It’s even more darkly hilarious, because the Strait was opening, after a fashion, but the US was getting nothing out of it, and everyone was doing their best to just steer clear of any US connection at all. But being pointedly cut out of a deal made orangeboi BIG MAD. So uh… we’ll see what the rest of the world does now that we’re functionally blockading most of it .
Even in rich nations the gap between rich and poor is growing like crazy
How many once-in-a-lifetimes is this for me again? I’ve stopped counting tbh
I’m attempting to hold a conversation, and you are intent on trolling; this is me losing interest in the dynamic
I’m… not dismissing the value of “foreigner” lives. In fact, that mindset is one of the biggest problems I have with American society. Where are you getting that from?
I’m not having a conversation with someone who’s too fucking lazy to read an article themselves. I refuse to debate with an LLM summary, which is what you’re trying to force me to do.
I don’t think we can have a constructive dialogue if you refuse to even read (and I do mean read, not throw content into an LLM for a summary) an article.
You do get that the vast majority of Europe is trying to lean away from their respective imperialist pasts, right?
Stop being an American supremacist Nazi.
Yeah, uh, I’m very much not. I’m in fact seriously considering emigrating to the EU and figuring out how to slot my expert and career into helping the EU become less dependent on the US. I get that you’re having fun with hyperbole, but this is absolute, categorical nonsense. But by all means, check my post history.
This guy literally shows zero empathy for the people he murdered. All he cares about is how he got treated afterwards and how his taxpayer money was wasted. He believes anyone who isn’t American isn’t even human.
That’s… not my takeaway from the article, or other things I’ve seen from him, at all. Where are you getting this from?
I do rather hate that so many news orgs seem to be using polymarket et al as a drop-in replacement for actual polling, because polymarket is loosely affiliated, if at all, with reality. It’s a fucking betting platform. There’s nothing scientific or statistical about it that aligns with demographic realities.
I feel like you missed the bit about “he’s done some shit in the past but he looks and sounds like he’s trying to make amends and move beyond his mistakes”. He’s not trying to hide his past - he’s addressed it head on.
I encourage you to read the article.
I’m not being an apologist here - I’m pointing out that purity testing someone who’s trying to atone for a negative past is counterproductive, particularly in this context.
Do you even hear yourself…?
I really wish you’d get off of your purity test high-horse.
From what I’ve read and seen, Platner is fully aware of and understands at a core level the mistakes and poor motivations he’s had in the past, and is trying to do something constructive that in part makes up for that. I’m not advocating for carte blanche forgiveness of people who have shit in their past, but it seems pretty clear that he’s sincerely trying to move his life and the impact he has on the world in the right direction.
If anyone else wants a longer-form nuanced article on Platner, give this a read. It is true that he has a problematic past - but he is clearly trying to move beyond that and learn from it. If you’re gonna make that an obstacle to electing people who want to help, when the fascists have no such compunctions whatsoever, you’re going to spurn a lot of allies that might be extremely effective for our cause.
And, as a side-note: post a link to an article, not just an image with a newspaper clipping and Blackwater ballcap. For all I or anyone else knows, you just AI slopped that shit together.
You just love being obnoxiously pessimistic about anything you possibly can, don’t you? Who shit in your purity test this morning?
To Harris, in particular:
God I hope so
More scandalous than fucking a 13-year old?
More scandalous than threatening to start a nuclear war because you’re having a tantrum?
Tell me more, couchfucker.
Holy shit, fantastic result! Orban deserved that lol