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Graham Platner on how billionaires want you to own nothing and the need to build something new (files.catbox.moe)
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[+] -8 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Nazi tattoo that his friends say he knew about. Public reddit comments about how he wants to kill for fun. Blackwater derivative volunteer. Abu Ghraib worksman.

This is an enemy of the people, yet Democrats want him elected, exposing their true motive: control over ethics, power over people.

The wild part is how the DNC doesn't even want this guy. Imagine simping for neo-Nazi that even the DNC won't touch. The state of US politics is comical.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Eh, I had a libertarian stint in my past. I hate the villany of changing your opinions. "Flip flopping" is one of the biggest failures you can supposedly have as a modern politician (or even person). We should praise people when they change thier views, not condemn them for it.

    At minimum, he must be better than Collins. That's the alternative. Even if he doesn't actually believe this stuff, it's still a significant improvement.

    I do think he believes it though. I think he has a bad past, and that lead him down some dark roads. However, I think this has taught him some lessons that he's learned from. He sees how shitty he was in the past and has improved. I hope this is true for everyone. If you still hold the same beliefs you did in the past, you're a failure of a human. If you don't see how stupid and ignorant the younger you was, you aren't living a life worth living.

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Nazis are rehabilitated with lead. Fuck you, apologist.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I hope you can look back in the future and see how stupid you are currently too.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Does he regret it? I've heard him speak about the nazi tattoo issue and he doesn't seem exactly apologetic and regretful.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I heard him speak about it some. I don't think regretful is the right word for what he feels about it, just that it was at a time he did a lot of stupid stuff. I think the tattoo is a fairly small part. It's just the part that is easy for people to post an image online and brand him as a Nazi, so they can make otherwise progressive people apethetic and not support him without engaging in what he actually thinks.

    If you actually cared what his opinion was, you'd know this. However, you just let some trolls mislead you and then you spread their propoganda. Their goal is to spread apathy, so you don't support things you should. No one is perfect, but he's pretty damn good from what I've seen and heard. He's anti-war and is one of the few people asking for decreasing the military budget. Does that sound like a fascist?

    Learn to think for yourself and stop spreading this voter apathy nonsense. You're a useful puppet to people trying to make you not get what you want.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    He tried to say he didn't know what is was from, but there was proof showing he had it for years after learning where it originated. Being able to avoid tattooing actual Nazi emblems on yourself should be a bare minimum requirement for any "progressive" politician.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I have known a number of Marines. What they tattoo'd on their bodies is the least of my concerns. They've all done fucked up shit having been in the USMC.

    They're also the most steadfast and active anti-war and leftist organizers that I have ever known.

    Hell, you can go back a century to Smedley Butler. He was not wrong and should not be discounted.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    The wild part is how the DNC doesn’t even want this guy

    You can certainly dislike this guy on his own merits, but DNC approval doesn't mean shit to me these days considering how they snubbed Mamdani. DNC lost any and all credibility with me years ago.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I got to say his interview on the John Stewart podcast a while back made me a teeny bit nervous. He talked about power a lot in a somewhat fascistic framing. Of course a lot of the other things he was talking about was fantastic. But there is that nagging doubt in the back of my mind about him. I really can't say.

    I will say I certainly don't believe any of his excuses for the tattoo, and he completely dodged the topic on that interview.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    I find it very hard to trust someone in any sort of leadership position who says they loved war, he said that people needed to die because he believed his way of life was the correct one, there have been a few different quotes where he mentions enjoying combat. And a literal Nazi emblem as a tattoo. How the fuck is he even being discussed as someone to elect in any sort of position at all?

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