@DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
Context is for people that read US news
2026-07-08 03:42 UTC
Replies (6)
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@DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 04:10
It was a skull and crossbones and he got it converted into a celtic knot with dogs on it, very quickly. Then eight billion bots tried to tell me he was a homophobe because he said “All officers are gay, and not in the fun dick-sucking way” on Reddit in like 2012. I really didn’t buy that, and it primed me to get pretty dismissive of the noise pretty quickly.
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@Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 04:19
People on the left were so desperate for the representation that the center does everything it can to deny thdm that they were willing to ignore some pretty glaring red flags. The left is sad that a republican is gonna win now. Centrists are happy.
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@wuffah@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 05:06
I would take one hundred Platners if it meant turning a swing state Blue. How much Nazi rape do you’ll think there will be in MAGA concentration camps if Republicans keep their majority until the end of Trump’s term? If Platner withdraws, we have until 5pm on July 27th to run a new progressive candidate. Remember how well that worked for Biden and Harris? I’ll take an unproven and lone rape allegation with a blurry tattoo over decades of past and future Republican violence against women any day of the week.
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@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 06:37
every single person who supported him was a literal nazi supporter. at least you blue Nazis draw the line at raping white women. y’all didn’t give a fuck about him killing brown people for money.
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-08 23:31
TBH I did not know he was a Blackwater mercenary. News keeps calling him a Marine, which I don’t think is the same thing. That would have been a dealbreaker for me, but then I’m not a Mainer and did not do much diligent research about him. ETA Ten years ago, I wrote a blogpiece discussing the Are We The Baddies skit by Mitchell & Webb, observing Skulls in military symbolism are actually not particularly odd, as indicators of toughness and ferocity… Skulls were a tradition of mobile units, first cavalry and later mechanized and air units as a symbol of their ferocity. So when Platner allegedly had buyers remorse regarding a tat that he got in the service when he was a front-line rifleman, I could sympathize. I am lucky that the stupid things I did as a youth left no permanent record. (The internet never forgets, and I have plenty of bad takes still buried out there from my adult years.)
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@QuiteQuickQum@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 08:29
You really Britta’ed this meme…