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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    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.

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      when i read that, i see some parallel version of myself if were a i was a mercenary. just like planter, i too am a liberal who prefers to think of himself as a leftist, but i have the benefit of being too queer to have ever been indoctrinated the way he clearly has.

      my leftist education comes from two places: written retrospectives of the only successful leftist movements of the past two centuries, and the legally mandated confessions of the neoliberal oligarchy that shaped us. i’m still a neophyte to leftism and clearly so most of the time – but even at my level, i can see where planter or abughazaleh (or even mamdani) fall woefully short of understanding leftism due to both of those educational sources making it clear what rightism is.

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            Everyone always sets the bar just below their worst offense and then claims anyone under that must be a bad person for XYZ.

            “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” ― George Carlin

            So is Grahm an idiot, or a maniac? Or maybe your purity test is arbitrary and based on your own self valuation?

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              Everyone always sets the bar just below their worst offense and then claims anyone under that must be a bad person for XYZ.

              norm-respectable whomst among us hasn’t gotten an SS tattoo

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              my offenses will always PALE in comparison to any mercenary and i don’t know what what plantner is.

              i only know that he disregards the lessons taught by the hindsight of the most successful leftists that history has to offer.

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                Who are those, and would they have a chance at winning and using power if they did in the United States?

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                  history is full of leftists who won without selling out and abandoning your principles for electability isn’t building power – it’s just renting a politician.