I remember Joe Biden being accused of rape and the woman who did it basically being hushed down. I haven’t seen a single person mention it (recently). Given his age, status, and political beliefs, it seems pretty much guaranteed to be at least somewhat true. How did I forget about this?

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    The same mechanisms that shut down accusations from people never actually went away, so when it became inconvenient to “believe women” they revved them back up and buried the story

    Tara Reade ended up moving to Russia over it, which y’know, only ended up making libs more bloodthirsty, many using the same rhetoric as rape defenders and apologists

    This is why you can’t trust them; they’re perfectly willing to turn on their beliefs because they don’t actually have them

    • This is why you can’t trust them; they’re perfectly willing to turn on their beliefs because they don’t actually have them

      This is something all leftists need to learn at some point: Liberals don’t have any real beliefs or principles they live by. They’re reactionaries at heart, any “progressivism” is tenuous at best. Being progressive and being a Liberal is a contradiction. Thats why we see breif periods of “progressive” times followed by the worst reactionary periods. Capitalism is only “progressive” in relation to what it was replacing, not actually progressive as we understand the word.

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      To be clear, seeing all the libs turn around and attack Tara Reade using literally the exact same rhetoric Republcians attacked Christine Blasey Ford was the thing that made me go from being annoyed at libs to actively despising them

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    joined a month ago

    You never got to meet the “It’s March 26th and Joe Biden is still a r*pist” bot

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    The democrats took the whole #metoo movement out back and shot it the instant it stopped being useful to them.

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      Intersectionality is important but lib idpol or lib essentialism whatever you want to call it is real.

      Libs always use identity as a weapon so they don’t have to talk about things like class conflict, wealth inequality, or how they’re functionally the same as Republicans. They just wave a little pride flag around while they bulldoze low income housing to make way for shopping complexes and “luxury” priced five over ones.

      Once they’re done using a talking point for their purposes they discard it.

  • everybody capable of using the Internet saw that clip of Biden repeatedly and upsettingly touching that poor young woman’s face even as she turned away and pulled back, only for him to keep doing it. he is so obviously one of those paycho guys that thinks it’s his God given right to touch whatever young woman he wants. before #MeToo it was excused as the behavior of a man from an earlier, more affectionate friendly grandpa time.

    while #MeToo was popping off, that shit would have fallen flat. by then, he had repeatedly shown himself as an aggressive asshole when caught out by young progressives during the primary. the whole “why why why why why” and “dog faced pony” shit. the guy is an obvious solid gold prick with a fake smile. 100% chance he’s done what he’s accused of and probably worse.

    then he was accused. the circling of the wagons around him and vicious attacking of the victim by libs obliterated #MeToo

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    I remember when liberals decided it was “proven” that his accuser, Tara Read (Reade?), was lying because a former landlord and an ex-boyfriend combined forces to call her a b*tch in some op-ed or some shit. Like seriously, I don’t think it was actually written by them, but it was an article where an ex-boyfriend and a whiny former landlord were cited as two of the key testimonies about her character.

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    Someone gave me the reasoning that rapists are usually repeat offenders, and the fact that no one else came forward proves that she lied.

    Then I asked him if he believes Brett Kavanaugh assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, and he got really uncomfortable. I could’ve gone even further and mentioned that there’s more evidence Biden assaulted Reade than Kavanaugh assaulted Ford (neither would have enough evidence to get convicted, but it’s still evidence.)

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    And also Tara Reade’s mother is recorded on the August 11th, 1993 episode of Larry King live. She called in and asked who she could talk to other than the press, because her daughter is working for a prominent senator but wants to report sexual assault.

    And nothing happened then either

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    Callback to that time it was revealed his idiot fail son has him saved as Pedo Pete in his phone. I guess that stutter runs in the family