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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

I will say it's moot to start since I don't live in Maine. My opinion makes no difference.

But I think the guy with a totenkopf tattoo who voluntarily joined blackwater is probably not that great. Everything I've seen since I learned of those things has been only a red flag.

I feel like if what he's saying now is what he really believes, great. But he's not just some populist insurgent, he's also backed by the big cryptocurrency PACs.

Idk. I've had bad vibes from him for a long time. I haven't opined much on him before because I can't really affect that race. But I don't think he's the left wing golden boy many people seem to hope for.

I hope I'm wrong and he ends up being great. But I don't trust him.

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

And don't get me wrong, I don't like him either and I don't live in Maine either. But the "I'm a single issue voter regarding genocide" thing wasn't a pretend thing, and only a little bit exaggerated.

I forgot about the Blackwater thing, but again, genocide. I didn't know about the cryptocurrency thing but, again, genocide.

And I can't find one US politician not on X. I don't think one can win a campaign without being there, because despite it being about as big as Quora or Pinterest, not enough people rejected Twitter's channels of power and information when they saw those come under nazi control for a nazi project.

It doesn't mean that Trump and Netanyahu and Ilhan Omar and Wesley Bell and Lateefah Simon and Nick Fuentes and are all equally dedicated to the project of white nationalism, but it does mean they're all nazis.

It sucks so bad to be in a nazi country and it's driving me crazy. I wish we lived in the better world where a guy like Platner would not be legitimate in our politics.

I think this is of importance to me, despite not living in Maine, because

  • I think the Conservative scandal-digging apparatus has a chilling effect for others on The Left(tm), as it does not even matter what is or is not true, and is an extra pressure against being visible,

  • It's still a national position so it'll still impact me (even if my words won't impact it).

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Context, because I hate when leftists talk exclusively through allusion and implicit language, and in 2 years this title will be totally obtuse:

This is a reference to Graham Platner who is seaking a U.S. Senate position in Maine, which is an important political position in the United States. Despite most of us not living in Maine, he's kind of controversial around the country.

He is a progressive and anti-genocide candidate who has been beating the "Free Palestine" drum for awhile.

He's a threat to Republicans and Democrats for being progressive, and a number of scandals have come out about him what amounts to bipartisan scrutiny:

The first big one was a Nazi tattoo, which he got while serving in the USMC and denies having had known it was a Nazi tattoo. (IMO the worse thing is serving in the USMC but whatever).

Other controversies have come out more recently,

  • Called to "Free Kosova, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Kurdistan, Tibet" as a highschooler in 2003. (A scandal, but one of the best things about him imo),

  • A variety of controversial Reddit posts (some rape apologia, ACAB, identified as a communist, used the r-slur a few times, active in r/SocialistRA, etc.),

  • Alleged unsettling behavior that falls short of sexual violence,

  • Sexted with others while married to his wife.

These all scream of seeing a barrel being scraped for controversies to me. Except for his time in the USMC in his 20s, he doesn't support genocide, so I don't see any questions here.

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