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  1. Risky. Didn't neg, but thought about it.
  2. That's valid. Voters in Maine find outsiders untrustworthy, and I'm sure there are many vocal leftists in Maine who will abstain from the Dem primary because they'd rather participate in the Green Party primary. Coming at this from an electoral standpoint, Platner's politics are much better than those of Mills or Collins, even if his politics are worse than some of the other theoretical alternatives, none of whom have a prayer because if they did we'd already have heard of them. Don't like him because he probably did bad stuff while deployed? I can respect that. No disagreement from me, there, just as I wouldn't criticize someone who refused to vote for Harris due to her weak position on the genocide in Gaza. Murder, war crimes, and genocide are simply a bridge too far for some people, and that's ok. Don't like him because he used to say the f-slur and had questionable views on race? I respect that as well, but I disagree with the mentality behind refusing to allow people to shed their prior bad opinions. This is especially counterproductive in the face of so many people (especially men under 50) who were reliable Democratic voters in their 20s and 30s but who moved away from the party around the same time as #MeToo. The opposition is actively recruiting converts. Hell, even Donald Trump himself had been a self-identifying Liberal Elite for much of his adult life. So, it stands to reason that if the right is willing to forgive people for their prior progressive views and embrace converts, the left should be willing to forgive people for their prior regressive views and welcome ex-chuds. Better late than never, and we truly need all hands on deck. TLDR, unlike murder and war crimes, I don't think having had bad opinions in the past should be categorically disqualifying. Don't like him because he's too dumb to realize he had a Nazi tattoo? I find that uncharitable to him and strategically short-sighted. I'm not a history buff by any means, but even in the areas where I consider myself to be more knowledgeable than most people, I still learn new things on a regular basis. Until more evidence comes out, I'm going to allow him the benefit of the doubt. Even if he told anonymous strangers online that he studied history, that doesn't automatically mean he downloaded encyclopedic knowledge of Nazi iconography or that he was shirtless around someone who would have known that. And according to him, the people who should have known that, the ones responsible for verifying that he was eligible to serve in a different branch of the Armed Forces and to have whatever security clearance he needed for his stint with Blackwater, seemed not to have noticed, either. Calling him a secret Nazi, on a day like today where no other evidence of his supposed Nazi views has been publicized, is not something I would take seriously. If Mainers disagree, let them be the ones to say so. As has been mentioned before, if he's as dumb as some people think he is, then it's more likely than not that future and more damaging oppo will come to light that would disqualify him for other reasons. This does seem very coordinated, and the reason I believe they're coming after him with so much firepower is because they are terrified of another Mamdani (whom they arrogantly believed would lose the primary) and want to take him out now before his support and profile have grown beyond a certain point of no return. It's intended as a warning shot to any other working class candidates who would ever dare to run on a similar platform. The message is that politics is only for Type-A, Student Government, social climbers like Pete Buttigieg who were grown in a lab to become politicians. Working people with checkered pasts need not apply, unless they embrace MAGA. We'll see what else comes out about him. I think it's a mistake for the left to treat veterans as irredeemable, but I respect and understand the opposing viewpoint.
  3. For the same reasons none of us know FAU's depth chart. They're fucking losers who have no chance.
  4. I'm not voting for him because I don't live there, but I do think he's the least bad option in that particular race.
  5. Most leftists had never liked Platner because he was a combat vet who signed on to Blackwater. Valid criticism, but not electorally smart.
  6. The year: 2026. Today, I was unable to take a dump because of a 12-hour AWS outage.
  7. And you missed him get 18 consecutive hole-in-ones. You just had to be there.
  8. It's a slow developing test that usually loses 3 yards. Sark loves it
  9. he's telling cattle ranchers that they're doing well?
  10. If that's true then you have nothing to worry about.
  11. We're not debating the symbol here. We're debating whether Platner is a secret Nazi. This is not a Secret Nazi vs. This is a Secret Nazi
  12. Flagg is supposed to be a generational talent, unlike Sochan, so fuck it bring it.
  13. that's a very, very low bar
  14. https://www.npr.org/2016/09/04/492599414/for-new-hampshire-s-white-mountain-trail-crew-comfort-comes-second-to-ragged-fun once again, Liberals are afraid of their own fucking shadows
  15. I think voters want a platform that they can actually understand and feel will help them directly and materially. They will overlook a lot of indiscretions in search of a candidate they feel cares about them.
  16. negged for threadshitting. fuck off
  17. I've seen some truly braindead takes on Bluesky. One of them was like "GUYS IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR SOMEONE TO MOVE TO MAINE AND RUN" Yes, nothing Mainers love more than a carpetbagger who waited until scandal hit one of its homegrown candidates to uproot their own lives and try to unseat an incumbent. Apply the Conclave principle here. Politicians who want to be politicians are the worst people for the job. It's one thing to be from the community that has been misrepresented by Susan Collins, seeing nobody else doing anything about it, and feeling called to fix it. A carpetbagger cannot claim to have organic, sincere intentions.
  18. The Nazis saw Indiana and were like, "no thanks we're good"
  19. ✨When you're a star, they let you do it.✨
  20. So you actually think he's a secret Nazi?
  21. I think he's omitting some unflattering stuff about his time being drunk in Croatia. Does it make him a Nazi? Not really. But the way he tells the story, like it was a groupthink bonding thing, sort of makes it sound like someone else made the decision for him. He's either lying about that (it was his choice) which is bad or he's downplaying the kind of shitheads he would hang out with while in the Marines, which is also bad. Seth Harp wrote a book about how some of these unsavory characters can operate within the military. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fort-bragg-cartel-murders-1235394302/ Now I won't go so far as to say he joined a gang-like organization while in the Marines, but it can't really be ruled out. And yes, it can't be ruled out that the organization was Nazi-adjacent or Nazi-sympathetic (like a prison gang would be). I can see how he would be ashamed of it, but like he said, if he believed it the tattoo itself stood for something that needed to be concealed, wouldn't he also have tried harder to cover it up? So, I don't really know what to make of it. More information could come out, and I will drop my support if it turns out he was lying or if it turns out he supports or condones white supremacy in any way.
  22. Liberals are afraid of their own shadows, I swear to god. This whole oppo dump rhymes an awful lot with the "Mamdani is a jihadi rapper" saga. Totally playing to people's prejudices. The brown Muslim must be a secret terrorist, and the white guy from rural America must be a secret Nazi, ergo we just gotta elect the centrist! Let the people of Maine decide.
  23. He has to do that. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/graham-platner-tattoo-nazi-00617686
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