me and my buddies getting skull tattoos #JustMarineThings

Also lets not forget his defense of SS rune tattoos

The rune enthusiasts that discussion is about

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    I really don’t understand why people on the left don’t like Platner.

    Dude is clearly human, had had some real growth, and is running almost out of obligation.

    All this oppo is so weak but people are trying to turn it into a scandal.

    Meanwhile Israel is murdering children, Trump is murdering children, Putin is murdering children. There are real crimes and real scandals happening. But yeah let’s dig up random shit this guy said on Reddit.

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      Meanwhile Israel is murdering children, Trump is murdering children

      This guy went on tour in Iraq not once, not twice, not 3 times, not 4 times, not 5 times but 6 times and regretted it so much he went once more as a blackwater merc. He then, full of regret, boasted on reddit about making a makeshift mortar to bomb urban areas after it got forbidden to shell them because the civilian murder count got too high even for the US army. He regretted his blackwater merc tour so much he said he wears his blackwater cap just to troll people who remember their savage butchery and are offended by it. He regretted his tattoo and the company he kept so much he defended others getting SS bolts tattooed.

      If only he had stated his regret before it became a political liability for him.

      Oh and of course he gets endorsed by Bernie “I’ll not call it genocide for two whole years” Sanders and Chuck “I’ll make sure the left remains pro-pissrael” Schumer.

      This guy is controlled opposition through and through and it would be so sad to see all you yanks fall for it again but the reality is you all don’t just fall for it but desperately latch onto any excuse to keep voting dem. Please one more vote, this time we can vote fascism out I swear, this abu ghraib guard is one of the good ones!.. It’s pathetic. Get organized. Look into PSL or any org in your area and start doing something. Voting isn’t going to fix shit and there will be no candidate that gets anything done until you start doing something about it.

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      the tldr version answer to your question is that his foreign policy is the same as nixon’s, reagan’s, obama’s, biden’s, or trump’s and his recommendations guarantee that isreal will continue murdering children, but with an improve mask of plausible deniability.

      what’s truly confusing about platner is that he’s literally branded himself as a nazi; has multiple pictures of him w nazis; and speaks fondly of doing nazis things, but people still question whether or not he’s a nazi.

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        I mean…

        Susan Collins has been voting for imperialistic wars and rubber stamping war crimes. I look at the things Platner says and it seems clear that is is less blood thirsty than these elites.

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          i’ve seen some of those before, and they make it clear that this person is an ex-mercenary version of someone like kate abughazaleh: someone who insists on calling themselves a leftist but clearly isn’t one. their liberal worldview betrays them—they have no idea how their own goals serve only to deepen this late-stage capitalist colonial misery that keeps breeding terrorism and inequality for all.

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            So when you read sections like this you assume he is lying? Because I read that and see dark humor and a person who has struggled with experience and choices in his life.