https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-sexual-assault-allegation-response

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    man, the me too movement really fell off

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        and Anita Dunn used Time's Up as a catch-and-kill to delay Tara Reade's allegations by several months. nowadays she is one of Biden's most senior advisers and helped him prep for the debate

        EDIT: searching to back this up I instead found more:

        https://www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1198657306/a-corruption-trial-revealed-a-metoo-ethics-entanglement-for-a-top-biden-adviser

        A top adviser to President Joe Biden, whose prominent communications firm helped launch a high-profile effort to assist victims of sexual harassment, rape and assault, was also a paid adviser to a powerful Illinois politician while he was being sued by one of those victims.

    • D61 [any]
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      5 months ago

      The blurb under the picture... I thought it was his nanny not his children's nanny.

      I'm not sure why this was my first thought. Doesn't make it any better that I was wrong.

  • Twitches@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Isn't this the guy who had a worm in his brain that starved to death? Joking about starving to death but not about the Dead worm in his brain

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    i've found a lot of his voters are literally just the most uninformed people imaginable who saw 3 of his campaign ads and were won over by cheap/vague populism (and the family name)

    i saw a bunch of likely progressive types supporting him in a tiktok comment section and i mentioned how he was zionist, transphobic, anti-vax, etc. and got a couple replies seeming genuinely surprised. one person with a watermelon emoji (palestine) in their name replied to me something like "omg, i was supporting him and had no idea!" and got over a hundred likes.

  • daniyeg@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    rapist brain worms vs rapist brain dead vs rapist brain mush. the best american democracy has to offer