Yeah, if you can’t talk about your politics in public without being shunned, maybe it’s time to reconsider those politics?

He took those flags down by April 2025 and later apologized to me - telling me the flag removal was a removal of support for Trump.

This is far far more than you’ll ever get from most of them

They massively overcorrected after constantly being called “leftist” or whatever by conservatives.

And for what? They still call it that, the only difference is that now the Overton Window is slightly more to the right. Good job NPR.

Yeah, they’re all leaving because they don’t want to pay taxes

Boy is the bar low…

Yeah that would be nice

If we’re lucky, Stephen Miller will never feel safe enough to leave that military base ever again

Not a Maine voter either, but I would probably hold my nose and vote for Platner if I were. I wouldn’t have supported his primary run though.

People here need to start being ok with actual criticisms. You can’t just pretend that the gleeful murdering of Iraqis and Nazi iconography isn’t a problem.

It’s a fucking problem.

I want Platner to win because at least there’s a chance he’s not a fascist.

I honestly hope it’s all bullshit, but I’m not going to just ignore red flag after red flag. I’m not going to turn my fucking brain off just because this guy paid some lip service to socialism or whatever.

Imagine defending literally anyone lacking in morals enough to do any fucking job at Blackwater.

I don’t care if all you do is answer the phones (and let’s be clear, Platner was a certified killer by the time he started working there, he wasn’t picking up fucking phones and I think you know this)

I think it was literally over a million times

But looking back on the election it still seems like the voters made the best choice available at the time.

And it was the choice because Fettermam won a primary.

Them, acting like Nazis and pointing fingers:

Ok, so I think I see the issue here: you don’t know what a Nazi actually is.

I would personally never vote for anyone who ever had such disgusting views, regardless of claims of “reformation”.

Call me crazy I guess.

Why do people think this is a good defense? How low is the fucking bar?

Were you also at Abu Ghraib? Did you also serve several tours in Iraq, murdering countless civilians? Did you also work for Blackwater?

This is so fucking disingenuous.

Might want to think about taking a step back and considering why you’re defending Nazi symbology

When I was a little kid, I thought the ghost outfits looked cool. Does that make me KKK because I had a stupid idea as a youth?

What an absolutely insane attempt at an analogy.

Yeah he is obviously being smeared in the media. However, that doesn’t mean you should just ignore the red flags.

It’s like the third most popular Nazi symbol