• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    He didn’t get that Nazi tattoo as a child btw. Was a fully grown adult believing that shit. Sure fuck the purity tests but this is a literal Nazi tattoo.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    Sorry OP thry keep downvoting you. Your right FUCKING NAZIS ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE, AND CAN’T BE REDEEMED. Basically they are all drinking the koolaid as the right infiltrate and split the left vote and create another center right Democrat that once elected will vote in lock step with the GOP. He isn’t fooling me, and I will be ready with I told yall so when it happens.

  • J3N5T4R@lemmy.world
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    People can change and grow from the dumb shit they say and do. But y’all want sit around being A bunch of purist fucking clowns having A cry. Weak.

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      They can indeed. But there is no sign that Graham Platner ever did. You don’t care though, because he said '“free health care” And like the Fetterman supporters, you will fall for it every time.

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        Literally 5 seconds of searching what he said about the Iran war.

        “As I go all over the state of Maine, what’s wild to me is everybody gets it. Everybody understands that this is not a war that is in the best interests of the United States, certainly not in the best interests of the American people,” Platner told a crowd of 100 people gathered at The Little Meeting House in Windham. “If we live in a small-d democracy, if we have representation that is supposed to represent the people of this country, why is it that a war that absolutely no one seems to think is a good idea cannot be resisted at the highest levels of political power?”

        Source

        • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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          Did we read this same selfish interested statement correctly?

          If Maine is a Nazi democracy, why wouldn’t Graham Platner’s interests align with representative electoral politics?

          Iran is Nazi American’s greatest levy into trade! Why not colonize it, like 🇺🇲 already did Venezuela with Maduro in custody!

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          How is that relevant to Graham Platners terrorist past? Give me a statement where Graham Platner apologized for joining the military and the war crimes he committed.

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    More Zionist propaganda. No, Schumer, we’re not voting for Mills so she can lose to Collins.

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    Seems like this instance needs to define what ‘progressive politics’ are. From my perspective, US electoral methods are currently constructed in a way where ‘leftist’ ideas are simply not allowed to advance. Like, yes Platner is guilty of war crimes but he is the less worse candidate, so sure vote him in and then move on and do the real work of community building, organizing, unionizing, and building a powerful labor bloc that is not beholden to any political party. Elections will not save us.

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        No, not at all. I’m saying that the likelihood of getting a ‘progressive’ candidate on a ballot is extremely unlikely. I’m also saying that ‘politics’ and specifically ‘progressive politics’ is far more than just elections. I’d contend that most ‘governance’ is done by unelected government workers. I’m saying that political candidates dont matter as much as us building our own communities and networks. I’m saying that arguing over which candidate would fuck us over the least is largely a waste of time. Progressive politics, in practice, should devote less time to electoralism and more time to developing their communities - government be damned.

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          Platner is a full on trained actor op caught lying multiple times. You don’t believe in him. You just want to believe in him and trick yourself.

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            You are misinterpreting my comment, and you seem to be trying your best to antagonize. I wrote, pretty explicitly, that I don’t believe in him. I don’t believe in any candidate… except maybe Claudia de la Cruz. I’ll repeat again: Progressive politics is more than just elections. Productive discussion - even in small forums like this - are far more useful than arguing about a candidate in an election that I would guess that none of us here can even vote in.

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              My bad I misread your comment you are correct. Still it’s important to call out the Platners of the world because they exist to funnel people’s energy into a false goal.