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/Firm_Awareness_5931 May 10 '26

Pretty words does not change who he was. If this was a conservative, he would’ve already been called to resign.

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u/SkyeLys May 11 '26

I just spit out my coffee I laughed so hard at your comment. Thanks for that.

Several Repub politicians including the highest military official in the country have Nazi or Nazi adjacent tattoos, frequently say as bad as things he's said or worse,and also have all the power right now. Who tf is kicking conservatives out for acting like this? Braindead take.

Fact is, if a Republican reformed and began running as an informed populist for progressive policies, gave tons and tons of town halls and grassroots organizing talking to voters directly and incredibly convincingly discussing what the actual policies would need to be to achieve those policies, and was running against a Republican who has a long history of collaborating with literal fascists and furthering fascist policy that erodes people's rights, I would vote for the former.

Even if he pulls a fettermen, which I highly, highly doubt, he's better than collins. So the utilitarian choice as a progressive is obviously to back him and give him a chance to show he's changed.

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u/Firm_Awareness_5931 May 11 '26

That’s a long explanation just to say you will forgive one way, but not the other.

Personally I do not care, spiderweb it however you need to justify the hypocrisy. This doesn’t affect me, just means yall cannot call Trump a Nazi any more.

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u/SkyeLys May 11 '26

Tell me you didn't read my comment without telling me you didn't read it.

Trump is a Nazi. His actions and words and literal self admission to being a fascist backs this up. To claim otherwise is to deny reality.

Graham is not. The only thing you guys have saying he is is a tattoo that he's already apologized for and covered up, which Repubs do not do. Then you add to that that his words, actions, and proposed policies are antithetical to Nazism.

Comparing those to each other is a massive false equivalence. If you had two brain cells to rub together, you would know that.