it's also just bad politics! he's just gonna be "the nazi tattoo guy" from now on. every interview, every speaking engagement, every debate. he'll never live it down, and that kind of reputation is disqualifying for a lot of voters

kind of hard to avoid concluding these guys just ... think Nazis are fine.

there's not enough video games where you get to shoot Confederates or, even better, Neo-Confederates. it's pretty much just Bioshock Infinite.

I would play the hell out of a reverse Guns of the South game where time-traveling radicals get the AK-47 to John Brown.

Platner Clarifies Previously Unaware of Second World War.

Assuming trans people's physiology based on our birth certificates is potentially unsafe

God damn lol

Really makes ya think about why the side of the progressive movement that are actual working class heroes and actually About This Shit is overwhelmingly women, overwhelmingly non-white, entirely from cities, who all get immediately pushed aside at the first sight of some giant gringo with a gimmick

This is why AOC has the magic, and he doesn't. He's the embodiment of a full roundtable of a smalltown DSA arguing about flag colors for 4 hours and getting nothing done.

weirdly, after Lee Carter, most DSA elected are mostly good. I suspect primarily because they have cadre experience

It really sucks to realize that Bernie Sanders would have made a terrible president, because despite having a lot of integrity himself, he is an abysmal judge of character. Just fuckup after fuckup with the candidates who only get traction from his endorsement. His appointees would have been awful.

The T'au would like to disagree. And the Eldar. And a lot of species during the Great Crusade in 30k.

Y’know there probably actually as many war crimes as you’d think in warhammer because so many species are inherently all combatants. Like you can’t commit war crimes against orcs. It’s impossible.

More people work at Arby’s than as coal miners in West Virginia, but you don’t see newspaper editorials talking about how they’ve been unfairly left behind.

“I want an authentic working class party.” “Oh okay cool, so you want to support healthcare and hospitality workers who tend to be from migrant and minority backgrounds?” “Ahaha. About that”

Our two Maine candidates are Nazi tattoo guy and pro-filibuster gal and I hate it

Millnnnial tgirls should be required to get on all fours and apologize to zoomer tgirls for being heckin Reddit poisoned

Yes, I believe I have a duty as a Christian to forgive sincerely repentant sinners as I too would like my trespasses to be forgiven. No, that does not mean I have an obligation to be a sucker for a nonapology, nor does forgiveness on a personal level equate to a right to public office in itself.

the haters: Starfish stole the Louvre jewels to buy more Warhammer miniatures me: you can't make accusations like that without evidence

Almost like tenured academia's wholesale abandonment of the job of building public support for their own fields represents decades of cowardly moral abdication, huh.

You cannot have a ‘university’ that isn’t wide-ranging and generalist. The whole point of a university is exactly that.

Yeah the DNC sucks and I'm sick of centrists too but fun fact, a coordinated smear campaign about your Nazi tattoo and history with Blackwater "War Crimes Inc" only works if you have a Nazi tattoo and worked for War Crimes Inc

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

If Palestine doesn’t have a bearing then neither does Ukraine but as it stands the dictators of Israel and Russia have both tried moving heaven and earth to keep Trump in power so I’d say there’s probably a link in this despotic troika somewhere

Wait he still has it???????

I am fully willing to accept and believe that Platner is repentant for his old comments and the tattoo That he did not consider the volatility of this swing notable enough to remark on means i absolutely do not trust he has the judgement necessary to hold high office

One of the things that I’ve been forced to face and take the loss on is that all of the people who critiqued Bernie for his dismissive stances on identity politics were largely correct. This is a very bad response from a guy who should know better.

Among many other things, sexual assault is a serious problem for female troops. ‘Have you served four terms in the military?’ makes sense as a response only if all soldiers are male, and worry about dismissive things they said as opposed to rape and whether or not their chain of command will care.

Also dumb non Americans don’t know the difference between democratic socialism and Blairism

Ah, 2025, when the words "the president has destroyed the East Wing of the White House" is a meaningful sentence with clear referents and not, like, something scribbled in a bad novel.

the key thing to understand about Woke 1 is that it's basically born in the gamergate era, when we seemed to be living in the end of history, when the key thing seemed to be *excavating* hidden structural bigotries everyone had forgotten to see www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...

I resent the implication that you can't be liberal and horny at the same time

the average American millennial man is a woman now

I think this is true if people didn't respond to events and trends continued infinitely, but people do actually respond to events and no trend is forever (laudatory, derogatory)

I do think this is mildly positive (this shit is still like a capital fucking P Problem to be clear, wouldn’t blame it impacting your primary vote at all, etc), because it signals “genuinely dumb guy” more than “committed crypto-fascist”

“i liked what they had to say at first but changed my mind after i learned more about them” is, like, the most bog standard of normal behaviors for an informed voter that gets you yelled at on social media

that moment when she's yapping passionately

Honestly, I think the 2024 election was basically viewed as a referendum on public morality by elites and therefore nobody is ever going to apologize for anything ever again no matter how heinous because the American people have spoken.

just as a very gentle reminder: if i post about my sexuality, particularly my desires toward men, it is not an invitation to say "some women have dicks, too, you can get it there ;)"

I’m much more optimistic here (US, even now) than about Europe tbf. Things getting real grim on the continent.

I do think there’s kinda a bite bigger than bite thing going on though. I think the median voter likes racism (theoretical) but is put off by racism (actual).

*through tears, while sobbing* what Darth Vader thing?

People have said the ballroom is a sign that he won't leave, but imo it is the opposite a screwed-up way way to quickly secure a legacy in the only way he can process.

it's like anti-Italian racism, a real problem in its time but just, let's face it, very funny today.

bernie is unfortunately not a good judge of character

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

I have to mention that Steven pinker's ethology class syllabus leaked. It's like it was written by 4chan. Gone are any mentions of foraging theory, migration, even the concept of learned behaviors. Every lesson was a extremely esoteric bit of ethology that could be used to justify racism or sexism

in case you were unaware of why “guys who claim to be into evolutionary biology and have the age of consent in every country memorized” have been getting a lot of exposure over the last twenty years