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So sick of hearing about Graham Platners dumb goofy ass (hexbear.net)
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I’m curious what the general consensus is here cause I am so so fucking tired of listening to people talk about Graham Platner.

I’m amenable to the possibility of him being decent but I am not holding my breath over it.

it’s just another perfect example of the inherent flaws in “the left” ever hitching its wagon to the fucking Democratic Party.

That phrase “the left” makes my skin crawl in general. I am so tired of having to constantly wrest the identity of a historic movement away from this or that charlatan, it is humiliating to me and my peers to invest faith and trust in these people.

But without a party, who can we say represents “the left”? With the crimes of chattel slavery and now Palestinian genocide, is this party really the vehicle?

As far as I’m concerned any Democratic politician has a massive bar to clear for any support from me. More importantly I think we can point to some disturbingly clear examples that the institutional forces of Democratic Party politics easily overawing any individual representative of “the left”

I don’t like to disparage people choosing optimism in general. It just seems so glaringly obvious that without an enforcement mechanism outside of the Democratic Party there is very little to create any kind of actual accountability and there is nothing but unlimited reward for participation and substance-less posturing.

Wonder what the PSL is up to! Wish them nothing but good things.

Curious where everyone is besides sick of this. WHO gives a fuck! It’s Maine! Hardly anyone lives there! Have you ever seen a black fly? Too scary in general this is just par for the course

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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 14 points 19 hours ago

The guy went on multiple tours in Iraq and then as a blackwater mercenary in afghanistan. He defended people getting SS runes tattooed^[https://hexbear.net/post/6500448], he devised a way to keep shelling dense urban areas without getting detected after it got forbidden because the murder count got too high even for the US military^[https://hexbear.net/post/6562224], he wanted to "kill thousands ... maybe millions. Our way of life is better and if that is what it takes to prevail, lets get this show on the road"^[https://hexbear.net/post/6563795]