Nothing Nazi here folks, just a good wholesome American who is OK with killing millions of people.
“We have a consistently pro-Western view that the West has a superior way of living and organizing itself, especially if we live up to our aspirations,” Mr. Karp said. “It’s interesting how radical that is, considering it’s not, in my view, that radical.”
Ok fine, let’s say he truly did have a change of heart and is now a good lefty. Here’s the thing about making choices like that and then apologizing: forgiveness isn’t owed. There will be people who you will permanently be cut off from because of your choices and there’s no undoing that. Grow up.
And if your redemption is 100% conditional on if you will be forgiven and not being forgiven sends you crying back to the fascists, then you truly didn’t have a change of heart and you mostly care about some people just not being mad at you.
I don’t even think most of the anti-Platner left is unconditionally condemning him. I know for a fact there is not a single organization in Maine that would turn him away for his past if he offered to help with their work (which is maybe a problem itself but that’s a digression). He has never done that though. He has never tried to make amends for his imperial crimes and is in fact quite proud of them. He has never put himself at the service of a left wing organization. He hasn’t even tried to cultivate a political career. Instead of doing any of this, he has declared himself redeemed of his sins and that he should now be the face of the left.
I personally could forgive him if he earned it. I see no reason anyone should though.
nah we don’t have to forgive boots who re-up and work for blackwater. Chelsea is the only good living american troop from the so-called “GWOT” and i’d make that statement broader if i knew all the fraggers, saboteurs, and defectors from the invasion of viet nam are no longer with us.
I personally would definitely forgive a soldier who renounced their past actions and became a vocal anti-imperialist. But afaict he hasn’t come close to doing that so…
We should probably forgive the soldiers who renounce imperialism and accept them as comrades, but I don’t think they should get to be political representatives.
Who is “we”? Yeah, I’m ready to forgive a soldier who had a genuine turn of heart, but I live in the imperial core and was never affected by their violence. I would not expect anyone from the global south to do the same.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I’m not here to tell you what to personally think, but that 100% forgiveness isn’t a guarantee from everyone.
“Sure I killed your family but I feel bad about it now.” <-- The bar he hasn’t even reached.
Yes, actually, it should be cool to hate murderers with Nazi tattoos
Philip is the bad takes machine, the last time I had an extended conversation with him he made it clear to me that he was in favor of the Freikorps killing Rosa Luxemburg.
stands to reason he would be be able to look past a Nazi tattoo on a blackwater merc.
He is indeed somehow worse than Jordan Lund. A remarkable feat.
Jordan at least occasionally had good moments when not being terrible mod. The bucket is only terrible
Indeed. I saw PTB and knew we were in for another episode of “Doing bad things is cool, as long as they are part of my team”
secret communications
His reddit?
Which was mostly him using the r slur
the r slur
R*dditors?
And fantasizing about participating in imperial and colonial wars throughout history (too uneducated to recognize the totenkopf tho)
:hexbear-specter: There’s a hivemind haunting Lemmy, the hivemind of Hexbear :sicko-hexbear-crowd:
In case you want to check whether people really are “clearly lying or ignoring reality”, don’t bother, it’s just the same user getting into forum fights over semantics but he’s not even technically right
Also PieFed is such lib shit reddit ass software:
I love the links to rationalwiki and YouTube video on media literacy in the sidebar on all of them by default
a list of logical fallacies on fuckin speed dial, truly the most libbed out reddit brain debatebro bullshit i’ve ever seen
Yeah not gonna lie, that plus the specific clique of users who first jumped over to piefed is enough for me to avoid it
That is true, but is also needs to be linked to as per rule 1.
fixed.
lemmygrad is defederated from everywhere lol
libs think everything they do is the default
On PieFed it is the default actually. Hexbear and Lemmygrad are hardcoded defaults you have to remove from the defederation settings of a Piefed instance.
yeah but piefed is shitty software anyway lol
“People only take (popular position) because its popular.”
"Why is it popular in the first place? Idk"
every post I see from this person is
personifiedIn case it saves time for someone else, the hyperlinks in the comment are to a thread about Platner getting the tattoo covered (with bickering about whether he knew what it was when he got it, which doesn’t matter imo) and to people pretending it’s just a generic skull and crossbones, which is a lie. So misdirection and more misdirection.
He covered it with Fenrir lol
I wish upon Platner everything he inflicted upon the Iraqis. May the earth itself refuse to take his rotten flesh when he dies.
