If I'd run for office at the age of 19, or at 23, I would have deserved to lose That's one of the many reasons I didn't
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Hell, I'm not running for office now, and I WOULDN'T run for office now One reason being my awareness of my many glaring personal flaws And yet I've never done anything even close to as horrible as blackmailing someone sexually So I don't know what you think you're proving
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Goddamn you're such a piece of shit You fucking Googled me to win this stupid Twitter argument? Is that your worldview, that everyone who could possibly object to your defense of this kid is a hypocrite and you can shame them all into silence?
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Shoot the messenger all you like You know who we know for a fact didn't bully someone into attempted suicide at the age of 14? The girl who was busy *being* bullied into attempted suicide at that age You know whose opinion that Coleman shouldn't run is most relevant? Hers
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Branko also doesn't seem to care that Coleman has shown zero remorse and WAS STILL ENGAGING IN BAD BEHAVIOR IN THE CAMPAIGN. Which..if you're dead set on the past shouldn't define someone, maybe just look at how shitty he is now and tell him to fuck off?
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Yeah, this whole, "Everyone deserves a path to redemption!" bleating they do is bogus. What has he *done* to go down a path of redemption? Nothing. I ask what actions he's taken that show he's changed and they can't give anything; they just point to the passage of time.
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The passage of time was absurdly short Coleman apparently believed he was a changed enough person that he should run for Governor of Kansas only THREE years after he almost bullied a girl to suicide (and five years after the revenge porn), in 2018
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Yeah, and the passage of time alone doesn't inherently do anything. A person *can* change over time, but that can mean getting better, getting worse, or staying the same. If he has shown he was a shit before, time passing isn't a reason to assume he's now *better.*
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Replying to @Eristae @arthur_affect and
It kinda pisses me off that people take him admitting what he did as proof that he changed(I think Glenn was clearly doing that). Imagine for the victims what is like, as if just admitting that it happened is already a huge compromise.
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Replying to @ImpPercyPtible @Eristae and
The one way in which the Internet is relevant to this discussion is that, while the victims never produced receipts, it's pretty likely they COULD - Coleman knows how easy it would be to just send out a damning screenshot of a FB inbox - and so there's no he said/she said
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Branko, I guess, thinks this is a bad thing that's destroying the organizing potential of Gen Z Ah, for the good old days, when if someone rolled up on you going "That's the bully who made my life hell in 8th grade!" you could just say "Hmm I remember it differently"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ImpPercyPtible and
I mean I am sympathetic to the right to be forgotten I think stories of people making a project out of monitoring their classmates and screenshotting every offensive thing they say online just in case it provides blackmail material years later are fucked up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ImpPercyPtible and
This is not that This is not something everyone personally involved would've forgotten about but Google kept receipts and an oppo research team dug them up This is testimony from the person whose life was ruined
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