El Chisme

I was hoping they'd be a little less annoying here than over on reddit, but no such luck

Yes, I want my fellow Americans to have healthcare. If you can’t say you want the working class in your country to have a better life then you have no business engaging with people or trying to organize / agitate.

Yes, you can "want healthcare", but you also should prioritise (or at least view as equally important) the welfare of people outside the USA. There's a categorical difference between American/Global North leftists and the (past and present) revolutionaries in AES nations and/or the Global South, in that you guys live in the imperial core, and your hypothetical "free healthcare"/"better life" will inevitably come from super-exploitation of the Global South. So yes, just like you guys, Lenin/Mao/Castro/Ho Chi Minh/etc., "wanted the working class in their country to have a better life". But unlike the USA, the economies of their countries weren't structurally dependent on siphoning massive amounts of labour/capital/natural resources from other nations. That's the key difference.

He’s saying he doesn’t like some things about him and supports others things. Nothing like a wholesale “support” or endorsement.

I really do think it's very suspicious that he's an unrepentant imperialist soldier/mercenary. But then, I heard that at a time while he was still happily working as government-employed brown people killer he once roleplayed as an edgy leftist on a semi-anonymous internet forum, and then later deleted his posts once he decided to run for public office. Hearing that "kinda made me feel like he might be a pretty good dude^TM^!"

it feels like Hexbear is getting too leftcom even for me.

Platner is not Stalin, and I'm not Bordiga. Platner is not part of a workers' party/labour organisation, let alone a vanguard party, and I'm not "wrecking" his revolutionary communist movement. Any reasonably informed materialist analysis should include consideration that Platner is openly a member of a bourgeois-controlled Democratic party, who's promoting himself to the American audience as a "communist" of said bourgeois party (possibly because he thinks being as perceived as being further on the left differentiates/gives him an edge against his Democratic party competition?), whose various policy pledges on his own campaign webpage signal that he wants the American empire and military to be a more efficiently-run world-killing machine (see especially "Take on waste and corruption at the Pentagon; rebuild American shipbuilding", and "No more pointless wars").