electoralism

Nah I get it, we have to believe people can change. I remember seeing a video of a guy that become a nazi in prison I think and that later came to regret that so he covered the tattoo and changed his ways (I don't remember more than that since it was a long time ago I saw it, but I think he also was very vocal anti nazi in that video). But the thing is that changing requires action to back it up, and last I checked, Platner was a military dog turned mercenary that kept doing war crimes but for a private company and he never apologized for either, this is the opposite of changing, it reeks of covering your bullshit to appear more palatable.

The only way I would trust this guy and type of person is if he went all out on denouncing all this shit, including his military and mercenary work (that I heard he never apologized for) and being open about being anti-imperialist and a principled leftist. But given this is the US we are talking about, if he was simply anti-imperialist he would already be further left than Sanders, which would be a record compared to what you can expect from that hellscape.

Honestly, from all I've seen of the US, y'all need a new Black Panthers or at least the existing communist parties need to do try something else, cause the moment you have a candidate running that had a nazi tattoo is the obvious sign shit needs to change fast in case that wasn't obvious already. I know there's progress and good work being made, but the empire keeps escalating their aggressiveness as they fall and we are all at risk specially here in the global south. Shit feels grim.