Chapotraphouse

This whole saga just taught me that the majority of self-appointed thought leaders of what passes as the left in the US are fucking stupid. Their sole responsibility within any org unlucky enough to be saddled with these useless dead weight should be moving heavy boxes from point A to point B and even then they might fuck that up somehow.

100%. People should stop acting like being a proud veteran doesn't say anything bad about you as a person. This guy killed people. I repeat, he killed people. He has aleardy demonstrated the capacity for violence far beyond what vast majority of the population is capable of. Is sexual violence really that much of a leap from what he's done in Iraq?

Even here I'm seeing people act like no one could have seen this coming and Platner betrayed them, etc. rather than acknowledging that it was always extremely obvious that he was an unprincipled Nazi piece of shit and people have been pointing it out for months. I don't believe anything will change and I also don't think anyone who was ever willing to support that imperialist POS can be reasonably believed to be on the left.

because am*ricans excused literally everything else about him

Because otherwise how else will your CIA/Blackwater buddies pay you? He and the people behind him literally thought it was as easy to scam dem voters as it was republican voters. Which, I mean, is a fair conclusion to draw overall, but not quite accurate. It's just almost as easy.

Honestly, why would you even run in the first place if you've done anything even remotely questionable.

real political power comes from getting away with shit.

You get approached by a Democratic Party handler who says "Hey kid you want to run for Senate in Maine?" And you say "Uh sure" and they assure you "Don't worry about your past we can make that all go away or spin it into a non-issue, whatever it is." And you think, well, they must know what they're doing!

Something like that.

Yes, but our president is literally the man with most dirt on earth, his election encourages fellow scums and criminals to run for office

Someone posted an article the other day that was about there was some Democratic Kingmaker who handpicked Platner to run for Senate after seeing a short video of him speaking

Not to rely on the image of the scheming vizier helping someone attain power so that they themselves can ride on their coattails...

But that's basically exactly what happened

i'd bet money he could've been all "nah i'm staying in, blue no matter who" and been fine.

it's some 40k shit where he's only vulnerable to it because he thinks he is.

I dunno how conspiratorial I want to get but the tattoo coverup or lack thereof and the merc work had me fairly convinced he was basically a MIC plant to get ahead of the democrats moving leftward

Like I’m fully convinced the pentagon has its own electoral manipulation wing and guys like Platner come out of it

the way people fell over themselves making excuses for that shit and believing he didn't know it was, what, the number 3 nazi symbol? swastika, ss bolts, totenkopf? completely ridiculous

I say Joe Rogan and he's going to do a "why I left the left" interview.

On Tucker he could announce he's "interested" in what the GOP is doing. And when Tucker asks him if that means he's considering switching parties he could say his goals are greater than mere labels.

And the tattoo he got to cover it up looks like a Nazi tattoo too!

It's some weird ugly Celtic knot with a wolf and it's like, great, he's a Wotanist too!

seriously. if i wanted to put up with this much maine news, id fukn move there and work at the bear factory or whatever.

Yes but for some fucking reason people think that this means we must baby military personnel and what horrors they have done in order to convince them the left is good.

The only military personnel that are ever likely to become leftists are the military personnel who see it all and react with horror and guilt then dedicate themselves to its opposition.

even if he was those people shouldn't be given political power