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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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I’m so fucking sick of hearing about this guy, both from people who hate him and people who love him.
Either he wins or he doesn’t. I don’t live in Maine, I have no input on the matter. His main opponent dropped out so he probably will.
If he wins, I hope he supports the policies he claims to. I don’t live in Maine, so I have no influence on whether he does or doesn’t
His Maine opponent dropped out so he probably will.
Thank you, I almost spelled it that way but decided against it lmao
it's not about the race per se, it's about whether nazi blackwater mercenaries who say they oppose arming israel are acceptable to "the left"
yeah would really love to further increase military spending! Really hopes he gets in to do that progressive promise!
I mean, he's a Maine character
It is crazy how he went from some guy I maybe heard a streamer mention like once to one of the most talked about candidates in the entire internet left-sphere.
Like I recall subs I'm on having whole struggle sessions about this dude and I was just like "idk how the fuck this even is".
it would go away instantly if the succ faction of the US left would stop defending him
Here's the thing, how many of us live in Maine? Not enough to swing the election either way I'm sure. Whether he gets condemned or defended literally affects nothing to Jack shit.
That's not what is relevant about him. Discussing any electoralism anywhere in this country is a waste of time for everyone invovled. The reason why he's worth discussing is because it outs closet nazis and chauvinists. Anyone who defends Platner and says stuff like "I don't care what he thinks, as long as he votes for healthcare!" can be placed on a list for re-education or wall after the revolution. Discussing him is helpful in left spaces for identifying those in need of education and bullying. Every person defending him would vote for Hitler. He's a literal litmus test for identifying AOCIA types and social fascists.
This is the one good thing about his campaign tbh. All these radlibs showing their true colors to defend him.
And yet the western left doesn't spend 2 seconds before condemning Hamas.
I have never condemned Hamas so please leave me alone.
Many on this site did. People who are now mods called Hamas and Hezbollah fascist on October 1, 2023. They were upvoted and the person they argued against was permanent banned.
https://hexbear.net/comment/4036177
In addition, people who have defended Mamdani, AOC, Platner and Sanders and electoralism generally remain a large part of the userbase who only sour long after the obvious occurs.
https://hexbear.net/post/6442067
Just search Mamdani or Fetterman or Platner in search, sort by old, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Originally these people were popular to mildly controversial and anybody calling them out was seen as a "crank".
There was contentious threads on Platner on this site with struggle session rainbow lines and hundreds of comments. People arguing seriously that he didn’t know about the Nazi tattoo he got in Croatia.
https://hexbear.net/post/6495410
Are we going to look inwards about this type of chauvinistic behavior? Can we reflect or just continue being smug and pretending we were always correct and didn’t repeatedly ban and ostracize the people who were actually correct.
But I will never let the overwhelming majority of the western left and progressive liberals forget this.