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Graham Platner said he joined the marines to kill people, and had an excellent experience doing so. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

shouldn’t someone more credibly holding those positions run?

Maybe, but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative who's a-okay with your family starving to fund a billionaire's yacht instead.

Platner's problem isn't the shitposting, as the last 30 years of Democratic politics have shown demonstrably that Dems and their voters don't care about war, brown people, genocide, or war crimes. His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn't delete his socials.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe,

why maybe and not obviously yes?

but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative

they're also running a 41 year old murder enthusiast who is larping as a progressive, and they're bolstering his credibility by pretending to fear his policies. it's called hedging.

His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn’t delete his socials.

You think the problem is that he didn't delete is socials? (He actually did delete them and hoped to get away with it, it's just that reddit archives exist and someone leaked his username to CNN.)

I think the problem is actually that (in his own words) he "wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both."

[+] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I think the problem is actually that (in his own words) he “wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both.”

You say that, but I find it unbelievable absent the short-term memory of a goldfish or your algorithm feeding you stories about this, because the last Democratic presidential candidate was literally pro-famine in Gaza and happy to use public dollars to give Israel all the WMD's they wanted in order to bomb Palestinians, and Democrats like yourself insisted that this wasn't a big deal. The 80 year-old conservative the Dem Establishment IS running is, undoubtedly, on board with war crimes and genocide too.

I'm going to need to see more than a shitpost from Reddit before I'll pick up a torch and fall in line with a mob of pro-genocide hypocrites against a legitimate progressive.

Anyway, thank you for your opinion. Maybe work on that cognitive dissonance.

[–] causepix@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

I'm going to need to see more than a shitpost from Reddit before I'll pick up a torch and fall in line with a mob of pro-genocide hypocrites against a legitimate progressive.

Yo where do you think you are? The folks in this comm range from generally progressive to straight up ML... why are you shadowboxing liberals rn??

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Democrats like yourself insisted that this wasn’t a big deal

lol! you obviously have me confused with someone else

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago

Your opinion is immaterial, if you really do care about war or genocide at all.

The Democrats, despite their rhetoric, 100% use their power to support war, genocide, and war crimes worldwide and have done so for a generation.