here’s his reddit post where he’s talking about circumventing direct orders to commit even more warcrimes than he would normally be allowed to by the US military:

There’s all sorts of reasons I could point to why Graham Platner is unfit to be a leader in any leftist movement but the most glaring one is that as far as I can tell from his statements he thinks the US wasn’t engaged in anything wrong overseas.

As an organization the US military is evil and their recruitment strategies prey on poor people who want an out that doesn’t typically exist.

I have sympathy for them, but I also don’t think it applies to former blackwater mercs.

People should be judged based on where they are now, their actions in the present, and their self-criticism of their past actions.

There’s all sorts of reasons I could point to why Graham Platner is unfit to be a leader in any leftist movement but the most glaring one is that as far as I can tell from his statements he thinks the US wasn’t engaged in anything wrong overseas.

As for not being malicious or not being a criminal, here’s one of his posts where he talks about disobeying direct orders in order to commit even more warcrimes than he would otherwise be allowed to:

have fun electing Fetterman 2.0, I’m sure in another 4 years there’s going to be another social fascist with an even bigger bodycount that you guys will be pushing.

not wanting a nazi tattoo guy in leadership = identity politics; got it

The years of military service/mercenary work is the bigger issue imo, but democrats eat that shit up so of course they’re going to overlook a nazi tattoo.

It would be one thing if he did something criminal or malicious

He was a part of the US war machine for decades, you understand how that’s doing harm to people in a concrete sense? I get that he finally quit, but I consider that history worse than being a criminal, especially under our current judicial system.

They can be reformed, but I’d rather not have them in a leadership position.

I’m fine with people changing and learning from their past behavior. If he was just another person on the street I wouldn’t have any issue.

However I’m troubled by having someone who’s already demonstrated that lack of judgement and awareness pursuing a leadership position. I just can’t trust the guy on his words alone at this point. It’s a year out from the election, surely there’s other people who can run.

I love how you’re scrolling around to see if people are talking about you.

I have plenty of hobbies on top of my organizing work; thanks for the unsolicited advice tho

I can accept that for a lot of democrats this is something they’re entirely willing to overlook. It’s not a surprise because they have already been fine operating as co-conspirators in decades of US warmongering.

Your purity test is not only foolish, but will cause you to be deeply unsatisfied and let down by so much in the world.

I agree, I might be less let down by the world if I was more comfortable around people with nazi tattoos. I think I will continue to be disappointed though.

negative behavior like … not wanting to be on the same side as a former state department mercenary with a Nazi tattoo.

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his explanation left a lot to be desired, though it’s not surprising that Nazi tattoos fly under the radar as a state department mercenary.

If you’re posturing like a politically-aware leftist or calling yourself a communist, to claim ignorance of something like that just makes it sound like you’re lying because you got caught.

if it means supporting someone like this guy I’d rather be rotating on a spit tyvm

sadly we’re in the world where the bipartisan consensus is for endless warmongering and turning a blind eye to nazis

Honestly his military service is even more disqualifying as far as I’m concerned, but I guess spending years gunning down brown foreigners appeals to the median democrat.

We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.

It’s a year out, if it’s that serious surely someone without all this baggage could run for office.

looks the same to me

and a skull tattoo he got while in the Marines that some said resembled a Nazi symbol

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it was one though, hard to say that someone has grown if they’re feigning ignorance about the entire thing.

misleadingly doubted the existence of russian bot networks

don’t get me wrong, I know these exist. I am just expressing skepticism because people on the English speaking Internet will act like every reply they don’t like is a bot puppeteered by foreign intelligence.

It’s just more likely to be a normal person and any state actors are probably going to be focusing on the corporate-run social media spaces

I didn’t take offense! in fact I was making a joke of sorts, I understood your initial meaning.

I view my time spent talking politics on social media with people I don’t like as self-harm, I try to minimize it generally.

the distinction I’d make for hexbear is that by user base it’s also one of the major LGBT instances

not sure what “ultra-tankie” means in this context, because ultras tend to be less into lenin

gotta agree that the instance feuding is pretty toxic though