I just want to make one thing clear about the Maine Senate race

[EdmondDantes_]

39. Except if we start supporting rapists, then our core values aren't about protecting victims

You might believe that it is, but when you're willing to look right past rape because someone else might be worse, we don't share that core value. Like I said, there's no number of rapes he gets a pass on because he says other things I might like. You're telling yourself you believe in x, y, z, but then moving right off those values. If you aren't willing to stick with values when it's inconvenient, you don't actually hold those values as anything other than an aspiration. Talk is easy, actions matter.

Since you didn't answer the question I'll ask it once more. How many rapes do we get to commit because of the shield of our claimed moral values before it stops being a shared core value? My number is zero. I can't see how it can be any higher to be an actual value. If it gets discarded for convenience, it's not a value.

And yes between the fact that virtually no victims lie, the victim having told multiple people in 2023 what happened (and we've got screenshots), and Platner's admitted entire adult history of not respecting women from blaming them for rape, to mistreating multiple girlfriends (even if you want to discount the one who he was physically abusive towards because she was a Republican, Platner has admitted to not treating his partners well), to sexting a bunch of women right after getting married, to throwing the former staffer under the bus for that getting out, he simply doesn't respect women and yes it's exceedingly likely he did exactly what she said.