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I can't believe a former US marine who joined specifically for Iraq would be violent towards women.
I was thinking of the exact same meme, but I thought it would get a lot of backlash from the "progressive" opportunists who will now pretend to have always been against Platner, or that this accusation somehow changes his general character.
TBH I did not know he was a Blackwater mercenary. News keeps calling him a Marine, which I don't think is the same thing.
That would have been a dealbreaker for me, but then I'm not a Mainer and did not do much diligent research about him.
ETA Ten years ago, I wrote a blogpiece discussing the Are We The Baddies skit by Mitchell & Webb, observing Skulls in military symbolism are actually not particularly odd, as indicators of toughness and ferocity... Skulls were a tradition of mobile units, first cavalry and later mechanized and air units as a symbol of their ferocity.
So when Platner allegedly had buyers remorse regarding a tat that he got in the service when he was a front-line rifleman, I could sympathize. I am lucky that the stupid things I did as a youth left no permanent record. (The internet never forgets, and I have plenty of bad takes still buried out there from my adult years.)
Okay but consider his pattern of violently impulsive bad behavior.
Violent. Impulsive. Electing him would put him in a room full of congressmen.
That’s a great point. I’m thinking about nominating this guy
I'm registering to vote and writing him in for congress.
Plus he has a cool ass name. It would be awesome to see him sitting next to all those pedophiles congress. Lmao. Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run , run
Don't even care about the name.seems kinda faschy. I just want him in that room, being himself.do we have an inmate number?
He’s killed six rapists and pedophiles he’s based AF. It’s a name to remember
But can we count on him to scour and hunt from the Epstein files? A lot of folk in the US who are anti-pedophile seem to get all wishy-washy once directed towards wealthy elites, even the ones who can and do afford sex tourism.
I think he's a violent murderer with an excuse to carry a weapon. I want him in the literal room of Congress, and if I can get him there just by voting I'm so doing it.
Again, do we have an inmate number I can put next to his name, so it doesn't seem like I'm voting for a dead roman guy?
That's the thing. I was introduced to Platner by campaign materials and friendly bios showing up in my feed. At most I heard of the tat and some online discourse from a long time ago. I didn't know of his history of violence or his war crimes during his military service.
When it came to actually researching candidates, I was focusing on the ones we have here in California. And we too have our problematic ones.
No, I'm saying I want to out the violent impulsive war criminal in the middle of a room of congressmen. That is the most productive place for that guy to be.
Bonus points if he also votes to put trans rights or free healthcare in the constitution or whatever. That's all fake shit that will never benefit me.
The people are so desperate for progressive candidates they have backed this guy. That tells you how far gone the sysstem has gone.
I'm actually just in favor of putting violent impulsive murderhobos in rooms full of congressmen. I know the system can't and won't work for me.
Yes, in fact, we are that desperate.
One of the gubernatorial candidates here in California was a private prisons billionaire with a progressive platform who took the climate crisis seriously. He got third place and beat the progressive woman who at most has temper issues.
I'm personally afraid of establishment Democrats doing nothing and going full Neville Chamberlain.
You think this might be a psyop by the military to discredit progressive moments as a whole by having a progressive candidate that's the worst human they could get to be a believable candidate?
Not sure if I worded that right, but hopefully you get what I'm tryna say
At this point, I don't know, I can't change anything about it anyway, and so I'm just at peace with it for now. I'm not in a position to vote for the guy, I can't change the mind of anyone who is, and I have no idea if he is a leftist with a colored past or a fascist playing pretend with his politics. If he doesn't get elected, he'll probably get forgotten within a year. If he does get elected, he'll be voting on and proposing laws and we will see what his true policy positions are. I'm just waiting at this point.
Graham Platner fought in the military, yes, but he has since gained consciousness of the Military Industrial Context and wants to limit its influence across the world. Veterans deserve a chance to develop dissent and grief for their active duty. Many that join the military at a young age fall hook, line, and sinker for propaganda.
Graham Platner had a totenkopf tattoo, yes, but he has since covered it up. Also, that tattoo was exposed for everyone to see at his sister's wedding where the fiancé's family was largely Jewish. I'd wager to say that most Americans don't know about a totenkopf as much as the Nazi symbol or iron cross as the skull might be mistaken with a pirate flag.
All of the above points to a story of a broken person lied to by the American government to use their body as a meat shield for endless worldwide conquer, and their rehabilitation and reeducation to attone for their actions and do better in the world.
But that rehabilitation story falls apart with these rape allegations. Platner doubling down and denying his involvement, when Racicot had receipts with her friends and therapist before he even started his political campaign, nullifying any political motivations unlike with Fifield, alludes to a masked narcissism that risks his character. Why go to therapy to work on everything about yourself except this one aspect of your life? It's inconsistent and introduces risks to how Platner might perform as a senator in the future.
Also, as a senator, Platner would have probably needed to undergo hearings about his past relationships to air out all of his dirty laundry in front of the entire nation if he gets elected. Other things may be dug up that Platner didn't want people to know.
While Platner's socialist policies are good, we can have better candidates with less baggage, like Troy Jackson.
If your instinct is to think the guy with the Nazi tattoo openly talked about how he enjoys war and killing people, bombed a city center, without being ordered, was a guard at one of the most infamous torture centers we know of, and joined fucking Blackwater isn't an opportunist psycho taking advantage of you, you've crossed the line from sympathetic to gullible.
Show me where he said he enjoyed killing people.
All I've seen since the late 2010s is Platner denouncing his involvement with the MIC, and MIC as a whole.
Otherwise, you sound like another ML ultra that sees veterans as a monolith and has no room in the revolution for vets that have come around to leftist ideas.
Reddit thread "Why did you enlist in the Marine Corps". Now deleted comment from 01/02/2020
"Wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both. Hell of an excellent experience."
You really Britta'ed this meme...
I got absolutely shit on for saying that I didn't support him due to my long standing policy of not supporting people who get Nazi tattoos. People falling over themselves to say he had grown a lot since getting it, or that he didn't know what it meant when he got it (bullshit). People saying I was some Collins loving conservative just because I refused to support a man who got a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
I hope this is a lesson to the idiots who thought I was being unreasonable and unforgiving. It takes a special kind of asshole to knowingly get a Nazi tattoo. Those kinds of people don't grow out of it. They don't change. They might get shamed enough to cover it up, but they will remain an asshole. The only good that someone with a Nazi tattoo can do is to throw themselves in a wood chipper and become fertilizer.
The problem with your logic is that you are saying knowingly gets a Nazi tattoo, but you're against anyone having a Nazi tattoo, knowingly or not. So, let me take a slight detour before I get to the point.
The problem I have with an absolutist statement like that is that there are plenty of reasons someone might have a Nazi tattoo, even knowingly, that wouldn't make me immediately not support them. Now, given that statement, the circumstances are probably gonna be pretty stringent, but I don't think it's necessarily unforgivable or even disqualifying... BUT I think it mostly is, especially because you're right that you can probably find someone that is just as good as whoever I could find that fits the bill, but does not and has not ever had a Nazi tattoo. So, like... I guess the point is simple.
You're right. And I am wrong.
I think it's worth noting that many of the people who supported him did not do so out of idiocy. They were taken advantage of, their willingness to forgive exploited. They knew all of these things and were wary of them, but chose to ignore them because they were lied to about the kind of person he was. They trusted him. And they were scammed.
It is easy to say in hindsight that this was easy to see. I was willing to forgive the tattoo at first and the military service at first (though, not the mercenary work, nor the reddit comments, and definitely not the fucking rape) because, well, in some ways I am kinda gullible, and in other ways, I kinda give a lot of leeway to certain privileged people (mostly rich white men) who make mistakes that ruin lives because they never considered the consequences of their actions because society allows them to do so with little to no repercussions, and that subconsciously affects my opinions.
For the record, I wasn't a Platner supporter before this, but I understand how many of them got there. He said a lot of things that people desperately wanted to hear, and that is how people get scammed. They aren't dumb, even if they did act like morons. They're desperate. They're hopeful for anything that can make their lives better. They're even gullible to believe a man with a Nazi tattoo who was a Blackwater mercenary that assaulted many women was a good candidate, and responsible for perpetuated a culture that allows these horrible decisions to continue not being as bad as they should rightfully be. But, even though I understand why you think so, I still don't think they're stupid. And maybe that's another thing on me.
It was a skull and crossbones and he got it converted into a celtic knot with dogs on it, very quickly. Then eight billion bots tried to tell me he was a homophobe because he said "All officers are gay, and not in the fun dick-sucking way" on Reddit in like 2012. I really didn't buy that, and it primed me to get pretty dismissive of the noise pretty quickly.