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The meme also depicts Bernie Sanders saying "heil Hitler", which honestly is WAY more out of pocket than Hasan calling Platner an "ideal candidate". You are way too invested in defending Hasan over something that is extremely obviously intended to be caricature rather than an accurate depiction.
I'm not exactly invested I'm interested in the discussion. Discussing Bernie on hexbear.net in 2026 is not interesting to me. Hasan is far more influential over left politics than Bernie right now so in order to keep the discussion interesting it needs to be accurate.
It's a deliberately and obviously exaggerated meme that is rightfully criticising Hasan for being far too charitable to a neonazi who boasts about committing war crimes, not a "discussion". Even leaving that aside, whether or not Hasan literally called him an "ideal" candidate is not the issue - promoting Platner at all was always both morally bankrupt and terrible tactics because it has always been clear that he is pure evil and something was bound to come out. Handwringing over Hasan actually maybe not really liking him all that much is pathetic apologia for a man who was pushing a literal Nazi as a candidate.