Saw a “white women are privileged for having their rapes affect the odds of a senate race.” Pack it in, folks.

Belgium cheating again by scoring goals

Men will literally run for the United States senate instead of going to Alcoholics Anonymous.

this statement alone is disqualifying. this is the kind of shit rapists say. also, even if he isn't a rapist...he shouldn't reinforce the FALSE notion that women make up rape to influence elections when we see how Biden and Trump were easily elected. but ultimately, I do not believe him.

have you watched sports

Star of a TV show run by a monster, at 1 point, heard EVERYTHING & more from credible & voluminous reporting on said monster (incldg some facts not published) He considered & said "we don't throw people overboard," illuminating that all the people *already* thrown overboard were invisible to him.

a thousand ships seems low

There's been so much misogyny embedded in defenses and celebrations of Platner, and now we're seeing that ugliness hit its pointless, embarrassing climax, as some liberal men publicly argue that credible rape allegations should be shrugged off.

PSA: simply not weighing in on a sport you clearly don't follow is always an option

applies to every field there is, the eternally relevant words of @carolineframke.bsky.social www.vox.com/culture/2017...

Not that this would be exonerating but I don’t think it counts as a “date rape” if they’re not on a date and in fact the guy broke into her house.

she was an unmitigated asshole with the temperament of Oliver Reed on a 4 day bender. But also yes she really was. One of one.

this match is drunk on moonshine made by a guy with one tooth called Jebediah Sooth by moonlight with the blood of a witch

I’m not sure about quality of play on either side but their certainly is a QUANTITY of play in this match

I generally think generational analysis is bullshit right up until we hit should that dead guy still be in the Senate?

wrote about law imitating sports imitating law imitating ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I think the media should stop adding "the rapist denied raping" statements without including the fact that most rapists say they didn't do it. like, of course, he denies it. most rapists do!

which sports are more nakedly corrupt than international soccer? combat sports come to mind

THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS LMAO

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps

the fact that a lot of people would rather complain that I used the word "leftish" to describe Platner than address the fact that racists and misogynists are a nonpartisan problem is a huge reason why we're here.

Oh, I didn’t even have to wait years…except in how long it has felt

Imagine seeing a horrible story about a man raping a woman and your first response is to go harass a woman on social media I just blocked that guy but also jesus christ men please get a fucking grip on yourselves

bro you can't lose at home to a 10 man side wtf

Vibes are pretty bad. Might be time for me to post extra photos of my dog or emergency hot takes again.

I do think often about the person who tagged me on Twitter to say she felt misled because she read my book and there were no lesbians in it despite me being a lesbian who posts a lot about being a lesbian so she could only in good conscience give it three stars

It’s not only the goals. Jude Bellingham ran nonstop throughout that entire match and contributed so much tracking back defensively. What a massive performance. It’s the talent, but even more so it’s the mentality.

There was so much good soccer today

I don't know who chose this language, but the language "credible allegations" doesn't mean he didn't sexually assault someone. it could mean he assaulted someone(s) so uncredible people would immediately dismiss th3 victim.

I wrote this before I saw the article about him raping his ex, BTW

Last year I wrote this about Graham Platner and models of masculinity on the populist left, which I still stand by. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A possibility we haven’t discussed enough is that they will start reinvesting in science but in a way where people have to sign away their souls. Things like: 1. You agree not to care about DEI in a meaningful or noticeable way 2. You agree to serve the Pentagon if they call 🧪

Tonight I am thinking about that joke that ends with God saying "I sent a boat, a plane and a helicopter!"

shocked at the suggestion that Donald Trump would try to unethically influence FIFA. does the FIFA Peace Prize say nothing of the man's character to you people

Now, I have always clocked the anti-anti-racism of the so-called “dirtbag Left” but this does seem a good time to point out the aggressive misogyny that elevated Platner’s “masculine” appeal as a necessary and aspirational aspect of his candidacy

So now Platner's replacement (I'm manifesting this happening) will have to face Susan Collins dusting off the anti-Kamala "I'm running against someone who didn't get a single primary vote" argument. Great work all around. First thank-you note goes to Pod Save America.

what the fuck is happening in this match

ok so microwaving sweet potato actually works really well? it took me 4 decades to use the potato button on the microwave

Red, master, red as blood.

hydration break every 6 min

If my rapist was running for office, I'd be in hell. Esp just five years later? Hell. I might change my mind after a transformative justice process, but in the absence? It means he still isn't willing to be honest, to do the work. He still lacks integrity. I wish Jenny Racicot peace & healing.

Let’s see the penalty.

"I will just very politely call him consensually careless at times" is the kind of sentence that just says everything about being a woman in this goddamn world

perhaps disliking nazis on principle could also be construed as pragmatism

ok well that was a pretty cool tournament for a while there for us

ppl are so desp to hang out irl they're out there playing pickleball ffs

this is starting to feel like Upton Sinclair quote levels of deliberately missing the point

Those of us unsurprised by the Platner news, please refrain from gloating or smugness. Please remember that another person’s (or more) suffering and trauma is the subject here. Be angry, sure. Better yet, be loud at your electeds if they chose badly, but SUPPORT SURVIVORS.

“We all messed this up” like hell “we” did, y’all fucked this up. I’ll be damned if I get lumped in with the “they have to acknowledge their bigotry against white men” crowd,

Just looking at this like what if Jeffries had this level of enthusiasm for freeing actually incarcerated people in the United States or like, the whole people of Palestine

American anti-communism has never been anything except fascism trying to wear Vaclav Havel's skin as a suit

Oh wow you don’t say? giving ICE more funding to better check themselves doesn’t work?

re: the OG screenshot—a lot of people support abusive men *because* they harm women. not in spite of it.

eight years in and I finally got him to smile in a photo 🖤

$5500 per month for a 1 bedroom is not *good housing*

getting ready to ignore the “don’t listen to them, it’s just bluesky” crowd when whatever about Platner drops

spotted, spoil’d, corrupted

some of you forgot about the AFCON final which was ten seconds ago

somebody give me whatever beetroot juice strategy England came up with to deal with altitude

for example, I did not have the spidey sense that there would be more Platner allegations 48 hours after posting this, but I didn't need to in order to anticipate it

FIFA intervened in a red card decision to do political favours, then when Belgium asked for reasoning they called that an appeal and denied it and now they're trying to charge Belgium a grand for filing an appeal lololol Infantino doesn't just look like a Disney villain, he studies their process

Kathleen Norris’s book “The Cloister Walk” has a phenomenal essay on Maria Goretti and another on the Virgin Martyrs where she talks to nuns who grew up in the 50s when all those dead girl saints were a huge part of Catholic culture in the US and how that fucks you up on a molecular level

Mitch McConnell remains in a sealed box with a cesium atom