Can someone tell me how I should feel about Platner?
The dude gets a Nazi tattoo while serving in the military, he has a history of sexual predation, then there is his now scrubbed reddit account that was allegedly full of racist comments, and there are allegations that he was a guard at Abu Ghraib. I get that somethings might be made up to attack his character, but to me, the multiple military deployments is where I'm stuck on.
And something about him being such a "radical socialist" rubs me wrong regardless. I can't put my finger on it.
I have an anarchist friend that is arguing with me on FB but is stuck on Platner's military history and I can understand his point being that people change and radicalize in that system. I've seen it before. But the last time I've seen it, I ended up in a discussion with another anarchist about a PSL member that served in the military. So, like military service... I know a lot of people sign up because they are after financial security, and I get that. And I also get that people radicalize in the military. One of my favorite rappers, Bambu, did just that.
But I'm getting mixed signals from similar scenarios from 2 different anarchists and maybe my dialectics of this whole situation is skewed in the wrong way?
I think right now my head is at this: Joining the military in hopes for financial security in the way of education and early retirement can be a noble way to go, but joining to "save the world from the savage terrorists that want to destroy the US" really isn't the way. So I guess maybe it boils down to Platner's intentions when he enlisted?
My broken human ass would love to do meal prep and cooking.
Is this a real post on social media, by the US's sitting president?