Opponents went all in on smearing Graham Platner as a Nazi based on a bad tattoo choice. It didn’t work. Maine voters decided they’d rather have universal health care and an end to reckless wars than a polished politician with an unblemished past.
“Opponents”, also known as “people who have thought about his past for more than 5 seconds and realized he could’ve truly had a dramatic personality change within the last year, but even if that is the case, pretty much anybody else is better qualified, and his reaction to people having concerns about his nazi past with nazi tattoos and nazi friends doing some nazi-esque shit in the name of the US military does not inspire confidence in his ability to recognize and respect humanity in all its forms.”
hurray, 6 more years of Collins. That’s what you want, right? Because that’s the reality you’re promoting.
I don’t know what fairyland unicorn candidate you’ve got hidden somewhere, but we have to live in this reality. And in this reality, the choice was between Schumers handpicked corpo geriatric AIPAC Janet Mills, the GOP lapdog Susan Collins, and Platner. Make your pick lefty. Or run yourself. If no one is good enough for you, then go on, go set the example.
It’s not an extreme, the second scenario appears to be the mainstream view among democrats, although with less focus on the potential for an unstable individual to do unexpected things.
dude… you’re really doubling down on this. So, trauma shaming is fine. You’re saying “hey people with PTSD, you’re unstable and shouldn’t be trusted. Your traumas make you a worse person”. That’s what you’re putting out. You good? Are you good with that message?
What’s a parallel here? You about to tell rape victims that their traumas makes them unreliable judges of character? Does that sound alright to you? Same thought process. Is that the kind of person you are? Someone who shames people for having trauma in their past?
No I reject that completely, leaders need to be held to a higher standard. There are so many ways for him to invest in and volunteer his time to help his community that don’t involve giving him power over others. Mental health issues and/or an unstable personality should absolutely be taken into account for senate candidates, lest we get another Fetterman. Additionally, just framing it him having PTSD is rather disingenuous. Platner was not the victim of a war, he was the openly admitted participant in a black ops wet-work team. He has, under his own volition, admitted to torturing people. If he feels traumatized by that, well, i have a hard time being very sympathetic. Comparing that to a victim of rape is probably not your best work.
“Opponents”, also known as “people who have thought about his past for more than 5 seconds and realized he could’ve truly had a dramatic personality change within the last year, but even if that is the case, pretty much anybody else is better qualified, and his reaction to people having concerns about his nazi past with nazi tattoos and nazi friends doing some nazi-esque shit in the name of the US military does not inspire confidence in his ability to recognize and respect humanity in all its forms.”
hurray, 6 more years of Collins. That’s what you want, right? Because that’s the reality you’re promoting.
I don’t know what fairyland unicorn candidate you’ve got hidden somewhere, but we have to live in this reality. And in this reality, the choice was between Schumers handpicked corpo geriatric AIPAC Janet Mills, the GOP lapdog Susan Collins, and Platner. Make your pick lefty. Or run yourself. If no one is good enough for you, then go on, go set the example.
You can’t escape the fact that Platner is either:
A. A liar, a mercenary, and a nazi
or
B. A ptsd suffering veteran with an incredibly unstable personality which currently aligns with our political views
I can escape your false dichotomy, and do. I reject your premise on the grounds that not everyone sees things in extremes. You should try it.
It’s not an extreme, the second scenario appears to be the mainstream view among democrats, although with less focus on the potential for an unstable individual to do unexpected things.
Why the fuck would “the mainstream view among democrats” be even the slightest bit persuasive? Cite proof or GTFO.
dude… you’re really doubling down on this. So, trauma shaming is fine. You’re saying “hey people with PTSD, you’re unstable and shouldn’t be trusted. Your traumas make you a worse person”. That’s what you’re putting out. You good? Are you good with that message?
What’s a parallel here? You about to tell rape victims that their traumas makes them unreliable judges of character? Does that sound alright to you? Same thought process. Is that the kind of person you are? Someone who shames people for having trauma in their past?
No I reject that completely, leaders need to be held to a higher standard. There are so many ways for him to invest in and volunteer his time to help his community that don’t involve giving him power over others. Mental health issues and/or an unstable personality should absolutely be taken into account for senate candidates, lest we get another Fetterman. Additionally, just framing it him having PTSD is rather disingenuous. Platner was not the victim of a war, he was the openly admitted participant in a black ops wet-work team. He has, under his own volition, admitted to torturing people. If he feels traumatized by that, well, i have a hard time being very sympathetic. Comparing that to a victim of rape is probably not your best work.
They’re okay with a possible nazi if it gets them a win.
Or because he says he wants to address military spending not by lowering it but improving how it’s spent on defense contractors and mercenaries.