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[-] MoonWalker1999@piefed.social 40 points 4 days ago

Gotta say, he's hitting the right notes for me.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I'm feeling cautiously optimistic. And even if he is bullshitting everyone it's not like we'd miss Collins

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

or worst MILLs.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

lets hope hes not another turncoat like some other dems that were on a "progressive platform" only to switch immediately after elected.

[-] chloroken@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

Nazi tattoo that his friends say he knew about. Public reddit comments about how he wants to kill for fun. Blackwater derivative volunteer. Abu Ghraib worksman.

This is an enemy of the people, yet Democrats want him elected, exposing their true motive: control over ethics, power over people.

The wild part is how the DNC doesn't even want this guy. Imagine simping for neo-Nazi that even the DNC won't touch. The state of US politics is comical.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago

Eh, I had a libertarian stint in my past. I hate the villany of changing your opinions. "Flip flopping" is one of the biggest failures you can supposedly have as a modern politician (or even person). We should praise people when they change thier views, not condemn them for it.

At minimum, he must be better than Collins. That's the alternative. Even if he doesn't actually believe this stuff, it's still a significant improvement.

I do think he believes it though. I think he has a bad past, and that lead him down some dark roads. However, I think this has taught him some lessons that he's learned from. He sees how shitty he was in the past and has improved. I hope this is true for everyone. If you still hold the same beliefs you did in the past, you're a failure of a human. If you don't see how stupid and ignorant the younger you was, you aren't living a life worth living.

[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Same, changing your views is a sign of someone who is thinking critically.

[-] chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Nazis are rehabilitated with lead. Fuck you, apologist.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

I hope you can look back in the future and see how stupid you are currently too.

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Does he regret it? I've heard him speak about the nazi tattoo issue and he doesn't seem exactly apologetic and regretful.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

I heard him speak about it some. I don't think regretful is the right word for what he feels about it, just that it was at a time he did a lot of stupid stuff. I think the tattoo is a fairly small part. It's just the part that is easy for people to post an image online and brand him as a Nazi, so they can make otherwise progressive people apethetic and not support him without engaging in what he actually thinks.

If you actually cared what his opinion was, you'd know this. However, you just let some trolls mislead you and then you spread their propoganda. Their goal is to spread apathy, so you don't support things you should. No one is perfect, but he's pretty damn good from what I've seen and heard. He's anti-war and is one of the few people asking for decreasing the military budget. Does that sound like a fascist?

Learn to think for yourself and stop spreading this voter apathy nonsense. You're a useful puppet to people trying to make you not get what you want.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

He tried to say he didn't know what is was from, but there was proof showing he had it for years after learning where it originated. Being able to avoid tattooing actual Nazi emblems on yourself should be a bare minimum requirement for any "progressive" politician.

[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

I have known a number of Marines. What they tattoo'd on their bodies is the least of my concerns. They've all done fucked up shit having been in the USMC.

They're also the most steadfast and active anti-war and leftist organizers that I have ever known.

Hell, you can go back a century to Smedley Butler. He was not wrong and should not be discounted.

[-] btsax@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago

friends

Every article I've seen has this person conveniently unidentified. If a real person wants to put their name to that claim it would carry more weight

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago

The wild part is how the DNC doesn’t even want this guy

You can certainly dislike this guy on his own merits, but DNC approval doesn't mean shit to me these days considering how they snubbed Mamdani. DNC lost any and all credibility with me years ago.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I got to say his interview on the John Stewart podcast a while back made me a teeny bit nervous. He talked about power a lot in a somewhat fascistic framing. Of course a lot of the other things he was talking about was fantastic. But there is that nagging doubt in the back of my mind about him. I really can't say.

I will say I certainly don't believe any of his excuses for the tattoo, and he completely dodged the topic on that interview.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I find it very hard to trust someone in any sort of leadership position who says they loved war, he said that people needed to die because he believed his way of life was the correct one, there have been a few different quotes where he mentions enjoying combat. And a literal Nazi emblem as a tattoo. How the fuck is he even being discussed as someone to elect in any sort of position at all?

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago
[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

They want us enslaved.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Not yet. Not until they have a stable production chain of robots to replace workers across all fields. Until then, they need 'low skill' workers.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 3 days ago

Ah but there’s a slight problem with that. I don’t know if they know, but to get even richer, you need……. Customers…. Have they not realised this?

[-] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

Isn't this the guy that said he didn't know his nazi tattoo he got while spreading imperialism and killing brown kids for money was a nazi tattoo and because he's still in the first stage of the Fetterman Tactic™ everyone moved on and pretended he was totally reformed from being a nazi-tattoo wearing storm trooper that definitely killed brown children for money?

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

Ok.

So I guess we’ll just have Sue again then? Or are you planning on running or supporting someone better?

No? Just shitting then?

Ok.

[-] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

So the answer to 'hey this guy is a nazi who likes killing children' is 'HURRRRRRRR BUT ARE YOU GOING TO RUN INSTEAD, NO? WELL WE JUST HAVE TO HAVE A NAZI THEN HURRRRRRRR'

Fascinating how the far-right mind works.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

Yep, kinda thought you were ridiculous. Thanks for removing any doubt.

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[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

I get where you are coming from. But the idea doesn't jive with his leaked Reddit account and the posts he made. Dude is a Bernie bro in the best possible way.

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[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 15 points 4 days ago

I dunno, wouldn’t the right wing media leave him alone then?

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Couldn't care less if he's not learned on symbology.

I care that he thinks people should actually be able to earn a living wage in this country; something apparently no other Democrat is willing to commit to, sans Bernie.

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

Stop boosting this imperialist warmonger.

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 16 points 4 days ago

Find someone better who lives in Maine

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You're right.

We should all be paying Hillary to make speeches and devastate whole-ass countries again.

That's what represents a good Dem, no?

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