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Graham Platner said he joined the marines to kill people, and had an excellent experience doing so. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I'm going to need to see more than a shitpost from Reddit before I'll pick up a torch and fall in line with a mob of pro-genocide hypocrites against a legitimate progressive.

    Yo where do you think you are? The folks in this comm range from generally progressive to straight up ML... why are you shadowboxing liberals rn??

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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