America the land of repressed ideology. Fascist Nazis have to pretend to be wholesome conservatives and communists need to pretend to be free market liberals lol
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Nazis don't need to pretend anymore
I mean, neither do communists. Self-censorship is just a thing.
Isn't that kind of what two party politics gets you?
Compromise with your own identity to get elected will always happen in a democracy (not to everybody, but always most on some level). Though, the 2 party system pushes it further
Wait, how did CNN get these posts? It seems like they were private. Reddit dipping their hand into politics again.
Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle. They were deleted ahead of his campaign launch in August. The posts in some ways underscore Platner’s reputation as an anti-establishment outsider with unapologetically left-wing views. But the labels and tone used in his writings could also prove costly in a state known for electing political moderates.
In another Reddit post that year, Platner reflected on his life after his military service, saying he was “a vegetable growing, psychedelics taking socialist these days. After the war, I’ve pretty much stopped believing in any of the patriotic nonsense that got me there in the first place, and am a firm believer that the best thing a person can do is help their neighbors and live a loving life.”
You can easily find reddit posts from t years ago through multiple means including the Internet archives way back machine. How they found his handle is worth wondering
a firm believer that the best thing a person can do is help their neighbors and live a loving life.
Scandalous!
These are the kinds of things traditional politicos would thing should cut against you, but in a modern environment the cut the other way (depending on how you are running).
CNN just trying to do the job of fox news from 20 years ago.
My bet is this amounts to nothing.
However, it begs a broader question, of who is actually associating their personal accounts with social media? This seems like the real mistake.
Omg seriously! I bet "DNC Party strategists" have told him to get rid of them to "appease the centrists".
Jfc DNC. When are you going to fucking learn that we WANT progressives?!
This helps alleviate my fear he'll turn into a Fetterman.
Not fully, but it helps.
Is he saying communist when he means socialist?
He's America, so he could be saying communist because he believes in universal healthcare and paid vacation time
That's fairly radical he probably just believes that corporations aren't people.
Cooperations are legal entities, and in legalese that is called "a legal person".
That is the case probably everywhere. Because that generally is part of how you take a company to court, and hold a company responsible.
But only in USA is it taken to such extremes that companies have for instance democratic rights, which is completely insane, because that is not what it is supposed to mean in a democracy.
American corporate personhood was used to justify their unlimited spending in elections as protected speech under the First Amendment (Citizens United).
Youre right a legal designation is probably fine but when your adherence to capitalism is so dogmatic you give democracy the middle finger..
Yes that is absolutely insane and undemocratic.
Probably not good for his chances of winning the election.
I was kinda curious about this kind of thing for myself. Sounds like even if I deleted my account all that info is still out there. Thing is I have no idea what the most inflammatory things I’ve even said are over the years.
I'd say probably not relevant but we shall see. Graham is pretty good at talking to Mainers from what I've seen and they don't exactly give a fuck what CNN has to say
I think the comment about rural white people could be an issue. Maine is like 90% rural white people.
are you just speculating or have you spent the time to watch Graham talk to voters?
it's not an issue.
Speculating. I hope you’re right. But ability to talk to voters is just one aspect here. The number of people who see this story is far more than he’ll be able to talk to directly.
Speculating.
Well you probably shouldn't be considering that your speculation isn't grounded in the current political moment. And there is no need to hope. You have the entire internet available to you. You can just know these things instead of baseless speculating.
Wow I didn’t realize the internet could be used to predict the future, that’s amazing
Your hostility is unwarranted. Chill.
How dare you state such controversial opinions as, "calling 90% of your voters idiot racists might be bad for your chances of being elected"
Predict the future? Bruh.
You can go watch Graham Platner talk to the "90% white" population of Maine instead of just worthlessly speculating, and especially when your worthless speculation is based in a dead as a doornail approach to electoral politics.
I could but it would be irrelevant since I never argued he’s not a skilled communicator. And he’s not talking to every Mainer, just a subset.
That alone does not prove this won’t affect his popularity. I guess you must be some kind of partisan fanatic who can’t see the world clearly if you think the world is so deterministic. Your speculation is far more wild and disconnected than mine.
Anyway I’m going to leave it there. You seem to have a pattern of reacting to incredibly minor disagreements with aggressive replies so I don’t think this conversation is productive anymore.
No, you simply offered baseless speculation from a perspective that any one paying attention to politics from 2016-Now should know hasn't been useful for winning elections. Its like listening to David Brooks' idle speculation on what the Democrats need to do to win the next election: No one should be listening to it.
Either take the time to become informed on these candidates or stop parroting an approach to politics which hasn't been shown to be effective in a decade.
Lemmy Left: This American politician is wrong about what he is.
Tbf we are used to being lied to about these things