This robot's bizarre combination of vocal fry and uptalk is really irritating to listen to.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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Dude, "hired gun who worked at the torture prison and used to complain on social media that large-scale wars take the fun out of fighting, but has now retired to a quiet life as an oyster farmer and domestic abuser" is a character description from a Shadowrun campaign or some 00s action movie with washed-out colors and lots of slurs and souped-up Audis. That's a fucking carricature, that's less human than the vat-grown candidates you complain about.
Also why the hell is the idea Amerikan social democrats have of a relatable everyday person always, without fail, a horribly problematic white guy who makes every woman in a 200m radius cover her drink? What the fuck is up with that? You are consultants, you should know which demographics vote Democrat, you should know which demographics skew progressive, you should know which demographics skew left-leaning, you should know who does actual activism and is willing to go out and mobilize people for a left-ish candidate, NONE of these groups is represented by a middle-aged white cishet dude. None. Not even if we leave the war crimes and the SA and the nazi tattoos aside.
I want to forcefeed them Settlers.
Dude's lying when he said the nazi tattoo didn't show up and he's very obviously lying when he said the firm sent "some" of the Reddit posts. The Reddit account was still existing at that time, right? They could have just went and looked at the rest of the posts.
the way fan also looks at him when he speaks makes it clear that she's hold her tongue.
You can see the exact moment he spends like 5 seconds thinking about what to say, theyre calling him the world's most relaxed and honest man.
Dude I'm a bouncer part time and anybody who was THIS cagey and evasive about normal ass questions, I would assume he was there to stalk his ex or something, every bone in my body would be screaming not to let him in the door.
If the companies report was being delivered to these two, it's very likely they were the first to find out about his account. CNN first reported on the posts in October of last year. They claimed they were deleted ahead of his campaign launch in August of that year. Obviously, they didn't account for the number of archive sites for Reddit accounts that existed. And, I want to remind the readers that he never said the account wasn't his:
“That was very much me f**king around the internet,” he told CNN. “I don’t want people to see me for who I was in my worst Internet comment – or even frankly who I was in my best Internet comment … I don’t think any of that is indicative of who I am today, really.”
A full archive of his posts (or 2014 comments from his account) can found here: https://maine-monitor-102025.biglocalnews.org/
They had to have been the first to know, and then CNN found the account somehow. Here is the earliest thread I could find on Reddit that explicitly mentions his username, https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/1o8m653/cnn_exposed_graham_platners_reddit_account_and_it/. The lowest ranking comments read as follows:
A Reddit link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same location on alternative frontends that protect your privacy.
This is the DSA electoral careerism I describe as corrosive in the org.
Every time this guy dodges something he turns up the vocal fry 20%
Guy tries to vocalize lies with vocal fry.
I have to wonder, how did they think this interview was going to go? Because, based on the way it opens, and the way it ends, I get the vibe that they thought they were going to be talking about a car accident they witnessed, and then by the third question it was clear they were in the car accident.
Body language like a dog who pissed on your best carpet and now they look to the side with an awkward grin and scratch themselves with their hind leg bc they think that makes them look inconspicuous.
Is he memeing? Why does he talk like that lol?