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Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
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Feel this is a good accompanying piece for all the folk insisting on caping for a Blackwater merc wth a nazi tattoo because he said something they liked.

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The election is one year away and over six months until registration for the primary ends. There is zero reason to stick with someone that has this many red flags. If he manages to win the primary, he will all but guarantee another Collins victory, because its real easy to write attack ads against this guy.

You know how Bernicrats always get smeared as being low key bigots? This doesn’t help with that image. I have seen multiple POC and jewish people on bluesky lamenting the fact that Bernie’s supporters are known for purity tests, but the cis-white male with a nazi tattoo gets a pass. That’s the image that is being conveyed to the public at large. There’s just no way to come back from having a nazi tattoo when running as a democrat in this day and age. And ‘I got it covered up once everyone found out’ is not an answer that is going to fly for the majority of people out there.

This isn’t the DNC going against him, Ken Martin supports him, Bernie still endorses him, he was all over CNN like a month ago as the exciting outsider oysterman who tells it like it is. And then it came out he has a nazi tattoo. So much of the general public turned on him. Some reporter said that when polling dem senators about it, they all said the tattoo wasn’t an issue, and still think he’s good for engagement. It isn’t them going against him, and most news articles are still going soft on him, and using his phrasing to describe it. But the general public hears nazi tattoo and, rightfully, wants nothing to do with him.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You know how Bernicrats always get smeared as being low key bigots?

    I've often noticed this.

    Ignoring the part that is obvious psyops being directed at the left, it seems like some people think that if you focus on issues of class primarily and don't constantly harp on issues of identity instead, that makes someone a "bigot". I think that's how the thinking goes, but what the people with the hyper-focus on "intersectionality" seem to be missing is that this kind of hair-splitting is exactly the tactic the elites employ to divide everyone up...and some of these scolds seem to be doing everything exactly as the elites would want them to go about it...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The fact of the matter is Bernie has always been weak on race issues. He botched the BLM protests in 2016 and has never had sufficient outreach to the Black community. I don’t think he’s a bigot at all, but he doesn’t seem to understand that there is more than class war. To dismiss the concerns of the Black community in America as being just part of a larger class war is incredibly insensitive. All classes of white people have marginalized POC in this country repeatedly throughout its history.

    I love Bernie, but this is a major flaw of his. In 2016 it was somewhat understandable as he is from Vermont and was kinda blindsided by everything, but he still has not progressed on this issue and I don’t think either he or enough of his supporters get how off-putting it is to these communities.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago*

    At the end of the day? Sanders is a rich, privileged, 84-year old white male. And he has been a professional politician for almost half his life.

    Sanders argues for class politics and fucking good for him. But he ignores race and identity because... that hasn't been a concern for him in closer to 60 years than not. Same with his LONG track record of shitty views on immigration: American Leftists (also other countries) kinda were actively opposed to immigration up until fairly recently as it was largely viewed as a way to bring in cheap labor to take away American jobs (and... it kinda was....).

    But what that results in is that we have an 84 year old man who thinks he still is living in the 1970s and 1980s... in the 2020s. And now that he finally has a platform after literally being the meme about how nobody gives a shit about white guys talking on CSPAN... he is rapidly becoming an example of why it is ALWAYS shut the fuck up Friday and it maybe is time for grandpa to step down.

    But the problem is that so many people have decided he is the only hope for "socialism" in the world and are insisting that any shitty thing he does isn't a symptom of being old as fuck but is actually some deeply intelligent 4-d chess. Which is why "h1b visas are bad" is such a "both sides" talking point and so forth.

    Think about it this way: You are going to the store to buy some bulk food. Let's say kidney beans. You grab the scooper, try not to think about who the last person who used it was, and then dump a scoop or four into your bag. You eyeball it to make sure nothing looks overly bad, but you aren't going to individually check each bean. You'll just dump them in water and see which are the bad floaters. It is less than a few pennies worth of lost food so whatever.

    Good on you. You are privileged. Most of us are.

    Now understand there are people in the world who can't do that. They actually have to very slowly add the loose beans to their bag because a lot of them ARE rotten or overly damaged.

    It isn't an inherent flaw that you or I don't check each individual bean. But it also means that we don't have the perspective to advocate for those who need to.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dawg, he's got a Nazi tattoo. My non-white ass is done with him.

    Demand better of your representatives.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    No, no, no, but don't you see? We're the ones stopping labor progress by being concerned about what happens to our communities~ And, of course, communities of color have never been behind progresses of labor rights while focusing on issues of race (as if they don't often go hand-in-hand)~

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