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What do you think of Platner and will he bring new life into the democratic party or be a second Fetterman? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The nazi tattoo is like my biggest red flag and I can't tell if I've just because of B.J. Blazkowicz

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[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...is still advocating for the mass murder of brown people abroad

Source?

Also, the military vets in my life are some of the most disillusioned people with the establishment, because they've seen the effects of imperialist bullshit up close.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally any article about him starts with how proud he is to be a combat vet and wants to run the military more efficiently.

https://youtu.be/p6St4B4aYP0

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

proud to be a combat vet can easily just be marketing… imagine where you’d get in the US if you said you were ashamed of your military service… you’d get eviscerated

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's saying he wants to run the military better.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

do you think the US military needs all the funding it has?

if you think it could do with less, then perhaps you and he agree: that there could be some places to make the US military reduce waste for example

making it “run better” doesn’t necessarily mean expanding it and giving it more

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

His platform is to take money from pmcs, good, but instead of using it to improve citizens lives use it to expand the military...

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Stop coping already. He doesn't want to defund it.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

You mean like his claim he didn't know what his Nazi tattoo meant?