Will Piner

@piner.bsky.social

Raleigh law nerd. Secretary and Parliamentarian for NC Antifa (Raleigh Chapter). Love dogs, Formula One and Canes hockey. Opinions are, unfortunately, just mine.

Okay, big topic, but just narrowing it down to a handful of categories where I have a strong go-to: - Creamy/Brie-adjacent: Nettle Meadow Kunik - Alpine: Comté St. Antoine 18 months - Gouda: Ewephoria - Blue: Chiriboga blue

Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.

People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese

This is a usefully revealing comment in how it shows that the US is not protecting Israeli leaders from war crimes charges because Israel is somehow manipulating the US through Epstein kompromat, but simply the shared interests of war criminals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Tom Cotton: "Ultimately, it's not about Prime Minster Netanyahu and Israel -- it's about arresting Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in the future if they ever travel abroad."

If the Trump administration actually intends to start turning the force of the state against the people and orgs it deems “subversive” here, we’re well beyond problems that voting, laws or courts have the power to fix, and sprinting headlong into The Cool Zone.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

New State Department report on foreign "subversion" is a virtual government blacklist that names 43 Americans + domestic orgs, including: - Mamdani - DSA - Hasan Piker - Amy Goodman Full list: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...

weapons grade smarm here and i think deeply telling about this guy’s character that he decides to immediately make this whole thing about him. i’ve enjoyed a fair bit of ken’s writing in the past but this is just gross

As for me, my apology is as follows:

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I stand by my previous defense of Platner.
Drunk tattoos and sexting-out-of-wedlock struck me as the most Marine shit ever. I literally know Marines who've done both but later grew up and became decent guys. (Hi if you're reading this!) I still believe in my bones that people like that deserve to have a shot at public office and that our country would be better for it. But the Marines I'm describing were never accused of more serious things like sexual assault.
Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 4w ago

See, this is part of the problem - while the new allegations against Platner are more severe than the ones that came before, the fact that political commentators were so quick to dismiss them as not relevant is how you ended up supporting a rapist.