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    There’s a lot of Reddit bots for the guy for an election that’s in June 2026. And some of them seem conservative or worse at the same time. 👀

    This post history for Platner is absolutely bizarre. Just non-stop Platner…

    I’ve never seen profiles for a single thing like this before. I honestly hope these are bots or a paid team.

    https://www.reddit.com/user/jediporcupine/ (Damn this first account is so prolific you actually have to scroll hard to get to the Planter stuff lol. I honestly have no idea how this account operates, is this a clear bot?)
    [13/100 comments for Planter in less than 24 hours]

    When I made this list a few days ago, basically all of them talked about Planter almost every day, or something like that, for the past 14 days. I noticed that some of them started posting more about other stuff after I first shared this list.

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Family-robot/ (53/100 comments about Planter in the past 8? days)

    https://www.reddit.com/user/ZeekLTK/ (29/100 comments about Planter in the past 11? days)

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Reziztor/ (54/100 comments about Planter in the past few weeks)

    https://www.reddit.com/user/mojitz/ (73/100 comments about Planter in the past 5 days)

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Inevitable-Bug7595/ (40/100 comments about Planter in the past week)

    https://www.reddit.com/user/dabeeman/search/?q=+&type=comments&sort=new&cId=ce87ec50-d0ef-48fc-8fe4-672669e9fd75&iId=df64472d-9515-4b16-a0a6-b9ae481a0e6b

    Brand new account with hidden history with only 2 comments for Planter (just search spaces in hidden history profiles to see their history): https://www.reddit.com/user/WeirdPhilosopher2772/

    On the flip side while going down these threads, I feel like I found accounts in the opposite direction as well confirming dead internet theory. 👻

    But it was like a 6:1 ratio. Bots/teams arguing with other bots/teams. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    Sorry for the long comment but just I don’t think this Platner stuff is organic. I don’t know who would do this. Psyop or something idk.

    I think Hasan Piker likes Janet Mills or something.

    Method for anyone curious- Replace the username in this link, download the json file, drop it into chatgpt to do the analysis for you, or you can convert it into a csv file and DIY but I prefer AI doing the heavy-lifting. Faster that way but I’m not double-checking my work because I’m not a journalist, so take it with a grain of salt.

    https://www.reddit.com/user/<username>/comments.json?limit=100

    I posted this on Reddit but the DemSoc mod removed it as spam. Not really sure how to get more eyes on this super weird behavior.

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    Mass murderer or not he was just going to be another electoral failure for the voters to not learn anything from

    just use this a litmus test to see who’s worth a damn in our circles and move on

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      Or the Harris supporters, who just actively ignore that she and Biden enthusiastically supported a genocide and state-engineered famine.

      Or the Obama supporters, who were a-okay with 26,000 bombs in one year getting dropped on civilians or drone strikes killing American citizens abroad.

      The hypocrisy here would be astounding if we weren’t so used to it. Democrats and their supporters do not care about war or brown people getting bombed, otherwise they wouldn’t have supported Obama, Biden, or Harris, all of whom enthusiastically supported war and genocide.

      They only care about Platner’s shitposting because the fundraising emails you get or MSNBC told you to.

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          Whereas Biden performatively wrung his hands and gave Bibi the thumbs-up to starve all of Palestine.

          Maybe stop pretending you actually care about any of this, when the only reason you’re commenting at all is because Rachel Maddow or someone told you to.

          We’ve all said dumb shit on reddit at one point or another. I could not care less because Platner, unlike most Democrats, doesn’t think it’s a-okay for their golf buddies to starve my family when I’m giving them my full-time labor. (And unlike many Dems, actually knows what it’s like to go to work for a wage in the first place.)

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            This is why the whole world hates Americans. Suppremacism is so engrained even “leftist” finds it normal to murder people in their illegal wars.

            What about the families of the people that guy killed? It’s always ME ME ME with you people.

            Oh and finally you whine about the dems but you voted for them. Lmao you stands for absolutely nothing

            Death to america

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            Amazing how you use a blackwater mercenary saying they joined the military to kill people as a means of calling the dems elitists. Truly Trumpian.

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    I highly recommend his interview with breaking points if you want to cut through the propaganda. Judge his authenticity as he addresses these topics.

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      I did. Very dissapointed in Ryan for not asking whether Platner has any regrets about killing brown people.

      Or even if he saw any combat at Constellis, because the “I mostly carried stuff” is a huge cop out to not answer the question.

      Platner was fake as everliving hell. Definitely a Fetterman. BP disappointed.

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    So who did he beat in the primary? Did they just do zero oppo research before letting him run or is he just the only person willing to run?

    Whos the republican hes running against and how are they better? If they arent better then why is there all the attacks coming from the left and not the typical anti-prorgressive arguments given by the right?

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        Would be nice, but id rather a potentially reformed mercenary then a geriatric or a republican. Seems like the DNC just doesnt want to run candidates that can actually win.

        At least the guy acknowledged wrongdoing, and if theres still a year to go thats plenty of time to get someone better to run against hkme.

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            There is a video of him owning up to both the tattoo and the reddit posts being mistakes, so thats pro why people keep claiming it. If the apology is genuine or not is a different question.

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              Ah yes, saying sorry makes up for wanting to kill people and then actually doing it.

              Let all the serial killers who apologize out of death row everyone! They’re definitely reformed too, they apologized after all!

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                Instead of giving this dude more attention and name recognition lets hear some better alternatives to run against him, or is it more important to complain and virtue signal?

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                  COINTELPRO’s any opposition movement

                  “You’re not allowed to complain if you can’t offer an alternative, stop blaming the democrats for running blackwater mercs who got off on killing people, improvised mortars in high-density urban areas even after the US military banned the practice and have nazi tattoos and compete with the established parties yourself! Also voting third party is a waste and splinters the opposition to Trump…”

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              last I checked he seemed fine with his role in the US-led full scale invasion of Iraq, has he actually said anything condemning that or about opposing future warmongering?

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                Yes,

                I will never, ever vote to send Americans into a pointless war. Everything we went through in Iraq can be laid at the feet of those in Washington, like Senator Collins, who knew better but voted “Yes” on a disastrous, deadly war.

                But im more concerned with why the conversation is how “bad” and not possibly able to evolve or be forgiven this guy is instead of just finding someone better to step up.

                The amount of Astroturfing against the guy a year out from the election is extremely sus.

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                  idk why he would clarify ‘pointless’ I guess he’s fine as long as the wars have a ‘pointed’ pretext, which the Iraq war did have. has he been specific?

                  The amount of Astroturfing against the guy a year out from the election is extremely sus.

                  the amount of people advocating to overlook a blackwater mercs Nazi tattoo and war crime employment history is also sus.

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      He hasn’t won the primary. It’s still a year away. The reason the left is attacking (or at least some of us) is because we don’t want a blackwater mercenary on the democratic ticket. The reason the right haven’t attacked him yet is because they’d love for him to be the candidate since he’s so easy to target, after the primaries. I’d imagine all the news corps owned by right wingers already have the real juicy reddit quotes lined up and waiting.

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        If theres still a primary then i dont really see why this is such a big deal, thats lots of time to get someone better to run. If no one better is available then that says more about systematic problems with the DNC then it does the ex mercenary.

        At least hes on the record acknowledging the problems and isnt ancient. The dnc doesnt seem capable of running anyone worth voting for, they can only do “not trump” so we end up with problematic “lesser evils” constantly.

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      Platner’s popular because of his positions and the fact that he’s a working class laborer, which are more appealing to the poor and middle class, and the fact that the other option is another 80 year-old conservative Democrat with one foot in the grave, and that’s all the Democrats have thrown against Susan Collins and these conservatives “centrists” always lose.

      Platner’s their best shot to actually flip the seat, but the Dem establishment doesn’t want that because their corporate donors don’t want that.

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    I care less about shitposting on Reddit than I do about the very real deaths of Americans experienced due to the shitty health care system, low wages, corporate exploitation, and poisoned food and water that centrist Democrats are a-okay with doing absolutely nothing about.

    Hell, winter’s coming on and millions across the country are going to be hit with electrical bills they can’t pay to fund server farms for billionaires, and the only candidates who seem to give a shit about that are the Mamdanis and Platners of the world.

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        You’re right.

        He should have done it the civilized way, like Genocide Joe, by making sure Israel got all the WMD’s they wanted and never suffered any consequences for engineering a famine.

        And yes, I do not care about his shitposting. He was a soldier, in a war, so of course he was going to kill people. We Americans reelected the two men who kept these wars going for 20 years, so we can’t really clutch our pearls at this point and pretend we didn’t support it too, at least as a collective.

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            Reminds me of Kamala Harris, who committed publicly to continuing the genocide and famine in Gaza.

            Begs the question: Which is worse, to actively foment genocide and war crimes on an industrial level while pretending publicly to be a good, honest, and moral politician, or to kill people in a war, as a soldier or contractor ordered to be there, and then shitpost about it on Reddit later?

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      You don’t give a shit about foreigners coz you’re brainwashed into thinking we aren’t human.

      Supremacism is rife in America