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Genuinely hope I'm wrong about him, but it's frustrating that Maine couldn't find a candidate without a Nazi tattoo. Or one that doesn't go on Nazi podcasts and call themselves long time fans. Or one that didn't enlist in a war they thought was wrong because they wanted to kill people. Or one that didn't merc for Blackwater.
I get that one can't pick their family, but his blue blood parents trying to buy him a mayorship is also wild.
Sad to think that the economy has gotten so bad that his parents who both worked normal ass professional jobs are considered blue bloods now. Back in my day we called that middle class.
Interesting how many billionaires are pouring cash into spreading any and all kinds of bullshit about this guy. The more they spend the better I feel about him.
To be specific: his parents are a lawyer, and an owner of multiple restaurants. Since when did owning multiple businesses become a normal ass professional job?
So was this restaurant a national chain? His mom owned a business in an industry with famously slim margins and that's supposed to fail him in some purity test? His parents aren't venture capitalists, bankers, politicians, technocrats, or corporate billionaires. Anyone who has to work to live is working class. This idea that he has to be "poor enough" and "low class enough" is such bullshit. If his parents were homeless junkies you can bet it would be spun just as negatively. You got anything to say about the actual shit he's running on?
Businesses. Plural. No shame in being rich; let's not lie on his behalf.
Guess we have different definitions of being rich, clearly. I don't begrudge people who can afford a vacation or a nice fridge when billionaires are flying their private jets to their seventeenth home and their yachts have yachts. Graham owns a boat too, how bougie!
If you can send your son to a 12k a year prep school, I consider you rich. If you can donate 50k to democrats, I consider you rich. Can you do that? I can't.
He went there for three months and it was on a scholarship. Enough with the fake outrage about his " working class creds". He is a harbourmaster and and works on his boat. That is a working class guy.
He told people he joined the army to kill people because he’s a psycho chud
Maybe I'm getting old but these things used to be something the middle class could afford. Sending your kid to a 12k a year school was something a middle class family could do 30 years ago. Not even upper middle, upper middle would be going to the 40k a year school or whatever. Middle class used to mean going to another state for a week during summer vacation, staying in a hotel and visiting a theme park, or road trips to a national park in your (own!) RV. Being able to put a new bathroom in on your 3 bed house in suburbia, or sending the kids to summer camp. If that sounds rich to you then where do you think that wealth went? Billionaires have been bleeding people so dry that a nice little treat or maybe a splurge for most college educated folks from 30 years ago sounds like some impossible luxury today apparently.
Have you considered making a donation to Susan Collins?
Don't be MAGA-brained. Politicians with a D after their name can still be criticized.
You realize those are the choices though? You can depress turn out for blue candidates with your comments and help reelect the senator who put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, or you can try to help not do that. With our electoral system, it is a binary choice.
When Republicans say that about their candidates, we rightly call them deranged cultists.
When deranged cultists say that about their deranged cult leader we say it.
That’s not what’s happening here.
Don't try to reason with blue maga
Uh hold on... I was under the impression that this so-called "Blue MAGA" were against Platner? I was called "blue MAGA" for daring to question the guy with the Nazi tattoo.
Now the person criticizing the person who criticized Platner is also "blue MAGA"?
Almost as if it's a meaningless term
It is a meaningless term. But ml is a lost cause.
Criticizing Platner is not blue maga. Blue maga is literally people saying "We have to vote Democrats to make America great again and if we don't fall in line and eat the shit the Democrats serve us then you're just as bad a Trump"
No, the establishment Democrats that are against Platner have been called (on Lemmy, because it's not a real thing and it doesn't actually mean anything) "BlueMAGA"
Might want to confer with your comrades to make sure you're on the same page, bud.
Even just a little thought would reveal how ridiculous your "understanding" is. MAGA is a contemporary aspect of the GOP, that is to say, it's disruptive to the Republican establishment, as we've seen. Therefore, why would Blue MAGA specifically refer to establishment Democrats specifically?
Blue MAGA refers to a tendency among Democrats to assert that we have to get rid of Trump and the Republican majority in order to make America great again. It asks people to ignore Nazi tattoos, duplicity, broken promises, and principles in favor of a theory of action that boils down to "vote blue no matter who and that'll fix it"
It has nothing to do with one's position specifically on Platner.
Blue MAGA doesn't refer to anything because it's a meaningless fucking term. Just stop.
I'm just telling you the reasons I've been called "Blue MAGA" on this site, and one of the reasons was because I questioned Platner's Nazi history. That literally happened.
Maybe you're the one who needs to think about it a little more... The Democratic party is not really keen on Platner (because of the purported socialism stuff, not the Nazi stuff). I said something along the lines of "I hope this guy doesn't turn out to be a Nazi" or something, and I was called blue MAGA because I was lumped in with "anti-Platner establishment Democrats".
But this was maybe before he became the presumptive Democratic candidate, so I guess now I'm only blue MAGA if I blindly support him as he DNC candidate?
Again, I'm not sure since the term is literally meaningless.
Eh he's a white guy. Doesn't matter what his past is, he gets to apologize and move on. Not like they have other examples of populist leftists in multiple other elections across the country. No, it's this white ex-mercenary who had to remove a totenkopf tattoo.
No this guy is the face of populism...