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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

The guy was an enthusiastic soldier for the Fourth Reich and fantasized about going back in time to fight for said entity in the US's various genocidal colonial wars -- Philippines, Korea, Vietnam. I'd be a fool not to set his redemption price very high. If GraHHam Platner doesn't explicitly say "death 2 amriKKKa and fuck the troops" then he hasn't even begun to try to earn redemption, and it is not pragmatic at all to let a little Nazi like him worm his way into representing any facet of the left to the broader populace.