Rueben Vargas
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Rueben Vargas
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To the people out there who say that "Platner clearly can't be a Nazi because his reddit posts clearly show him as a communist!" There are people out there who hold communist and Nazi ideals together with authoritarianism being the unifier. Those are called red-browns.
Red–green–brown alliance - Wikipedia
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Toronto is setting a tone
Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.
Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
Again, Graham Platner is a canny interloper. Dude not only knew what the SS skull tattoo was but he also knew while running for the Dem ticket that he'd have swaths of people equivocating because that's what white privilege is. Mamdani has to be so collected in his approach by comparison.
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”

But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
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I blame TV Tropes for making fiction and stories puzzles to solve instead of experiences to enjoy. Cinema Sins and other youtubers would follow. Also the site began as a Joss Whedon fansite which fucking explains everything.
If I'm Chuck Rocha I'm running for any office on a Chinga Bernie ticket because goddamn if he isn't spiting the voting base that carried him in 2020.
When I played Blasphemous I clocked the pointed helmet wearing Pennant One as part of some deep Spanish Catholic lore and I was right. I'm guessing the Klan appropriated the pointed hoods as anti-Catholic sentiment.

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Check this guy for Nazi tats now.
This is why I believe that Platner is not just a Nazi but also seeking to infiltrate progressive politics. It's called "hiding your power level" where they make themselves more appealing to unaware persons to lure them in. Dem politicians like Adams being openly fascist gives Platner cover.
Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."
Welp I finally ripped the band aid off. I just deactivated my twitter. I have no desire to go back at all and probably should've done it sooner.
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Platner and the pod bros don't understand that other people have genuine beliefs, principles, and values. That's why they're so confused and outraged when others note that someone's history contradicts, rather than supports, the way they portray themselves today.
Graham Platner to @daveweigel.bsky.social:
"How do you expect to win back men when you go back through somebody’s Reddit history and just pull it all out and say: ‘Oh, my God, this person has no right to ever be in politics?’"

DSCC Chair Gillibrand: “It’s up to the voters of Maine to decide.”
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People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten.

They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in.

The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH!

Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE
I don't care what Platner's motives are. We can't however fool ourselves into thinking that people can hold two diametrically opposing philosophies at the same time. That's cognitive dissonance at best and evil manipulation at worst. I am also convinced we will see more vile shit from him.
Pepe the frog was a fun-loving character created by Matt Furie before 4Chan got a hold of him and turned him into a fascist symbol. Lots of hippie-crunchy-"return to the land" types are also white supremacists. And oftentimes white supremacists will preach economic justice in antisemitic terms.
Fascists love to appropriate non-fascist ideas. The swastika was a holy symbol for Buddhists before being used as the Nazi symbol. "National Socialism" was named not because there was any socialism-the Nazis hated socialists from jump-but because the socialists were popular in Wiemar Germany.
Another good example would be Twitch and YouTube's Vaush. A bearded bro-type who presented himself as a leftist despite him defending the use of the N-word, the production and possession of CSAM, and other vile ideas. Platner could easily be a secret Nazi who is running as a progressive.
To the people out there who say that "Platner clearly can't be a Nazi because his reddit posts clearly show him as a communist!" There are people out there who hold communist and Nazi ideals together with authoritarianism being the unifier. Those are called red-browns.
Red–green–brown alliance - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
A great point @daveweigel.bsky.social made on Morning Joe is that there's a "Trump envy" within progressive and leftist circles. They want a candidate for whom scandal doesn't affect them because they have that sort of mass appeal. Never mind you'd have to be both abhorrent and shameless.
Maine's Platner is putting Democrats through a political stress test: Semafor
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They so want a straight, white American male to be the anti-MAGA. I saw it with Fetterman and it's again with Platner. These assholes will tie themselves into knots to make Platner their Captain America when he's at best a *massive* liability to the Pro-Palestine and anti-genocide side.
They see in Platner a traditional American hero-White, former military, conventionally attractive, male and straight-and so want him to be the anti-MAGA. There are other candidates for Maine and even if all of them are bad, you don't have to vote for anyone. Be discriminating, Jesus Christ.
Well fuck Kyle Kulinsky too. According to him, rightfully calling out Platner for his Nazi tattoo is "doing the work of the right wing" which do you listen to yourself? It's clear to me that these fuckers don't want a politician they want a hero.

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IS GRAHAM PLATNER F*CKED? | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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I occasionally watched his stuff on YouTube and found him inoffensive in that kind of high school teacher way and otherwise a good presence on YouTube. Now I just see him as a Nazi apologist.
@emmavigeland.bsky.social @krystalball.bsky.social have exposed themselves as incredibly unserious people for double downing on Graham Platner and should not be taken seriously at all. If I'm Kyle Kulinsky or Sam Seeder I'm severing right now.