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Except some of this was on Reddit, apparently. I'm still new to the controversy and don't disqualify people based on offensive comments, but if he's on social media saying it's a woman's fault she was raped in the military, that isn't exactly a private statement meant to help his comrades get by.

There's dark humour and then there's getting Nazi tattoos and saying women deserve to be raped.

Nope. There is no moral dilemma or military exemption. Just ask any woman who has been subjected to this. I call bullshit on you for this and it’s brought you down a notch in my opinion. You’re reaching and excusing. #Mansplain #Manspread #JustSayNo

Yeah, well it does't speak highly of character to me.

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Per Margaret Forsyth, there are reasons to be suspicious of or uncomfortable with Platner -- but we also need to be suspicious of the swirl of disinformation that surrounds his campaign: that means tracing the primary sources independently, not being convinced by Millions of$$s worth of oppo.

Yes, it was in response to the rape proof underwear thing. You know that he got to know women SA survivor vets later, listened to what they said & they straightened him out so he understood why it was not cool, right? So he listened, internalized, & changed. 1.x

He excuses male toxicity as a right for having served and we wouldn’t understand. We deal with that attitude everyday. They bring it home with them & gather in Reddit groups to continue that vibe. He never false to fail.

You voting to block a Dem investigation into growing white supremacy in the military should give everyone a good idea.

No one's saying he hasn't changed. What we're saying is start him local and vet him. Watch him. FFS, have we learned nothing from Sinema, Manchin and Fetterman? And for the record? I managed to get through 21 years of service without getting any questionable tattoos or disparaging remarks online. 🙄

And veteran suicide.

Sorry, that's a total copout. Any human should have the opportunity to consider what any other human goes through in extreme circumstances. It's why we have literature. Erich Maria Remarque might as well not have written All Quiet on the Western Front. "Readers will never understand."

This is such bullsh*t and you know it. There are still standards of decency EVEN IF you’re deployed.

Understood

Recently I was telling a friend war stories that included death, gore and body parts strewn around. He asked me how it made me feel to see that. I wasn't able to answer, it was like the question didn't make sense. Later it donned on me. Feeling isn't part of the training. Not feeling is.

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The problem with Platner is not what he talked ABOUT. It is with what he said.

I work with Veterans (Canada) both as colleagues and assisting them with benefits/rehabilitation services. Combat changes the way you see the world, especially if you are from a rural community. Platner is like a lot of young men I have seen over the years who have seen the devil and come home.

Hell, I know how we talked when we were "in the rear with the gear". On bivouac. At the weapons range. At JRTC. On the way to the DZ for our minimum once every three month practice jump. I can only imagine how we would have talked if we ever actually deployed.

"Swiftboating" part 2

Hi Adam, I get that. And I get shitposting. But he needs to address the Ted Daniels comments, or it's going to bite him in the ass. Maybe not destroy him. But there are going to be many moderates and independents who won't vote for him specifically because of that. The other stuff I can let slide.

It's a show, so take with a heaping spoon of salt, but generation kill apparently got this part right. youtu.be/iG0i0g7Csc8 youtu.be/qSBna3Y-Iyo

Ho-fucking-hum. Excuse me while I go clutch my pearls. I'm much more concerned about the guy that smacked a 13- year-old girl because she didn't go down on him the way he wanted.

Platner is a horrible human being and if he's rhe best Maine could do, that speaks very poorly of all of us.

Kind of like nurses and doctors who work in intensive care situations. Sometimes it is the only way you stay sane.

Poor character on deployment is poor character period. I held my Soldiers to the highest standards in combat AND at home. There is no excuse for being a piece of shit.

People could just read any number of acclaimed novels about soldiers' experiences in theater. This stuff isn't exactly a secret.

Yeah, we've seen Starship Troopers.

I never served but I too was young and stupid once. College (ISU, same as Adam) helped me grow out of it.

Hooah

Dear exiled and estranged politicians: I wouldn’t vote for anyone who tells me to ignore my eyes and ears and that it’s just that I wouldn’t understand.

I just assume soldiers talk a lot of shit out of sheer boredom like in Generation Kill.

If I "forgive" him his faults, both the tattoo and his questionable social media history, what's the part I am supposed to like? He's not Susan Collins. Yes, I like that part. The rest puts him roughly on par with the execrable John Fetterman. Fool me once, etc, etc. Just glad I don't live in Maine

Thank you for your service and adding to the conversation.

The fear of innocent children hearing that talk would be right. But bc of republican's politics, hollywood, a racist pedophilia president, etc, children are already subjected to it all. So what fing difference does it really make what is, or he said?

Reminds me of all the MAGA saying Trump's grab em by the pussy remark was just locker room talk. I'd prob vote for Platner because Collins, but man, what a shitty choice.

After thinking about a response, the best thing I can say is that I'm glad for you. And I mean it. A lot of acts are indefensible yet understandable within the broader context.

And compare it to what Trump said on deployment. Oh, wait.......

No it doesn’t. I was in Iraq from 2008-2011. Sure, it wasn’t OIF 1, but I did to convoy security. So I got outside the “wire” a lot. We got our intel from CNN and if it wasn’t a convoy, PSD, or trainers, no one interacted with the locals. Maybe civil affairs at a high level, but not the real people

You bet. As an aside. One of my prior ship captains took a frigate down to Puerto Vallarta for a port visit during Spring Break. He told me the sailors were appalled by the behavior of the college kids. Having done shore patrol in Subic Bay, that is pretty damn low.

Gallows humour doesn't involve Nazi tattoos and saying women deserve to be raped.

Well, multiple tipos😡

The key difference here is "college". Buddy enlisted, then went to college. Anyways, most Americans didn't know half the Nazi dog-whistles out there (which is the point of Dog-Whistles btw) until you saw them on every Ukranian in publicity posts from the war, starting with Azov.

Nor this Aussie Veteran. 🎯

See what you described there *is* an example of being silly. Getting a Nazi tattoo, keeping it for 18 years, and showing it off to people by name and then lying about what it is isn't "being silly", it's being a lying bigot.

Ah the old boys will be boys.

Nonsense. I'm a retired Army and DoD officer and I dont recall getting a Nazi tattoo or anything close to Plattners actions or comments. Plattner is a pig, and the fact that he's running against Collins/Trump is no excuse. No pig - Trump or otherwise - should be in office. Shame on you.

Read: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Yea I seriously doubt Nazi tatoos are a thing to do by default, especially for someone who was literally protesting the war a couple weeks earlier. It seems that platner’s weltanschaanung has experienced quite a bit of drifting , with only one constant - who to blame when his shit doesn’t work out …

We expect better.

Yes and sailors use to practice keelhauling and freaked out whenever a woman set foot on deck, but thank god we didn't rest on our laurels then and changed the culture, eh?

Lol. Lmao, even. This is why the American people have no faith in our soldiers.

Or, like Platner, they keep making bigoted remarks about people.

Again, I don't think any of them - even the Republicans - got *Nazi tattoos*, kept them for 18 years, and then lied about what they were. The fact you think this is normal stuff that kids in college do is very revealing about what *you* think "normal" is.

He made many of the comments well into his 30s. How long does he get a pass? docs.google.com/document/u/0...

I’m multilingual & I’ve heard service personnel talk. If you like confusing slang, acronyms and technical jargon then go right ahead.

Seriously Adam you are a massive piece of shit for defending Platner and I am done with you forever. Not only is that nazi a massive piece of shit he deserves to be on a ruZZian front line. bsky.app/profile/jasp...

Platner is a fucking Neo Nazi. I’m unfollowing you for defending him.

Makes sense!

This seems condescending.

Croatian Ustashi particularly liked the Totenkopf tattoo because of its connection to mass murder of Muslim prisoners in France. Azov Battalion, unclear, but anti-Ruzzian insignia of any type could be attractive. Wagner Group? Aside from Russians being fascist sympathizers, hard to tell.

*Mr. Kinzinger.

So trump and his descendants don't have to pay taxes for the rest of their lives???

The research seemed to suggest that by 70 days on the frontline in a high-intensity conflict, soldiers weren't learning many truths about themselves, except that we can't survive that environment that long.

Boy… if that’s all they have…well they are running scared!

Why has society (since caveman days) never asked the question: what are we doing wrong that we even need to have the phrase (excuse) "Boys will be boys"! It is baked in every aspect of life. Look around at the world today. Kudos to parents who taught differently and to men who grew up. lMO

What's said on the front lines stays on the front lines. Including grown men begging for their mommy and atheists praying to God. 🙏🏽 Walk a mile in my worn-out, muddy, blood-soaked boots. 🫂

You know what, I was kind of an asshole for a period in my life, around late teens and early twenties. But I managed to extract my head from my ass, get some help, and choose a better path. Surely I'm not the only person capable of change

I agree.

Ikr? How dare some of them not want a lying bigoted Nazi mercenary as a Senator?!

Sit this one out. No. Not everyone gets a Totenkopf. Not everyone lies like Santos. Not everyone started his run with ex- Fetterman folks.

Voters in Maine will decide. ‘Opp Research’ won’t work cause he took accountability for what he said or did and changed himself. Better than voting for and electing Fetterman or Sinema.

No. Those traumatized (who also traumatized others) gather decades later in Reddit groups to continue that male toxicity and call it their “right”. Those attitudes continue & we are traumatized by their actions. Grow TFU & heal yourselves. Or don’t.

Oh nooooo I was traumatized when I had to kill dozens of civilians in their own country and all I got was government healthcare for life waaaaaah

In good faith - really - I don't believe it as boys will be boys. I've spent a lot of time around vets from different political backgrounds and the military impacts all of them differently. And asking someone to have a tidy journey out of that worldview asks too much.

The purity police in the Democratic Party is trying to claim another victim. I guess because we have proven that we can’t figure out how to beat a convicted fraudster and adjudicated rapist we set our sights on our own because MAGA can’t and won’t stop us from beating ourselves.

It's not worse than the misogynistic, rapey talking points coming from 47.

Damn straight!

Platner can talk to working class voters (Trumps base) in their language. This is why he is a threat.

We've heard the "locker room talk" before. 🙄

The Man in the Arena.

Given he freely uses ableist & homophobic slurs, said it's a woman's fault if they get raped, said rural Maine voters were dumb, complained black people don't tip and got a Nazi tattoo, it says more about you than you think it does, Adam, that you would not want that culture to be any different.

The opp research is blasting things he actually wrote. You are showing your ass by continuing to support the liar who not only sported a Nazi SS tattoo for 20 years and counting, but also has a DUI and minimizes the criminal desecration of Iraqi corpses.

Meh. Bibi’s minions have been accusing Bernie Sanders of being an anti Semite because he criticizes Israel. To be sure, the ‘optics’ are bad when Platner criticizes Israel’s —entirely humane — devastation of Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. 1/

Release the EPSTIEN files Donny

He was so maligned during the primary with attacks that have nothing in common with the character he is known to be and many times has demonstrated.

Why is he even here? A fails GOP member lecturing democrats like he is a savor.

We do have a language all our own

Young people in high-stress situations are far more prone than most to make mistakes in judgment. Responsible adults - especially those seeking leadership positions - acknowledge those mistakes (not hide them) and make sincere efforts to apologize for them and display better judgment going forward.