Progressive Politics

the problem is no one can really know what his stance is because it's not beneath a person to lie to gain power. seems too risky and an easy way to end up with another Sinema/Fetterman type that blocks votes while claiming to be a Democrat/Progressive. i don't think now is the time to take chances and they need to find a better candidate to run while there still some time, because even if he's telling the truth this will be a non-starter for many voters.

So he's talked about gassing people in private chats? Has he said he loves Hitler?

Is there evidence of him using race or ethnicity as a bogeyman "other" to persecute and exile people?

Has he advocated for violence or extreme "solutions" to perceived problems in the country?

Frankly, nothing on his platform comes close to what is already happening in plain sight. Platner has stated he's anti-billionaire and that's clear enough a reason why all of this muck is getting raked. If you're going to do their work for them, I hope you're at least getting paid for it.

The tattoo looks like a giant fuckin smudge it could look like damn near anything if you squint. I think people are blowing this out of proportion. Regardless of how he got it, the military let it pass at least twice and they are pretty firm about extremist tattoos from my understanding.

I can understand not figuring out about the potential meaning if you aren't around people that will say something about it, if they even know. I mean, just looking at comments about this situation many people are also just now learning about the totenkopf. And if no one is telling you, who looks at their own tattoos without prompting and thinks, "imma google my own tattoos for shits and giggles".

Plus he got it covered up. His platform still sounds good. He's taking steps to address it. He doesn't seem like he'll be a fetterman. This hurts his run obviously, but I don't think he's the bad guy some people are trying to make him out to be. Not everyone runs around with an encyclopedic knowledge of hate symbols, let alone young soldiers.

The fact that there was oppo ready to go on him like that leads me to believe he's a progressive.

The party didn't try to ratfuck fetterman.

EDIT: Just looked into the tattoo thing. Ratfuckery or no, this doesn't look good.

the sentiment is good, but also i think most people with a nazi tattoo would be willing to tell AIPAC to go fuck themselves