Yeah, the community is not as left-wing as Hexbear, no shti, it's le Reddit dot com.

I find scraping a left-wing community for takes with single digit upvotes, and posting them for sneering and criticism from a distance to be somewhat distasteful. There is obviously no interest in using this as an educational opportunity (which that subreddit is prime for, among others) since there are no links are in the post.

I particularly find this post out of place on Hexbear which is descended from very similar community where many of us would have posted similar takes 6+ years ago before we developed our analysis further.

I’d be willing to look past his military service if he was running on a message of that service lead him to realize the American military machine is a force for ill and that he’ll fight to reign it in. But he hasn’t, it’s just been “greatest military in the world, we just need to get the right people running it” milquetoast critique.

And quite frankly, this instinct by baby leftists to dick ride any slightly left of center candidate that gains some traction reeks of desperation. I don’t care what the context is, having a fascist tattoo is just plain bad optics, especially when anti-fascism is a core reason presented for why politics needs to shift left.

Even if the not being involved in torture part is true (we can just assume that, surely ), he bragged about finding a loophole in orders against using artillery (I believe) in a populated city so he could keep blasting. I'm pretty strongly inclined to call that a warcrime if even the US military found it inhumane. Also, the whole invasion was a crime, so these are 100% Clean Wehrmacht arguments . . .

Was Abu Graib a concentration camp? I thought of it like a war crimes prison, like a Unit 731 without the pretense of science. But as much as you concentrate people you don't like, I feel like the purpose wasn't to separate out a certain type of person as much as it was to torture people who resisted. But I'm asking because if you assume you make an ass out of u and me

And on the subject of being too famous to do crimes - Guantanamo?

Platner deserves to be grilled

If only I had a link to the thread these came from.

I want someone who is going to vote like an actual leftist and his platform indicates he is going to do that

Like what. What "actual leftist" thing is he going to do, alongside the extremely NOT left commitment to increasing military spending and generally enticing more people to join up? Healthcare? Which is only implemented to mollify the masses and make socialists less enticing? People really don't know what it means to be on the left, they are convinced that a liberal welfare state is socialism. Very frustrating. I think it's largely a symptom of capitalist realism.

The united front stuff really loses its legitimacy when the guy they want me to unite behind was a Nazi tattood murderer for the empire until like last week.

These were heavily downvoted when I last looked, or at least the first one was

These people have unlimited time to find the nuance between horrible and horrendous, doing the math to know which is 'objectively' worse for days at a time, but if they so much as smell a leftist, their brain shits out just the word Tankie.

Why do y'all post about pecker every day

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Edit: bad take on my part