Surely this is another GOP psyop! I know some folks on here were sure the last one was, after all
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.
Libs already stopped believing women years ago I won’t expect them to start now
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.
It’s bad. I think they’re going to believe her
Most actual self IDing Libs seem to hate this guy.
Libs and libs that call themselves leftists
Hasan, the Chapos, etc:
Ryan Grim of Drop Site News has been intolerable on this.
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
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.
I genuinely think they give themselves brainworms by being on twitter all day long
Greenwald is another one. You are right, it’s just pure contrarianism and eventually reaction.
I remember him having some incredibly unhinged takes. During Snowden and WikiLeaks he sure was a plank but I feel he lost too much money to not pander to weird right wing grifters.
It’s the absence of historical materialism
You get to have one good shot against the establishment - ONE.
Then they turn you or burn you.
Everyone on the majority report as well
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.
Post heart attack Sanders just swallowing L’s like heart medicine.
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
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.
Rare display of common sense by Felix
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
I recall Felix saying he didn’t think the guy was actually a Nazi, just a dumbass, based on his reddit posting history, and Matt saying that nobody would give a shit about his dumb sexting habit if he wasn’t critical of Israel. But they also say “the book Settlers was basically written for this guy” in reference to him bringing up his tour with the Marines in a debate. I don’t recall if any of them every actually endorsed voting for him.
saying he didn’t think the guy was actually a Nazi, just a dumbass
I’ve just been posting this everywhere:
From Mein Kampf vol. 2, Chapter VII: The Struggle with the Red Front
Never give nazis the benefit of the doubt. They say the wrong things on purpose. The nazis of today have disciplined themselves to “hide your power level.” Maybe some dumbass gets caught in the crossfire, not realizing what fascists do to infiltrate enemy organizations. But that’s exactly what a nazi would say to avoid getting punched in the face. Too fucking bad if you got the wrong tattoo by mistake.
To be clear I never defended the guy. I had no idea who he was till the Nazi tattoo thing came out, and I was maybe inclined to give some slight benefit of the doubt then because of his anti-Zionism but the second I learned he was in Blackwater I quickly dropped that.
Will Menaker endorsed voting for him explicitly. He’s obviously a nazi, he had a croat nazi tattoo from a parlor that was full of SS bolts and swastikas (I know what croat tattoo parlors are like that offer totenkompfs to US Marines). That’s on top of him volunteering for private mercenary groups. Felix should know better than to downplay this shit.
I think Felix’s comment was a while ago when this info was still new and we didn’t know all the other bullshit about the dude.
we knew he was a blackwater merc.
I didn’t till like a week after the nazi tattoo thing came out. Hadn’t even heard of him before that.
Will said “If I lived in Maine I would still vote for him.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZkm7qi3OI
I can imagine if someone wanted to hear what they want to hear, they might point out that they’re shitting on him plenty. But if you listen to this critically, you will notice it’s mostly excuses. They seem completely unbothered by that guy’s platform, saying they’re “cool with it”, despite Platner’s platform being liberal Hitler.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
the united states is so far-right even its socialist darlings are nazis. which i suppose has precedent.
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.
ideally, you’d think that would backfire spectacularly. discrediting electoralism as a strategy to achieve change should go in only one direction. in reality, my guess is the ameriKKKan “left” will never connect this back to the noam chomskys and hasan pikers of the world and they’ll keep canvassing and twitter arguing for the obamas and mamdanis of the world until the empire can no longer support their weight. times like this make me wonder how gramsci kept his optimism of the will.
Except that we have “communists” with “Marx” in their usernames vocally going to bat for electoralism and these opportunists. To anybody paying attention, the only takeaway they get is that the “communists” are hypocritical liars. That is why we have to form a disciplined party that will make principled statements, to rid ourselves of this chaff with their discrediting lies and falsifications and vulgarizations and distortions.
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.
In a time when Zionism has been thoroughly discredited among the general public with a void that could be filled with an anti-Zionist ideology, here strolls in some dude with a Nazi tattoo. Even Nick Fuentes and that fake Chinese professor’s increasing popularity is more organic than this bullshit. As far as candidates for psy-ops and intelligence assets are concerned, I feel like some crayon eater who also worked with Blackwater would be relatively high on this list.
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!”
They have taken so many L’s. For example, the smart pragmatic thing to do during the 2024 election was to not endorse Harris since Harris was going to eat shit anyways. Harris being an unrepentant Zionist who has never won a primary in her life should’ve been the convenient offramp to not endorse her. Endorsing a loser who will go on to eat shit just makes you look like a chump if you’re doing it for purely pragmatic reasons. Washington Post (or was it the NYT) endorsed neither precisely for this reason. It’s one thing to be an unprincipled winner or a principled loser, but being an unprincipled loser makes you a bozo and a clown.
Dems dropped metoo during Biden so they will just ignore all the allegations and evidence to keep support the wholesome progressive nazi
wholesome progressive nazi
[Redditor voice] Look, nobody’s perfect - okay? And if the oaf wins - his vote is valuable and we get control of the senate.
I read nearly that comment word for word about him on bluesky, like “who doesn’t have flaws? We need some progressives in office!!”
I stole some of my joke from this unironic Bluesky post.
There is no “defense” of Platner, there’s a recognition that should that oaf win his vote will be valuable.
https://bsky.app/profile/lordbusinessman.bsky.social/post/3mky5tzepns2i
I saw an even better post that was fantastic. I was so certain I’d never forget it that I didn’t copy it. I probably started to forget it the very next day. Heh.
I, for one, am shocked - SHOCKED - that a Nazi would do something so uncouth! You really can’t trust anyone these days…
Sorry everyone, but the only way to stop a bad Nazi who sexually assaults women is with a good Nazi who sexually assaults women. I don’t make the rules.
Least surprising news ever. Fuck that guy.
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.
His closet:
Well if he’s done the Democrats will have to choose a new candidate, one with experience running a short campaign on no notice…
coronating Kamala and her losing again would be
It would cement her as the
we have at homeIt worked for Ossoff until they got him in.
Idk, could see her squeaking out a win then being even worse than Collins
Another thread incoming with 500 comments and hexbear succs arguing for lesser evilism
but this one involves a real person - citizen of imperial core */s
oh true, that’s a real person! All the brown people he killed and tortured abroad aren’t real. Big difference!
Have there actually been that many Platner supporters here?
It’s mostly CyborgMarx trying to argue Platner’s the lesser evil compared with some other Zionist.
collins has been in the senate for years she’s probably still worse, but that doesn’t mean anyone should support platner even when he was just a blackwater guy
More like a small handful of the most bernard-loving electoralists that make every thread on him go to 500+ comments by doing the “if you don’t support him you support zionist DNC candidate instead” and “I don’t like him but lesser evil and this is rightwing hit pieces!”
I can name names and link threads if you want, but that generally has gotten me in trouble
Nah I don’t need links. I believe you lol.
Just generally I saw Platner-negative trends in things, so I was a little confused. But a few diehard holdouts, yeah, I can see that. Every cause has them.
Breakthrough News was making the same apologetics for Platner in the past month. I’m sure that had an effect.
There’s one extremely vocal supporter in particular who will accuse you of being a Zionist for opposing him (do you want Collins to win? She’s worse!!!, despite Platner literally being a racist mass murderer) and will distort theory to support him more generally, and a few others who are less insufferable about it. What I do see more often are people who seem to genuinely hate the guy but still regard him as the lesser of two evils, which is more understandable if still poor analysis (given his open support for imperialism and that he is a democrat the chance he will move the needle on Israel is negative but the chances he will actually expand American imperial efforts elsewhere are very, very good).
#metoo was taken out back and shot during 2020 primaries, this will not change the field.
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
Nah he’s cooked.
Troops gonna troop.
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.
Fascinating how democrats use the same tired excuse of “Why is she coming out right now?”
It’s all the same rotten shit
she explains why too
She doesn’t even have a conflict of interest, like she straight up hasn’t come out because she says she agrees with his politics. She only came out because the previous report was dismissed as politically motivated…
If it quacks like a duck and…does other things like ducks…
