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[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To Defenders of Platner: It's OK to not want yet another douchebag repping the team. It gets fucking old. Let people advocate for not wanting a shitheel for a senator.

To Platner's Liberal Attackers: Get on the bus. Primary is over, you have your anti-Trump candidate. Voting for a politician isn't declaring undying faith, it's taking a bus ride to get closer to where you want to go. A politician will seldom get you exactly where you want to go, but they can get you closer by the way they vote, even if they suck as people. So come voting time, get on the bus.

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[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

Hell yeah. Platner said it best in his victory speech:

He's standing up for Mainers that can't afford a senator for themselves.

The messaging is ON. POINT.

[–] Starik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Who knows? Platner may be a right wing plant. But maybe so is Collins.

I mean, she has been a Republican her whole career. And she votes with the Republicans in Congress. Come to think of it, I’m almost certain Collins is a right wing plant. Platner still seems to be the better choice.

[–] zuana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Liberal Democrat reporting in. Blue no matter who. Hopefully he turns out like AOC and not like Fetterman. So far Leftist candidates are either gold or trash, honestly a lot like Dems. Maybe people are human and humans are flawed.

Blue no matter who. I'm doing my part.

Edit: Yeah agreed, screw Collins tbh.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Susan is still very concerned.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (7 children)

We need more Graham Platners running and winning.

I can't believe how many "liberals" are falling for the smear campaign by the right against him.

I'd rather have a candidate that admits his mistakes and has now adopted the correct positions, than these establishment freaks virtue signaling while supporting an orange pedophile war criminal.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is not just the right doing the smearing. Just look at some of the comments on this thread. Tankies out in full force calling him a fascist while in the same breath defending anything Russia does.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

It's almost like some of those avowed leftist accounts might have common ground with the right and center in trying to keep the left from being successful. They want a progressive left that is an electoral failure, either because they're accelerationists who think if things get bad enough then their fantasy government will emerge or they're just straight up saboteurs. The worst thing that can happen is for popular progressives to gain power.

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This election in Maine is everything I hate about politics.

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