Chapotraphouse

Sometimes I wonder if I'm still not holding onto some reactionary views...

In all seriousness - we all can improve here or there. But I also do not have a full blown totenkopf tattoo and I wasn't a blackwater merc for 18 years.

There's definitely some weird astroturfing of this going on too. I don't post about American politics on Twitter, but this stuff crept into my timeline despite never posting or searching for info about it. And almost every post was some variation of...

'I'm a totally legit communist person of colour & if you care about this guy's nazi tattoo then you're doing Peter Thiel's work for him'

...or...

'This is definitely a hit job by Palantir & the NSA as how could they have possibly found social media posts by him. If you don't embrace the Nazi Merc the real fascists win!'

I don't doubt that somewhere in this shitflinging that creepy data analysis tools were used and that posting online is basically opting into a panopticon that will be used against you in the future if it needs to be, but acting like this is the unearthing of some teenager's porn views decades later, instead of a guy who still has Nazi tattoos and is running partly on the fact he was a volunteer for WarCrimes Inc until recently, is unhinged.

I’m honestly super curious what his definition of “communism” is

Eww get bernie off the bottom left

I rarely spend any time at all at Reddit. But his take really makes me laugh because when I used to post there regularly - if politics or the news were involved - I'd often go into people's histories and look around. It's something you can't do in real life. If you overhear somebody in public who seems like a nasty piece of work - you can't go backwards back hours or days to hear what they said and to check if you're right. But you certainly can go backwards on social media.

And it can be so funny when you quote people back to themselves. They can get so mad when you show others that yeap, this person is a turd. See? This is what they wrote just yesterday.

Politicos collectively asked themselves “what if we didn’t force our nazis and sex pests to resign after the big scandal^TM^?”, realized the answer was “nothing”, and gave us the world we live in now

The metoo movement led to increased scrutiny of the al franken case. When Biden had a ton of accusations the party openly abandoned metoo during the march 2020 shenanigans

I mean, whom amongst us hasn't gotten a nazi tattoo and then travelled overseas multiple times to murder non-white people? Give the guy a break

He is only 100% Hitler. Are you telling me you want 101% Hitler? That's not cool.

Liberals have waxed poetic about the most murderous and genocidal empire in history since the USA was a thing, and the British Empire before it turned into a corncob.

They have always loved genocide.

I think it is long past time to write an epitaph for the "Progressive Movement." "Long arc of history" libs, epitomized by the Congressional Progressive Caucus. There is no need for the intelligence agencies to run ops when these people gladly elect billionaires, fighter pilots and intelligence agents in an effort to out-do the chuds demonstrating loyalty to the empire as an electoral strategy.

I don’t even think he’s an op. I think America just makes guys Like That naturally at this point.

starting to think this "planter" guy may be some kind of a plant

wait, what the fuck is a platner?

does this guy have a nazi tattoo or did he defend people with nazi tattoos or both? i havent been following along.

im pretty sure both.

Defending people with Nazi tattoos is a cherished liberal tradition, so that’s a given, but yes in this instance he also has one himself

Both, is my understanding.

Just to add context, he claims his totenkopf and the "bolts" (SS insignia) that his fellow marines/soldier boys had were just gotten as a show of team spirit and that it's clearly preposterous to suggest that soldiers in the US army would be nazis.

Fuckin wild

I wasn’t aware that “rehabilitative justice” meant voting for the proud Iraq war criminal with a giant nazi tattoo on his chest playing dumb about its obvious meaning. Guess I just don’t understand radlib theory

My opinion on troops that realize that everything they've done wrong at a moral level has always been "good, keep your head down and shut the fuck up".

At place like Reddit - political terminology is thoroughly broken. But Bluesky takes the cake when it comes to words relating to politics. Because of the site's nuclear blocking/muting - people say crazy stuff and will silence anybody who points out that they are nearly speaking gibberish. So they just keep saying it.

• A "leftist" could be what we would call a typical lib who says things like "Hostile architecture is horrible!" but will never vote to change that.

• A "progressive" is probably a lib.

• Anybody who loudly proclaims they are a liberal is likely to the right of Schumer.

• I use a labeler service so if somebody follows a pundit like Jonathan Chait - I assume the Bluesky person is effectively a republican no matter what nonsense descriptors are in their bio.

And next year - many of them will say people have gotta vote for the ex-CIA ghoul or ex-military ghoul or centrist ghoul because "democracy is on the line."

The bad opsec is having a known r*ddit account, deleted comments from r*ddit are archived by various services.