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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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            No, what’s Trumpian is literally aligning with Trump to defeat progressive candidates.

            "Is This a Pigeon?" meme template with the butterfly covered by OP's screenshot of a reddit post by P-Hustle (Graham Platner) from 2020 where he answers the question "Why did you enlist in the Marine Corps?" with "Wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both. Hell of an excellent experience.". impact outline meme caption "is this a progressive candidate?"

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              Go look at his policy positions.

              Platner is a progressive, which is why Democrats are pretending to give a shit about war and brown people. (Mere months after insisting we all vote for a pro-genocide candidate for president, following two decades of supporting war criminal Democrats.)

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                “Treats to Americans and also I want to improve the military” - Graham Platner.

                Why even bring up the genocide in Gaza when advocating for a mass murderer who wants to boost the military?

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                The primary is still seven months away.

                Platner says some good things, but given his absurd lies about his lack of knowledge about his nazi tattoo, and his vague downplaying of these murder-loving reddit comments as being “a long time ago” (without even actually disavowing anything specific) despite them reaching all the way up to 2021, it’s difficult to believe anything he says.

                Since Maine voters do seem to have an appetite for the actually-progressive policy positions he’s endorsed, shouldn’t someone more credibly holding those positions run?

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                  shouldn’t someone more credibly holding those positions run?

                  Maybe, but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative who’s a-okay with your family starving to fund a billionaire’s yacht instead.

                  Platner’s problem isn’t the shitposting, as the last 30 years of Democratic politics have shown demonstrably that Dems and their voters don’t care about war, brown people, genocide, or war crimes. His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn’t delete his socials.

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                    Maybe,

                    why maybe and not obviously yes?

                    but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative

                    they’re also running a 41 year old murder enthusiast who is larping as a progressive, and they’re bolstering his credibility by pretending to fear his policies. it’s called hedging.

                    His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn’t delete his socials.

                    You think the problem is that he didn’t delete is socials? (He actually did delete them and hoped to get away with it, it’s just that reddit archives exist and someone leaked his username to CNN.)

                    I think the problem is actually that (in his own words) he “wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both.

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                  I, among other people, had no knowledge that the tattoo he got was Nazi related. It just looked like a generic skull with cross and bones tattoo, typical for the military.

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                    It’s the third most recognisable nazi symbol after the swastika and ss runes. Maybe on par with the black sun, but you’ll see it on the uniform of every nazi in any movie.

                    It’s literally the skull the “Are we the baddies” skit is about

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            An independent candidate aligning with Trump? Mamdani is the democratic candidate, and is a far better example of a progressive to support than Platner.