ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoGraham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegationwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down13cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldchapotraphouse@hexbear.net
arrow-up162arrow-down1external-linkGraham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegationwww.theguardian.comChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square34linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldchapotraphouse@hexbear.net
minus-squareChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agoCongress is full of ex-military and vets, and always has been. What an absolutely bizarre take.
minus-squarehanrahan@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoThere in lies the problem.
minus-squareChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoPoint us to the country that has no active or ex-miltary in its legislature. I’d love to see this Nirvana to which you refer.
minus-squaretimbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoImagine categorically rejecting someone because of a job they had. A lot of active political people here are hopeless. They don’t know a thing about a person except one vague item and that’s already disqualifying. No wonder people here are always upset. No one will ever be good enough.
Congress is full of ex-military and vets, and always has been.
What an absolutely bizarre take.
There in lies the problem.
Point us to the country that has no active or ex-miltary in its legislature. I’d love to see this Nirvana to which you refer.
Imagine categorically rejecting someone because of a job they had.
A lot of active political people here are hopeless. They don’t know a thing about a person except one vague item and that’s already disqualifying.
No wonder people here are always upset. No one will ever be good enough.