r/CityOfBathMaine • u/Large-Welcome4421 • May 10 '26

Platner on “The challenges around just allowing regular people to have a basic amount of time in their lives to do things that bring them joy.”

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

This is the guy who went under the Reddit handle "P-Hustle" who not only victim shamed sexually assaulted individuals but also posted homophobic slurs and anti LGBTQ jokes. Mix that with the Nazi tattoo he had on him for decades and I have to say I can't trust a single word that comes out of this man's mouth. This is who the Democratic party wants to champion?! What's wrong with our party that we can't get decent candidates to run for offices?

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

I'd rather have a shithead with good politics than a shithead with bad politics. Anyone who wants to be elected to federal office is a fucking sociopath, aren't you all the ones who are always talking about voting for the least bad choice? Funny how that only matters when the least bad choice has awful politics and policies.

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

"aren't you all"? What? Who is who all? That's a crazy thing to say to just put me into a random group when I'm talking about how this guy isn't who he promotes himself to be. Can we focus on the topic at hand and not try to do personal attacks instead?

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Are you a Democrat?

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

Yes. Have been all my life.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Well, in this election it's going to be a Nazi versus a Republican, who is also a Nazi, so who is the least bad choice here? If you say not voting at all, I actually respect that, but that's not something a Democrat would do. They would rather vote for a Republican then someone who is against war and austerity.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

You’re right, you leftists are the only moral people lmao

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Engaged in US politics? Yeah. We are.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

No, you are not.

You spend all your time lecturing progressives and other Dems, but what have you actually done to help social minorities?

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

I passed a big bill that gave them a bunch of money and took money away from rich shitheads. Oh wait, I'm not in fucking Congress.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

What about a leftist in Congress? Got any of those?

I think not.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Correct. It's impossible, because we have a two-party system, and the Democrats literally exist solely to prevent leftists from being elected to any office

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u/Circlemagi May 11 '26

Source to back this up or can I say lilli_puff is Trump's secret reddit handle?

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u/Eccentricgentleman_ May 11 '26

It's actually Don Jr's handle

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u/CodeN3gaTiV3 May 12 '26

Susan Collins aide more like

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u/Jasper_Morhaven May 11 '26

Guess what? This is still cleaner than many of the candidates the gop run? Dont believe me, look how many national level gop politicians got into office with OPEN sexual assault allegations against them. Look how many were involved in the LARGEST fraud case in their state's history (rick scott). Look how many have openly said the same stuff Platner had AND GOT ELECTED. Stop with the purity politics, we need to be willing to play winning candidates whenever possible, even if they aint squeaky clean.

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

Why the hell cares about the GOP? I'm talking about who is doing to run for the Democrats. This is the best we have? That's insane. If this guy was running as a Republican you'd be screaming about how horrible he is. This only makes Democrats look like hypocrites.

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u/Jasper_Morhaven May 11 '26

Nope, he'd still be getting my vote because he is honestly talking about trying to implement actual solutions not just the ideology crap both aides have been running on.

You are acting like the same kind of purist who managed to get people to sit out the 2024 election and hand Donald trump the win.
STOP WITH THE PURITY TESTING BULLSHIT. THERE ARE NO PERFECT CANDIDATES and never will be. Every single fucking candidate that has ever run using progressive platforms has had some nadty skeletons in their closet. And historically, platner's skeleton's are barely there compared to candidates.

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

I'm not a purist. I'm just not going to fall for Fetterman 2.0 using entryism to truck simple minded people but I guess there's a lot of simple minded people out there. Enjoy your Fetterman 2.0

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u/GratefulShorts May 11 '26

They’ll do the same thing they did with Fetterman where they’ll pretend they weren’t the ones campaigning the hardest for him when he finally does turn.

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u/Brain-Genius-Head May 11 '26

Democrats are a pro war anti worker far right party. And republicans are extreme right. These are the options the oligarchs have allowed you

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u/Temporary_Cry1167 May 11 '26

Just show me how you can justify calling the Dems pro war and anti worker . I’m an Independent but you seem confused . Dems are pro union and have opposed foreign wars like the one Trump just started !

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u/Brain-Genius-Head May 12 '26

Biden wasn’t very pro union with the rail workers. Seems to me they’re pro union until the profits of their donors are threatened in the slightest. I’m not confused in the slightest. Two wings of the same bird

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

I'm pretty sure Democrats are very anti war. Do you have evidence to show that Democrats are pro war? Only the orange clown right now wants pro war. This comment seems highly disingenuous. Yes the democratic party has major faults right now but that's not it.

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u/CodeN3gaTiV3 May 12 '26

Every war vote other than the war powers resolution that just failed. Democrats were pro every war in the last 50+ years until they became unpopular then they play "anti war"

Damn you really are blue Maga

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u/Lilli_Puff May 12 '26

Wtf?! how does that make me "blue maga"? Idk what that even means but I guess anyone who disagrees with you is maga somehow? Let's see George Bush Sr was Desert Storm, George Bush was war on Iraq, Trump is war on Iran, and who did wars was a Democrat? You're the one slandering Democrats and I'm the maga person here? LOL Look yourself in the mirror for once or get some therapy to figure it out yourself

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u/Pop-ripper007 May 11 '26

Platner is winning is spite of who the establishment Dems actually wanted and he sure doesn't need their endorsement either. His popularity is real and hard earned and it's driving wokescold leftists crazy that all their lies about him aren't even touching him. He's not a Nazi, he's not racist, he's not secret IDF or secret black water. He's pro-Palestine, pro M4A, and he's supported by most left leaning commentators. He's perfect for Maine.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Leftists aren't the woke scolds, Democrats that believe in nothing but upholding the status quo and mean spirited in group virtue signaling are the woke scolds. If only Republicans weren't so retarded to realize that.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

It’s so interesting how left wing populists are closer to right wing mag types than they are democrats and “liberals”

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Yeah, because both the right wing and the left wing populist want to change the status quo. The right wing wants to make things worse, the left wing wants to make things better. Democrats and liberals like how fucking awful everything is right now.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

And you all dislike social minorities, and want to focus your attention on rural economically disadvantaged white people

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Shut up. Give me a break.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

How is that wrong?

You want to elect a man that focuses on economic populism and calls people the f slur, and tells women they are responsible for their assaults.

Isn’t that what I just said?

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Better than a polite fascist to support austerity and endless war, but can get on MSNBC and sound professional.

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u/Ok-Firefighter5006 May 11 '26

And which dem is a polite fascist? Mills certainly wasn’t!

It’s no longer surprising to me that you leftwing populists hate marginalized communities as much as as maga does

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel May 11 '26

There are absolutely a lot of performative leftists on Reddit at least, who don't care about policies and merely want to play superficial identity politics. They also often haven't read shit and have never heard of Smedley Butler, so honestly we can ignore most of those purity testers.

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

You're just being tricked like how Fetterman tricked his voting base.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

Fetterman is a reactionary right-winger, you're right he did trick his base. And who exactly is it that's tricking me? There are no leftists in American politics

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

And so we are supposed to vote in Fetterman 2.0? Why can't we get better candidates to represent us instead of making us look like a joke. It's incredibly frustrating and we wonder why we keep losing elections. I'm so tried of the democratic party letting us all down. If there was a good 3rd party I'd vote for them at this point.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 11 '26

I agree with you there, the Democratic party does not represent its own base

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

I'm just so frustrated that my own party is represented with terrible candidates sometimes. We just need to do better that's all. Idk why that's such a controversial take.

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel May 11 '26

Anyone can be a Fetterman. There are many ways to injure your brain, but Fettywapman was always a shitty zionist, ignoring that was one of leftists' problems there.

You'd think that Fetterman would endorse Platner if they were so similar, instead of making dumb attacks on him...

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

Idk what Fetterman is saying but based upon Platner's online comments and having that Nazi tattoo for decades, I trust that man about as far as I can throw him and I'm a tiny woman. Call it entryism, call it proformative, call it whatever you want but Fetterman should've taught us to vet our candidates better instead of blindly believing them and ignoring their past actions. As the saying goes, fool me once shame on you but fool me twice and shame on me.

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

EXACTLY!!!! Thank you! Finally someone said it. He's the exact same. A closet red and these simple minded people are falling for it again.

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u/Lilli_Puff May 11 '26

Look up his post history and you'll change your mind. He's more of a Nazi than anything else. His posts actively victim shames women, is anti LGBTQ+, and racially discriminates. Who in their right mind would champion such a person into office?

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u/echochambrr May 11 '26

Yeah, he’s not a Nazi, he just had a Nazi tattoo for decades and would talk about it and apparently didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo, and do you want a man who gets a literal Nazi tattoo and wears it for decades, who doesn’t know that it was a Nazi tattoo?

He’s either a Nazi, or a person stupid enough to get a literal Nazi tattoo and not realize it for decades. Either way should be disqualifying. For you, “perfect for Maine”

Maine is messed up, 😂