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  • MissConstrueMissConstrue@mefi.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 4:33 PM

    Y’all, we need to talk about Graham #Platner. I’ve been saying since he miraculously appeared on the political scene, that like #Fetterman, this campaign was a psyop.

    Like Fetterman, Platner comes from lots of money. He went to the best schools, his parents paid for him to take a gap year touring Europe, he chose to serve four combat tours, 3 in #Iraq with Marines and then joined the army to kill in #Afghanistan, and THEN joined #Blackwater.

    He had an #SS #Totenkopf on his chest for 20 years and tried to claim he didn’t know what it meant. He has a long, documented, history of abusing women.

    This populist bullshit story about being an oyster farmer is easily disproven. He made 5k selling oysters, to his mom’s restaurant. That’s just sad.

    Just cause someone says they’re on your side, doesn’t mean they really are. And if they’ve been a blackwater wet worker, they are never ever, not even a little bit, on your side.

    npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-58754

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  • Jacquelineburnoutqueen@todon.nl
    Jul 7, 2026, 4:37 PM

    @MissConstrue Graham platner is proof that white people are unable to face the true nature of the American class system.

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  • lupus_blackfurlupus_blackfur@mastodon.world
    Jul 7, 2026, 4:49 PM

    @MissConstrue

    Nice summation of the trash pile that is Platner... 👍👍👏👏

    And yes, Platner's likeness to Fetterman is likely closer than many imagine.
    I'm fairly certain he'd follow Fetterman's playbooks immediately if elected.

    🖕🖕💩💩🤡🫏

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  • Ash-Miw-ReAshmire@pagan.plus
    Jul 7, 2026, 4:50 PM

    @MissConstrue I'd have believed him about the tattoo because I knew a bunch of overly idealistic non-Nazis in the '90s who just loved the band Death in June without realizing how problematic they were, but the second I heard he had anything to do with Blackwater I was done with the creep. No idea why that wasn't a massive sticking point in itself for anyone.

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  • MissConstrueMissConstrue@mefi.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 5:23 PM

    @Ashmire Right!!?!! I mean, excuse the multiple exclamation points, which I realize may signify that someone is a crazy person...but I mean...RIGHT?!!

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  • loucoveyLoucovey@newsie.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 5:04 PM

    @MissConstrue this is the danger of binary thinking. Platner got a big boost from people who didn’t want to vote for another old woman or a moderate. This is what you get when you fall for someone who can give good speech.

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  • MissConstrueMissConstrue@mefi.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 5:27 PM

    @Loucovey This is what we get after 40 years of deprecating the education system. 40 years of not teaching civics. 40 years of not teaching critical thinking skills.

    We are a nation of poorly educated, highly propagandized, heavily armed, lunatics.

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  • Violet Maddervioletmadder@kolektiva.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 11:50 PM

    @MissConstrue @Loucovey

    Well, and 60+ years of systematic bullshit that's left us SO DESPERATE for anybody who at least dares mention anything that halfway makes ANY sense.

    People want the kind of candidate Platner was trying to impersonate. Bad. Really, really, really bad.

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  • PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:PedestrianError@towns.gay
    Jul 7, 2026, 6:04 PM

    @MissConstrue Maybe this will finally put a stop to the Democratic Party's obsession with military veterans when recruiting and promoting candidates? Having voluntarily signed up to kill people never has been and never will be an asset, but the generation that still controls the party hasn't gotten past the Vietnam-era distinction between working class men who couldn't escape the draft and rich boys like Trump who developed fake bone spurs while cheering on the war from the sidelines.

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  • Misuse CaseMisuseCase@twit.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 11:40 PM

    @PedestrianError @MissConstrue Most people who sign up for the military do not do it specifically to kill people, and most folks will go through their whole time in service without ever shooting anyone.

    Platner was in Blackwater, though, that’s different.

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  • ArchiveScribearchivescribe@mastodon.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 6:29 PM

    @MissConstrue I must sadly concur. His background is highly suspicious, although I would never put it past a person to reform and mature with age. But there's a difference between being a GOP voter at 19 and doing what this man did in those countries or on behalf of an organization like Blackwater (w/ or w/o the tat). Then throw in his treatment of & behavior around women. There is something about populism that periodically attracts people like him, & it's disturbing.

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  • Deb Nam-Kranednkboston@apobangpo.space
    Jul 7, 2026, 7:57 PM

    @MissConstrue What makes me want to scream is that this was predictable for months. Once that NYT story dropped--and that was hardly the first beat--I knew that there was more waiting to be dropped at the worst possible time. This didn't require being psychic, it required awareness of previous history.

    People showed their asses with this one. Outlets like @theprospect that scolded us to respect realpolitik acted like they couldn't see what was coming. Once again, if it's about women--eh.

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  • MissConstrueMissConstrue@mefi.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 8:08 PM

    @dnkboston You might find these an interesting read. Someone linked them yesterday and I still had them open in tabs:

    liberalcurrents.com/graham-pla

    liberalcurrents.com/the-men-de

    The class politics one is so earnest, but could use an editor with a firm hand. That said, the premise "Platner is more of a working class man as imagined by an elite. There is an extent to which this is a kind of lurid caricature projected onto the lower classes by elites, one that blends misogyny and class prejudice." is a brilliant one, and I wish more of the article had built on that, and the similarity of his Middle East "adventures" and the "explorers" of the Empire age.

    I've not had a chance to read the other one yet.

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  • Deb Nam-Kranednkboston@apobangpo.space
    Jul 7, 2026, 8:13 PM

    @MissConstrue Thank you, I'll read!

    Reminds me of what someone wrote about Jack Monroe, a food writer and anti-poverty activist in the UK. Some if not most of their stuff was in earnest and came from experience, but there's also the sense that part of their popularity was due to projecting an "idealized" version of poverty that a certain upper-middle class person would vibe with. "Oh look, here's how you can make proper biscuits when you don't have a can opener!"

    Tl;dr: the media loves this.

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  • Deb Nam-Kranednkboston@apobangpo.space
    Jul 7, 2026, 9:16 PM

    @MissConstrue Oh, dude, read the second one. I want to be sick (which I appreciate is not usually a good recommendation, but you know what I mean). I think the author does a good job of unpacking a lot of the misogyny.

    FTR, I don't think cheating has to exclude someone. If I could have voted in 1988, I would have voted for Hart. But we're past that, and Anthony Weiner is a more recent demonstration of why we have to be weary about lousy judgment.

    I need to drink some seltzer now.

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  • JakeBJakeKb@mastodon.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 8:17 PM

    @MissConstrue What a great way for drop site and other respectable media outlets to flush their reputation down the toilet having spent months whitewashing and defending the unrepentant Abu Ghraib prison guard / blackwater mercenary with a totenkopf tattoo.

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  • Misuse CaseMisuseCase@twit.social
    Jul 7, 2026, 11:38 PM

    @MissConstrue It’s not just conservatives who are gulled by the “working class” aesthetic without really understanding the substance. I think the leftists and progressives who boosted Platner need to take a long hard look at themselves and figure out why they were eager to be fooled, too. (But I’m not holding my breath.)

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