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[–] -1 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Has anyone here actually looked into what Planter believes? His campaign has been pretty good from a left wing perspective, including as mentioned opposing genocide in a state where anti-zionist rhetoric is not popular amongst the political establishment. His reddit history paints a picture of a dude who was radicalized to the far left. All of the evidence to me points to him being genuinely left wing. His tattoo story of getting it while drunk in Croatia and not knowing the symbolism makes alot more sense than him being an actual Nazi. It just blows my mind that so many lefties fall for these media narratives that paint their own as bad guys.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, so he's not a nazi. He's just stupid as fuck and doesn't know much about history or antifascist and leftist politics. This is the best candidate the left can field? Without deep roots, Washington will turn him into a ghost and he won't stand for anything in the senate anyway. Many such cases.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Without deep roots, Washington will turn him into a ghost and he won't stand for anything in the senate anyway.

    This is 100% what's going to happen. The only silver lining to Platner winning would be that Susanne Collins would be gone and not replaced by the living embodiment of the Democrats' fundraising machine

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If an absence of the worst is the best electoralists can hope for and actual ability doesn't matter, then they're really missing a trick by not just running a cute dog for every seat.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago

    he believed war was bad and then pulled a 180 and went to go help do more war and murder, then decided war was bad again, and then flipped 180 again and joined an even worse and more evil organization to do even worse war murder shit, and then decided war was bad again afterwards

    If you think this nazi dickslap chud believes in anything more than the nazi shit he got tattooed on his body and the four fucking tours he did to do war and murder for capital, you are a rube

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago

    I’m not from the US, but I’d pass on a guy calling himself leftist with pretentions to power but apparently not "noticing" for close to 20years (or anyone close to him really) that he has a literal SS symbol on his chest. Either he’s a liar or he has never learned any history/theory which is a major red flag.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago*

    Let's do this one at a time

    Has anyone here actually looked into what Planter believes? His campaign has been pretty good from a left wing perspective, including as mentioned opposing genocide in a state where anti-zionist rhetoric is not popular amongst the political establishment.

    So he opposes one genocide that 80% of dem voters also oppose, wow.

    His reddit history paints a picture of a dude who was radicalized to the far left. All of the evidence to me points to him being genuinely left wing.

    No.

    His tattoo story of getting it while drunk in Croatia and not knowing the symbolism makes alot more sense than him being an actual Nazi. It just blows my mind that so many lefties fall for these media narratives that paint their own as bad guys.

    I said it before, you could maybe make the argument that some dumb bastard in 2006 joining the corps was too stupid to know better and just liked the aesthetic, but if he genuinely had some sort of 'political awakening', and he still doesn't know what it means? Fascism is intertwined in history with basically all forms of left wing politics, how would he not know. And to keep it on?? If you don't treat it like a malignant growth after an 'awakening', you're either:

    1. Still a complete dumbass and not to be trusted
    2. A liar and DEFINITELY not to be trusted

    If you have a Nazi logo tatted on you and you claim to be politically literate, YOU CANNOT BE TRUSTED. The circumstances of getting it do NOT matter, especially if it is still on you.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago

    He also wants to keep the military industrial complex, just instead of giving money to PMC but give it to the military so they can expand.

    Like he's got good ideas but still feels exactly like fetterman where he says the right things but then get stuff like pulled a shot gun out of car at random black person

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    All of the evidence to me points to him being genuinely left wing.

    Is murdering civilians in Iraq for the American empire genuinely left wing? Is joining a mercenary company to go back to Iraq and murder more civilians genuinely left wing?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    He served four tours in Iraq helping murder Iraqi babies. The last time he wasn't in the military any more but he missed it so much that he joined a literal mercenary company so he could go back and help some more with the baby killing. That's not some "media narrative", he just isn't one of our own.

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