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Are you referring to Graham Platner?? Because that’s the only person I’ve seen BE specifically admonish and treat as irredeemable, and Platner is laughably far from being redeemed.
That middle paragraph you have there about an 18 year old who joins and soon quits and feels regretful is literally the same example BE has used as someone who is actually redeemable.
I don’t know BE well enough to speak on the Trump point, but considering how much you seem to be mischaracterizing his point here, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re wrong there as well.
So you have to quit within a specific period of time to be redeemable? We just what, write off anyone who stays too long, no matter how much they regret, apologize, etc.? In Platner's case specifically, I'm not 100% convinced due to a couple of his reddit comments, but Empanada is acting like anyone on the left is completely gung-ho about former US soldiers as long as there were any sympathetic factors in their enlistment, regardless of how they now feel about the US military, which very plainly isn't true.
And he's ridiculing the concept of giving people a chance to redeem themselves based on current remorse, not just considering that remorse to be redemption on its own (which obviously is ridiculous, but I have yet to see anyone on the left doing that).
He's also doing the enlightened centrist "can't you see that these things are the same, you utter buffoon?" between someone who did bad things and claims to regret them and someone who is a current war hawk and voted to make BDS illegal.
And there it is, more lies about how Graham Platner apologized, which doesn't exist.
Literally, thank you 😭