"It's not my fault I chose to get drunk"
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I'm sure he won't mind live streaming the removal then.
I have a weird take on this but i think we are gonna start seeing a lot more of this and need to just get comfortable with people with fucked up pasts being on the side of people.
A lot of very hardcore right wing, racist and problematic peole are struggling to live and will start pushing for more socialist ideals because they have to, to survive.
I think what's happening is that oligarch is not a race. Wealth is not a race and those that may have thought you could make easy scapegoats by race and creed will realize and adjust their views. Its just not the fight we are having anymore and while we may not like the reasons people are fighting on our sides we kinda have to accept that they are.
If we can make the world better not just for the oligarchs and the ultrawealthy cultists we are gonna have to shake hands and learn to get along with people we have issue with, and give them space to be on a better position.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, who strongly backed Platner earlier this month, said the revelations about Platner do not impact his endorsement.
“He went through a dark period,” Sanders told reporters on Tuesday. “He has apologized for the stupid remarks, the hurtful remarks that he made, and I’m confident that he’s going to run a great campaign and that he’s going to win.”
Vermont Sen. Peter Welch also told NOTUS on Tuesday that he is confident “Mainers will figure it out.”
Cynthia Phinney, president of the Maine AFL-CIO, said she had not seen reports about Platner’s tattoo and the controversy surrounding it. But she made clear she thought the negative news about Platner was a result of meddling from the national Democratic Party.
“I’m disappointed with the apparent engagement of the national party in our state primary the way this is coming out,” Phinney said.
Phinney said that she didn’t have proof that the national party was behind the emergence of a series of damaging news stories about his campaign but that she thought the “mudslinging” was unhelpful regardless of its source.
“I don’t think this is adding to the quality of what people are getting to think about in the campaign,” she said. “The important thing to me is to replace Suan Collins.”
When asked about the reports, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw his weight behind Mills’ campaign.
“We think that Janet Mills is the best candidate to retire Susan Collins. She’s a tested two-term governor and the people of Maine have an enormous amount of affection and respect for her,” he said, adding: “I’ll let the people of Maine decide.”
He has apologized for the stupid remarks, the hurtful remarks that he made
Rookie mistake. Coulda been president by now if only he... listens to earpiece I have been informed that this man is NOT a star, ergo they will not let him do it.
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It's going to be a maze
I feel like you have to try to find a tattooist in Croatia in the mid aughts willing to ink an ss symbol on an American military member. Like I've never been there but I know in America it's a pain in the ass to get a swastika or ss lightning bolt tattoo because most artists won't do it, and this is America where we skim history in schools
I'm fairly certain it's easier in Croatia than in most countries.
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No matter what?
This is a complicated story. Reddit somehow released his username and tied it to him? No one has said how they were tied together.
The Washington Post reported Platner downplayed concerns about sexual assault in posts from 2013. CNN reported he labeled all White Americans in rural areas as racist and stupid in one 2020 post and said all cops are “bastards” in a 2021 post. The Bangor Daily News reported Platner asked why Black people “don’t tip” in a 2013 post.
Now he has a nazi tattoo that he didn't know was a nazi tattoo. That may be true? I don't know. He's going up against Susan Collins. I can't imagine the DNC wanting her over anyone.
I think bookending the two recent quotes with the obviously more problematic quotes from 8 years prior is intentional. A lot can change in 8 years, especially when you transition from military to civilian life. I think the ACAB sentiment he expressed in 2021 shows growth.
(Anecdotal bias incoming) The comment on rural white Americans, while inflammatory and unhelpful, isn't all that off-base in my experience. If you are born into, grow up in and stay within the same rural 10 mile radius your entire life you tend to lack perspective to say the least. Growing up in a town or village that is 90%+ white provides no frame of reference for the varying struggles people of color experience.
I grew up in one such town. Demographics were roughly 90% white, 10% Hispanic. I didn't have a black classmate until junior year of high school and I don't want to speculate about the reception they received.
As for stupidity, acquiring knowledge is at best unemphasized and at worst actively, intentionally discouraged. Willful ignorance may be a more accurate term.
There are certainly children curious enough to seek out knowledge and learn about other human experiences (hi) but I'm still struggling to escape that bucket of crabs and it has consumed and scarred me. The access to quality healthcare was abysmal, employment was primarily factory-based and starting from a place of low familial wealth is something I've struggled against my entire adult life. I'd venture a guess that he was raised in a similar setting and was only able to escape via military service.
In short; I agree with the sentiments he's expressed recently. I vehemently disagree with the sentiments he expressed over a decade ago. I'm willing to believe the tattoo was an arbitrarily chosen flash piece done in Croatia during his time in the Marines. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I'll never be his constituent so my opinion ultimately means jack shit.
Reddit somehow released his username and tied it to him?
CNN didn't say where they got his username, but he acknowledged the posts were his
From the article that reported the posts:
Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle.
In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Platner disavowed his posts, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online. He said his criticisms of rural White Americans and the police, and his political comments, do not reflect who he is and what he stands for today.
Now he has a nazi tattoo that he didn’t know was a nazi tattoo. That may be true?
It is mildly plausible that he could have gotten the tattoo without realizing what it was. It is highly implausible that (as he claimed on a podcast yesterday) nobody ever told him what it was during any of the many times he says he's had his shirt off over the last 18 years.
He’s going up against Susan Collins.
Not yet he isn't. The primary isn't until next June.
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I would be gobsmacked if it turns out the DNC is not behind this smear campaign. They ratfuck primaries like nobody’s business, and in true Dem fashion, it’s so they can try to get a literal 80 year old into power instead. Fucking moron democrats never learn a damn thing.
edit: saw Platner address this on pod save. Don’t think he knew. I think he should just get the tat covered, make an apology statement, and move on.
Smear campaign? I don't see anyone denying that he has a Nazi tattoo. This doesn't seem like the same sort of thing as the baseless accusations of antisemitism against Mamdani or the "Bernie Bros" and "Obama Boys" nonsense.
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