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What do you think of Platner and will he bring new life into the democratic party or be a second Fetterman?
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He was in Blackwater and is a Nazi. And he did not apologize for his war crimes.
How the hell are people falling for this
So he's talked about gassing people in private chats? Has he said he loves Hitler?
Is there evidence of him using race or ethnicity as a bogeyman "other" to persecute and exile people?
Has he advocated for violence or extreme "solutions" to perceived problems in the country?
Frankly, nothing on his platform comes close to what is already happening in plain sight. Platner has stated he's anti-billionaire and that's clear enough a reason why all of this muck is getting raked. If you're going to do their work for them, I hope you're at least getting paid for it.
He was a concentration camp guard at Abu Graib, has a Nazi tattoo and is still advocating for the mass murder of brown people abroad so yes to probably all of the above.
Source?
Also, the military vets in my life are some of the most disillusioned people with the establishment, because they've seen the effects of imperialist bullshit up close.
Literally any article about him starts with how proud he is to be a combat vet and wants to run the military more efficiently.
https://youtu.be/p6St4B4aYP0
proud to be a combat vet can easily just be marketing… imagine where you’d get in the US if you said you were ashamed of your military service… you’d get eviscerated
He's saying he wants to run the military better.
do you think the US military needs all the funding it has?
if you think it could do with less, then perhaps you and he agree: that there could be some places to make the US military reduce waste for example
making it “run better” doesn’t necessarily mean expanding it and giving it more
Stop coping already. He doesn't want to defund it.
His platform is to take money from pmcs, good, but instead of using it to improve citizens lives use it to expand the military...
You mean like his claim he didn't know what his Nazi tattoo meant?