I get it’s a psychological phenomenon and who knows how many people will subconsciously be biased about it, but there’d probably be 500 people max who would list ‘she’s too short’ as a reason for not voting for her. I just don’t think any of the reasons you listed above can’t be easily overcome by her being one of the best presidential candidates we’ve ever had. Kamala and Hillary being terrible/uninspiring candidates were by FAR bigger reasons they lost than their chromosomes or skin color

Oh I forgot about the most important one too, Netanyahu

“5. Vance is 6’2”, AOC is 5’4”. Standing together in a debate, AOC will look small”

I get large swathes of America are racist/sexist/materialistic, but it’s unserious to think people won’t vote for her cause she’s the average height for a woman

She’s obviously unqualified dude, it’s a prerequisite that you need to suck the dick of every Fortune 500 CEO to run for president

In a way it kind of is, I’d rather someone be an open and honest fascist than a closet fascist/fascist collaborator. Easy to read intentions and I know to expect absolutely nothing from you but pain.

It really is sad though that 99% of politicians here have completely sold us out. We’re on our own. Nobody is coming to save us

The level of political rot in this country is at comical levels, as we can see from this race.

There is NOTHING Stevens is better on than Abdul. NOTHING. I cannot believe this horseshit

I am aware of how aging works, yes. I’m also aware that you are not guaranteed to turn into a conservative once you’re past 60 and not everyone’s cognitive decline happens exactly the same at the exact same ages

Because I wasn’t responding to this original comment, dude, it’s a new conversation. I am so sorry you were weirded out by that.

I am, don’t worry, I enjoy my socialism with a dose of reality

Russia Today?….

Who’s now endorsed by the DSA, which probably isn’t good enough for you I’m guessing

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYCyrEbkfIn/

I’m in the tankie and Stalinist part of the site aren’t I

He’s 58 dude. Guess we can’t elect anyone progressive over the age of 50 out of fear they might turn conservative. Chris Van Hollen’s gonna turn into Reagan reincarnated any minute now

OK? Thank you for the context, but I still don’t seem to remember ‘liberals’ cheering the fire on

He’s been a Democrat for over 20 years and endorsed Bernie each presidential campaign he ran and was actually endorsed by the DSA, unlike Platner. These are not ‘new’ beliefs. So odd we get these ‘people can’t change’ opinions about politicians while leftists (assuming you’re one too) also believe in prison abolition/reform. You can’t have both.

You also just don’t seem to know what Patriotic Millionaires is

You’re aware the House of Trade fire happened over 10 years ago right, not during the war?

And if there’s any stories about Ukraine deliberately targeting civilians, please share

No real winning outcome on this. A guy with a credible SA allegation doesn’t deserve to be a Senator, we don’t deserve another term of Susan Collins or a Republican majority in Congress. I just don’t think a replacement for Platner is beating Collins

Well this seems a lot more believable than everything in the NYT story. I was all in on Platner and still have some skepticism of this just due to the sheer amount of political ratfuckery in this country, but yeah this probably could end his campaign unless some other evidence against it comes out fast.

The timing of this, seeing some random people on Threads/Twitter say another accusation against him is coming a few hours ago, articles about how to replace a candidate in Maine ready to go right away etc., is definitely really suspicious too. This whole thing fucking sucks dude.

So vandalism should be met with a 50 year prison sentence?