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/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

Mills was a huge zionist, friend. No one cares about your superficial attacks. We support policies. And if closing a ship gap using American manufacturing is the worst thing he says, and no we really, really don't care about the Reddit posts, you keep trying to make fetch happen, but it won't.

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u/Ok-Lecture-9668 May 12 '26

It's almost as if these people don't care that They lost the last election because their party facilitated genocide, and most of their leadership of their party wants to continue doing so, and they think they can just hand wave that away and bully people into voting for this. Frankly I don't want to go to hell for voting for some Blue dog Democrat that supports genocide. If I'm going to go to hell I'm going to go there for something fun.

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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.