We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
This goon: I love killing people, I volunteered to do it multiples times and then went back as a mercenary. I loved it so much that I think the mercenary way is too inefficient, and we should give the military more money so long as they promise to not use it for mercenaries because we want them to be efficient with their killing. By the way, I totally would’ve volunteered for Vietnam because I love killing people in infantry combat so much (not WWII, where we were actually the ‘good guys’ though). I also have had a very well known Nazi symbol tattooed on me for 20 years which I only had covered up recently because of the immense backlash I faced, not because of any real ideological turnabout or introspection on my part. That ‘may’ have also had some interplay with my not stating whether I would’ve wanted to serve in WWII.
I can’t get over how truly bonkers it is that he didn’t say either WWII or the Civil War, two extremely high profile options where for once Americans got to kill someone worse than them
The only good part of being a boot in Vietnam is that you’d be justified in fragging your officer, you’d probably be ambushed by the brave soldiers of Vietnam, be tricked by the brave soldiers of Vietnam into getting in to a firefight with another American infantry squad, get skewered with a bamboo trap and die of some fun disease, or if you’re lucky, get captured by the brave soldiers of Vietnam and turn coat to fight for the good guys.
This Goon probably would’ve been down bad to do as many My Lai massacres as he could get away with instead. Shit he’d probably volunteer to be a flamethrower mook
Told my not that politically radical dad about it and even he noticed the list of wars was just wars where he could kill brown and black people without much fear of being killed back, except for Vietnam which probably just shows that Platner has main character syndrome and thinks he’s built to survive war.
Fuck out of here
I can’t get over how truly bonkers it is that he didn’t say either WWII or the Civil War, two extremely high profile options where for once Americans got to kill someone worse than them
The only good part of being a boot in Vietnam is that you’d be justified in fragging your officer, you’d probably be ambushed by the brave soldiers of Vietnam, be tricked by the brave soldiers of Vietnam into getting in to a firefight with another American infantry squad, get skewered with a bamboo trap and die of some fun disease, or if you’re lucky, get captured by the brave soldiers of Vietnam and turn coat to fight for the good guys.
This Goon probably would’ve been down bad to do as many My Lai massacres as he could get away with instead. Shit he’d probably volunteer to be a flamethrower mook
Hey at least you’ll be high
Didn’t he say he only liked wars where the other side was wildly outgunned?
Told my not that politically radical dad about it and even he noticed the list of wars was just wars where he could kill brown and black people without much fear of being killed back, except for Vietnam which probably just shows that Platner has main character syndrome and thinks he’s built to survive war.