me and my buddies getting skull tattoos #JustMarineThings

Also lets not forget his defense of SS rune tattoos

The rune enthusiasts that discussion is about

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    I mean…

    Susan Collins has been voting for imperialistic wars and rubber stamping war crimes. I look at the things Platner says and it seems clear that is is less blood thirsty than these elites.

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      i’ve seen some of those before, and they make it clear that this person is an ex-mercenary version of someone like kate abughazaleh: someone who insists on calling themselves a leftist but clearly isn’t one. their liberal worldview betrays them—they have no idea how their own goals serve only to deepen this late-stage capitalist colonial misery that keeps breeding terrorism and inequality for all.

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        So when you read sections like this you assume he is lying? Because I read that and see dark humor and a person who has struggled with experience and choices in his life.

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          when i read that, i see some parallel version of myself if were a i was a mercenary. just like planter, i too am a liberal who prefers to think of himself as a leftist, but i have the benefit of being too queer to have ever been indoctrinated the way he clearly has.

          my leftist education comes from two places: written retrospectives of the only successful leftist movements of the past two centuries, and the legally mandated confessions of the neoliberal oligarchy that shaped us. i’m still a neophyte to leftism and clearly so most of the time – but even at my level, i can see where planter or abughazaleh (or even mamdani) fall woefully short of understanding leftism due to both of those educational sources making it clear what rightism is.

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                Everyone always sets the bar just below their worst offense and then claims anyone under that must be a bad person for XYZ.

                “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” ― George Carlin

                So is Grahm an idiot, or a maniac? Or maybe your purity test is arbitrary and based on your own self valuation?

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                  Everyone always sets the bar just below their worst offense and then claims anyone under that must be a bad person for XYZ.

                  norm-respectable whomst among us hasn’t gotten an SS tattoo

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                    I would not have known it, but then I dont spend all day studying Nazi symbols. Could have as easily been me getting a flash tattoo off the wall.

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                  my offenses will always PALE in comparison to any mercenary and i don’t know what what plantner is.

                  i only know that he disregards the lessons taught by the hindsight of the most successful leftists that history has to offer.