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So Graham Platner (the blackwater mercenary) has a nazi tattoo on his chest (old.reddit.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org to c/gossip@hexbear.net

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Idk what is most surprising here:

he hasn't gotten it covered (apparently had since 2006)
this made it through the pod save edit to be shown on their video
pod save had him on

Wonder what the excuses will be this time on why it's okay he's still in the race as if he wins probably will be another fetterman.

Or maybe I'm so conspiracy brained I wonder if this is a way to make the ancient governor running look like the best candidate

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[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

i was literally paraphrasing the The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in those comments. You got an issue with the argument, take it up with the big man

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

No, you were defending Napoleon as "progressive relative to his era" when he was doing the same thing you are mad at Platner for doing, only on a much grander scale, and then getting upset when people correctly said he is a fascist icon:

https://hexbear.net/comment/6603402

There have been so many critiques from third world marxists of Marx's orientalism, but hey, he could overlook Napoleon's crimes in Africa and the New World since he freed the whites from monarchism, so I guess I should too!

[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think you're having a difficult time parsing what Marxists mean when they use "progressive" as in world-historically progressive, as in, develops us from Feudalism into Capitalism. You're deliberately misunderstanding Marx's point here to get a "gotcha" on me because you want to suck off the troops.

I wouldn't put ancient-brained napoleon into any leadership position in a modern leftist movement, so you're just shadowboxing here.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I understand what you meant perfectly well by your last comment in that thread, where you express you are upset that someone correctly called Napoleon a fascist icon. Stop trying to hide behind Marx.

[–] WildWeezing420@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Napoleon existed before fascism did. Therefore he can't be a fascist.

Nowadays the people that hold most reverence for Napoleon are not fascist, but Liberals. Napoleon was the great contradictory Illiberal Liberalizer. He's a Liberal Icon, not a fascist one. So no, it's not correct.