It’s not me, it’s them: Platner goes down snarling with graceless exit video
2026-07-10 11:01 UTC
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-07-10 11:46
I dunno what they’re expecting. He said the allegations were false. Why would he do that and then give “contrition and humility” to the people that supposedly made horrendous false allegations against him that torpedoed his career?
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@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 11:33
When Platner observed, “we live in a political system that is not built for normal people”, the implication was that he is a normal person, which the shenanigans of recent months have comprehensively disproved. Even if you don’t think Platner is a normal person, you can’t deny that he appealed to a lot of normal people. But then, maybe “normal” just isn’t a useful adjective. I don’t know. Of course, Platner doesn’t necessarily have to be a normal person himself for the statement to be true. Platner can be abnormal and we can live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It can also be true that liberal elites have a general disdain for “normal” people. Or at least they have disdain for the voters who find uncouth, crass, ill-mannered populists appealing. Whether or not those voters are “normal” is a matter of debate, I suppose. But if they’re not normal, who is? And even if the populists aren’t “normal,” they still exist. In the millions. Ignorant, unrefined and problematic they may be, they exist. In this society, with you. What will the liberal elites do about them? They’ve tried snark and condescension, but for some reason it just hasn’t worked.
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@NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-10 11:36
I have no interest in watching his video but I also have no interest in further reading the article when it talks about Nixon and his “graceful exit”.
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@Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 2026-07-11 12:01
Can you guys not bring in another proper progressive and have another primary?