post conflict plan is socialist reconstruction & infrastructure but most liberals aren’t ready to accept that yet, they’d rather have oligarchy because it means they won’t have to give up their gentrified apartment

Imagine how hard drawing is tho, you gotta make a (usually) 3d image from flat lines on paper… literally creating depth and detail and texture from nothing. Art doesn’t come easy to most, so it’s rewarding and very human, and it’s why AI art will never be considered real by anyone serious. 😂

I literally said before I’ve talked to plenty of anti war, anti imperialist Veterans and they don’t talk about the military the way Graham Platner does. That’s my whole point. The real ones do the work iykyk

lol you made a stupid point so now I’m dividing the left? You can’t just use personal anecdotes to back up your claims. Vietnam is still socialist, too, btw. Despite our best efforts.

And I’ve met American soldiers who regard themselves in the way I do, just because you have personal anecdotes about people doesn’t make the broader historical fact any less true.

They were the machine. Sorry. If you think they were oppressed in the “meat grinder”, you should see the meat grinder American soldiers put the Vietnamese and Koreans in

I do not support Susan Collins and I do not support Graham Platner nor Amy Klobuchar. I support Zohran Mamdani and I support Ilhan Omar

DNC is directly & actively responsible for genocide in Gaza. So if your single issue is Healthcare, you’d vote for someone throwing people into concentration camps to get that. It’s literally, by definition, your “single issue”. It’s the dumbest shit ever.

If you don’t think Nazism is still an issue in 2026 you haven’t been paying attention to American Politics. Graham Platner had one of the most recognizable SS/National Socialist/Nazi emblems tattooed on him for years while he went to a middle eastern country and killed brown people. The richest person in the world saluted Hitler on stage. Biden killed atleast thousands of literal children. You should be aware of fascism in 2026. Just because you don’t believe it doesn’t mean shit it’s still a very real problem in white America.

That’s the thing here my friend, I don’t think voters are listening. It’s not AIPAC attacks that people like me don’t like: It’s the veteran thing. The reality is is that your uncle and father are likely grappling with witnessing and/or directly committed war crimes for America. My grandfather did in Korea as well and reading about our actions in Korea, I am very very disgusted at what my grandfather was doing there.

Your father and uncle should spend their time educating people on the horrors of US imperialism and directly addressing how they condemn their own actions in Vietnam. They should study how the US has spent not only billions of dollars but millions of lives fighting Communism and it’s made the world a worse place. Not only fighting against socialism but also fighting civilians to extract resources using violence, and my life and your life in America directly benefit from that. My grandpa who passed in 2010 and your father/uncle should (or should have) be doing that & not be running for office. Is that something that makes sense?

single issue voting literally means you’d vote for someone committing genocide or enabling apartheid if the one issue you’d vote for is free healthcare for citizens. Thats closer to National Socialism than Democratic…

Yeah some people would literally vote for Hitler if he offered you just one tiny concession

So when I focus on his faults, as a leftist, I will tell you most serious organizations would not let someone like Platner provide any lip service whatsoever. When you talk about material praxis that’s one thing, when you talk elected bourgeois officials it’s another. Graham himself isn’t necessarily the issue, it’s that the message is popular but the candidates are still controlled by the DNC, which always goes as hard as it can AGAINST real socialist policy.

So when you see “endorsed by Bernie, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, etc.”: That’s exactly the problem, they’re no different than the establishment dems, which are pretty much diet “Susan Collins” anyways. Schumer & Elizabeth Warren are cracking $700k in AIPAC donations themselves combined. Just saying these democrat politicians aren’t your friend.

I’d rather have a million zohran’s to criticize than this weird ass woman abusing military freak.

Is this person running under the “Democratic Socialists of America“ ticket? No? Ok.

Are there people confused as to who’s supposed to be the leftist here? I know he had a super far right tattoo but he’s running as a leftist. Hence the criticism from leftists. Do you really want me to exhaust even more reasons why I don’t vote for republicans or are you trying to win an election?

The primary was not him vs. collins. You brought her up. She’s not the candidate that’s supposed to be in my party. Even though I don’t live in Maine if he claims to be a socialist I will hold him accountable. The Republican candidate does not claim socialist politics

People say “this is good because it means the messaging is popular”. I’m a little worried it’s not his message that’s popular, it’s the typical American exceptionalism with a coat of faux-leftist paint on it that’s popular. I personally feel based off pretty much nothing that their “anti war” rhetoric is just pro-American Anti war SPENDING. As soon as it’s seen as just, like a war in Iran based off lies that Iran is killing protesters, even Elizabeth Warren cheered for that before Trump did it.

I don’t think it’s enough. I don’t like veterans. Yeah my family is full of them, but I don’t know them really and I bet they’d sell me down the river for nothing if they learned what my politics are. I’m saying I bet they’d sell would literally want to put me in jail for my ideas.

Platner is a pro-war band aid over a gushing head wound. It may lessen the bleeding but it’s not going to be enough to even slow it for long. It pisses me off to see people not reading the writing on the wall with these murderous women abusing psychos that can just talk the talk and BOOM get elected to office despite how many red flags they have.

I just really don’t like this guy. Call me a wrecker or unhelpful but please don’t let him speak to Arab people about military intervention, like ever.

… you realize you don’t have to respond yet then, right? If you’re not ready why bother wasting time telling me 😂 respond to the other guy I’m too tired for you

No, the person debunking you has links. You don’t. Are you gonna call those propaganda?

care to share these “Independent journalistic investigations and unclassified intelligence reports”?

I’m curious as to how we can view unclassified reports. I ain’t never been to college either so idk how legit it is to base your view on one of the oldest countries political system on “unclassified documents”

ALSO no matter how much of the truth is presented to you in provable information, you are pretty much accurately describing how the US and the west function. With China it’s all like “behind the scenes” or whatever so you can just say anything. With the US it’s literally out in the open and you can prove it.

Except for correct

Yeah, “free” speech that spreads fascist propaganda should be dealt with and censored. World views that are centered around hate, xenophobia, ignorance, colonialism/imperialism, violence, anti-immigration/emigration, and “racialism” “”science”” like Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and their modern sympathizers should be heavily censored and criticized.

The freedom of speech isn’t supposed to protect you from lies, rather gives you the right to lie and cheat as long as you don’t break the arbitrary rules. It also doesn’t protect you from being personally socially persecuted by your employer, neighbors, friends and family, etc. In fact, it’s meant to protect your right to believe whatever cool and just or whatever stupid thing you want to believe.

You say “oh so it was never about free speech then huh”; but no. It was never about just being able to say whatever. I personally don’t think the right to “free speech “ should give you the right to lie to children and propagandize them & then sell them stuff with cool words and fancy colors. You can’t go into a business and threaten them because they can enforce that, and it’s a GOOD thing that your “freedom of speech” doesn’t protect that.

People can’t even say free Palestine or Fuck ICE, your idea of “freedom” is far different than mine. Freedom for fascists is a death sentence for everyone.