ITT: Stop purity testing American "progressives"!!!
source: Graham Platner's Reddit account, just before declaring himself a communist, lol
this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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There were a lot of people that got caught up in that patriotic shit, that believed they were going to make a difference, do something good. I worked with a guy that was blown up in an armored HMMWV somewhere in either Iraq or Afghanistan; he survived, some of his friends didn't. He had a TBI that--last I knew--he still wasn't recovered from. He had pretty brutal PTSD from his entire time overseas.
And yet, he still loved the people he served with, said it was a great experience, and also thought (in hindsight) that we were there for bullshit reasons.
I was abused by my first spouse. Doesn't mean that I didn't also love them for almost all of our marriage.
Shit's complicated, man.
It was pretty obvious in 2003 that it was an awful war. Normal people don't get 'caught up' in this, they have buyer's remorse because they didn't end up being seen as the badass war hero who isn't afraid to kill.
Vote blue yes. But do a quick google search or something before blinding voting.
I agree with you on this, very good take
Get AIPAC out of the US! And money out of politics. Schumer is a spineless turd who does not represent the American people.
Seems a lot of people have only seen his tattoo or heard about his reddit comments. I encourage you to watch some of his long form interviews or campaign events. The guy is demanding real change from the neoliberal norm and so threatens their sovereignty over the party, I'd be surprised if they ever endorse him.
Whether or not you're from Maine, if all you've seen is his controversies then you're in a specific news echo chamber that does not want to share his policies.
remember, the tea party was a hostile take over of the GOP. The only way the old democrats go down is with a similar hostile take over.
The Tea Party was not "grass roots". It was 100% AstroTurf. They were created by Republican strategists and funded by conservative donors.
A hostile takeover backed by all the right wing media. The tea party was working but grass roots. The established Republicans might have regretted it but nothing about the tea party was organic except the absolute nutters that got elected.
Trump took over the GOP too. Right wing media was initially against him. You can reductively dismiss this as him still being on the side capital , but Trump's trade policy is NOT what rich people wanted in general or else the US wouldn't have championed free trade for the last 70 years.
More to the point, building a national party with enough recognition to actually win is extremely difficult. Hijacking the Democratic party and giving people a reason to vote for it, difficult though it may be, is far easier.
MAGA was a hostile takeover but the tea party wasn't the grass roots effort it was portrayed as.
Holy shit his John Stewart interview. Wow.
People can't afford to vote without doing research anymore. I hope we've learned that lesson at least.
<Narrator, to audience>: "They Hadn't."
A lot of people really can’t take nuance in scandals and individual negative attributes. There’s things about ME that suck that I’m glad don’t get exposed online. Might come up if I run for office, which I’ll have to deal with.
I can honestly say until Graham, I had no idea there was a format of the pirate skull-and-bones symbol that had direct Nazi connections. I respect those who know the details of history better than me.
It'd be rough for me if I ran for major office no doubt.
Specifically about the tattoo: I grew up orthodox Jewish and went to school (a yeshiva) across the street from a Holocaust museum and used to go there all the time. I did not know what the toten kopf was until Graham Platner got called out in it. I'm also into tattoo culture and have come close to getting a similar style skull because it was cool and piratey.
It also doesn’t help there are at least two different totenkopf’s. The older Prussian cavalry badge, which has many variants, and the SS one designed specifically for them.
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And this is why she didn't deserve to be considered for the race. She's only in it for herself. She doesn't care about anybody else. She played dirty politics while Graham Platner refused to do so. It backfired on her big time, so she's taking her toys and going home. Selfish bitch.
Yeah, I don’t understand how people looked at “Susan Collins, but Older!” as a better option than Planter.
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Hmmm, just another cuck’n funt.
Schumer still hasn't even endorsed Mamdani because he's more concerned with representing Israel than representing New York.
And the Democrats are taking credit for Mamdani's successes even though they fought against him.
We need to primary every AIPAC funded Democrat.
Does who she endorses matter even in the least? Would anyone pay any attention to her endorsing someone?
No, it's just more evidence of who these losers really are.
I was gonna say, I feel like for AIPAC crowd, not endorsing him is kind of an endorsement.
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Two party system is terrible and both options are ridiculously bad, but you are crazy if you think that they are the same.
Should we break the system and make a new one? Yes. Will you do anything like that? For 99% of people the answer is no.
So if you are doing nothing to change the system, at the very least you should do what you can within the system (ie voting)
Anyone who says "both sides are terrible so why bother" but does nothing except online bitching, is just letting the people who are voting decide the future for them. If you are doing nothing to fight the system, at the very least use your rights within the system to choose the least awful option.
Most people affected by The Great US Empire can't even vote because they aren't citizen of the empire. They just get to hear the bombs falling or see the news about why everything gets expensive due to carrier group politics.
So yeah: Those who can vote probably should. It will probably not help much. But maybe it does help a bit to stabilize world trade a bit when the "democrat" imperialists instead of the republican imperialists win the next election.
This was the primary. That's when you root out as many shitfucks as you can.
Anyone still calling themselves Republican is in bed with fascism at the very least. Vote against them in a way that ensures they lose in a FPTP system.
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