"My job is to keep the left pro-Israel" - Chuck Schumer
Link to the video in the tweet: https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2061891037715657047
Pretty fitting that the US democrats main focus candidate right now is a former Abu Ghraib torture camp prison guard, who repeatedly says he signed up for the US military because he wanted to kill people.
these people are starting to call thselves "the left". "the left" is anti zionist and will always be.
no really, don't allow this shit.
I just got banned from lemmy.world/c/progressivepolitics for criticizing Platner.
Anything to the left of a Nazi is "ultra-left" apparently.
These people are so desperate for any excuse to vote (D) it's pathetic
Yep get downvoted anytime I question this guy. Same with the billionaire running for governor in California.
Left also should not accept current or previous military members unless they are openly anti US military and imperialism pretty much every single sentence they speak publicly.
Not at all, whatsoever with absolutely no exceptions other than listed. Those guys and gals get up to some bad shit, and they’re usually one (or less) person removed from (fascist) government officials
for sure. the indoctrination goes hard in the military, police forces and similar institutions.
people i know who went through these never go back to having sound critical thought and they stay a bit aggressive forever.
They've been inapropriately calling themselves "The Left" for decades.
The left of maybe Heinrich Himmler, but seeing as they support guy who have tattooed the same symbol that Heinrich Himmler went genocidally infamous under, i doubt even that.
Partly due to the Overton window, partly due to their inability to confront their own complicity, I think. They don't want to be responsible for anything - they just want to vote blue and pat themselves on the back.
I heard him speak the other day. I don’t think I’ve seen a more blatant CIA cutout
I have this pet theory that some billionaires made a bet on how many "values" they could have a "leftist" dem voter betray in with one vote. Dude's got everything from nazi tattoo to Iraqi war crimes to zionism and infidelity (free space for any US politican tbf).
There was this comment chain under a comment moaning about "purity testing" on the left where I said
The people on lemmy complaining about purity tests are typically the ones to rally to the defense of a US marine and Blackwater merc with 4 tours in Iraq, 1 in Afghanistan and a tattoo of the SS skull because he is running as a democrat.
and the guy didn't know about Platner and thought I was just making something up and dismissed me as "just another .ml tankie". When I linked them they immediately went with
Okay, so upon reading through the full story and also the comments. It really just seems like he has a skull and bones tattoo that vaguely resembles one used by a nazi division, that doesn’t appear to be very mainstream, even among neo Nazis. And since there’s not any other evidence pointing to him being a Nazi I think the most likely explanation is he got a tattoo he thought looked cool, like he said.
shame the post got deleted so I can't link the chain it was pretty funny
It really just seems like he has a skull and bones tattoo that vaguely resembles one used by a nazi division
hahaha the COPE
Okay, so upon reading through the full story and also the comments. It really just seems like he has a skull and bones tattoo that vaguely resembles one used by a nazi division, that doesn’t appear to be very mainstream, even among neo Nazis. And since there’s not any other evidence pointing to him being a Nazi I think the most likely explanation is he got a tattoo he thought looked cool, like he said.
Like, OK, I’ll give him that then, but why…hasn’t he removed it after learning about it?
Do their brains just stop working after they arrive at this logic?
vaguely resembles one used by a nazi division, that doesn’t appear to be very mainstream, even among neo Nazis
The SS Totenkopf was used the insignia of the SS deaths head units, the units that staffed the concentration camps. Every concentration guard had that exact totenkopf on their uniform in multiple places. Heinrich Himmler's own fucking cap didn't have SS bolts but the Totenkopf. It's such a prominent SS symbol there was a tv sketch about this exact skull called "are we the baddies" that is now a pretty well-known meme.
"P-hustle" was also frequenting military history subs and even commented under a photo featuring the Totenkopf (albeit not prominently but in a comment chain pointing it out) https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/CombatFootage/comments/auy0bi/_/ehbh3n6/?context=4
I do not believe he didn't know. This guy also came to the defense of people getting the SS bolts tattood. He got a covering tattoo when it became a political liability and not a second sooner.
It’s honestly really bizarre, or just classic democrat shit.
I saw it. It was funny in a decent into madness way.
so is platner going to walk back what he's said about israel like mamdani did or does he understand you can just lie?
Besides being a mass murderer of brown people Platner was also cheating on his wife. Truly a reliable guy who will keep his word.
Libs will be like “wow you really want Susan Collins to win don’t you” ( Ihave no idea who Susan Collins is)
i could not care less about infidelity in the context of american politics.
I care about him being a fascist US military cuck, loves it, brags about killing brown people for fun and adventure, and having a Nazi tattoo for like 20 years. I think he’s a bad guy with a faux leftist coat of paint.
yup. sexting on top of all that is nothing. it's even adult women not the pedo cabal and i'm supposed to care that the blackwater guy stepped out on his wife? the clinton blowjob scandal is old enough to rent a car
Infidelity says something about trustworthiness. And liars.
It mostly says something about the material conditions of a person that is within a society that forces monogamy which severely punishes those that aren't.
I just don't think it really adds to the argument. If someone walked like a Nazi, shot like a Nazi, wore Nazi tattoos, then claims to be a leftist while not working with any left orgs or using their current platform to create class consciousness, they're already failing to take the most basic steps. Why add anything more? It's adding a weak argument to a strong one, making it easier to dismiss.
USA senators threatening to beat a woman over minor policy differences, ha
Schumer knows that his endorsement is toxic, so attaching his name to Platner will make people doubt Platner's sincerity on the topic of defunding Isntreal. This will ensure that the Zionist loving Collins wins. Protecting Isntreal is Cuck Schumer's #1 priority, and he couldn't care less if the Dems control the House of Lords or not.
... if the Dems control the House of Lords
that won't happen until the gop stops filibustering standing for "god save the king" lol
Schumer is literally Democrat Senate leader. His endorsement means it's basically over for Susan Collins.
I thought he was leader of the Knesset.