125
submitted 1 month 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

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top new old
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago

Libs already stopped believing women years ago I won't expect them to start now

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Maybe the libs can find it in their hearts to believe women again if it means they can ratfuck someone they think is too lefty.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

It's bad. I think they're going to believe her

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Most actual self IDing Libs seem to hate this guy.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago

Dems dropped metoo during Biden so they will just ignore all the allegations and evidence to keep support the wholesome progressive nazi

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the united states is so far-right even its socialist darlings are nazis. which i suppose has precedent.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pretty sure at this point he's a purposeful psy-op to humiliate and discredit progressives, and progressives took the bait hook-line-and-sinker. Every lib here who argued we have to be "pragmatic" and "vote for the lesser evil" just played right into the hand of the CIA discrediting their own electoral movement they care so much about supposedly.

For caring so much about electoral politics, they don't seem to have very good strategy or understanding of what's happening or recognizing a poison pill being shoved down their throat by the CIA and blackwater mercs. "You are letting the Zionists win if you don't eat this poison pill provided by the US Military Industrial Complex!"

If your rule lead you to here, what good was your rule? The succ's ironclad lesser-evilism pragmatism that they stick by in all cases resulted in them backing a removed nazi war criminal lmao. Turns out their entire strategy is bankrupt.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] abc@hexbear.net 61 points 1 month ago
[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

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

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

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

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month 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 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

This is a massive L for Hasan and he's gotta own up to it but when were the chapo boys doing anything to support this piece of shit or his campaign?

All they've done is make fun of what a weird chud this guy is, they were literally calling him a "wokeremoved" even before this came out due to his reddit comments about how he fantasized about SAing a hypothetical burglar who broke into his home and how he explained in said comments that he isn't gay becauseremoved is about power

Maybe it wasn't the most principled leftist criticism of this war criminal piece of shit but it sure as hell wasn't an endorsement

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

when were the chapo boys doing anything to support this piece of shit or his campaign?

Will endorsed him. Iirc Felix said getting a nazi tattoo is disqualifying. Because either you're a nazi or you're not smart enough to hold office.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

Rare display of common sense by Felix

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

CTH downplayed criticism of him being a blackwater merc and having a nazi tattoo, they definitely had a "I don't give a shit about these issues and neither should you, hold the line and vote progressive" subtext

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] MaxOS@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago

Least surprising news ever. Fuck that guy.

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

I, for one, am shocked that this rich white nepo-baby who volunteered to go kill people in the middle east four separate times, including for a notoriously evil for-profit mercenary corporation, would have skeletons in his closet such as this.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month 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.

#metoo was taken out back and shot during 2020 primaries, this will not change the field.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

He appears to be suspending. It's curtains. There is a more normal progressive that people are talking about now. He's probably gonna lose but I don't think it's guaranteed

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Nah he's cooked.

[-] peanutbuttercupola@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month 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

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

coronating Kamala and her losing again would be chefs-kiss

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

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

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

but this one involves a real person - citizen of imperial core */s

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

oh true, that's a real person! All the brown people he killed and tortured abroad aren't real. Big difference!

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] ghosts@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

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

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago

Troops gonna troop.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Serious, specific, and credible.

[-] Athena5898@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

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

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] cream_provider@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

i guess we'll find out how much clout this guy has with the establishment. is he joe biden levels of #metoo resistant or is he just another eric swalwell?

i don't buy his insurgent progressive brand. i think he's one phone call from obama away from being in lockstep with the democrat agenda. so maybe he survives this. also fuck thisremoved nazi, he can go shuck oysters in hell.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Man who eats house pets found eating another house pet. Dems strategize in way to spin it as good.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month 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

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

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

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] somename@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Platner is such a shithead, for so many reasons. I can't wait for a day where he's no longer in contention for power.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

That took longer than I expected.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The DNC killed #metoo, so this won’t matter unfortunately

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

Goddam it sucks to be right sometimes.

[-] kotak_doost@hexbear.net 44 points 1 month ago

I always hated that guy, but that's because I hate all American troops.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

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

[-] RION@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Apparently he has forsaken the oyster man due to this

load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

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

It’s all the same rotten shit

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
125 points (97.7% liked)

politics

23110 readers
177 users here now

Protests, dual power, and even electoralism.

Labour and union posts go to The Labour Community.

Take any slop posts to the slop trough

Main is good for shitposting.

Do not post direct links to reactionary sites.

Off topic posts will be removed.

Follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember we're all comrades here.

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS