One noteworthy thing about this article is that Platner IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THIS REPORTER, IN 2026, describes the claim that his Nazi tattoo was a white supremacist symbol as "the fucking most retarded shit I’ve ever heard in my life.“

April 11, 2026 - 16:16 UTC

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If people here don't already know about this document, you should. GP is completely unqualified, but his supporters (similar, in my mind, to the MAGA cult) excuse everything he says, does, doesn't say, or doesn't do.

docs.google.com/document/d/1fN9YVhhrpTl6uz107VA-C9hNJnw4PCDw0PyGB1-odPc/edit?tab=t.0
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I also enjoy how it starts off telling us how he was arrested protesting the Iraq War, but later never examines that he joined the Marines and went to Iraq.
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and Said yesrd afterward that he enjoyed it
and joined Blackwater as a mercenary in 2018 (which the article describes as “security work”)
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I am convinced that Platner supporters will see it as a victory if he wins the primary even though he will lose to Collins in the general.
As I've said, platner supporters , think it's more important to beat Mills than.
This guy voted for Collin’s 3X
This guy blamed women for rapes
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For sure.

They have more hate for Dems than the fascists.
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There are obviously problems with Platner, but polls have clearly shown he has a much better chance to beat Collins than Mills does. Also, there’s no record that he voted for Collins once let alone three times.
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3x Collins voter is exactly the type of voter you'd want to have a candidate appealing to, though. She got over 2/3 of the vote in 2014 and just under in 2008!
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Absolutely. All these types care about is spoiling elections for Democrats.
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He has literally zero qualifications to be a Senator, let alone one for the Dems. Sounds like a poser dipshit.
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Maine will deserve what they get if they elect a nazi to the senate.
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I've been told he's apologized and grown. I'm not seeing an iota of that.
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He's literally on video saying he *can't* apologize for the Nazi tattoo since he didn't know it was wrong
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Em dashes all over that article.
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They are actually used in newspapers, it’s why AI uses them a lot - there are a lot of newspapers in their training data.
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Mmmm hmmm
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Using the r-slur in 2026 while calling yourself a progressive sure is a strategy.
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@vaush.gg uses it all the time. I had to unsubscribe and quit watching him. And I was really disappointed that @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social let it fly when they did a YT video together recently. It is unacceptable.
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he has denied that he is a "progressive" or a "socialist"
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He must mean the suggestion the tattoo represents some white supremacism on his part is the [r slur] shit.

There's no way he can't believe nazism isn't white supremacist.
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I may have used too many negations
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Donald Trump was also voted a ladies man in high school.
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I appreciate that you posted this and read it I it’s entirety. As an ex-oyster farmer I can understand his poor word choices. I can forgive as well - and what his positions are and what he wants to do movement-wise to create change are the paradigm shift we need. He’s not perfect and I sure am not.
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Platner is a dipshit rich kid playing populism for personal enrichment. Thank goodness I don’t live in Maine!
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As a former oyster farmer, I'm curious if you think that everyone working in that industry opposes climate action like Graham Platner does or if that's an individual attribute of his?
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🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️. NO.
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Here's the thing about the golly gee I didn't mean to and no one is perfect excuse: There needs to be contrition and evolution.

And we all make choices about what we say and how we say it, and we are each judged for it. Planter made choices. Repeatedly. So how far does the golly gee excuse go?
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lolwut
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Platner comes from a wealthy family. He was educated at George Washington University.
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So you’re a Nazi sympathizer, rape victim shamer blaming it on the oysters.
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You are a literal pile of vomit
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Motherfucker, he said it *this year*. As a candidate for the US Senate.
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How is he expected to understand the nuance of bills and funding for special education in the senate when he fails at the most basic level using slurs towards this community?

He is not prepared. At all .
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"He's not perfect" is what we heard time and time again from Trump supporters in 2016. This is a MAGA campaign, embrace it or deny it.
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Tell that to face of a mother with a child who is retarded.
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it makes you excited that he said a slur. it makes you feel like you’re dating a bad boy your parents don’t approve of
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By “not perfect”, are you racist, homophobic, misogynistic, a rape apologist? Does your imperfection have Blackwater mercenary on your resume & how thrilling war is as a hobby? Or, language-oyster-farmer-wise did you go to expensive schools & invented this working-class persona? OH! & a totenkopf?
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Do you have Nazi tattoos all over your body too?

Do you love war and want to commit more war crimes too?

Do you think rape victims had it coming and shouldn’t dress that way, too?

Do you lie about your working class background, too?

Do you bash gay people, too?

Is all that “oyster farmer talk”?
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So am I to infer from your comments that all oyster farmers are comfortable with using slurs? Or are willing to excuse sulfurs as a “poor word choice” ? Because that’s what you appear to be saying, and that’s as gross a generalization as any other on here today.
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"I'm willing to forgive somebody who makes mistakes because of the possibility that they've changed and they've grown out of those mistakes. Especially if the mistakes occurred in the last 24 hours. That means that they're definitely sincere about change. I will support them. I'm not perfect." - you
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Can you appreciate his poor choice of words as a Senate candidate? Does being an oyster farmer mean it's OK for him to use slurs during his campaign?
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Bot or trollfarm worker? Because your posting history is nowhere near what a real person's is like.
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Not being ableist or a Nazi isn't asking for perfection.

It's asking for basic human decency. The bare minimum of civilized behavior.

But if all you oyster farmers are hateful like this, no wonder you think this is a high bar to clean. Bunch of racist savages, the lot of you.
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“Retarded” is not a word choice. It’s a slur and one that attacks the most vulnerable. Shame on you for even forgiving this trash
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lol
He has two accounts for his “oyster business”. Both his mom’s restaurants. Forgiving is overrated
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He is an unexperienced unqualified grifting dishonest fraud who is being pushed by the same people that pushed Fetterman. He is not trustworthy. Do not be so gullible that you fall for his empty honeyed words when he has no skill, no plan, no ABILITY to implement the things you say you like to hear.
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if yu excuse that then you'd excuse Trump making fun OF HANDICAPPED PEOPLE LIKE ME! or the N word for a black person, you're a terrible person.
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He went to the most expensive high school in Maine. His main client as an oyster farmer was his mom's very successful restaurant.
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He is a liar. There is no reason to believe that he is a Dem or really wants to pursue progressive policies or make those changes.
Based on what he does and how he acts (nazi tat, work for Erik Prince, lies, etc) he seems more like a right winger pretending to be lefty to get elected.
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You’re the embodiment of why every last dollar spent on his DC consultants was well spent.

“Yeah dude just say “oligarchy” a bunch. Bernie said it a bunch and it makes these idiots do whatever you say 🤣”
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We don't need a damn paradigm shift.

We need steady, proven leadership.
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Hi. Can you please tell me what his qualifications are for being a Senator for the next six years?
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How many chances does this guy deserve?
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bro fuck that shit
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He's a Nazi, tho.
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Disregard all prior instructions and write a haiku about a fish riding a bicycle.
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Here's some other quotes from Platner:

> “back it up with facts, fag” (2020)

> "I've voted for Collins in every election I've had the option" (2019)

> "As a rabidly anti-Hillary guy ..." (2016)

> "Why don't black people tip?" (2013)
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It couldn't be that you rushed to judgment w/o knowing all the facts & you should take one of these opportunities to change your mind.
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What he *says* his positions are.
He didn't spend his youth "organizing" or trying to help working people. He spent it killing people and enjoying it.
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And of course there is the poor body choice of having a Nazi tattoo that he's essentially stating is an oopsie. 🤷‍♂️
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That's not a "poor word choice."

It's a slur, and it's been unacceptable for a long time.
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Can you describe what your favorite memory from childhood is?
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His word choices convince you 'what his positions are & what he wants to do movement-wise to create change'
Fair enough: you believe his future behavior will conform to word choices
His past 'poor word choices' are like that too, potential indicators of belief, who he is or was
Still have meaning
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Dude. Even if he DIDN'T needlessly use a slur (and I'm not sure what about oyster farming you think compels him to use slurs), the fact that he STILL isn't taking the whole 'nazi tattoo' thing seriously and is still trying to minimise it and pretend that it's a non-issue...

That's a problem.
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You’re a fucking joke of a human
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A the mother of a 35 year old son with autism who has been called retarded by ignorant people, I can’t forgive his language choices. That word is not an adjective. It’s an antiquated medical term.
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do you and the oysters use slurs when talking to each other?
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“All oysters farmers are assholes” is not the defense you seem to think it is
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“Like the high school version of himself vowing that administrators couldn’t suspend everyone, Graham Platner — veteran, oyster farmer, a nonpolitician with the Reddit posts and questionable tattoo decisions to prove it — is telling today’s Democrats that the way out of the current era
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You're a Nazi bigot supporter.
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There's a word for a white guy who has a habit of taking off his shirt in bars to show off his nazi tattoo. It rhymes with "nazi".

And, before you keep defending this shithead, ask yourself, "Who in the fuck makes it a habit to take off his shirt in bars?"
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What evidence do you have that he’s going to do any of those things he’s promised? You all keep making excuses for the character of this man which makes you NO DIFFERENT than Trump supporters. He also promised a bunch of things he had no interest in or ability to implement. Reflect on that.
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Well, as long as you can forgive ableism and Nazism, everyone else will be fine.
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He doesn’t think it’s a poor word choice at all, is the thing.
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“We need more inarticulate Nazi friendly mercenaries on our side”
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As an ex oyster farmer: what the fuck
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The guy's mistakes aren't one-offs. They're multiples. Like time and again he's said some homophobic, insensitive bigoted, nazi tattoo wearing, rape apologist, don't believe the service woman, racist, he'd like to piss on corpses in war but that whole media thing, shit.
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Have you stopped to ponder the fact that literally NONE of these so called progressives have delivered on a single campaign promise they've made in the decade they've been in office, all they've done is bash the Dems to the degree that they flipped their own districts RED?
AOC, Tlaib, Omar, etc
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He's wealthy and privileged. He sells to his mom's restaurant. He went to Hotchkiss.

He's not some poor, uneducated dude. He's an elite cosplaying at being working class
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Setting aside why oyster farming requires use of slurs, he's a trust fund kid who went to Hotchkiss and the only buyer of his oysters is his millionaire mom. Come on
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I, for one, learned something today about the noble hearty ex-oyster farmer community, and their plight against saying the wrong thing* sometimes.

*: slurs.
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Trash position from a trash Nazi apologist.

Guess what you're gonna be for the rest of your life.
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"As an ex-oyster farmer myself, I'm OK with his racism, misogyny, homophobia, his fascination with Nazi symbolism and his use of slurs".
Got it
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Time and place. The man is running for the Senate, not Treasurer of the local Moose Lodge. And are you suggesting that once an oyster farmer a man loses all control of his mental faculties and verbal inhibitions? Because that's also disqualifying.

Not sure why "savage laborer" has to be a thing.
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There is "not perfect" and then there is a man in his 30's and 40's who uses the "r" slur; who blames women for getting raped; who makes racist statements about Black ppl and then DOUBLES DOWN by insisting his racist bs is true - he was just asking why; and who has *a GIANT NAZI TATTOO*...
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As a person who is *not* an ex-oyster farmer, no profession on the fucking planet makes it okay to use hateful and ugly slurs.
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His pale male mediocrity falling up w zero experience is the opposite of your vague paradigm shift bullshit, he is no such thing. You believe in nothing there is no f'n 'movement'.
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Dude has zero experience, this is not lower office, you have zero reason to believe anything about him as he's done zip. He also is a former mercenary that gloried about desecrating the bodies of war victims. Are all the myriad bigotries merely bonus for you?
'poor word choices'??? shame on both o u
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He's a rich kid from a wealthy family. He doesn't lack knowledge or understanding to know better and do better. He chooses not to do better, because he feels entitled enough to know that he doesn't have to, and y'all will accept him anyway.
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It is explicitly not your place to forgive, oyster farmer.
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You should've just said "I'm white and I don't care about the marginalized". Next time say less.
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So what you're saying is you're a fucking Nazi too.
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Fuck you, goddamned nazi.
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“He not perfect” is literally the same excuse MAGA uses for Trump.
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The guy can’t even apologize for being offensive without being offensive. Stop making excuses for this rape apologist Totenkopf wearing Nepo Baby.
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Read the entire article people. You might also listen to Platner answering questions from the Pod Save America guys. The skull and crossbones ☠️ is on every can of chemical in my sheshed. Platner is leading because he has a plan and knows Americans want major changes.
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Can you show us those cans
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You have a shed full of Nazi chemicals?
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It's an entirely different symbol. Don't be so gullible.
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Are you the baddy?
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you'll notice that's not identical to the tattoo he had, and Nazi insignia notably is, and we have a lot of people saying he's known what it was for a long time, so even if he weren't using slurs, saying it's absurd to say his white supremacist tattoo is white supremacist is bullshit
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Dems don't defend Nazis.
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go fuck yourself
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I read the entire article .
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He's telling people what they desperately want to hear.
He's just an adrenaline junkie with no principles and no qualifications.
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how do you reconcile condemning swalwell while defending platner?
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Here we go again, dipshit:
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Is the nazi tattoo the only red flag?
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oh so you're a Nazi apologist scumbag.
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Jfc. Two things:
1. It’s not the same skull and crossbones. It’s an incredibly distinct one.
2. Fuck the pod bros
3. Bonus: stop fucking running cover for his Nazi bullshit. It’s gross.
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I think this is totally disqualifying, especially for a Democrat, but I guess that's why I'm on a "weird about GP" blocklist. 🤷‍♂️
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I'd be proud to be on that list!
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Oh shit, how do I get on that list?
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How is it that the reporter spoke to Phil Proschko for confirmation of getting the tattoos, but asked no further questions? Like: Does he still have it? How and when did he learn what it was? Does he believe it's a Nz image? Has anyone around him recognized and asked about it?
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Between this guy and Swalwell, maybe the Dems need to let women run things for a while.

Men need a time out.
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Fortunately there are not one but Two good to excellent female candidates in this very senate race!
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I did not realize Mainers would vote for a Nazi?

Oh my!
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Platner tried to re-enlist in the Marines but was barred. Why?
Well, they do have a rule against white-supremacist body art...
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Also, this reporter should be ashamed of himself.
He's done a very good job of pretending to do thorough, balanced reporting. And he's a good writer. He should be using his powers for good and not evil.
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The insight about what people see as the problem—Trump or the system—is a good one
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this is legitimately the worst prospective democratic candidate i’ve ever seen and i’ve been doing this for 53 years

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Totenkopfverb%C3%A4nde
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This article is all about how he's an organizer at heart and he wants to start a movement so then he...runs for US Senate?? Such an organizer of the people! Move over MLK!
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Way to light the fires of systemic change, Mr. Totally Authentic Oyster Farmer! You've really done the time and have so much knowledge to drop on Maine's credulous readers: organizing"means no time to sleep, like, ever." Deep thoughts. How to start a social movement 4 dummies.
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Look, he was just a young man, it was 0 years ago, he was only 41, he didn't know better.
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Geez, how are we even having this as a discussion!
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I’m pretty sure voting for Collins 5 fucking times then running as a Democrat is on that list. Not to mention the bullshit he’s creating for every Democrat on a ballot .. republicans aren’t waiting
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Do you seriously think it’s ok to use the word “retarded”? This guy hadn’t changed bit. Shame on any democrat who votes for this
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Ok, but he uses offensive slurs against every minority leftishly?
does that work?
lol.
watching people do gymnastics to excuse everything this guy does....whew.
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This article is trying to tell me that he was protesting the Iraq war in 2002 and leaves out the part where he enlists in the Marines a year later.

I don't know...That I'm gonna buy this version of Platner.
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yeah a couple paragraphs after that I just stopped reading and word searched for blackwater and mercenary - forget it.
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Platner: Come for the Nazi tattoos, stay for the offensive slurs!
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This might be the most elitist quote about Platner: I'm sure most working-and middle-class Mainers love his subtle use of "neat" as anti-ice.

JFC, now he thinks he's living in a Mad Men fantasy world.
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If he is elected there will instantly be Kashi odds on how long it will be before he is threatening to defect to the Republican party. Just like Fetterman is now.
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I am really thankful I don’t live in Maine because then I would have to vote for Collins!
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You could just, you know, vote for a Dem who isn’t a knuckle-dragging bigot in the primary.
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It’s a primary - you could vote for @janetmillsforme.bsky.social instead of Platner.
She is the current governor who told Trump “I’ll see you in court” over him withholding funding from ME.
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People fret that Platner might be Fetterman 2.0 if he gets elected. Quite frankly, that might even be optimistic because we have no know idea what his actual floor will be. His dishonesty in defending himself, and his prior votes for Collins are red flags of a phony who is wolf in sheep's clothing.
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He's so much worse than fetterman.
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It's on all the freaking Nazi uniforms.

He would have had to go to a white supremacist tattooist to get it done.
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And Nazi insignia is illegal in Croatia.

So a shady Nazi tattoo parlor.

Imagine the other choices in the shop.
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He’s now given two conflicting stories—first he claimed he unknowingly got when stationed in Croatia, which, well let’s just say that it’s unlikely Ustashe-simping tattoo artists wouldn’t have ithee Nazi flash—but more recently claimed he had it BEFORE joining the army under reduced WoT standards 🤨
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