/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>492287
Around 24 minutes: someone working on Platner's campaign said that Platner said to them early on that his Totenkopf tattoo "could be problematic"

I'm not sure I have two hours to spend on this, but here's an interesting counterpoint article by Patrick Lawrence from a couple weeks ago. He points out that Platner actually has a lot of working class policies:

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/01/patrick-lawrence-my-bigotry-is-better-than-yours/

>>492295
You're going purely by what he says - but Platner's background is as a hired enforcer of the American state. His step brother, and close friend, is an Israeli asset. Platner isn't what he says he is, and his money and material interests are, at best, on the side of imperialist warfare with bigger scraps for workers and, at worst, just with imperialist warfare with the offer of scraps purely being bait to get him into office.

>>492297
>but Platner's background is as a hired enforcer of the American state.
Tbh I should have been more specific when I said this, because it's really his time with Blackwater and the sheer length of his time in the military which seals this for me. His affiliation with private mercenaries makes it all considerably worse. He hasn't even turned against this; he advocates for expansion of the US military and higher pay for members of the military. Instead of taking his military experience and using it to educate revolutionaries, or using his contacts to turn servicemembers, he has decided to run for office on a platform which aims to make it more difficult to turn servicemembers at all, and which uses his past experience as a mercenary as a boast rather than a skillset to lend to a real opposition.

If he was willing to kill for a private, for-profit mercenary group, what immoral things would he be willing to do for the DNC?

>>492298
He just seems like a psychopath to be honest. Someone should inform him he has more in common with Gaius Marius than Smedley Butler.

>>492287
I've taken a while to get almost to the end. I agree with almost everything he says here, except I think that his characterization of what is said in the Chapo clip isn't entirely accurate - particularly, Felix was careful not to even de facto endorse Platner. Will tried to endorse Platner in a "lowkey" way and fell on his face and looked like a stupid idiot, but Felix Biederman decidedly avoided that. BE's still right to criticize them, though.