I swear if this godforsaken site has a struggle session over Greg Stoker, I am going to break my monitor I swear
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Gonna start the struggle session because I'm gonna ask who Greg Stoker is and why anyone should care about him
Former US soldier leftist who, unlike many prominent "leftist" veterans, actually seems to regret what he did and work to redress it. I think he's an anarchist. He's very active in the pro-Palestine space, he was a participant in the Global Sumud Flotilla. If you saw the photo of the guy smoking at night as an "Israeli" ship moved in the background, that's him.
I regret my time in the military... ☹️
Based, I'm talking about people like Graham Platner when I say "leftist". Edited my comment to say "many prominent" instead of "almost all" to make that more clear.
Ohhh, gotcha!
Bit Idea: 30 year old guy who gets kicked out of PSL because they discover he did one tour with the Coast Guard when he was 18.
Goes on to get elected to office, the movie about him is called The Coastie.
I hadn't caught that you were former .mil, have you checked out the YT channel Autonomous Alternative? It's ran by a woman named Kylie, she's a trans indigenous woman who claims to have been in 82nd airborne. She doesn't do a lot of full length videos since 2020 or so - I assume because those take a fuckton of energy to make and she wasn't getting enough engagement to justify it, but she seems moderately active with shorts and posts. She has some good videos on kit... or I should say they seemed that way to my untrained eye, maybe you'd know better. And fun bonus, she has a 14 part series on building your own backyard aquaponics system lol.
Edit: And this is what she had to say about Platner
I'll have to look her up! I'm with her on the GP take, but being crippled with shame isn't exactly going to help build a better world. Sounds like she has some personal stuff to work on maybe.
That is a great point, yeah that kind of extreme negative self talk might be motivating for a second but that is unsustainable. I wasn't endorsing it just sharing her full post.
Edit: She has purged her channel a bit of videos she thought were low quality, and is looking healthy and engaging more with her channel now.
Teach me to shoot better
Tips in no particular order:
Natural pause at the bottom of your exhale breath, squeeze the trigger then. Do dry fire, a lot. In the Marines we spend about a week of dry firing for several hours a day focusing on breath control, pausing to rest our muscles and not just strong arm it, all before we ever shoot live rounds. A mantis dry fire system is the bees tits for this. For handguns, get some snap caps and blind load your magazines or cylinders with a mix of live ammo and the snap caps - this will train out your flinch response to be after the gun has actually fired. Shoot with a friend who knows their stuff and can coach you. Spring for a pro coach once in a while if you can spare the money.
For slow fire, make yourself a shooting log book. When the gun fires, pick up a pen and mark in the book where on the target you were aiming the moment it went off, then mark where it actually hit. This can help you iron out the fundamentals, and if you know your weapon you can diagnose if something is wrong.
Get yourself the tried and true guns (ar-15 in 5.56 NATO and a striker fired 9mm from reputable brands - if you want specific recs, just ask) don't waste your time on chasing the latest bang wiz or coolest nostalgia trapt. And iron sights are good to train the fundamentals on, there's nothing wrong with them. I feel as though learning on iron sights can help you build awareness of your muscle control and fundamentals a lot easier.
Also, get your eyesight checked and get glasses if you need them.
Thanks. These bases are covered for me but appreciate the tips. Except the log book I don't want hw
I've been watching his youtube podcast, Colonial Outcasts, for a while. He has consistently had good analysis of imperialism and wars. It's nice as a day-after-something-happened podcast.
Ah he sounds chill then. Not sure what the struggle session would be about. Bad people are allowed to try to be good and make up for their past mistakes, it's part of being human. We can critically support when good things happen and have nuanced takes on people when it's required
'veteran first' we're so oppressed belly-aching loser
Stop trusting these fucking freaks, they're always like this. Chauvinistic to the core
But comrade, he's talking about healthcare, like I'm team hehe let the settlers die but actually, maybe have some empathy for uh, human beings
like I dunno, maybe people with ptsd can access help and not kill their families?
why would veterans be "first" and why are we using Trumpian "X First" chauvinistic language?
I actually think the mercenaries who have been given lots of compensation by the US government already are actually last, not first, and already receive preferential treatment despite being murderers. They don't need MORE preferential treatment in a country that worships them. The slobjob over veterans is for losers.
How is he related to Bram?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/austin-activist-greg-stoker-released-160911335.html
his websites got some weird christian vibes, he's obviously got some work to do, but he's better than the dems, not that voting makes a big difference
Stoker is a G. His Colonial Outcast podcast on YouTube is outstanding with consistently good takes (not always, but most of the time). He has at least one recurring guest on his show (Elina Xenophontos) who is very clearly a Marxist of some sort and she delivers some of the best geopolitical analysis I've heard.
Greg is a comrade through and through IMO. And like someone else in this thread mentioned, yes we should shame people that join the military, but just like Aaron Bushnell, there's no shame in leaving it and no reason for it to permanently blackmark you if you do something better with your life.
RIP Bushnell
It doesn't have to be a bad mark forever but it doesn't mean someone has to be given power either. I don't know enough about this specific guy to know what he has done to make amends, but if one of the first things they do is try to run for any sort of office before rebuilding trust (Platner), they do not deserve anyone's support. If anything, they should be using their position to siphon support to someone from a community they've harmed.
Here's a good vid of his efforts.
He also helped organise the veterans Gaza flotilla boat and got arrested/deported by the Israeli terrorists occupation army.
He's been a very outspoken critical of the Pissreal occupation and a bit supporter of Gaza/Palestine.
So he has done nothing other than making a podcast and using his status for patreon and using "ChInA", "RuSsIa", and "IrAn" as some bullshit talking points and push for even more valorization of veterans. He isn't in Afghanistan submitting himself to their people
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Link 1:
Link 2:
https://stokerfortexas.nationbuilder.com/
lol of course
service guarantees citizenship
The other three core priorities are ...
Affordable housing, affordable healthcare and no more foreign wars. That doesn't seem so bad.
And if I have to play the "lesser of two evils game", having a lefty type (who openly calls the USA's military an imperial force for evil in the world) giving the not-so-chudy veterans someone other than the openly fascist Republican party candidate or the not-so-openly fascist Democratic party candidate to vote for... probably not the worst thing in the world.
This comment right here is the magnum opus of western leftism, nothing describes it better than "yes he was an American soldier in Afghanistan, who tells everyone about it first thing first, who proudly displays his badges, who was this close to joining the CIA, who is still in contact with active soldiers, but he wants affordable housing and healthcare".
You're too kind.