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I would be gobsmacked if it turns out the DNC is not behind this smear campaign. They ratfuck primaries like nobody’s business, and in true Dem fashion, it’s so they can try to get a literal 80 year old into power instead. Fucking moron democrats never learn a damn thing.
edit: saw Platner address this on pod save. Don’t think he knew. I think he should just get the tat covered, make an apology statement, and move on.
Smear campaign? I don't see anyone denying that he has a Nazi tattoo. This doesn't seem like the same sort of thing as the baseless accusations of antisemitism against Mamdani or the "Bernie Bros" and "Obama Boys" nonsense.
This is exactly how the most popular candidate for the Democrats got switched for Joe Biden. Bernie Sanders was getting cut from coverage despite HUGE support and all of a sudden, Obama's bumbling VP was being shown as the top candidate.
Without trying to go down a conspiracy hole, Sanders was a threat to corporate power, predatory banking, and dis-regulation. DNC wants to play as close to the line as they can to get your vote, throw you a few bones, and still take your money. This is why the left and the right in America is still far right of everywhere else.
As someone who has good friends that I respect that are all across the political spectrum, this is where I hope my friends that think trump will break certain things are right. So that the pendulum swing comes back so strongly that we can clearly see how broken things were and fix them in a way that benefits actual people, not just barely enough like the DNC likes to keep things.
Take the ACA for example. Obama had the best of intentions. But he took Chris Dodd's plan as the basis. Chris Dodd's wife, Jackie Clegg, sat on the boards for many health industry companies. The plan could have worked, but was stripped of the public option. Only with subsidies was the plan possible to offer healthcare to people at a sometimes reasonable price, often not. Now those subsidies are ending. The only good thing to come out of it, from what I can tell, is that insurance companies can't deny you for pre-existing conditions. Up till now, It's just enough to make us think that at least it's not worse, but let's be honest, healthcare in America sucks. There are excellent people working as nurses, doctors, EMTs, etc, but insurance, pharmaceutical companies, and private equity working to keep us just barely alive and too desperate to fight it. This is the type of thing Bernie Sanders fought against and why he disappeared from coverage, endorsement, and ballots.
This is part of what needs to break. DNC would bend it as far as it could get away with while trying to make us think it's working, but trump will break it and call me idealist, but I hope the pushback instills leadership with someone like Sanders who cares enough to mend those bones in a way that serves the people.
"It's not my fault I chose to get drunk"
Something smells so bad, can it be his BullShit?!
Oh, the banality of evil. Oops, is murder actually wrong?! Why did no one tell me???
I have a weird take on this but i think we are gonna start seeing a lot more of this and need to just get comfortable with people with fucked up pasts being on the side of people.
A lot of very hardcore right wing, racist and problematic peole are struggling to live and will start pushing for more socialist ideals because they have to, to survive.
I think what's happening is that oligarch is not a race. Wealth is not a race and those that may have thought you could make easy scapegoats by race and creed will realize and adjust their views. Its just not the fight we are having anymore and while we may not like the reasons people are fighting on our sides we kinda have to accept that they are.
If we can make the world better not just for the oligarchs and the ultrawealthy cultists we are gonna have to shake hands and learn to get along with people we have issue with, and give them space to be on a better position.
“We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo. We went to a tattoo parlor in Split, Croatia. We chose a terrifying-looking skull and crossbones off the wall … a pretty standard military thing,”
and you did not, at any point in this "skull and crossbones" endeavor, have your "are we the baddies" moment?
Did you miss the subtle subtext in the first sentence? Or do you not know anyone at all who was or is in the military? I only know two or three but still one of them cut off the top of his own head with a ceiling fan. Thats the level of decision making and impulse control you expect from sober young men in the military.
Worth noting that the Croatians were and are often still super aligned with Nazi shit.
It's going to be a maze