• CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            getting 7 or 8 people who worked directly under him to corroborate the same thing? Sorry no one has that kind of Machiavellian control.

            You just dangle offers of money and future jobs. Assuming that these people weren't plants from the start, which is also not out of the question. Again, this is the Pelosi machine we're talking about.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 years ago

      Eeh some shitstain could say the same but in reverse abput Biden - Reade

        • Magjee [any]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          Believe Women means take it seriously and investigate?

          I thought we could just believe in woman and call it a day

          /$

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        There's no easy solution here. We have a large problem of sexual assault and rape victims coming forward and being ignored, but (especially in a political context) you also have whisper campaigns (see Alex Morse) and obvious fabrications (remember when Jacob Wohl got some ex-Marine to accuse Elizabeth Warren of some BDSM-related sex crime, and the guy couldn't read his statement without laughing?).

        Howie Hawkins had probably the best statement on the matter when the Tara Reade story broke: you take the accusation as credible, investigate, and give due process to the accused. This isn't perfect (because you have bad-faith smears like the ones directed at Morse and Warren, and they shouldn't even be taken as credible; and you also have situations where the victim stands by their story in good faith, but there's not enough evidence for a third party to draw any conclusions), but it's a decent start.

        • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Dude what happened to Jacob Wohl? I miss that guy and his big meaty head, did he do too many crimes and go to jail or something?

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Yes, it's such an important issue for the left that it's extremely easy for an opponent of the left to have someone say something vague about some prominent progressive figure and instantly discredit them forever, because people will usually just go with it, and there may well be residue suspicion even if they are at least partially vindicated. I think here it is different because there were multiple reports of people quitting his campaign, although it didn't seem to be about sexual assault or anything like that, just "usual" mistreatment of staff.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          I meant the DNC excused Biden saying, among piles and piles of shit, that Reade was a Russia asset