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No, he literally did not. Blackwater went bust in 2010. Erik Prince left. Platner was an embassy guard in 2018 on a Constellis contract for State Dept, not DoD. He drove ambassador's landrover & guarded staffers cavorting in the pool. Witnessed the waste/corruption, quit disgusted, returned to ME.

“because he worked for mckinsey” is one key reason you could have deduced by scrolling up one message

For so many reasons. He wants to have ICE be trained better which means he’ll increase their budget, and he spent years defending the Palestinian genocide. Then there’s his transphobic position, his gentrification project in South Bend, betrayal of unions and consumers as DOT secretary, etc.

Yep we do

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the people taking L's are me and my fellow progressives. thus my o.p. i want to win the senate. i could care less about your "w's" - they're symbolic (and useless).

He seems pretty dumb to me. I used to cover politics in Georgia and there are some STUPID motherfuckers in high office. I mean, I’m not in Maine, but I wouldn’t vote for him in a primary.

when the defense of the Senate candidate is to suggest that he is too dumb to realize when he is making a morally appalling decision—not ideal

Unfortunately the question here is, Fahrenheit or Celsius?

have you seen the average Senator? I could count the amount of non stupid senators on my hands and I’d struggle to get to the second hand.

I mean, a smart guy would do the math and say, "Fuck making moral and ethical choices and trying to do something with your life that possibly helps someone and stands up for a system you believe in, I could be making the money." Me, I was just too dumb to American correctly, y'know?

It's more likely that they didn't want to know when they learned the pay grade

Don’t fucking manifest it! (the answer is “probably”)

I went to a fancy private high school for a year as an exchange student. No shortage of incurious dumbfucks in those joints.

Yep!

Dude doesn't just have a red flag. He owns the red flag factory.

You don't have to be ok with it to vote for him over Collins (assuming he wins the primary).

some of them only do that for every other site & pay for The Intercept & Grayzone on principle I'm sure

So have I, but I thought "Lockheed Martin" referred to one specific dude in particular

I only partially remember the incident, but I personally won't work for defense contacting and don't think I'm unusual for that.

I’ve met a lot of Blackwater contractors because I unwittingly trained (and stayed for free at what was called “the teamroom”) at one of their main training hubs when I was 18. It was awful & full of *insane* partying every night. I’m not saying every BW guy is bad, but I haven’t met a good one lol.

The red flags keep red flagging.

www.youtube.com/shorts/uMukk...

No you see, that's fine. But for anyone else, here's my purity test.

You don't understand. The fact he actually killed people legitimizes him. That's a feature not a bug. I think it goes something like that.

Then there is this. It makes me want to put on a tin foil hat, but I cannot help but be suspicious. www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/u...

Easy choice, they're all criminals but the blackwater volunteer types especially are

I can yell at ExxonKnew without yelling at fossil fuel workers.

He was a guard at Abu Ghraib ffs