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“But there were so many red flags,” the argument goes, pointing to the sexting, tattoo, and Reddit posts. Think about that argument for a moment: it means that people should be disqualified from public office for things there isn’t evidence they actually did, just “red flags” from which they can supposedly be divined. Ruling out anyone with Reddit post-level flaws bars millions of otherwise decent people from politics.
We're just skipping past the whole war crimes thing????
Saying you like the Joe Rogan podcast is a red flag. A Nazi tattoo is getting caught red handed with your hand in the fascism jar.
The red flag in this case is a guy waving the nazi flag.
In the american brain, brown foreigners aren't human, so those don't count. Signing up to be a mercenary with Childkillers Inc is fine and dandy!
White supremacy is the black hole of liberal thought, and so on.
He dismisses them as "reddit posts"
Didn't Platner confirm those were his Reddit posts?
can’t a guy fantasize about manifest destiny in peace smdh
Didn’t any of you go through the signing-up-to-murder-brown-children-and-bragging-about-it-for-the-rest-of-your-life stage when you were young??? Give him a break!!!!!
HE WAS JUST A BOY IN HIS MID 30'S WHEN HE WROTE THOSE POSTS!
Americans don't consider non-white people (especially people from west Asia) humans, hence all the american whites supporting the shit out thatremoved/murderer.
KenKlipp knows some good marines!
I mean he's completely discounting the tattoo (ie photographic evidence) as things there isn’t evidence they actually did so not at all surprising
Commenting again because I was curious and started reading the comments there. Ken liked a comment of some pointing this out which idk how to take after how much he's still covering for platner.
It's Ken both admitting (?) he should have mentioned it and doing nothing to actually dk something about it in his non apologie other than that bare minimum
Acknowledging that these are important points and then just ignoring them is the yankee libs way... this comment i got defending platner lives rent-free in my head, just all "yeah all of those things are valid but I'll just ignore them and keep believing the dems can be reformed. We just need to keep working with them to get ranked choice voting and seats filled with popular representation."
Lots folks keep doing that. Its diagusting
What is it about this fucking nobody from Maine that has the entire amerikkkan "left" jumping on a grenade for?
He looks and acts like the stereotype of the right leaning working class which a lot of well off white people cling on to, so his posturing makes dumbasses feel like dems will be able to convert more republican voters through socdem shit. It’s basically a bunch of people being unable to escape aesthetic trappings in favour of any kind of material analysis of the world
whiteness.
amerikkkan "left"
Now this was well worth writing
"I can excuse the Nazi tattoos and the murders but I draw the line as SA"
"You could excuse Nazi tattoos and murders?" 
Do hate how it's just "Reddit comments" comments about what? How fucking cool it is to murder brown people?
Repeating what I said before:
Doing the thing where they frame it in the vaguest terms possible because they know the details are extremely damning. It's the equivalent of "this SNOWFLAKE got offended because I voiced a non-mainstream opinion" and then it turns out the "non-mainstream opinion" was some shit like Holocaust denial.
Especially since early on the Reddit comments were paraded around by some as proof that he is the real deal. Now it's only some Reddit comments.
They were all so happy to have found their 99% Hitler to stop 100% Hitler that they just lost sight of things.
Nyan Cat is not amused. 
He's having nyan of it
all those red flags and they'd still rather die planting them on the first hill they can find than admit they were wrong
I'm now choosing that these last ride or dies for this guy who are willing to burn their reputation did something sketchy as fuck, or at least something they feel extremely guilty over. Maybe it's a podcast where they said slurs, maybe they were a creep to a coworker, maybe something far worse. I don't see why else you would fight doggedly constantly returning to 'can't a nazi murderer change their ways?!'
I mean, some people do sincerely believe that bad people can become better people and I think that much is true (even if that's separate from the pragmatic question of if such people should be let near levers of power, which they probably shouldn't be), the issue is that there is literally no reason to believe Platner has remotely become a better person and in fact we have been given no shortage of evidence that he is just as bad as he ever was, if not worse.
Edit: Also OOP is glossing over or outright denying bad things Platner did to begin with, so it's really a separate question. I think these people are just miserable chauvinists trying to use leftish rhetoric for their own careers.
it is a mix of this and the classic "lesser evilism" that people who still believe in bourgeois electoralism have to subscribe to. since voting is required to them, they have to pick someone, and in this race it was between a zionist and platner who claimed a lot of positions that are more progressive than his opponent. if his platform was everything you went off of, he was clearly the more progressive candidate, so they have to support that because someone has to run in their eyes
fuk all the graham platner boosters. Clowns and sell serving sellouts
I respect a genuine public expression of contrition / admitting you ate shit but those are incredibly rare these days