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Holy shit ...some of the discourse I've read today, man. Word of advice that nobody asked for from nobody important and if you care to listen ...When you are arguing with someone, have proved your point and you are clearly on top, just say bye bye and leave as the winner.
We shit down our leg as a team, embarrass ourselves. Poch walks. We have no plan B. We have no momentum, nothing to build on. Our best crop of players by talent ever, but no heart, no fight, no soul. Nothing. Maybe some wins against CONCACAF minnows, nothing EVER more than that.
We tell little girls that it means boys like them when they’re mean to girls. We say “boys will be boys” when they behave inappropriately. We question the timing of an accusation instead of how hard it must be to publicly accuse someone. And we wonder why so many women stay silent….
"Who among us hasn't terrorized & raped some gals, amirite?" I thought Trump being elected *after* his rape conviction--not to mention the 34 felonies, J6, etc--would be among the most traumatic political experiences of my life. But seeing revered Americans stan for Platner using these arguments?
America is such a deeply misogynist country that a whole decade of Trump still hasn't driven home the central lesson he offers: Misogyny & sexual assault aren't unfortunate private hobbies. They are the OG forms of oppression. When a man degrades women that's political & he's an oppressor, period.
Graham Platner may drop out. Who’s going to replace him? Will they win? He hasn’t been charged with a crime. He’s NOT my number one choice, but maybe we stick with the devil we know to WIN. The President of the United States is a sexual abuser. Why are we always eager to lose just to be “pure?”
The Platner accusations are just more evidence that misogyny, sexual assault, & rape are not a single-party problem. They are a power problem, a masculinity problem, a culture problem, & pretending otherwise so your team looks cleaner than the other team is exactly how predators keep getting cover.
YouTube needs to get a handle on the AI crap videos or YouTube will fade away. No one wants to watch that AI crap and it seems like most of the channels are AI crap these days. We need some venue that only allows real people to post and nothing that ignores copyrights.
Born on this day, July 7, 1887. "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." — Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter, 1931 I and the Village, 1911 Oil on canvas MoMA, New York 🙏🏼🌍🕊️