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also even if she was good shes old as fuck so we'd lose incumbency advantage basically immediately

my thoughts exactly

"Doesn't seem great!" *Looks at what he said*

Gotta shove that Overton Window somehow. There's some unfortunate stuff here, but not enough to get worked up over.

Lmao the update that he has a nazi tattoo and for some reason never covered it up or got it lazered off.

So what? He's basically running on a socialist Democrat program no more to the left than Bernie, AOC, Warren or Mamdani. Last thing we want or need is more pro corporate AIPAC corporate neoliberal Democrats, esp 77 yrs old...

CNN is behind a paywall now? Lmao good luck with that.

Vox guy dislikes communist

Depends what you consider "the Holocaust" If we're talking just the Shoah, it's a very apples to oranges comparison but probably technically true? If we're talking "all civilian groups directly genocided by Nazis", they killed more *just in the Soviet Union*. The full numbers aren't even close

The rape of africa and conquest of India/pacific during imperialism and the legacy of poverty/starvation/exploitation in its wake has probably dwarfed everything the nazis or Russians have done by orders of magnitude. Let alone the US's continual destabilization campaigns/exploitation of its own

The Fetterman comparison doesn't make sense to me, there's no reason surface-level stuff like "this is a white manly man" would inevitably mean somebody's going to be a sellout. There's a chance he turns out to be a weirdo but it'd be a bespoke sui generis weirdo like how Fetterman isn't Ro Khanna

Then a year after he cashes all of his blood money, suddenly he’s making impulsive “I’m a communist” posts like he’s 20 years old?

Capitalism is overrated

many such cases bsky.app/profile/gyro...

never been there but i think the olympic peninsula is pretty similar and our politics are even more alienating to the average american lol

It doesn't seem great for people who are in Vance's group chat.

It's more a byproduct of being a Mainer, actually. I grew up there and heard people use it all the time.

He’s gotta stop doing that- instead of saying r*p*bl*c*n, say “facist dickheads”. It’s the polite thing to do.

i don’t like the r slur but at this point we’re at in politics this probably would make independents in maine like him more as stupid as that is, because he “is honest” or whatever lol

You don't understand what their actual power base is and where it comes from. Losing elections is not a threat to Democrat power. Winning elections with actual progressives very, very much is

*shaking fist at the sky* Damn you, actblue!

It's honestly becoming one of my best gauges for how much I like a politician

I heard her speaking with Heather Cox Richardson. I’m thinking she is strong because she stood up to the Pedophile President but, something just didn’t sound right…sounded like an entrenched Dem. Not from Maine, so, just an observation.

what's funnier is i don't think people even care whether a candidate is a socialist or not anymore, mamdani is openly a demsoc and he's doing great

They know Zohran can’t run for president in a couple years. They think they can play Mamdani off and minimize him but with other candidates taking the same approach the establishment people are really fucking worried.

thats totally fair but the average american loves veterans, veterans are like the most popular group of americans out there. i would prefer if he didn’t do these insanely stupid things but sadly most people especially in maine love that shit for some reason

Platner’s every belief (co-sign communism, don’t co-sign Blackwater) but instead you are moving toward a congress that **on a whole** is more representative, is not literally dying in office and has lived a life closer to the average Americans and will vote on things that would have helped them.

Should be easy for Platner. Or maybe it'll be his "I am not a witch" moment.

A 41 y/o likeable, well spoken candidate emerging?! We can’t be LIKEABLE! Quick. Put that 77-year-old who writes stern letters and listens to focus groups up against him… & put all the dem fundraising power behind her. Dems are the wet blanket party.

for your future application :3

It does. Exploration of differing political systems beats ignorance, fear, and conformity every time. I like this guy very much, and Collins and the establishment fear him.

Just from the headline, my reaction: Everybody telling me as a kid “you’ll get more conservative as you get older” I called bullshit on that even as a kid, and I’ve gone even more left

don't be fooled he's a literal blackwater mercenary

I’m glad CNN paywalled this article so it can get to as few people as possible.

Whatever my personal feelings may be a Vox writer thinks he’s problematic so I’ll assume that reflects the truest form of reality

Lol at vox writers.

I wish it was true/he wasn’t lying

Me when oppo research makes me like a candidate even more

I'm still iffy about the guy for other reasons, but pretty much everything he said is exactly what I want to hear from a candidate.

This is performative canceling, getting resurfaced deleted tweets using the c word and calling cops rascist gets treated the same as calling for the genocide of every nonwhite noncishet person on the planet on live TV

he sounds cool as fuck

They are going to call him a Marxist communist either way.

The only bad thing he said was using the R-slur, everything else is said was correct and good

The more I learn about him the more I wanna say fuckit just skip th senate and make him president.....

i think farmers who spend a couple minutes thinking about things realize pretty quickly how real that tendency of the rates of profit to fall is

graham the clam blackwater merc