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Western/ Global North “leftists” try not to fall for another social fascist challenge (Impossible).
Even before this came out, the fact that this guy is an Iraq/ Afghan War vet who went there FOUR times, once as a BLACKWATER MERCENARY who is also proud of this fact and refuses to acknowledge what he did was wrong should have been a massive red flag. I know a lot of people here don’t like BadEmpanada, but he was 100% in the right to condemn Hasan and everyone else who supported this guy.
BadEmpanada's stance is basically that no veterans should be part of the left regardless of their opinion now about the US military or any regrets they may have. Him being right is less about good analysis or good judgement of character and more about being a broken clock. He has the same opinion of Mike Prysner that he does of Graham Platner.
no veterans should be "leaders" of the western left. simple as. They can be rank-and-file if they are truly penitent. None of this "as a veteran" horseshit
Dude enlisted in the marines, the branch you go to when you want to commit heinous warcrimes (euphemistically termed as "fucking shit up"). The people who sign up for financial reasons or don't really want to be there join the army or navy. You can see it in racial statistics where the US navy has the most POC while the marines has the least. Even using propaganda as an excuse, there's an (overly simplified and misleading) understanding that you're going to shoot people if you're a marine while you're just stuck on a boat if you're a sailor. Now factor in the fact that the marines has the highest minimum physical requirements compared with the other branches, and it paints him and every other marine recruit as people who really want to commit warcrimes.
This is what I find wacky about this story. I can buy a vet having a genuine change of heart, but a FUCKING BLACKWATER MERC???
Seriously why would anyone left if Clinton touch this guy with a ten foot pole?
nazi tattoo
Surely you mean Eastern Ukrainian militia tattoo!
Actually, I hear it's based on Ukrainian paganism and folklore. Really cultured stuff
Okay, I can buy the “I got drunk and thought it was just a badass skull tattoo” explanation. But then to not get it removed or get something else tattooed over it? Even if this isn’t a “hiding his power levels” thing, doesn’t speak to good decision-making.
Yea it's very believable that a random Jarhead is a fucking idiot. But to not do something about it after his "socialist awakening" is incredibly telling.
Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of the Waffen-SS.
edit: Also why the fuck would you do the only shirtless political interview I've ever seen if you happen to have a giant Nazi skull tattooed on your chest? I always dismissed him as an op but who is the op even for?
Also, thread archived in case reddit nukes it: https://archive.is/G17aB . I can imagine the same PR demons who pushed him to this point are going to be going into overdrive today if he doesn't immediately drop out.
Also also the youtube upload: https://archive.is/wip/AfDPa. I love how almost all of the comments are supportive of him and calling him the future of the democratic party. Completely agreed. Replace their donkey symbol with his tattoo and they'd at least be honest.
I guess the libs are making good on their claims of supporting 99% Hitler over 100% Hitler
why would you do the shirtless political interview if you happen to have a giant Nazi skull tattooed on your chest?
Get with the program man, didn't you hear? Nazis are good now, as long as they're not literally ~~the SS~~ Hitler.
This can’t be real that’s so goddamn funny, especially after all the “I know he’s an imperialist but he made based posts once” talk
American leftists are so desperately thirsty for a blue collar, working class, sleeves rolled up, hands dirty, man of the land type populist communist, that all it takes is a reactionary oyster farmer to ironically claim to be a communist online just because it's edgy, and they fool themselves into thinking that maybe is something there.
Like sometimes you're young, and dumb, and lonely, and you fall in love with someone, not with who they are, but who you wished they were. Like they did with Mamdani, and Fetterman.
American leftists are desperately searching for their Xi Jinping, and naively fooling themselves to fall in love with the wrong people instead of properly vetting for a real leftist. If they aren't explicitly anti-facsist, anti-imperialist, anti-zionist, anti-capitalist, they aren't a leftist. It's not "purity testing", it's vetting for a partner who isn't toxic and bad for you.
The question is... how many times do they have to play this game before they finally learn.
countdown to parasocial dipshits talking about how Hasan "cOuLDn't hAVe KnOWn" that the mass murderer who went back to Iraq (?) multiple times, at least once as a literal mercenary, was secretly a racist war criminal
lmao Jesus Christ
"Yeah I'm a leftist but I have an undeniably Nazi tat on my chest and have for almost 20 years" yeah ok sure buddy
It's legitimately entertaining to listen to pod save the same way it was to watch the Colbert report.
You could not come up with a more ridiculous strawman than every episode of the pod.
30 minutes of explaining why Trump can't do any of the things he does daily with zero repercussions, followed by 30 minutes of the most i.pressive mental gymnastics you've ever seen to, every single time, arrive at the conclusion that the smart and brave move is to do absolutely nothing, because that would be playing into trumps hand.
And then you get rhe occasional break for something like platforming a proud nazi with nazi tattoos, or to make sure to denounce maduro and say he's just as bad as Trump and he stole the last electi0n and is an authoritarian. Like literally the last episode they were talking about Trump drone striking fishing boats and that most reprehensible dipshit Tommy Vitor took time to step back and condemn Maduro.
It's honestly almost valuable as a constant reminder that there is less than zero chance that liberals will save us and an almost 100% chance that they'll throw us under the bus before meaningfully opposing a single fascist.
He is just really pro Ukrainian 
he should get a communist tattoo on the other half of his chest and run for office as a centrist who will heal the divide
that cursed russian tattoo of nicholas 2 and stalin vibes
People were joking about him being 7df, but he honestly might be lmao.
7df, I've never seen this term what does it mean?
7DeadlyFetishes was a user here and on the chapo subreddit who signed off all their posts with their username, they got banned after they were doing war crimes apologia and revealed they were a US veteran
Fascist mass murderer has a tattoo of historical fascist mass murderers
In other news, grass is green and water is probably wet
The US is never going to get a good politician are they?
I thought the joke would be 'it's 2048, the candidates are between a literal neo-nazi war criminal and a genocidal war criminal, and this time they flipped the parties for this', except now it's looking like it's going to be a lot sooner.
Also ironically this probably already happened but whichever republican was a neo-nazi kept it secret.
Bernie Sanders weighs in:
'he went through some really difficult experiences seeing friends of his killed or whatever'
“There's a young man who served his country in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he went through some really difficult experiences seeing friends of his killed or whatever, and in spite of all of that he had the courage to run”
“I personally think he is an excellent candidate. I'm going to support him, and I look forward to him becoming the next senator in the state of Maine”
When pressed on Platner’s Nazi tattoo, Sanders lashed out at the “corrupt campaign finance system” adding “We don’t have enough candidates in this country that will take on the powers that be and fight for the working class.”
(i don't see non-twitter sources for this statement but those two accounts both seem like credible enough sources in this context)
Years of Whatever
sounds like a Biden quote. Bernie really is losing it
I get there's no candidates but damn Bernie how is a nazi tattoo not disqualified him in Bernies eyes
I can't see him not knowing what a totenkopf is. I could (but I won't) buy a misunderstanding about a black sun if he was some neo-Pagan dork (and even then I'm Doakes on those people). However the death's head is like the second most recognizable Nazi symbol. It's on their hats. It's on their belts. You can go to any gun show in the US and find at least one booth selling this shit. The guy is older than me so there's no excuse that he's just an unformed zoomer who fell for a meme. It's also not like the tattoo shop in Croatia only had that symbol either. When he was flipping through the little book he definitely saw swastikas and iron eagles and runes.
Plus, if you really want a based socialist to run for that seat, you can find someone without a Nazi tattoo. What is the argument? We have to give him the shadow of a doubt because he's the only choice? Come on.
This is where if I had the ability, I'd yell at all the soc dem dickheads like Hasan/Sam Seder and the rest that defends the Blackwater mercenary "you all nothing but closet fascists".
Am I the only one who thinks a war criminal with a nazi tattoo on his chest named Graham Platner sounds like a villain from a splinter cell-esque video game (I wouldn't actually know what kind of villains splinter cell gets; I get the impression it's just basically military propaganda so I won't touch it)?
ukrainian good luck charm
Reminds me of my favorite comment under any video of Ukranian soldiers when somebody asks what they're saying and you get a 5 paragraph dissertation from liberals about how screaming "die you impure f-slur" has a different societal context in Ukraine.
my face when the yankkkkee stormtrooper turns out to be a fascist:
In this very thread, where a social fascist unrepentant war criminal is exposed for what he is without any question we still have the DSA-type squishies quibbling and making excuses. Can we purge this goddamned site? Holy fuck the Mamdani disease has infected half of you