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Heard of this guy why is the media going after him (www.politico.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Darkcommie@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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Just heard about him recently from his apology video

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

he's a former yankee wehrmacht wet soldier who loved killing people so much he became a mercenary after leaving the marines

[+] Lussy@hexbear.net -13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

am*ricans are fucking cooked

no investigation, no right to speak
that's not what militancy means
it isn't "ultra rhetoric" to call an imperialist soldier what he is
i'm not "the online left", i have actual organizing experience

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 0 points 4 days ago

Is he still an imperial soldier? And im not referring to hus entryism as militarism, i probably shouldnt have said anything since i dont know anything about him

[–] 666@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Just seems like Ultra rhetoric is all that’s here in the online left

Plenty of people here who organize and do work in real life. I literally was just talking about my experiences up and down the coast with a comrade despairing against the average American in their efforts.

Politicians who do lip-service while marking themselves as "Democratic" will go as far as the DSA did with an immediate capitulation following. Not sure why you haven't learned this by now via the numerous examples of Bernie, AOC, Mamdani as of most recent but I guess you can keep doing the Charlie Brown football over and over again. If anything, if you've organized you should know exactly why some of us get so frustrated at it.

Honestly, if this guy somehow ends up being a Che Guevara, sure. But from the past and history of "American progressive candidates" why the fuck should I expect anything? Especially from a baby-killing private soldier who has a non-zero chance of doing work for Blackwater of killing leftists/organizers across the globe?

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I apologize, I dunno why I’m even commenting here

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Because sometimes we learn more from being mistaken or misunderstanding situations than we do from having all the right answers, especially if that means doing further research into a topic.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's a former black water mercenary.

[–] Darkcommie@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 4 days ago

Oh nvm mind guaranteed war criminal

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 3 days ago

The DNC is allergic to winning. They want to run a 77yo neolib against Susan Collins so they can lose. Their media allies are running a smear campaign, and since this is a white dude, they probably won't misstep into being overtly racist and have it backfire like with Zohran, and the DNC will get to achieve their dream of never running anyone under retirement age, at least in Maine.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“As I told CNN, I was fucking around on the internet at a time when I felt lost and very disillusioned with our government who sent me overseas to watch my friends die,” Platner said. “I made dumb jokes and picked fights. But of course I’m not a socialist. I’m a small business owner, a Marine Corps veteran, and a retired shitposter.”

That's why you should never stop posting. fucking liberals

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They don't want cool people in the senate.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

the senate is too cringe for cool people anyway