I can't believe people would rather have Susan Collins over an imperfect progressive.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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Not mixed at all. I want a progressive who won't back down from MAGAs, who won't be intimidated, who won't be polite, who will have the courage to crush MAGA.
If he does those things, and later starts getting weird, we'll deal with him then, but right now we need strong courageous warriors, not polite weenies like Schmuck.
How have you dealt with Fetterman, exactly?
Anybody who has mixed feelings about him need to listen to his interview with Jon Stewart on the Weekly Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-itNjgCJDxU
MSM/Corporate Media are doing a massive smear campaign on him because he's railing against the Iran war and against Israel's incursions. The money machine is stacking against him and he needs as much support as possible. The tattoo is a red herring.
MSM/Corporate Media are doing a massive smear campaign on him because he’s railing against the Iran war and against Israel’s incursions.
What is infuriating about Platner isn't that his rhetoric is bad or that his totenkomf is "fake news" or whatever. It's that it really is just Platner or actual fascists.
In a better world, Platner would not be a viable candidate, because he'd be running against a dozen Zohran Mamdani's. In this world, it's Platner versus The Genocide Machine.
And I'm not going to vote for the Genocide Machine.
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The elites are my enemy and they are doing everything to make sure he doesn't get elected. Voting literally costs you nothing. It seems obvious. Are the Platner haters even real people? Are they even from Maine?
I'm enjoying seeing all the people that yelled at me for not supporting Harris come up with reasons to not support Planter and how this is totally different.
The mental gymnastics of purity tests for every candidate are going to be the downfall of American democracy.
I understand distrust in politicians, but come on, this isn't a case of the lesser of two evils. It's a regular guy who is putting forth progressive policy ideas and a proven supporter of everything wrong with modern politics. Not to mention, Collins does almost nothing for her constituents anymore and is so out of touch it's absurd.
Mainers fortunately don't care about the purity test nonsense.
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Every time I get into it with one of these people online it goes exactly the same way:
Them, acting like Nazis and pointing fingers: "Platner has NAZI tattoos!"
Me: [pointing out that Platner is up against literal fascists, building concentration camps and filling them with immigrants; Hegseth has proven and unambiguous Nazi tats and acts like a Nazi; etc]
Them: "But his tattoos! His TATTOOOOOOS!"
It's all they have. And if they don't care about Hegseth's multiple Nazi/white nationalist tats, don't even have an answer for them, then why should I care about Platner's? Without the actual ideology behind it, it's just ink, and it's pretty clear that whatever Platner is, he's not an ideological Nazi, so I don't give a good goddamn how many tats Platner has.
So now every time these motherfuckers start pearl-clutching about Platner, a voice reaches up from the past in my head and softly says,
"I believe that the president has learned from this case. The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
That little voice never fails. Bless Susan Collins for that turd of wisdom she dropped back in 2020 as sufficient reason not to convict in the Senate impeachment trial, because that same stupid ass line is still ringing through the years. Trump did indeed learn his lesson: that Susan Collins would never act to lift a finger against him.
I wouldn't vote for Mills, either. But Collins is not worthy of the office, nor of the great state that sent her. Maine can do better. I'd vote for Platner just because of Collins.
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Centrists and authoritarian leftists are scary man. We've got terrorist rape-ublicans to deal with already.
https://lemmy.ml/post/48239454
https://mander.xyz/post/53015076
Meanwhile, they really didn't like that I've actually read Marx and Lenin and used it against them
https://lemmy.zip/comment/26868546
And this feels like the best image to describe it so far.
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