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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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//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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    And just like Trump supporters, ‘he didn’t mean the thing he said!’

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    The guy said he joined the military to kill people. Stop defending him.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

    Glad we finally have a democrat who is willing to get his hands dirty.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Killing brown people for fun = shitposting on Reddit

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He has never apologized for murdering brown people. He only regrets getting traumatized from it.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago

    It does remind me of those people you mentioned.

    Mostly because as you can see in the post, he didn't accidentally get ordered to kill people but joined the military with full intention to do so. And is very proud of doing it after the fact.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (27 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    How about not running a blackwater mercenary as the "leftist candidate"?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (22 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    He didn't acknowledge any wrongdoing. Why do people keep claiming this?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

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

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

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

    Are you saying wanting alternative solutions is part of cointelpro? Im not sure i understand the significance here or what point you are trying to make.

    If there are other options available why is that a bad thing to focus on? Or why is it better to be focused on negatives about one person this far out from an election?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm saying that after the FBI does its utmost to disrupt opposition programs at the behest of the republican and democratic establishment, using the fact that there is no viable opposition and blaming the individuals for not coming up with one, in order to silence complaints about the establishment candidates is pretty shitty.

    And just because COINTELPRO ended, does not mean the practice did. They just got cleverer about it.

    As for the reason why to focus on negatives this far out from an election, why are democrats focusing on the positives this far out from an election? This is just a reaction to the dems trodding out potential candidates, presumably in order to test the waters. Another example is gruesome newsom, I'm already seeing the resignated libs saying shit like "well I don't like him, I don't agree with him and I'll be the first in line to demand a better candidate but if they run him I will vote for him because it's blue no matter who".

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    It seems like the democrat establishment doesnt want him to win the primary.

    Its really weird the political spectrum of people attacking him seems to be all over the place but im guessing almost none of them are actual voters in maine.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Where did he apologize for murdering Iraqis?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    How do these goal posts keep shifting...

    Platner’s yearbook superlative at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor shows him holding up a sign that said Palestine, Tibet and other regions of the world should be free. He was quoted in the Bangor Daily News as an 18-year-old protesting then-President George W. Bush over his Iraq policies when Bush spoke at the Bangor airport in 2002.

    “I started yelling, ‘Don’t attack Iraq. If our best generals tell us not to go to war, why should we,'” he said after being kicked out of the event. “Bush looked right at me and people started yelling for me to shut up, but he saw me.”

    He doesnt seem to have been a supporter of the iraq war, not sure if maybe you mean Afganis, but might want to fix that in whatever document you copy and paste replies from. Its still bad but i dont think it would cost them many votes in that part of the country.

    If you arent just astroturfing Id love to hear who is currently in the race that you agree with more.

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

    Graham Platner said he joined the marines to kill people, and had an excellent experience doing so.

    Thats literally the title. Him being a serial murderer is what this post is about. You just keep trying to distract from it and then blame people for "shifting the goalposts".

    Also if he is not a supporter of the war in Iraq why did go on tour there like 4 times??

    Why did he devise a method to use mk19 grenade launchers to evade detection by command after being ordered to stop using mortars in high density urban areas in Iraq. https://xcancel.com/BenMcCombe/status/1982083117709176945

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    Im literally just responding to the question asked about iraq.

    Also if he is not a supporter of the war in Iraq why did go on tour there like 4 times??

    I dont think soldiers get a huge say in where they are sent. While i personally am not willing to do that kind of a job, it is a" job" for a heck of a lot of people and not really going to drive away voters in Maine.

    I dont really see a ton of people defending the guy to begin with. Believing hes changed yes, overlooking problematic past yes, but im not seekng people defending his "wanting to kill" or trying to say nazi tattoos are acceptable.

    Its just bizarre to me how much some people who clearly have no dog in the fight care so damn much about this guy.

    Do you not realize this helps get his name out there and will be totally irrelevant by the time that primary happens? Or is that the intent here, get the bad stuff out of the way early so on six months everyone has moved on?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's .ml. You can't win when you're arguing with high school tankies

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    Yeah im not trying to argue, it just seems very inauthentic to me that people care this much about the guy when he hasnt even won a primary yet.

    For folks who are pearl clutching over this dude do you live in maine and who is your prefered alternative? Youve got a year to find someone better so get at it!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • How much of a sick fuck he obviously is makes me a lot less uneasy about the nazi tattoo.

    But, like... Not enough less.

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