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warning: long rant re: platner and lexi alexander. ig the lexi alexander stuff shouldn't be too surprising to me because IIRC she never really identified as a leftist or anything, her engagement with politics seemed to consist of attacking zionists & platforming palestinians - which is good by itself, yes, but you need an ideological framework to root it in. but still, like... you would think that the fact that platner bragged about signing up for the military specifically because he wanted to hunt people for sport in the middle east would concern *anyone* who cares about palestine. i don't really understand how you can be fine with one but not the other. it did seem that she might have been doing some kind of nazi accelerationism, hence her invoking of stauffenberg, an unrepentant nazi who tried to kill hitler because he was upset that germany was losing WW2. like maybe her hope was that platner was an unrepentant nazi *and* he would destroy israel. but still, like... there is a very big difference between letting two nazis kill each other and voting to give one of those nazis an enormous amount of political power i think the lesson with platner overall is that it's not enough to have good intentions and care about the right causes. you need to understand why you care about those causes. without principles, we're just a bunch of idiots dunking at each other for clout on platforms owned by ethnocapitalists. like i was very much a "as long as you care about the right things, you'll figure out the rest" kind of person and that was clearly very foolish of me because it's exactly that kind of attitude that has led us to platner's rise to power. (continued, sorry!) (not for too much longer though, i promise)