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I don't hate them if they repent.
The problem is that Americans (including here) will take literally anything as repentance. Platner has never to my knowledge expressed actual regret for the imperialist violence he did. In fact he's talked about how fun it is to fight in "little wars" and given a list of the ones he wishes he "got to" fight in. He also thinks he should receive more recognition and pay for the violence he did do, and wants to expand the armed forces! Yet people are backing him as the "lesser of two evils" and such.
I will be frank: I have seen the people - mostly kids, who are especially vulnerable to uxo - who are injured, maimed or killed in his "fun" little wars that he wishes he "got to" fight in. I have met those who have had every member of their immediate family murdered by men just like Platner. That's what he wishes he got to engage in more of. He is literally an unapologetic, racist mass murderer, and the fact he only did it for the money does not make him better. He is unironically worse than the majority of IDF genocidaires, who at least don't sign up for multiple tours with the IDF then go back as a mercenary when the IDF says they won't send them in to do more murder.
There is no possible explanation for being okay with granting this man political power, no matter who his opponent is, that doesn't hinge on regarding his victims as less than human. It is raw, unadulterated, American exceptionalist racism. And while that's going to be a problem on any site with a large number of Americans it's fucking depressing to see it here.
Yeh idk about planter enough to know his feelings but even aside from that the set of people I don't hate is a lot larger than the set I'd give a politically powerful role.
I agree but repenting has to include more than just saying "that was bad, I was wrong, sorry," otherwise it's no different than IDF shoot and cry bullshit. You need to actually be an active participant in opposing US imperialism.
step 1: never let them have organizational power or be in charge of anything more important than setting up chairs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Prysner
write-in campaigns are whatever but he shouldn't hold public office. trying to monkeywrench the military is good but his org is never going to do as much as the SOS guys during the vietnam war.
Despite my other comment, I do agree. We don't all grow up immediately realising the truth of the world.
If you come to that truth late and truly, genuinely, work to help right the world, I'll welcome you.
Always better late than never, and if we're being honest with ourselves there's so much work to be done that we really can't afford to be unforgiving if we want to accomplish anything. They don't have to be propped up as our greatest and most trusted comrades, just welcomed as comrades.
That’s why I always bring up Puyi. Almost nobody is actually beyond redemption. But we really do need to kill the “cult of the troop”
puyi was reformed years and years later, there's no route to that kind of reeducation for US troops right now. their options are, at great personal cost: materially protesting, exposing warcrimes, stopping war crimes, defection, or treason.
so, Bushnell, Manning, or no recent examples, unless some of those people getting in trouble for selling information to china were troops.
Not all will be high-profile. For example, some of the hosts and guests of Eyes Left are ex-military turned anarchists, and there's the infamous " 'sup bootlickers" guy. Those aren't exactly recent either, but my point is that one can redeem themselves without being imprisoned or in some other newsworthy situation
nah they gotta at least go out of their way to get in a fist fight with a recruiter for me to trust them. if they just get out and grow a conscience that shouldn't be good enough for anyone else.
Exactly this. Work to end imperialism
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