Oh come on. This is a straight up ridiculous take — and I’m saying that as a staunch ethical vegan of 12 years. Harm reduction is a key part of veganism. Only supporting vegan candidates doesn’t help humans or animals. It’s not like Corey Booker is protecting life especially w his AIPAC ties

When Clinton was in office, he pushed a “universal healthcare” plan, but it wasn’t single payer M4A. It was “universal insurance”. essentially what the ACA was before the individual mandate was removed. That’s what Mills probably means when she says that, enhanced subsidies and Medicaid expansion.

He’s spoken on it a few times now. Stop writing fictions in your head about it and go look it up dude.

dude ages ago. Check the news before range commenting.

If you think he’s Fetterman the 2nd then the only thing you know about him is his gender presentation. Gruff men CAN genuinely care about people and want to fight for equality without it being a grift. It is possible. The suspicion is because folks think masculinity can’t coexist with empathy.

As a Maine voter, I can attest to this!

I literally think of Howard Dean every damn day. If only a silly scream were the extent of our problems

His wife. This was clip taken from a zoom q&a call.

That sounds a little too similar to “the final solution” in this context….

Leftists accept that folks need to experience hardship in order to be radicalized and many can tell you what event radicalized them…and yet they reject a person who underwent that process themselves.

I’d encourage you to read the Jacobin article about what was in the other 1800+ Reddit comments he made to get a better picture of him and his transformation over time rather than the 5 worst post they cherry-picked to spark peak outrage.

The only thing this is leaving out is that Platners platform is decidedly not rooted in white supremacist heteronormative politics - especially compared to Mills (Eg Their conflicting stances on tribal sovereignty). The racism being “overlooked” isn’t policy, it’s implied intent behind a tattoo.

No evidence of a “Nazi past” outside of the tattoo that he claims he did not know the significance of. Even in his Reddit shitposting there was no sign of Nazi ideology anywhere. Only aggressive opposition to fascism.

Jacobin just released an article discussing their thorough review of the other 1800+ social media posts that were deleted that have not been publicized and they didn’t even find the slightest hint of Nazi ideology anywhere — only the opposite. Again. Do some basic research and stop writing fantasies

Oysters my bud, not lobsters. It’s a small scale farm not a company. Kinda tired of folks looking to hate on someone and without even bothering to look up the most basic facts.

Are you for Medicare for all yet Pete? Or do you still feel like we should still be subject to the whims of a for-profit industry for necessary services?

That is for a trail maintenance group that he was a part of that was established in 1919.

Where did he discuss the symbol on Reddit? I’m not challenging you, simply making sure I have all the facts because I haven’t made my mind up on Platner yet and I haven’t seen that anywhere.

What? How many senators do you think could have identified that design out of context? Could you before this?When would senators need a knowledge of lesser known Nazi iconography to do a good job?

People can make their own conclusions about this. I still haven’t made mine yet. But folks are acting like this specific image is common knowledge and it isn’t, even among people who know that a skull generally is a significant symbol.

My grandmother hid Jews in her house during WWII and constantly ranted about how Schwarzenegger is a N* bc we wore a skull belt in terminator and I honestly wouldn’t have known the difference between this and a Jolly Roger prior to yesterday.

Source?

I did see him address that specifically saying exactly that. I believe it was in comment provided to CNN?

Not even just childcare. It’s also birth costs. It cost us 13k WITH insurance (not even including what we pay in premiums) for my son to be born.

Yeah the count was I think 2500 at the last no kings in my small town, and this one was clearly bigger and they’re estimating 1500-2000. I’m lost…

How do you have an official count when some events haven’t even started yet??

My immediate thought.

What? Ronald Regan was selected, and supported by the heritage foundation - the same one that selected and supported trump. The same people who created project 2025. Regan was the first step.

I totally agree. But also we can’t afford to have a senator die or become unable to perform their duties in office during a 6 year term. That’s very risky. Plus younger generations deserve representation. We don’t have it.

Are you going to realize that insurance based healthcare support healthcare system is unjust, exploitative, and inefficient and start supporting universal single-payer healthcare? Or are you going to continue to prop up having necessary services gate kept by a profit motive.