• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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          9 hours ago

          Sure, it’s me who is undermining “the left”, not the former Abu Ghraib guard and Blackwater merc with a Nazi tattoo. Like, how are you not suspicious of this dude?

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            He was at Abu Garib two years after the scandel broke. How about you get your sources from people that don’t have an obvious political motivation against the subject.

            Why are we not “suspicious”? Because we actually listen to what other people have to say. You keep trying to apply establishment attacks that may have worked on some faceless, airdropped empty suit the DNC " appointed " to be senator, but they don’t work on someone that has never been close to power. Someone like us, who have watched corporate interests and the interests of the wealthy take precedence over literally EVERYTHING, even shit like clean water and breathable air.

            We know a fraud when we see one, and Platner is no fraud. He has actual policy positions and an actual vision for the future and actual facta, not sound bytes and poster slogans and one liner zingers for the enemy.

            And the democrats from Maine saw fit to make him their senate choice.

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            Just the fact that the establishment on both sides is trying so hard to convince people that he’s a literal Nazi and a wife beater…when all he talks about is progressive policies…should make you suspicious of their narrative.

            But instead, you decide to believe them? Maybe this time, they’re telling the truth? This time, it’s not just bullshit…right?

            You’re taking everything they say about him at face value, without even listening to a single thing he’s actually saying? Man, you are gullible as fuck.

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              Dude, I give not a single fuck what the DNC or RNC are saying about this guy. And what do you mean about me believing some kind of “narrative”? What have i said that isnt factual? Just because you can easily look past a nazi tattoo and war-criminaI past doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Also I think it is painfully ironic, that you can call me gullible for putting more stock in a candidate’s past actions, than his current words.

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                Lol! You think you’re “putting stock in his past actions”, when all you’re really doing is repeating the establishment narrative about them. It’s all oppo research being weaponized against yet another progressive candidate, that has an actual shot at unseating a dug-in conservative.

                But, good job on swallowing the propaganda without even checking the sources first…or even bothering to listen to what he says about any of it. Seriously, you should be on Susan Collins’ payroll, with all the help you’re giving her campaign. Maybe you could sell merch for her, too?

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                    If you’re listening to what someone else is saying about what someone says, instead of just listening to what they are actually saying…then you are listening to a “narrative”. That intentional misrepresentation of the truth is called “propaganda”.

                    Do you understand what those words mean?

                    Because if you actually listen to what he’s saying, instead of what other people are saying about him, then you probably wouldn’t fall for their propaganda.

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            Like, how are you not suspicious of this dude?

            The viable options in this race are a candidate I am somewhat suspicious of and Susan Collins, who has made her positions and principles (or lack thereof) abundantly clear over the years.

            You must take one of two pills. If you refuse, one will be chosen for you. One pill gives you a 50% chance of diarrhea, the other gives you a 100% chance of diarrhea. Which pill are you choosing?

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              I don’t live in Maine, so none of what you say really matters at all. It’s just crazy to me that all these people (most of whom also do not live in Maine) are so credulous about a guy with so many red flags.

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          He fucking admitted to being inspired by Nazi death troops

          Edit: ITT collaborators

          You should’ve pushed him out before the primary and instead you helped the candidate most likely to crash and burn

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            He’ll only crash and burn if you keep spreading Republican propaganda. At this rate I’d wager the CIA is intentionally planting these talking points