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submitted 16 hours ago by RION@hexbear.net to c/politics@hexbear.net

Surely this is another GOP psyop! I know some folks on here were sure the last one was, after all

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[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 9 points 5 hours ago

Sorry everyone, but the only way to stop a bad Nazi who sexually assaults women is with a good Nazi who sexually assaults women. I don't make the rules.

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[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 45 points 11 hours ago

The guy is a former Blackwater merc who worked at Abu Ghraib. Of course he knew what his tattoo meant, of course he came back from the Imperial Torture Megadungeon as a domestic abuser and of course you can't be left alone in the same room with him when you're a woman (or a burglar apparently). A week before the election, we'll see a picture where he drinks beer out of a human skull or whatever and people will still go all surprised pikachu because they do not get that all of that directly follows from his history in the "warcrime as a service" industry.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 17 points 10 hours ago

Fascinating how democrats use the same tired excuse of “Why is she coming out right now?”

It’s all the same rotten shit

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 8 points 6 hours ago

she explains why too

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 18 points 11 hours ago

How will hasan-smash spin this as he is prepared to die on the Obvious Plant hill.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago

Apparently he has forsaken the oyster man due to this

[-] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

My opinion of hasan has dropped significantly ever since 2026 started. Its like he genuinely doesnt give a shit about what happens to anyone outside of the us. Half of his community was against platner since the start because of his war crimes and him being a tool for the empire. Western left hates ice more than their military, even tho the military is a lot worse, they dont care about anyone else other than americans

[-] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

And that's why, children, it's fair game saying there's no left in the US.

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[-] somename@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago

He was never as hard of a Platner supporter as some of the people you see online. Still too much charitably by far, but he didn’t like endorse him or anything.

[-] trompete@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

He did worse than endorse him. He called everyone calling out his Platner promotion and excuses wreckers, ultras and feds, and explicitly said he "doesn't care" what the guy did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He and the other Platner libs made this their hill to die on. Anyone who cares about imperial war crimes and their victims is their enemy, to be relentlessly smeared and mocked. And thus they have chosen a side, the empire's side.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago

This is correct. Tbh most of his commentary was similar to ettingermnentum where Platner is a symptom of the Dems being unable to run credible candidates so any person who is anti establishment, anti-zionist, left-coded destroys establishment candidates.

Most of the time he's also pointed to Abdul in Michigan as a far better example of a left candidate. And furthermore, before the accusations there was an argument that if the options are mills, Platner, and collins, well, that's pretty easy math. Obviously DSA/PSL dropped the ball not running someone, but I don't know how organized the orgs are in Maine.

Of course even AES isn't a DSA member like DAC, so obviously more work can be done, but I think Hasan, AOC, etc. Actually get the W here, they never endorsed and treated this shit with the skepticism it deserved.

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 24 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

the fact that any of you ever took a troop chud redditor seriously makes me laugh

that then goes doubly for the online pundit streamer/youtuber/podcaster class

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 27 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Just another american nazi, GI, mercenary and an abuser to add to the list. But truly he's an anti-zionist and is progressive tho, says the white soc dems.

[-] ghosts@hexbear.net 38 points 13 hours ago

I, for one, am shocked - SHOCKED - that a Nazi would do something so uncouth! You really can't trust anyone these days...

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 11 hours ago

Everything I hear about this guy makes me more glad I never supported him.

[-] abc@hexbear.net 53 points 14 hours ago
[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 36 points 13 hours ago

Ryan Grim of Drop Site News has been intolerable on this.

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 29 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The problem with Ryan is that apparently he knew Platner from when he was a bartender in DC. We should know from Bernie 2020 how much being "good friends" with someone can warp your judgement dem

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 27 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ryan Grim has been a bad take machine lately. What is with these journalists that start out with good positions always devolving into chuddery and crankery? Taibi, Blumenthal, Grim, etc.

There seems to be a type. Why is it so rare to find any principled journalist in the alt journalism western world? Only ones I can think of in the "alt" sphere that haven't embarrassed themselves are Richard Medhurst (admirable for standing up against legal pressure and trumped up terrorism charges from 2 countries) and Ben Norton. I guess that's your answer right there, if you stick to your guns and say the truth no matter what they law cracks down on you or you get kicked to the curb from your job.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

It's the absence of historical materialism

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 22 points 12 hours ago

I genuinely think they give themselves brainworms by being on twitter all day long

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 13 points 11 hours ago

Greenwald is another one. You are right, it's just pure contrarianism and eventually reaction.

[-] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

I remember him having some incredibly unhinged takes. During Snowden and WikiLeaks he sure was a plank but I feel he lost too much money to not pander to weird right wing grifters.

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[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 hours ago

Everyone on the majority report as well

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 30 points 13 hours ago

Sanders is the one who comes out of looking this most like a chump I think. He very vocally protected him on the nazi tattoo issue, using his jewishness as a shield. They are very closely tied together in the public consciousness of anybody that knows about Platner.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 22 points 12 hours ago

Post heart attack Sanders just swallowing L's like heart medicine.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 33 points 13 hours ago

Troops gonna troop.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 26 points 12 hours ago

Fucking liberals, man.

As someone who wants Democrats to win the Senate, I’m genuinely torn. Maine is one of the seats we have to flip. But if we walk away from our own standards just to win, what exactly are we asking voters to believe makes us different? Tough call.

https://bsky.app/profile/ariananiko.bsky.social/post/3mpz7wrhkv22b

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago

damn coulda done that for genocide

[-] miz@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

never let them forget that their hands are soaked with children's blood

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 22 points 12 hours ago

As if they had any standards other than "blue".

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[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 hours ago

Unsurprisingly c/politics on world are more than happy to continue ignoring red flags and blaming everyone else

https://lemmy.world/post/49122393

[-] Athena5898@hexbear.net 28 points 13 hours ago

If it quacks like a duck and....does other things like ducks...

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 42 points 14 hours ago

Another thread incoming with 500 comments and hexbear succs arguing for lesser evilism

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[-] peanutbuttercupola@hexbear.net 39 points 14 hours ago

Well if he's done the Democrats will have to choose a new candidate, one with experience running a short campaign on no notice... contextphobic

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