ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGraham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegationwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down13cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up162arrow-down1external-linkGraham Platner ends Maine Senate campaign after sexual assault allegationwww.theguardian.comChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square34linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareIthral@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoWild take when most veterans end up that way because they didnt have any other real options at the time.
minus-squareChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoCongress is full of ex-military and vets, and always has been. What an absolutely bizarre take.
minus-squarehanrahan@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoThere in lies the problem.
minus-squareChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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-up6·1 month 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.
Veteran? Hard pass.
Wild take when most veterans end up that way because they didnt have any other real options at the time.
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.
Agreed