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  1. shoulda run that one outta bounds
  2. it's been a few years since the bernard at the fifth circuit thread. isn't qualified immunity only a thing when the victim is trying to sue for money? does it apply when a state like California is saying the officer committed a crime?
  3. Oppo research firms are basically paid professional stalkers who hire licensed private investigators. Private Investigators have access to advanced databases that are used to track down people that are hard to find, and they subscribe to other databases that they can consult to get a better idea where the guy lived and worked, and who he hung out with, in his adolescent and adult life. The stalkers and private investigators use these clues to make educated guesses about where he would hang out online. In many cases, the phone number used to sign up for an e-mail service, and the e-mail address he used to sign up for a social media account, will come from licensed private investigator's databases. That helps narrow down where to look. Even if Platner had deleted his digital footprint, his ex-coworkers and drinking buddies probably haven't, and if you download their entire social media and feed it to an AI, the AI can figure out when those friends are tagging or talking about Platner. If any of those "mentions" revealed a potential screenname, that's an investigative lead for the stalkers to check up on. If you know his potential screen name, you check the Reddit archives and feed that to an AI. The AI can figure out which comments are consistent with all the other known information about Platner. The stalkers and private investigators review the AI's conclusions and confidently report to their client (Schumer and Mills) that the Reddit comments probably were made by him. The Schumer/Mills team leaks the info to a journalist, who corroborates the conclusions, and the journalist reaches out to Platner's campaign for comment, where he will confirm that the Reddit comments were made by him right before the story runs. None of the above even requires Snowden-level espionage. Meanwhile, the stalkers and PIs have already reached out to people from different periods of his life, learning as much as they can about where a possible skeleton could be buried. This stuff takes longer to investigate and validate, but they have an unlimited budget so I am pretty sure they are trying to get his ex-friends to check in their attic for old computers from 2004 that could be sent to a digital forensics vendor to retrieve AOL instant messenger conversations from when Platner was a teenager because he probably used the n-word, told racist jokes, and was interested in downloading porn at that age.
  4. The reason is that our media is captured.
  5. That was the Georgia phone call? To me that's a bit more uncharted territory and I get why the bizarre stuff happened with that. It's pretty clear that you can't follow an order asking subordinates to brutalize civilians who are engaged in First Amendment activity. "Just following orders" didn't work in Nuremburg and it shouldn't work in blue states.
  6. I don't think federal thugs can be immune to state law crimes if the thug is carrying out an unconstitutional directive. Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul should pressure their state legislatures to eliminate the statute of limitations on these state law crimes.
  7. This needs to be a way bigger story \
  8. come to think of it, you can hunt venison and observe the blackout at the same time
  9. Meat? In this economy?
  10. The DNC can win back the working class with *checks notes* "NO MORE WHITE DUDES IN GOVERNMENT"
  11. None. I'm not worried at all that he's a Nazi. I'm gonna say that for a dude like him, the biggest threat would come from leaked DMs or texts from his bachelor days. They're clearly motivated to track down and moneywhip every shitty Tinder date he ever had, and I'm sure they'll find a way to make him look bad. The real question is if he actually did something disqualifying. I wouldn't be shocked. Disappointed, but not shocked.
  12. You've got one piece of evidence pointing in the direction that he's a Nazi. The DC/corporate/AIPAC people are more upset about a symbol tied to a genocide that happened generations ago than they are about a candidate (Janet Mills) who hasn't condemned, and if elected may very well contribute to, an ongoing genocide that our government is funding. I'm not going to take this "Secret Nazi" thing seriously until there's stronger evidence of it. The fact these pro-Israel people are having to resort to this kind of Reddit sleuthing to support this Secret Nazi theory is laughable. And there's very little reason to think Mainers are buying it.
  13. come on, that's not DPI!!! /s
  14. His numbers are good, beating Mills by 34 points in the latest poll.
  15. These are some high school-ass logos
  16. Major Applewhite is a graduate of the Steve Sarkisian Clock Management Night School
  17. You just don't get it, do you? It's impossible to post a comment on a Reddit thread until you've read, researched, and demonstrated mastery of every word that's in every other comment. r/CFB is the reason I know more than John Gruden about reading defensive schemes.
  18. Is this Bluesky lib serious? Platner is responding to a comment about Punisher skulls.
  19. The only Latino in Maine reporting from a town hall last night
  20. Risky. Didn't neg, but thought about it.
  21. That's valid. Voters in Maine find outsiders untrustworthy, and I'm sure there are many vocal leftists in Maine who will abstain from the Dem primary because they'd rather participate in the Green Party primary. Coming at this from an electoral standpoint, Platner's politics are much better than those of Mills or Collins, even if his politics are worse than some of the other theoretical alternatives, none of whom have a prayer because if they did we'd already have heard of them. Don't like him because he probably did bad stuff while deployed? I can respect that. No disagreement from me, there, just as I wouldn't criticize someone who refused to vote for Harris due to her weak position on the genocide in Gaza. Murder, war crimes, and genocide are simply a bridge too far for some people, and that's ok. Don't like him because he used to say the f-slur and had questionable views on race? I respect that as well, but I disagree with the mentality behind refusing to allow people to shed their prior bad opinions. This is especially counterproductive in the face of so many people (especially men under 50) who were reliable Democratic voters in their 20s and 30s but who moved away from the party around the same time as #MeToo. The opposition is actively recruiting converts. Hell, even Donald Trump himself had been a self-identifying Liberal Elite for much of his adult life. So, it stands to reason that if the right is willing to forgive people for their prior progressive views and embrace converts, the left should be willing to forgive people for their prior regressive views and welcome ex-chuds. Better late than never, and we truly need all hands on deck. TLDR, unlike murder and war crimes, I don't think having had bad opinions in the past should be categorically disqualifying. Don't like him because he's too dumb to realize he had a Nazi tattoo? I find that uncharitable to him and strategically short-sighted. I'm not a history buff by any means, but even in the areas where I consider myself to be more knowledgeable than most people, I still learn new things on a regular basis. Until more evidence comes out, I'm going to allow him the benefit of the doubt. Even if he told anonymous strangers online that he studied history, that doesn't automatically mean he downloaded encyclopedic knowledge of Nazi iconography or that he was shirtless around someone who would have known that. And according to him, the people who should have known that, the ones responsible for verifying that he was eligible to serve in a different branch of the Armed Forces and to have whatever security clearance he needed for his stint with Blackwater, seemed not to have noticed, either. Calling him a secret Nazi, on a day like today where no other evidence of his supposed Nazi views has been publicized, is not something I would take seriously. If Mainers disagree, let them be the ones to say so. As has been mentioned before, if he's as dumb as some people think he is, then it's more likely than not that future and more damaging oppo will come to light that would disqualify him for other reasons. This does seem very coordinated, and the reason I believe they're coming after him with so much firepower is because they are terrified of another Mamdani (whom they arrogantly believed would lose the primary) and want to take him out now before his support and profile have grown beyond a certain point of no return. It's intended as a warning shot to any other working class candidates who would ever dare to run on a similar platform. The message is that politics is only for Type-A, Student Government, social climbers like Pete Buttigieg who were grown in a lab to become politicians. Working people with checkered pasts need not apply, unless they embrace MAGA. We'll see what else comes out about him. I think it's a mistake for the left to treat veterans as irredeemable, but I respect and understand the opposing viewpoint.
  22. For the same reasons none of us know FAU's depth chart. They're fucking losers who have no chance.
  23. I'm not voting for him because I don't live there, but I do think he's the least bad option in that particular race.
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